By 2015, consumer electronics and small appliances will be responsible for almost 30% of all household electricity use. In 2020, the average home is expected to be 5% larger and will rely on even more electricity-powered electronics. (EIA)
"The phrase 'climate change' is growing in preferred use to 'global warming' because it helps convey that there are changes in addition to rising temperatures."
Fires due to dry conditions and record-breaking heat consumed 20% of Samos Island, Greece, last July.
Venezuelan mountaintops had six glaciers in 1972. Today only two remain.
Polar bears in Hudson Bay are having fewer cubs, possibly as a result of earlier spring ice breakup.
Montana will lose all the glaciers in Glacier National Park by 2070 if their retreat continues at the current rate.
The complete melting of Greenland would raise sea levels by 7 meters (23 feet). But even a partial melting would cause a one-meter (three-foot) rise. Such a rise would have a devastating impact on low-lying island countries, such as the Indian Ocean's Maldives, which would be entirely submerged.
Pacific salmon populations fell sharply in 1997 and 1998, when local ocean temperatures rose 6 degrees F.
