8 juin 2014

Climate Change Will Force Us to Abandon Coastal Cities

 
On Monday, the New York Times reported on two new climate change studies that came to the same, terrifying conclusion: “The heat-trapping gases could destabilize other parts of Antarctica as well as the Greenland ice sheet, potentially causing enough sea-level rise that many of the world’s coastal cities would eventually have to be abandoned. ”Abandoned.

-New Republic