Global Warming

Global Warming In January, 2007, UN scientists delivered their starkest warning yet about global warming, saying fossil fuel pollution would raise temperatures this century, worsen floods, droughts and hurricanes, melt polar sea ice and damage the climate system for a thousand years to come. Two polar bears on a chunk of ice in the arctic off Northern Alaska. Happy Feet? Emperor penguins in Antarctica. The shear face of the massive B-15A iceberg stretches for 150 kms across McMurdo Sound after it broke off the Ross Ice Shelf in Antartica. A storm causes huge waves in the port of Wimereux, northern France. Cars everywhere: vehicles come to a standstill outside the Seelisberg tunnel in Switzerland. Cars everywhere: a jet flies over congested traffic on the 405 freeway as it comes in to land at Los Angeles International Airport. Cars everywhere: the congestion of rush hour traffic sits still, in Taipei, Taiwan Another foggy day: a ferry sails into the Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong. Pollution improved? The sun sets over a hazy and polluted Beijing. The village of Gusdorf, west of Cologne, is pictured in front of the lignite-fired power plant Frimmersdorf of German RWE AG energy company. The cooling towers at the Limerick Generating Station in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Residents walk down a road that leads to the county's power plant in Zhangjiakou. Everything affected: bleached coral can be seen at the Keppel Islands on the southern Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. Everything affected: bleached coral can be seen at the Keppel Islands on the southern Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. France's President Jacques Chirac delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the conference on global ecological governance at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Scientists attend a session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at UNESCO in Paris, January 2007 Residents walk across the frozen Songhua River in front of smoke stacks at Jiamusi, in China's northeast Heilongjiang province. A resident stands near the polluted Dongting Lake in Hanshou county, central China's Hunan province. Waste gases burn as smoke and steam belch from the steel mills in Hamilton, approximately 50 km (31 miles) south of Toronto.