The astonishing damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy, which swept ashore on the East Coast of the United States on Sept. 29, is being punctuated by a series of reports that sow an apocalyptic vision if immediate and drastic action isn’t taken. A new study by the world’s biggest climate modeling system, led by Dan Rowlands of Oxford University for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecasts that a two-degree Celsius increase in global temperatures by the turn of the century would have a catastrophic effect:, with water stress in arid and semi-arid countries, more floods in low-lying coastal areas, coastal erosion in small island states, and the elimination of up to 30 percent of animal and plant species across the globe.
Grim Reports on Global Warming
Grim Reports on Global Warming
Grim Reports on Global Warming
The astonishing damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy, which swept ashore on the East Coast of the United States on Sept. 29, is being punctuated by a series of reports that sow an apocalyptic vision if immediate and drastic action isn’t taken. A new study by the world’s biggest climate modeling system, led by Dan Rowlands of Oxford University for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecasts that a two-degree Celsius increase in global temperatures by the turn of the century would have a catastrophic effect:, with water stress in arid and semi-arid countries, more floods in low-lying coastal areas, coastal erosion in small island states, and the elimination of up to 30 percent of animal and plant species across the globe.