As we enter the midway portion of the year 2023, it is not difficult to collect data, examples, and near daily reminders to illustrate our growing climate crises. Global temperature increases and the corresponding melting of ice sheets and mountain glaciers provide evidence of global warming. Climate scientists from across international agencies (including, for example, NOAA, NASA, and the United Kingdom's Hadley Centre) collectively demonstrate that “the Earth's average surface temperature has risen by about 1.8°F (1.0°C) since 1880.”1 Holding about 8% of Earth's fresh water, Greenland's ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate and Arctic sea ice is declining in both thickness and range.2 Animal migration patterns point to the implications of these changes, occurring earlier each season and shifting increasingly northward.3 We encounter this also in the early spring blossoming of flora,4 declining snow coverage in the northern hemisphere,5 and rising sea...

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