2050: Year the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free, devastating coastal areas worldwide, if global warming continues

20: Feet that global sea levels could rise with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica

1 million: Number of species worldwide driven to extinction by 2050

300,000: Number of people who will die each year from heat waves, droughts, wildfires and intense storms

30: Percentage of pollution-causing global warming that comes from the United States

Source: Web site for Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”


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