Hurricanes Katia, Irma & Jose
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Ed Hawkins, 3D Temperature Spiral
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Twice the Size of Texas
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Help! I’m an Oil Cimpany
Source: AP – Associated Press – carried by many news outlets;
here is the one at CBS News
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Arctic Summer Sea Ice Loss 1979 – 2017: > 20%
Fabulous new series:
EXODUS – The Climate Migration Crisis
(world wide), by the Weather Channel
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Industrial Animal Agriculture:
Dirty & inhumane; emitters of 14% of Greehouse Gases GHGs globally,
including the most harmful gases, methane and nitrous oxide
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Uncontrolled overuse of nitrogen / potash fertilizers,
to boost crop yield, why destroying ocean oxygen levels and fish.
Massive algae bloom off Florida – 130 miles of red tide area;
Destruction of fish and tourism from the stench
RAINFOREST
OCEANS
A Fossil Fuel Mine
From the Weather Network
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Largest King Penguin Colony Disappearing
Ile aux Cochons , Indian Ocean – 494,000 breeding pairs in 1988 but only 76,000 pairs in 2015 – Isabella O’Malley at WeatherNetwork.com
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When will climate deniers wake-up? When their coffee is gone.
Potential for increasing rate of permafrost thaw
and release of methane and carbon dioxide. This can cause more heating of the earth and more thaws – a growing feedback cycle. As the ice thaws, water runs off and the ground collapses. In this case, the depression will eventually release the lake water.
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20 Years of Drought in the Colorado River Basin
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Where Merkel lives:
Where a lot of other people live:
Or no longer live:
Vulnerable forests
