Global Climate Change!

Between 2000-2100, the heat related deaths will rise by 150,000.

A failure in preventing global warming can cause a major economic collapse causing 20% of global domestic output to fix.

Heat waves caused by global warming present greater risk of heat-related illness and death, most frequently among people who have diabetes who are elderly or are very young.

According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the temperature in the U.S. has increased by 2 degrees in the last 50 years and precipitation has increased by 5%.

Since the industrial revolution in 1700, the level of carbon dioxide on earth has increased by 34%.

By year 2100, the average temperature will rise by 5.8 degrees as a result of global warming.

Burning coal is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, and a key contributor to climate change, which is causing damage to public health and the economy through extreme weather, rising sea levels, and other ecological disasters.

Climate impacts are already wreaking havoc in ecosystems around the world, from melting alpine glaciers to sinking coastlines. Meanwhile, toxic pollution and coal ash residue from coal-fired power plants has polluted air, rivers and drinking water in hundreds of local communities.

Coal pollution contributes to heart disease, cancer, stroke, and respiratory illness. Coal-fired power plants also emit almost half of all U.S. mercury pollution and lead to more than 13,000 deaths and $100 billion in health care costs every year.

Continued financial support for coal-fired electricity generation makes it harder for clean energy to compete on a level playing field. Cleaner fuels and energy efficiency present huge economic opportunities for American workers and businesses.

Since 1870, global sea levels have risen by about 8 inches.

Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.

Global warming is the increase of Earth's average surface temperature due to greenhouse gases that collect in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up

Greenhouse gases keep heat close to the earth's surface making it livable for humans and animals. However, global warming is happening largely due to an over-emittance of these gases and fossil fuels (natural oil, gasoline, coal).

The rate at which carbon dioxide is being dumped in to the environment is 1000 tons per second until the 2011 records.

Human activities release around 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

Global warming that is causing extreme weather changes has shown it implications in the way of forest fires, heat waves and severe tropical storms throughout the world.

Humans are emitting more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, faster than the absorbing rates of plants and the oceans.

Global warming puts coral reefs in danger as the ocean warms, scientist fear that coral reefs will not be able to adapt quickly enough to the resulting changing conditions, and bleaching incidents and diseases will increase

Since 1880, the average temperature has risen by 1.4-Fahrenheit degrees.

According to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004, the average temperature in Alaska, Western Canada and Russia have risen at twice the global average.

The Arctic ice is melting rapidly. By 2040 the region is expected to have a completely ice free summer, or even earlier.

The last two decades of the 20th century have been hottest in the last 400 years, according to climate studies.

The Arctic is one of the worst places to be effected by global warming.

Though Americans make up just 4 percent of the world's population, we produce 25 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution from fossil-fuel burning -- by far the largest share of any country.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has both the authority and responsibility to reduce pollution from electric power plants under the Clean Air Act, the nation's bedrock air pollution law adopted in 1970.

Around 100 million people live with 3 feet of sea level and many cities of the world are located near such vulnerable coastal areas.

The global warming will completely alter the ocean's conveyer belt which will cause a mini ice age in the Europe.

With the start of industry in the 1700's, humans began emitting more fossil fuels from coal, oil, and gas to run our cars, trucks, and factories. By driving a "smarter" car, you will not only save on gas, but help prevent global warming.

There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point in the last 800,000 years.

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http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/various-global-warming-facts.php