Moving Toward a Global Moral Consensus on Environmental Action

摘要: In the summer of 2012, some 10 percent earth’s land baked under intense heat, a tenfold increase from baseline years. Ninety-seven surface Greenland ice sheet warmed enough to show signs thawing. The temperature in state Kansas broke 115 degrees—an all-time record. And U.S. Drought Monitor reported that 62.3 United States was suffering moderate extreme drought. Hot, dry weather also scorched Moscow, which cloaked haze wildfires. All but 24 Arctic Ocean ice-free summer, lowest point since measurements began at 50 late 1970s.1