Researchers report that more than 80% of ecological processes have already exhibited a reaction to global warming, with species' genes, physiology, and physical features changing. With climate change now affecting all of the planet's ecosystems and changing the biological makeup of its inhabitants, finding ways to mitigate its effects is imperative.

On the same day Donald Trump was elected, the World Meteorological Organization reported that the five years from 2011 to 2015 were the hottest on record, with hundreds of thousands of deaths

The Antarctic ice shelves are melting at unprecedented rates, 300–490 m (984 - 1608 ft) in just 7 years, thanks to climate change warming up ocean waters. The future of what such continuing rapid deterioration will lead to in unclear, but inaction can only confirm any disastrous possibilities.

Actual measurements of methane emissions were 60 to 110 percent greater than estimates. This is yet another marker that there is much more to be done to combat the causes of climate change.

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal not only with climate change but also with other pressing global concerns, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. And he considers why and how this debate has fostered an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized.

An Inconvenient Truth―Gore’s groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance―is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes―and a leading expert―brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness―and with humor, too―that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked. This riveting new book―written in an accessible, entertaining style―will open the eyes of even the most skeptical.