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Climate now shifting on a continental scale, huge study says
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Climate now shifting on a continental scale, huge study says - USATODAY.com
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By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
A landmark climate study released Wednesday reports that global warming is changing the life cycles of thousands of animals and plants — as well as hundreds of physical systems — worldwide.
It documents rapid glacier melts in North America, South America and Europe; trees and plants sprouting leaves much earlier in the spring in Europe, Asia and North America; permafrost melting in Asia; and changes in bird migration patterns across Europe, North America and Australia, all in response to rising global temperatures.
Though previous studies have looked at single phenomena or smaller areas, the latest analysis examines data on a continental scale, says lead author Cynthia Rosenzweig, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
By analyzing data from each of the Earth's seven continents and the oceans, the study paints a clear picture of a world that's been undergoing rapid transformation in just the past few decades.
"These are things that are happening now, not projections of future changes," she says.
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A series of four photos from 1940, 1982, 1996 and 2005 shows the dramatic retreat of the Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia.
The comments under this story are as interesting as the story itself. Here's one genius' view:
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Plain and simple there is no global warming or cooling!!! One degree in 140 years means absolutely nothing. How may degrees has the temperature changed over the course of 10,000 years or for that matter a million years? The earth is a living entity and just has humans it has its warm periods and its cool periods. So I assume according to these pseudo "intelligent" people all humans are dying as a result of their miniscule body temperature variations.
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