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Global Warming: A Pandora's Box

GLOBAL WARMING. FOR SOME, IT WILL MEAN WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE; FOR OTHERS, NOT A DROP TO DRINK.  LEARN WHAT’S SET OFF WHEN THE HEAT’S ON, ON THIS ENVIRONMINUTE. 

GLOBAL WARMING DOESN’T SIMPLY MEAN IT’S GOING TO GET HOT OUT.  THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF A CHANGING CLIMATE COULD ALSO INCLUDE RISING SEAS AND MONSTER STORMS.  AND WHILE THIS MAY CAUSE FLOODING IN OUR COASTAL CITIES, IT COULD AT THE SAME TIME DRY UP OUR BREADBASKET REGIONS.

SUSAN SOLOMON OF THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION’S EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY EXPLAINS HOW A WARMER CLIMATE WILL COMPOUND DROUGHT IN THE CENTRAL U-S.

SOLOMON "WARMER TEMPERATURES MEAN MORE EVAPORATION FROM DRY SOIL, AND CHANGES IN SOIL MOISTURE THEN FEED BACK AND GIVE YOU EVEN GREATER TENDENCIES FOR DROUGHT."

TO LEARN HOW TO HELP CLOSE A PANDORA'S BOX OF DANGEROUS CLIMATE EFFECTS, VISIT FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING DOT COM.

THE ENVIRONMINUTE IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE HEINZ FAMILY PHILANTHROPIES AND THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS.  LEARN MORE BY VISITING ENVIRONMINUTE-DOT-COM.

To access the IPCC report, click here.

To read more about this and other environmental health issues, go to: www.environmentalhealthnews.org, www.ourstolenfuture.org, or www.healthandenvironment.org