Sea-Level Rise

“A Shocking Rise of Warming” Reported by Hansen, Top Climate Team — NC WARN News Release

March 3, 2025

Duke Energy, other top global polluters must rapidly phase out – not expand – fossil fuels! An international climate science team led by James Hansen says the acceleration of global heating has been greatly underestimated, that a crucial threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius is now being crossed and that an …

World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds — The Guardian

September 13, 2022

The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points, according to a major study. It shows five dangerous tipping points may already have been passed due to the 1.1C of global heating caused by humanity to date.

“Delay Means Death” — CNN

February 28, 2022

Climate change is on course to transform life on Earth as we know it, and unless global warming is dramatically slowed, billions of people and other species will reach points where they can no longer adapt to the new normal, according to a major report published Monday.

The Oceans We Know Won’t Survive Climate Change — The Atlantic

September 25, 2019

Sea-level rise will become unmanageable, and life will flee the world’s tropical oceans, if carbon pollution keeps rising, a new report from the UN climate panel says.

Climate change is more extensive and worse than once thought — Miami Herald

November 29, 2018

Climate scientists missed a lot about a quarter century ago when they predicted how bad global warming would be.

How Extreme Weather is Shrinking the Planet — The New Yorker

November 26, 2018

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.

What’s New in the Latest U.S. Climate Assessment — New York Times

November 23, 2018

Global warming is now affecting the United States more than ever, and the risks of future disasters — from flooding along the coasts to crop failures in the Midwest — could pose a profound threat to Americans’ well-being.

‘Like a Terror Movie’: How Climate Change Will Cause More Simultaneous Disasters — New York Times

November 19, 2018

Global warming is posing such wide-ranging risks to humanity, involving so many types of phenomena, that by the end of this century some parts of the world could face as many as six climate-related crises at the same time, researchers say.

‘We have a duty to act’: hundreds ready to go to jail over climate crisis — The Guardian

October 26, 2018

A new group of “concerned citizens” is planning a campaign of mass civil disobedience starting next month and promises it has hundreds of people – from teenagers to pensioners – ready to get arrested in an effort to draw attention to the unfolding climate emergency.

Climate change is making storms worse. The media needs to report that. — News & Observer

September 13, 2018

Op-Ed by Jason West – With Hurricane Florence bearing down on the Carolinas, our attention is focused where it needs to be — evacuating the coast, stocking our shelves, and making plans to keep our families safe. But while we do those things, we should be aware that this storm, like others, is partially of our creating.

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