1) The LA Times showed photos in early
'97 of the Eastern seaboard, where ocean levels have risen due to thermal
expansion of oceans.
2) Same source discussed islands in the Pacific
which have recorded a noticeable ocean levels rise.
3) The area where I live has had funnel clouds
and tornados; yes, tornados for the first time in history.
4) Scientists have also documented a 2% rise in
rainfall worldwide over the last 50 years.
5) Mosquitos in Minnesota in winter '97.
6) The highest winds on record (Dec. '97 in Guam,
236 mph)
7) Fur coat sales have plummeted.
8) GA berries ripening 1 month early, moist soil
in the plains, while CA berries get destroyed ('98)
9) Fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic; but more
severe.
10) Some scientists are seeing Hantavirus and several
tropical diseases spreading further north, because the critters that carry
them are spreading north.
11) The Ross Ice Shelf, which is the size of Rhode
Island, keeps shedding icebergs larger than have been on record prior.
12) 12/19/01, Geneva, Switzerland — The World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) officials announced that the average temperature on
earth for 2001 is expected to be the second-warmest since global record
began 140 years ago, according to Associated Press. Temperatures are getting
hotter and getting hotter faster now than before says Michel Jarraud, the
WMO’s deputy secretary-general. The global average surface temperature
in 2001 is expected to be 57.96F; the record, set in 1998, was 58.24F.
Nine of the 10 warmest years in the last four decades have occurred since
1990, and temperatures are rising three times faster than in the early
1900, according to Jarraud
13) The amount spent on global hurricane cleanups
was more than that spent on it during the entire decade of the 80s.
14) AP, Jan 23, 99. Scientists alarmed by
rise in pathogens (bacteria, viruses) in ocean. 446% increase in
disease to corals at 160 sites. Has caused 10% of coral worldwide
to die. 20-30% endangered.
15) All glaciers in Glacier Nat'l Park predicted
to be gone in 50-70 years at present rates. Tien Shan mountain range
has lost 22% of its ice. Largest glacier on Mt. Kenya has lost 92%
of its mass.
16) Butterflies migrating farther north each year
in Europe.
17) Pictures of shrubs in the Alaskan Arctic comparing
now and 50 years ago show these plants are growing larger and spreading
across previously barren territory in the tundra (LA Times, June 4 '01).
18) The snow and sea-ice cover in the Arctic has
decreased 10% since the 1970s, and the ice has thinned markedly in that
time. (LA Times, July 13, '01).
19) Research published June 21 in the journal Nature
suggests that freshwater flows in the Nordic seas are increasing and may
be slowing the crucial circulation of warm water, said Stefan Rahmstorf
of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Anisimov
said the increased flow of Siberian rivers also provides evidence that
Arctic waters are freshening. Thawing permafrost in the region, he said,
could also fuel warming by allowing decomposing material to emit greenhouse
gases (methane) now trapped in frozen soil.
20) Only 39 cities forecasted with "White Christmas";
exactly 1/2 of the number in the year 1930.--CNN, Dec. 21, ‘01
21) Largest iceberg on record breaks off from Antarctica.
-- Dec. '01 National Geographic.
22) Second largest iceberg breaks off from Antarctica
-- Mar. '02
23) Ecosystems around the globe are showing the
earlier arrival of migrant birds, earlier appearance of butterflies, earlier
spawning in amphibians, earlier flowering of plants - spring has been coming
sooner every year since the 1960s, researchers reported Wednesday.
The report from German scientists investigates all regions of the globe.
They predict some species will vanish because they cannot expand into new
areas when their native climate heats up. WASHINGTON, DC, March
29, 2002 (ENS) -
24) Great Lakes down 5" over the last 10 years.
$24 billion cost to large shipping firms that can no longer off-load in
the same ports as they used to.
