Addressing several audiences at the American Geophysical Union’s annual fall meeting in early December in San Francisco, Cook, making his first visit to North America, told audiences the booklet had been downloaded more than 280,000 times in just its first two weeks online.
There’s no denying what greenhouse emissions have already done to the atmosphere and to the oceans, after all, and it’s not pretty.
Acidic seawater is wiping out wild oyster beds in the Pacific Northwest. With melting sea ice and permafrost, some coastal Alaskan villages are scrambling to relocate inland. As Arctic ice retreats, methane is pouring into the atmosphere.
Sara Peach | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
Sara Peach, an environmental journalist, teaches environmental journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (E-mail: sara@yaleclimatemediaforum.org)
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