Time’s cover story – Be worried, be very worried – starts out with this provocative paragraph. Other recent stories on the effects of climate change, rising ocean levels etc.:

• What’s Up With the Weather? by Nova and Frontline (PBS)

(including a teacher’s guide)

• Possible Consequences 0f climate change – United States National Academy of Science report
• Warming to Cause Catastrophic Rise in Sea Level?, National Geographic News
• Climate Model Predicts Greater Melting, Submerged Cities
• Buffett links hurricane insurance to climate
• Sea level rise ‘is accelerating’
• Ocean changes ‘will cool Europe’
• Global warming – Union of Concerned Scientists
• The problem with “global warming” – “We are facing what might be the greatest threat ever to the future of mankind. And yet no one is marching in the streets, the outrage is largely intellectual and action is slow…. If the problem were called ‘Atmosphere cancer’ or ‘Pollution death’ the entire conversation would be framed in a different way.”
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Arctic System on Trajectory to New, Seasonally Ice-Free State