Climate Change Is Our Greatest Threat, Says International Disaster Nursing Expert

As one example, she offers Hurricane Katrina

Kittiwake sea bird could become extinct as population halves since the 1980s | Mail Online

Orkney population fell from 11,000 pairs in 2000 to under 2,000 this year

Newcastle in a flap over urban kittiwake colony | UK news | guardian.co.uk

[2011] The only urban colony of kittiwake gulls in the UK faces a potential siege at Tyne Bridge. More than 150 nests have been wedged into granite carvings on the four towers that support Newcastle upon Tyne's river crossing since the first two pairs arrived in 1997.

Initially hailed as a tourist attraction, with visitor signs and temporary telescopes to watch their antics, the seabirds have now been condemned as an obstacle to the riverside's award-winning regeneration.

Hurricanes and the GOP Convention: 'Hurricanes in Florida are half as frequent now as they were 160 years ago' | Climate Depot

'The GOP lost the 2008 election, and there have been no hurricanes in Florida since then. Masters points out that in a worst-case scenario, the 'Tampa Bay convention center would go under 20 feet of water, and St. Petersburg would become an island, as occurred during the 1848 hurricane': So they had a really bad hurricane in 1848, when CO2 was 280 PPM'

Antarctic peninsula was 1.3°C warmer than today 11,000 years ago | Watts Up With That?

New climate history adds to understanding of recent Antarctic Peninsula warming