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Abrupt Climate Shifts May Come Sooner, Not Later
Rising Seas, Severe Drought, Could Come in Decades, Says U.S. Report
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Look At Glaciers Past Suggests Greenland Melting Could Rapidly Heighten Sea Level
North American Ice Sheet Dwindled Fast in Conditions Like Today’s
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Climate Change Will Hit Transport Systems Hard, Says Government Panel
National Research Council Calls For Planning Now
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New Yorkers Fear Impacts of Climate Change, And Want to Act
Residents Say Citizens, Business and Government Should Do More
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New Research Analyzes Countries at Greatest Risk from Climate Change Impacts
Study looks at vulnerability of populations in low elevation coastal zones
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It’s 2025. Where Do Most People Live?
Researchers at the Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR), a part of The Earth Institute, have developed a high-resolution map of projected population change for the year 2025. The innovative map shows a world with large areas of population loss in parts of Eastern Europe and Asia, but significant gains elsewhere. The work, Mapping the…
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Researchers Assess Risks Associated with Living in Low-Lying Coastal Areas
For many, sea-level rise is a remote and distant threat faced by people like the residents of the Tuvalu Islands in the South Pacific, where the highest point of land is only 5 meters (15 feet) above sea level and tidal floods occasionally cover their crops in seawater. Now, however, a recently published study by…
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Study Offers Preview of Ice Sheet Melting, Rapid Climate Changes
Behavior of Scandinavian Ice Sheet at the end of the last Ice Age may preview loss of Greenland Ice Sheet due to global warming
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Answers About the Earth’s Energy Imbalance by James E. Hansen, Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Below are answers to typical questions about this research topic and its implications provided by James E. Hansen, director, NASA’s Goddard Insittute for Space Studies. Hansen was lead author on a paper published by Science in April 2005 on this topic. What is the direct significance of the energy imbalance found by the authors in…