About climate change

Rising global temperatures are expected to raise sea levels, and change precipitation and other local climate conditions. Changing regional climate could alter forests, crop yields, and water supplies. It could also affect human health, animals, and many types of ecosystems. Deserts may expand into existing rangelands, and features of some of our National Parks may be permanently altered.

Already we are seeing increased numbers of severe storms globally, huge chunks of the Antarctic ice shelf calving off, glaciers melting at unprecedented levels and Siberia’s permafrost, an area 600 x 600 miles that has been frozen for the last 12,000 years, melting which could release catastrophic levels of methane into the atmosphere. Carbon levels are at their highest concentration levels in more than 650,000 years and the evidence goes on and on. What is very clear is that science is correct and the anecdotal evidence strong enough, given the risks, to warrant aggressive and immediate action to reduce carbon emissions globally.

(Special thanks to the US Environmental Protection Agency for this excellent, clear and concise overview of climate change. The source for this section is here.)