MapsofWorld.com has created the mother of all infographics with its Fry-Day Poll:Â Can Global Warming Be Contained?
Click on the link to see a thoroughly comprehensive infographic, a text version of the content, and a video highlighting key data on the infographic. Plus, you can answer their poll question.
The infographic is fun, but read the text for details. It starts with a succinct description of global warming, and provides many interesting and alarming facts, such as:
- A reflection of the depletion of glaciers, the Glacier National Park in Montana, United States, has fewer than twenty-seven glaciers now, in comparison to over 150 glaciers in 1910. This is a decrease of about 87% in the number of glaciers.
- In 2004, it was reported that Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, is losing about 4 inches annually because of global warming.
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 Also included is a clear description of the greenhouse effect, a listing of some organizations working to contain global warming, suggestions each person can do daily to reduce their impact and spread awareness, and a short discussion on whether the effects of global warming can be reversed.
Several “out-of-the-box†ideas are briefly described, including a scheme to wrap the Greenland icebergs with reflective blankets.
Climategate is explained in a section called “Is Global Warming a Real Threat?â€Â Climategate centered around hacked and leaked emails from scientists that were interpreted by climate skeptics to be proof of misrepresentation and suppression of scientific data to show that global warming was happening. A number of independent investigations by governments around the world confirmed the reality of global warming.
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