Climate change doesn’t just mean global warming (something that people in the Northeast who are experiencing major blizzards can attest to), it means oscillations of extreme hot and cold. Exceptionally warm weather in the arctic this winter and last, coupled with extremely cold weather further south, has been the cause of exceptional winter storms, and it appears that the massive loss of sea ice in recent years could be the cause.read more
Greenland’s ice sheet, which could be a major cause of rising sea levels, melted at a record rate in 2010. And a look at an ice field atop the highest mountain in the eastern European Alps suggests that the glacier may hold records of ancient climate extending back as much as a thousand years. We better investigate them quickly before it all melts away.If Greenland’s ice sheet melts, ocean levels would rise by over 20 feet, which would drown coastal cities around the world.
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Along the path to climate change, countries will drown (and are drowning right now) and towns and cities built near oceans and lakes may too. The relentless advance of Devils Lake on the small North Dakota town of Minnewaukan is one example: It’s been like watching a science fiction movie in slow motion.
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Is a California Superstorm on the way? Earthquakes and foreclosures aren’t the only threats to the Golden State–despite the fact that Southern California is a desert, there’s a risk of a superstorm. The January 15th edition of the New York Times, Felicity Barringer describes a storm "that could tear at the coasts, inundate the Central Valley and cause four to five times as much economic damage as a large quake."
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