Snapshots of a warming planet....

In 2005, a Russian research vessel was the first ship able to sail through arctic waters and reach the North Pole unhindered by pack ice.

The genocide in Darfur is likely the first human evidence of war based on diminishing farm land induced by global warming. Most low-lying land in Darfur was traditionally farmed by a family of tribes who tended the wells, springs, and soil. Nomadic Arabs would pass through these lands, using the water and grazing their herds on surrounding hillsides. For hundreds of years, this peaceful relationship existed. In the last few years, a warmer, dryer climate in Darfur has caused springs and wells to dry out and hillside grasses to disappear. This has resulted in the framers fencing off their lands for the first time ever, and to closing access to water from the Arabs. The reaction from the Arabs has been to band together to take these resources by force, and to begin to eliminate the private property of the farmers, and the farmers themselves. There is no racial difference in the Farmers and Arabs ; the genocide is based on a struggle for diminishing resources.