THE ONE DEGREE FACTOR Strange Days on Planet Earth
In 2001, an international team of scientists concluded that by burning carbon fuels, we have raised Earth's temperature one-degree in the last century. Researchers believe that this climate change is connected to disparate phenomena. Dust clouds are building over the Atlantic; entire populations of animals are dropping; rare illnesses are becoming more common. Our world is getting warmer, but how much warmer will depend in part on us. While the things we can do now don�t always seem so significant, if enough people start reducing their energy consumption, it will make a real difference.
