Protection & Change
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Published in 1962, Carson's book, Silent Spring, sparked modern interest in environmental protection, culminating in the creation of EPA in 1970.
US Environmental Protection Agency
By Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou One claim frequently heard regarding extreme heat waves goes something like this: ”Since this heat wave broke the previous record by 5 °C, global warming can’t have much to do with it since that has been only 1 °C over the 20th century”.
RealClimate
Global Warming Policy Foundation
New UK Met Office global temperature data confirms that the world has not warmed in the past 15 years.All over the world species are becoming extinct at an astonishing rate, from 1000 to 10,000 times faster than normal. The loss of biodiversity has become so severe that scientists are calling it a mass extinction event.
Species Alliance
Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Mr.
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) - IMDb
The 11th Hour (2007) - IMDb
Kenny Ausubel : When we all talk about "saving the environment" in a way it's misstated because the environment is going to survive. We are the ones who may not survive. Or we may survive in a world we don't particularly wanna live in.
A majority of the nation's biologists are convinced that a "mass extinction" of plants and animals is underway that poses a major threat to humans in the next century, yet most Americans are only dimly aware of the problem, a poll says.
Mass Extinction Underway | Biodiversity Crisis | Global Species Loss