Six Degrees - Our World Plus 2°C
February 2, 2008
Our World Plus 2°C
| ° | Insects may migrate in strange new directions. For example, as a temperate climate moves north in the United States, pine beetles could kill off the great whitebark forests. |
| ° | Greenland’s glaciers continue melting at a faster rate. In fact, Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier is already the fastest-moving ice field on the planet; the amount of ice breaking off the glacier every few days contains enough water to supply New York City for one year. |
| ° | Because of a decrease in sea ice, polar bears make the endangered species list. |
| ° | Forests begin to take root in Canada’s melting tundra. |
| ° | The Pacific islands of Tuvalu could sink beneath the rising ocean tides. |
| ° | At 2 degrees of warming, the impact on the marine ecosystem is likely to be severe, and it is possible that the vast majority of the world’s tropical coral reefs will die off. |
