IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. STOP BELO MONTE—NO MEGA-DAM IN THE AMAZON. Watch Hot Planet Documentary Online Free. Professors Iain Stewart and Professor Kathy Sykes take a timely look at global warming ahead of the Copenhagen summit, exploring the world’s leading climate scientists’ vision of the planet’s future.
Scientists predict that if global temperatures continue to rise at their current rate, Earth will be one degree warmer within 10 years, two degrees warmer within the next 40 years and three degrees or more warmer before the end of the century. If the Earth’s temperature increases to three degrees warmer than the average pre-industrial temperature, the impact on the planet will be catastrophic. Across the Earth, ways of life could be lost forever as climate change accelerates out of control. This isn’t inevitable, however: climate change is not yet irreversible. Arctic ice hits second-lowest level, US scientists say. 16 September 2011Last updated at 11:23 The minimum level of cover is far below the average of 1979-2000 Sea ice cover in the Arctic in 2011 has passed its annual minimum, reaching the second-lowest level since satellite records began, US scientists say.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) says the minimum, reached on 9 September, was 4.33 million sq km. That value is 36% lower than the average minimum for 1979-2000. NSIDC said the figure was preliminary, and that "changing winds could still push the ice extent lower" before final numbers are published in early October. CAN EUROPE. OSE Video.