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State of the Environment
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Sea levels have risen 6-8 inches in the last century.
If the ice on Greenland melts, the world’s oceans will rise 20 feet.
This will put most of Manhattan under water. Florida
will be largely submerged. The maps
of the world will have to be redrawn.
More than half a million people were displaced from New Orleans
in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many permanently.
Hundreds of millions of people will be displaced worldwide in sea levels
rise significantly.
The planet is not warming equally.
The north and south poles heat up 12 degrees for every degree that the equator warms.
Yearly ice coverage on lakes and rivers in the Northern Hemisphere has declined
by two weeks over the last 100 years.
Today, 50 glaciers are left where in 1850 there were 150 in
Glacier National Park
Sources:
An Inconvenient Truth, 2006
Global Warming and Climate Change in Minnesota. Evidence and impact estimates based
on data from the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
April 2006
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