Climate change can be likened in its destructive scale to the effects of using weapons of mass destruction, according to Britain's leading scientist.
Lord May of Oxford, the president of the Royal Society, will say that the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina is an example of the sort of extreme weather event that climate change can trigger.
The impacts of climate change are many and serious, he contends. They include rising sea levels, changes in the availability of drinking water, and an increase in the risk of extreme weather such as floods, droughts and hurricanes.
The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) is dedicated to studying ice cores taken from the ice pack of Antarctica. By taking core samples from the pack and measuring the makeup of the ice cores, EPICA researchers can see what the atmoshphere was like when the ice formed, compare it to other samples and determine patterns of envorinmental change over hundreds of thousands of years.
Currently the EPICA project has drilled nearly 3.3 km into the Antartic ice, which is roughly equal to 900,000 years of atospheric historical data. Teh scientis now say that after researching the cores back to 650,000 years, the have determined that today's atmospheric levels of Carbon Dioxide and Methane are the highest they have been in that time span. Additonally, they have determined that the rate of increase for Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is 200 times faster than any other time in the 650,000 year data record.
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Man's impact on the global climate is the biggest danger that the human race faces today. We as a species have to overcome many preconceived notions to face this dilemma and we should know a few things about our enemy. The climate sees no borders, and does not discriminate based on politcal beliefs, religion, skin color, or sexuality, and will surely affect all of us in ways that we cannot imagine in the years to come.
Thing are happening on this planet right now that have dire consequences of for all humans. Accelerating Polar Ice Melt, the deforestation of the Amazon Basin and other large tropical forests, rising sea surface temperatures, massive coral die-offs, droughts, floods and stronger hurricanes are all interconnected and seem to be spinning out of control. For us to really make a difference in our affect on Global Climate Change, we are all going to have to work together as a species.
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