A one-meter sea level rise would wreak particular havoc on the Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard of the United States.
Vehicle CO2 emissions cannot be reduced with exhaust treatment devices. They can only be reduced by decreasing the amount of fossil fuel burned by: driving less, using a renewable fuel, getting more mileage out of each gallon of fuel.
By replacing the five most frequently used lights in your home with ENERGY STAR qualified lighting, you can save more than $60 each year in energy costs. If every US household replaced their five highest-use fixtures, or the bulbs in them, with ENERGY STAR qualified models, the change would prevent the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to the annual emissions from more than 8 million cars.
Venezuelan mountaintops had six glaciers in 1972. Today only two remain.
A vehicle that gets 30 MPG will cost you $650 less to fuel each year than one that gets 20 MPG (assuming 15,000 miles of driving annually and a fuel cost of $2.60). Over a period of 5 years, the 30 MPG vehicle will save you $3,250.
Greenland's ice sheet will begin to melt if the temperature there rises by 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit). That is something many scientists think is likely to happen in another hundred years.
Over the last century the average temperature has climbed about 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 of a degree Celsius) around the world.
Pacific salmon populations fell sharply in 1997 and 1998, when local ocean temperatures rose 6 degrees F.
