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What Yosemite looks like in 2100 with climate change

How is climate change affecting some of the park’s premier attractions — for instance, the firefall event? And how will climate change impact the environments within the park, the creatures who live there and the visitor experience? Will it eventually strip Yosemite of its awe-inspiring beauty?

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Stark differences in climate impacts between 1.5 and 2 degrees of warming
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Stark differences in climate impacts between 1.5 and 2 degrees of warming

A difference of just half a degree of global warming, from 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius, would mean that an additional 5 million people worldwide will have the land where their homes are located be permanently submerged underwater, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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