• The ten warmest years in history have all occurred in the past 15 year
  • The number of major hurricanes has almost doubled in the last 30 ye
  • In Tanzania , the legendary snows of Mount Kilimanjaro have melted by about 80 percent since 1912 and could be gone by 2020
  • The global sea level has risen by between 10 and 25 centimetres, as glaciers melt and warming sea water expands
  • If warming continues, more than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by 2050.