Which is a damn sight more than you can say about a lot of people.
Here's some of the numbers:
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It's gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and just downright wilder.
The numbers are stark. Carbon dioxide emissions: up 60 percent. Global temperature: up six-tenths of a degree. Population: up 1.7 billion people. Sea level: up 3 inches. U.S. extreme weather: up 30 percent. Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica: down 4.9 trillion tons of ice.
To read the rest of the article, go to one of the two following links.
Hotter weirder How climate change has changed Earth - CBS News
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...=maing-grid7|main5|dl28|sec1_lnk3&pLid=575301
Here's some of the numbers:
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It's gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and just downright wilder.
The numbers are stark. Carbon dioxide emissions: up 60 percent. Global temperature: up six-tenths of a degree. Population: up 1.7 billion people. Sea level: up 3 inches. U.S. extreme weather: up 30 percent. Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica: down 4.9 trillion tons of ice.
To read the rest of the article, go to one of the two following links.
Hotter weirder How climate change has changed Earth - CBS News
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...=maing-grid7|main5|dl28|sec1_lnk3&pLid=575301