Global Warming Facts & Statistics

Pro Global Warming Observed Nature Effects

Montana's Glacier National Park now has only 27 glaciers in 2007 versus 150 in 1910.

06/14/2007 from news.nationalgeographic.com

Since 1958 there has been an increase in windiness over oceans in Antarctica

05/17/2007 from news.nationalgeographic.com

In Alaska the spruce bark beetle is breeding faster in the warmer weather and from 1993 to 2003 chewed up 3.4 million acres of Alaskan forest.

11/22/2005 from nrdc.org

The largest single block of ice in the Arctic, the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, had been around for 3,000 years before it split all the way through and started breaking into pieces.

11/22/2005 from nrdc.org

NASA satellites show that the polar ice cap area of permanent ice cover is contracting at a rate of 9 percent each decade.

11/22/2005 from nrdc.org

Over half of that nation's populated islands lie less than 6 feet above sea level.

11/22/2005 from nrdc.org

In 1998 an El Niño weather pattern sparked the worst coral-bleaching event ever observed with 16 percent of the world's reefs lost in a single year.

01/01/1998 from news.nationalgeographic.com

Pro Global Warming Climate & Weather Facts

Approx 35,000 people died in Europe in 2003 due to a heat wave during one of the hottest summers on record in Europe.

12/31/2003 from en.wikipedia.org

Pro Global Warming Political Facts

As of February 2009 181 states have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol.

02/01/2009 from en.wikipedia.org

Anti Global Warming Temperature Change Facts

The temperature trend in the lower troposphere is zero for 1979-97. At the same time, the temperature of the lower stratosphere has declined at a rate of -0.6 degrees C per decade.

01/12/1999 from sitewave.net

Anti Global Warming Greenhouse Effect Facts

2004 current level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is only around half of what scientists have predicted based on estimates that humans have contributed 244 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide to Earth's atmosphere.

07/15/2004 from news.nationalgeographic.com

Pro Global Warming Temperature Change Facts

Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit around the world since 1880.

06/14/2007 from news.nationalgeographic.com

Average Arctic temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average.

06/14/2007 from news.nationalgeographic.com

Pro Global Warming Greenhouse Effect Facts

Since around 1800 the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has grown from an estimated 280 parts per million to around 380 parts per million.

07/15/2004 from news.nationalgeographic.com

Carbon dioxide is an acid gas which in high concentration will cause the surface ocean pH to drop.

07/15/2004 from news.nationalgeographic.com

Anti Global Warming Observed Nature Effects

Some 4,000 to 7,000 years ago, the earth was a degree or two warmer than it is today, and yet Kilimanjaro's glaciers were greatly expanded compared to the current era.

11/03/2004 from cato.org

Anti Global Warming Climate & Weather Facts

In 2007 Buenos Aires, Argentina got snow for the first time in 89 years

07/10/2007 from news.bbc.co.uk

Anti Global Warming Political Facts

As of December 2008 the United States has not yet ratified the Kyoto Protocol.

12/31/2008 from en.wikipedia.org