National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World Page #2
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A minor shift in the Earth's orbit
caused the summer sun
to warm slightly,
just enough to radically
transform this entire region.
Only a very thin layer of topsoil
covers the desert sand that still lurks
just centimeters below the surface.
As we race toward a planet
warmer by one degree,
lists both losers and winners.
While the western U.S.
is dry and thirsty,
England is enjoying
an agricultural makeover.
Fortunes will be made and lost,
if global weather patterns rearrange
where different crops can be grown.
The winters, which used
to be hard in this country,
are getting much milder
so in some sense, that's a good thing.
That's not counterbalanced
by the devastation
which is affecting
other parts of the world.
Right now, England
is in the right place at the right time
for one of the world's most fragile
and most valuable crops.
You can't have it too hot for grapes,
because you realize
in the Champagne region...
When David Middleton
first planted Champagne-style grapes,
neighbors thought he'd gone mad.
But as wine producing regions
the climate for growing grapes
is migrating across the English Channel.
The idea of a fine English wine
is no longer a joke.
Now there are more
than 400 vineyards in Britain.
The Earth's average temperature
has always fluctuated.
And a variable climate isn't unusual.
It's the pace of climate change
today that's unprecedented.
The planet has experienced
climate change before.
thousands or millions of years.
Now global warming
is measured in decades,
even years.
won't be able to keep up.
Warming at this speed could send
us into uncharted territory,
like nothing we've experienced
in the history of life on Earth.
Global warming started
with our insatiable appetite for energy.
Every switch we flip, every plug,
every button we push
to turn something on,
inevitably leads back
to a place like this.
Nearly 90 percent of the world's energy
starts as a fossil fuel:
Coal, oil, natural gas.
of CO2 emissions pouring
into the atmosphere.
If the world warms by two degrees,
some changes to the biosphere
are no longer gradual.
Greenland's glaciers are disappearing.
So much ice has melted,
polar bears struggle to survive.
Insects migrate
in strange new directions.
As a temperate climate
moves north in the U.S.,
pine beetles kill off
the white bark forests,
a grizzly bear's key source
of food in the fall.
New forests take root
in Canada's melting tundra.
The Pacific islands
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