A warming world? See for yourself
A few months back, I posted a slideshow of heat maps (in the most literal sense of the phrase) showing the change in 10-year average temperatures over the past 130 years. Well, NASA has taken that one step further, creating an animated 30-second video using annual average temperatures that dramatically demonstrates the accelerated warming we’ve experienced since about 1970.
If watching that a few times has got you thinking, and you’d like to see more of what climate change looks like … well, see for yourself.
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Cape and Islands the last piece in statewide no discharge zone
The Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental affairs has announced that it’s nominating the waters south of Cape Cod and around Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket a ‘no discharge zone’ – meaning that the thousands of commercial and recreational boats that … Read More
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Who's most vulnerable to climate change? See for yourself.
Thanks to Humanosphere‘s Tom Paulson for pointing out this interactive map of climate impacts worldwide, produced by the Center for Global Development. While it’s tempting to look at the above map and say “Hey, we’re in pretty good shape,” it … Read More
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