07-11-2016, 12:17 PM
Wonky...But I don't want to make a federal case out of this. Perhaps I'm wrong. Maybe I'm not. So, try this: Go to a science site and find a group of climate scientists who report than our climate HAS CHANGED, as of TODAY.
There are glaciers melting turning up bodies that were frozen for 2000 years. Glaciers have shrunk all over the world in one persons lifetime that have been there for thousands of years.
There are islands disappearing as we speak from rising sea levels.
Sea level rise
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Global sea level rose about 17 centimeters (6.7 inches) in the last century. The rate in the last decade, however, is nearly double that of the last century.4
Image: Republic of Maldives: Vulnerable to sea level rise
Shrinking ice sheets-
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost 150 to 250 cubic kilometers (36 to 60 cubic miles) of ice per year between 2002 and 2006, while Antarctica lost about 152 cubic kilometers (36 cubic miles) of ice between 2002 and 2005.
Image: Flowing meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet
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- Declining Arctic sea ice
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Both the extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice has declined rapidly over the last several decades.9
Image: Visualization of the 2007 Arctic sea ice minimum
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- Glacial retreat
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Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa.10
Image: The disappearing snowcap of Mount Kilimanjaro, from space.
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The number of record high temperature events in the United States has been increasing, while the number of record low temperature events has been decreasing, since 1950. The U.S. has also witnessed increasing numbers of intense rainfall events.11
Ocean acidification
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Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent.12,13 This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the oceans. The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is increasing by about 2 billion tons per year.14,15
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Satellite observations reveal that the amount of spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased over the past five decades and that the snow is melting earlier.16