There's mounting evidence that the human race is making long-term changes to the Earth's climate — CO2 levels recently reached a peak not seen in millions of years, NASA found 2012 to be the ninth-warmest year on record, and a study recently showed that it was all but certain Miami would eventually be underwater thanks to rising sea levels. However, according to a new study published by PNAS, Miami is hardly the only city facing an underwater future. According to Dr. Benjamin Strauss, a researcher who specializes in climate impacts, the greenhouse gases we've already pumped into the atmosphere have "locked-in" an eventual sea level rise of over four feet — enough to submerge more than half of the current population in 316 coastal US...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/31/4574558/more-than-1400-cities-could-be-underwater-by-centurys-end
No comments:
Post a Comment