New climate report: Oceans rising faster, ice melting more
Due to climate change, the world’s oceans are getting warmer, rising
higher, losing oxygen and becoming more acidic at an ever-faster pace
and melting even more ice and snow, a grim international science
assessment concludes.
higher, losing oxygen and becoming more acidic at an ever-faster pace
and melting even more ice and snow, a grim international science
assessment concludes.
But that’s nothing compared to what Wednesday’s special United
Nations-affiliated oceans and ice report says is coming if global
warming doesn’t slow down: three feet of sea rise by the end of the
century, many fewer fish, weakening ocean currents, even less snow and
ice, stronger and wetter hurricanes and nastier El Nino weather systems.