Deadly flooding. 'Zombie fires.' A massive iceberg. It's been a wild week in weather and climate change
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This week's weather headlines read like science fiction: "Zombie fires." Ice jam. Furious cyclone. World's largest iceberg.
Many of them are examples of climate change in action. As the Earth warms and causes shifting weather patterns on land and sea, such effects will become even more visible and extreme, experts say. "The Earth has declared war on us," said Robert Ballard, an oceanographer best known for his investigations of the Titanic shipwreck. "Unless we cut a deal with the Earth, and that means handle our expansive population, handle our carbon footprint, the Earth will eliminate us."More Related News
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