The Average American Melts 645 Square Feet of Arctic Ice Every Year
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archi...ar/506441/
BLURB: Global warming is hard to understand. This statistic isn’t...
Climate Change Could Transform Southern Spain Into Desert
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archi...id/505760/
EXCERPT: [...] A study published this week in Science emphasizes the importance of both goals. Unless global temperatures are kept below 2 degrees, the biomes of the Mediterranean Basin will change more by the year 2100 than they have in the past 10,000 years. Biomes are ecological regions that share similar flora, fauna, and weather. Desert, deciduous forest, and Alpine meadow are all types of biome. The study finds that many regions of the Mediterranean will undergo such stress that—under all but the kindest warming scenarios—biomes are likely to significantly change in the next century, as forests become scrubland and scrubland becomes desert. “Under the [business-as-usual] scenario, all of southern Spain turns into desert, deciduous forests invade most of the mountains, and Mediterranean vegetation replaces most of the deciduous forests in a large part of the Mediterranean basin,” write the study’s authors....
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archi...ar/506441/
BLURB: Global warming is hard to understand. This statistic isn’t...
Climate Change Could Transform Southern Spain Into Desert
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archi...id/505760/
EXCERPT: [...] A study published this week in Science emphasizes the importance of both goals. Unless global temperatures are kept below 2 degrees, the biomes of the Mediterranean Basin will change more by the year 2100 than they have in the past 10,000 years. Biomes are ecological regions that share similar flora, fauna, and weather. Desert, deciduous forest, and Alpine meadow are all types of biome. The study finds that many regions of the Mediterranean will undergo such stress that—under all but the kindest warming scenarios—biomes are likely to significantly change in the next century, as forests become scrubland and scrubland becomes desert. “Under the [business-as-usual] scenario, all of southern Spain turns into desert, deciduous forests invade most of the mountains, and Mediterranean vegetation replaces most of the deciduous forests in a large part of the Mediterranean basin,” write the study’s authors....