TIPPING POINT

March 2008

Facts:

• Sea levels have risen 6-8 inches in the last 100 years

• If all of the ice in Antartica melted, sea levels would rise 200 feet

• Melting glaciers affect places across the world, such as the south pacific atoll Tuvalu - where the average elevation is 3 feet - Tuvaluans face being some of the world’s first climate refugees as seas rise

As the ice melts - and the seas rise -

crops, habitat, economy, climate, shelter - dip into

the consequences of the slow drop drip

(planetary temperature goes up, aka global fever).

The process tips on the fulcrum of fossil fuel

And because connected,

one side shifts the balance of the scale to the other.