http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy en-us http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/global-melting/arctic-and-antarctic/sea-ice-extent Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:43:57 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/global-melting/arctic-and-antarctic/sea-ice-extent http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/testnewscroller Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:20:44 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/testnewscroller http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/what-you-can-do Since the G8 have totally failed to act on climate change, it's even more important for us all to take action as individuals. YOU can help turn things around. Join the global movement to save the climate. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:18:17 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/what-you-can-do http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/copenhagen-climate-summit This year's United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen is absolutely vital to the future of the world's climate. The Summit will take place from December 7-18, 2009. On the brink of runaway climate change, it's time for world leaders to lead, and set us on the path to a low carbon economy. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:11:35 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/copenhagen-climate-summit http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit/legal-documents Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:50:17 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit/legal-documents http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit/attorneys Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:49:55 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit/attorneys http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit/case-studies Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:49:16 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit/case-studies http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit/plaintiffs Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:47:23 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit/plaintiffs http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the city of Boulder, Colorado are suing two U.S. government agencies for providing financial assistance to oil and other fossil fuel projects without first evaluating the projects' global warming impacts on the United States. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:46:40 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit/defendants Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:46:28 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work/climate-lawsuit/defendants http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work Climate change is a priority issue for us here at Greenpeace. We realized years ago that it has the potential to wipe out most of the gains the environmental movement has made in other areas. Disruptions to ecosystems will likely harm everything from minke whales to coral reefs to polar bears. Whole forests will be lost, and hundreds of thousands of species will become extinct. Climate change will also bring devastation to people and communities, especially some of the world's poorest. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:41:30 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/our-work http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/climate-voices The real meaning of climate change can not be fully grasped from scientific charts and equations alone; one needs to hear the stories of those who are living through it, grappling with its implications, and struggling to find ways to halt it. Part of what we do is to give a voice to these first hand witnesses of climate change. Here is what some of them have to say: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:35:55 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/climate-voices http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/ocean-circulation The water in our world's oceans is always moving – pulled by tides, blown by waves, and slowly circulating around the globe by the force of the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt (aka thermohaline circulation). The Conveyor is powered by differences is water temperature and salinity, and one of its most well know parts, the Gulf Stream, is what gives Europe it's relatively mild climate. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:32:32 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/ocean-circulation http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/extreme-weather There is strong evidence that extreme weather events – such as hurricanes, floods, droughts and heat waves – are increasing because of climate change. In fact, the Financial Initiative of the UN Environment Program (UNEP) recently calculated that the economic costs of global warming are doubling every decade. The cumulative number of people affected by disasters rose to two billion in the 1990s, up from 740 million in the 1970s. Virtually all of these millions were concentrated in poorer countries. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:26:07 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/extreme-weather http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/sea-level-rise "The Maldives is one of the small states. We are not in a position to change the course of events in the world. But what you do or do not do here will greatly influence the fate of my people. It can also change the course of world history." -- Statement by H.E. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (Maldives) Kyoto, Japan, 3rd Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:22:13 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/sea-level-rise http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/health-food-and-water Heat waves attributable in part to climate change are forecast to kill hundreds of thousands in this century, however climate change will also have disastrous effects on water supplies, agriculture, and the spread of disease. Rich and poor alike will be affected, but countries that are already struggling to provide food and water for their people will suffer the most. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:15:12 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/health-food-and-water http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/habitat-loss "Most of the world's endangered species -- some 25 percent of mammals and 12 percent of birds -- may become extinct over the next few decades as warmer conditions alter the forests, wetlands, and rangelands they depend on, and human development blocks them from migrating elsewhere." -- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:08:16 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/habitat-loss http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/global-melting/glaciers Glaciers are more than just magnificent landscapes of ice and snow. Around the world they act as frozen reservoirs providing water for billions of people, as well as animals and plants. Glaciers also influence local climates and ecosystems, and their melting is a dramatic warning of a warming world. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:00:20 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/global-melting/glaciers http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/global-melting/arctic-and-antarctic The Arctic and parts of Antarctica are warming at a much faster rate than the rest of the world. During the 20th century, air temperatures in some parts of the Arctic rose by about 9° F – ten times faster than the global average. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:56:14 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/global-melting/arctic-and-antarctic http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/global-melting As the Earth warms, its ice melts. This global melting is an early and obvious sign of climate change, but its implications go far beyond merely losing snow and ice. For starters, some people and ecosystems depend on the ice - glaciers for water supply in areas of seasonal rainfall, for example, and sea ice for habitat. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:24:40 GMT http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/impacts/global-melting