National inspirer: the Canadian Environmental Network's latest green energy paper tells Canadians how to step up efforts to curb climate change.
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National inspirer: the Canadian Environmental Network's latest green energy paper tells Canadians how to step up efforts to curb climate change.
THE CURRENT IMPACTS of climate change can be observed globally. The casualties of climate change are mounting. They include the victims of the hurricanes on the United States Gulf Coast this past summer, and the 20,000 people who died across Europe in the summer of 2004. In the South Pacific, whole nations are disappearing. Tuvalu, a small island state, is expected to migrate its 11,300 people to New Zealand at a rate of 75 per year. The island, whose highest point is 4.5 metres above sea level, has been experiencing increasingly high waves, reaching as high as three metres last February, making it increasingly uninhabitable. In the Arctic, the warming of the globe has caused the reduction of Arctic sea ice by 15 percent to 20 percent, causing the forced relocation of coastal communities.
The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) has risen from 280 parts per million (ppm) in 1750 to over 379 ppm tod...See the full content of this document
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