25) Computer model results showed that on average
from 1950 to 1993 higher humidity combined with an eight percent increase
in precipitation has led to a 14 percent increase in plant
growth in the U.S. The data over that time period also
show increases in cloud cover, minimum temperatures, soil moisture and
stream flows, which are all signs of a changing hydrologic cycle. -Ramakrishna
Nemani, a researcher at the University of Montana's School of Forestry,
and lead author of the study that appears in an issue of Geophysical Research
Letters
26) The EPA goes on to report that these changes
are already underway. Arctic temperatures are the warmest in 400 years.
27) Snow cover has decreased 10% since the late
1960s.
28) Declining health and lower populations of
polar bears,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18121378
Alaska has warmed by an average of 4 degrees
Fahrenheit since the 1950s, leading some glaciers there to recede and
thin.
These changes seem to be linked to declining health of polar bears, as
earlier spring ice break-up leaves less time for them to hunt seals.
Increased
precipitation and deeper snow pack due to climate change is also a
likely
culprit in the decline of caribou in Alaska. Some Alaskan native
communities are dependent on these caribou herds for their survival and
their way of life.
29) In the Antarctic, researchers have linked
global
warming and related snow and ice patterns to a decline of penguin
populations, primarily due to altered fish/nutrient cycling,
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0509_penguindecline.html
30) An increase in height of the troposphere (Lawrence
Livermore Labs, 1-7-03)
31) Recent flooding in Prague, China, and Bangladesh
have killed hundreds and displaced thousands.
32) In 1998, Canadian Arctic temperatures were
five degrees Celsius above normal, on average (David Suzuki Foundation).
33) Globally, the permanent snowline has retreated
to a higher elevation at an average 200 metres since the early 1960’s (David
Suzuki Foundation).
34) The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
-- a specialized climate science agency of the United Nations documented
data for the northern hemisphere shows an increase that may be the largest
in any century of the last 1,000 years; and also that the world is experiencing
record numbers of extreme weather events, such as droughts and tornadoes.
The report documents 562 tornadoes in May in the U.S., easily exceeding
the previous record of 399 in June, 1992, as well as record high temperatures
ranging from India to Switzerland.
39) Greenland ice sheets doubling their rate of slide.
(Time, 4/3/06)
35) Accelerated die-off of Quiver tree & King Protea
flower; Pinion Mouse moving 1-3000' higher in elevation; 2/3 of all migratory
butterflies shifting their home ranges northward by 20-150 mi; mistletoe
taking over like never before, likely due to drought-weakened trees; 2/3
of the 110 species of frogs in C. & So. Am. have disappeared-- (attacking
fungus thrived in warming climate first)
36) CO2 levels rising to 450 in Baltimore, 550
in Phoenix, 700 in New York, as opposed to just 380 in forests in 2007.
(Newsweek 6-4-07)
37) Urban ragweed growing 3-5 times bigger than
rural ragweed, and spewing allergenic pollen weeks earlier each spring
(Newsweek 6-4-07); (basically one day per year).
38) Poison ivy thriving/increased toxicity with
more C02.
39) Other allergenic plants spewing _more_ pollen
each year (Newsweek 6-4-07)
40) West Nile virus earlier each year, due to increased
alternating of flood & droughts making mosquitos bite more and microbes
maturing more quickly (26 days at 68 deg. F; 13 days @ 77F (Newsweek 6-4-07).
Mosquitos that carry Dengue fever and yellow fever once couldn't survive
past 3,300', but are now found at 5,600' in Mexico (Newsweek 6-4-07).
41) Wooly mammoth tusks revealed as permafrost melts.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-woolly-mammoth2-2010mar02,0,2703266.story
Note: Deniers discuss a middle ages warming, but this would've made the
meat on them compost at that point. If the story is accurate and
Siberians _are_ really feeding their dogs thawed mammoth meat, this
somewhat refutes the middle warming per.
42) Worst hypoxic zone off the Northwest coast found in 2006. It
covered nearly 1,200 square miles off Newport, Ore. Dead zones
like these growing, causing changes in food webs with slow moving
bottom-dwellers most susceptible to die-off, but salmon as well.
Mounting evidence that it's caused by global warming.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100307/sc_mcclatchy/3444187