Thanks Antony Bagalue 1. 2015. Loss of key climate data from U.S. satellite instruments expected to begin by 2015 and continue for up to 11 years. “After key climate and space weather instruments were removed from the NPOESS and GOES-R programs in 2006, federal agencies decided to restore selected capabilities in the near term. 2. The 2006 removal of key climate monitoring instruments from U.S. satellites is expected to cause critical gaps in collection of climate data beginning in 2015. “Inez Fung, a noted climatologist at the University of California-Berkeley, was shocked as she scanned a recent federal report warning of impending gaps in the countrys ability to monitor Earth from space. 3. Very large holes in the ozone layer over the Antarctic continent predicted by NASA during the years 2007-2017. Our current predictions right now [are] that . . . [f]or about the next ten years or so [2007 - 2017], 4. Time frame when climate tipping point is projected to occur beginning the irreversible release of large volumes of greenhouse gases from melting permafrost. 5. 2020. Increases in ground level ozone caused by higher global warming temperatures could cost the U.S. approximately $5.4 billion in 2020. “Unchecked global warming could threaten public health and increase health costs by exacerbating ground-level ozone, according to a peer-reviewed report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The report, “Climate Change and Your Health: Rising Temperatures, Worsening Ozone Pollution, 6. Time frame when irreversible climate tipping point is projected to occur due to carbon outgassing from melting permafrost. “An irreversible climate ‘tipping point’ could occur within the next 20 years [between 2020 and 2030] as a result of the release of huge quantities of organic carbon locked away as frozen plant matter in the vast permafrost region of the Arctic 7. Antarctic ozone hole will continue to expand through 2020. “Some existing agreements, even when implemented, will not be able by 2015 to reverse the targeted environmental damage they were designed to address. 8. Sea levels projected to rise 1.5 inches to 3.1 inches by the year 2025. “Sea levels may rise by 1.5 inches to 3.1 inches by the year 2025 from expansion of ocean water in a warming climate, a prediction says. But forecasting the total sea level rise will require estimating the contribution of runoff from melting glaciers, ‘a daunting task,’ researchers said. The projected increase from thermal expansion, calculated for 1985 to 2025, compares to previous published estimates of 2.3 inches to 4.3 inches, they said. The study [Thermal Expansion of Sea Water Associated with Global Warming] in the British journal Nature, was prepared by Tom Wigley andS.C.B. Raper of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Mr. Wigley now is working at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. Changes in sea level are being studied as one consequence of the ‘greenhouse effect,’ a warming of the global climate due to a buildup of certain gases in the atmosphere.
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