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Climate Change

Climate Change already turning China Wetlands into Dust

contributors 11/21/2014

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Euronews | —

“Former wetlands in north-west China (Gansu province) have been sucked dry as the climate has changed. It is a stark warning that we can expect other ecological disaster areas like it to develop elsewhere.

With the acceleration of global warming since the Second Industrial Revolution — specifically from 1880 to 2012 — the average temperature planet-wide has risen by almost one degree Celsius — 0.85 [ nearly 2 degrees F].

Heat-trapping gas emissions in our atmosphere are the highest they have been for 800,000 years . . .”

Euronews: “Climate change future looks sandy”

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment

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