Our World in 6 Degrees
1 Degree Warmer: * The Artic is ice-free for half the year. * Opening the legendary north-west passage for ships. * Tens of thousands of homes around the Bay of Bengal are flooding. * Hurricanes begin hitting the South Atlantic. * Servere droughts in the Western US causing shortages global grain and meat markets.
2 Degrees Warmer: * Greenland glaciers are disappearing. * So much ice has melted, polar bears struggle to survive. * Insects migrate in strange new directions * As a temperate climate moves north in the US, pine beetles kill off the white bark forests. * Grizzly bears cease source of food in the fall. * New forests take route in Canada’s new melting tundra. * The Pacific Islands of Tuvalu are lost beneath the rising tides of global warming. 3 Degrees Warmer: * The Artic is ice-free all summer. * The Amazon rainforest is drying out. * Snowcaps on the Alps all disappear. * The Mediterranean and parts of Europe wither in searing summer heat. 4 Degrees Warmer: * Oceans rise overtaking heavily populated deltas home to a billion people * Bangladesh – washed away * Egypt- inundated * Venice – submerged * Glaciers disappear, shutting off the flow of fresh water to billions more * Northern Canada becomes one of the planets most bountiful agriculture zones * The entire west Antarctic ice sheet could collapse sending the sea level to rise even further.
5 Degrees Warmer: * Two massive uninhabitable zones spread into one temperate regions of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. * Los Angeles, Cairo, Lima, Bombay – are drying out * Climate refugees number in the hundred of millions
6 Degrees Warmer: * From a distance, the ocean may appear bright blue but they are marine wastelands. * Deserts march over continents * Natural disasters become common events * Some of the world’s great cities
2 Degrees Warmer: * Greenland glaciers are disappearing. * So much ice has melted, polar bears struggle to survive. * Insects migrate in strange new directions * As a temperate climate moves north in the US, pine beetles kill off the white bark forests. * Grizzly bears cease source of food in the fall. * New forests take route in Canada’s new melting tundra. * The Pacific Islands of Tuvalu are lost beneath the rising tides of global warming. 3 Degrees Warmer: * The Artic is ice-free all summer. * The Amazon rainforest is drying out. * Snowcaps on the Alps all disappear. * The Mediterranean and parts of Europe wither in searing summer heat. 4 Degrees Warmer: * Oceans rise overtaking heavily populated deltas home to a billion people * Bangladesh – washed away * Egypt- inundated * Venice – submerged * Glaciers disappear, shutting off the flow of fresh water to billions more * Northern Canada becomes one of the planets most bountiful agriculture zones * The entire west Antarctic ice sheet could collapse sending the sea level to rise even further.
5 Degrees Warmer: * Two massive uninhabitable zones spread into one temperate regions of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. * Los Angeles, Cairo, Lima, Bombay – are drying out * Climate refugees number in the hundred of millions
6 Degrees Warmer: * From a distance, the ocean may appear bright blue but they are marine wastelands. * Deserts march over continents * Natural disasters become common events * Some of the world’s great cities