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Earth Day 2021: 60 Minutes revisits climate change reporting archive
To mark this Earth Day, 60 Minutes looks back on our reporting on climate change and the environment over the years. 2021 Apr 22
This Earth Day, many around the world will spend a second consecutive year celebrating our planet from the relative safety of home, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to test the world in unprecedented ways.
To mark this Earth Day, 60 Minutes looked back at some of the climate change stories we have reported over the years. We begin in February 2006, and a report we called, Global Warning!
In 2006, Scott Pelley and a 60 Minutes team traveled to the Arctic to speak with scientists, including leading authority on climate change Robert Corell and glaciologist Carl Boggild, to unearth and explain the effects that man is having on the world s climate.
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Sea-level rise from climate change could exceed the high-end projections, scientists warn By Jeff Berardelli Sea levels could rise even more rapidly
Of the many threats from climate change, sea-level rise will most certainly be among the most impactful, making hundreds of thousands of square miles of coastline uninhabitable and potentially displacing over 100 million people worldwide by the end of the century. This threat is a top concern for national security experts because forced migration poses significant risks to international security and stability.
The magnitude of this threat depends heavily on how much the oceans rise in the coming decades. But because of the complex dynamics of massive ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, exact estimates remain elusive, ranging from just over a foot to several feet above current levels. That disparity is the difference between tens of millions of people forced from their homes or a much more unmanageable hundr