From pole to pole, ice is melting, animals are becoming endangered or displaced or on the brink of extinction, emissions are at all time highs and global warming has accelerated to points not expected until the next decade.  As a spokesperson for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently said… "We are already at great risk of dangerous climate change, that's what these figures say. It's not next year or next decade, it's now."

Here are excerpts from only a few recently published articles:

VALENCIA, Spain - Global warming is "unequivocal" and carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere commits the world to an average rise in sea levels of up to 4.6 feet, the world's top climate experts warned Saturday in their most authoritative report to date...Ban said ... He said he witnessed the devastation of climate change in disappearing glaciers of Antarctica, the deforested Amazon and under the ozone hole in Chile.

This article by reports that … "substantial changes in the climate" have occurred in the  Arctic Region with the the ocean clearing itself of

drifting ice 'for the first time in decades of Polar research'.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska's northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice.

What does that mean to us humans? read on….

….According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, September sea ice was 39 percent below the long-term average from 1979 to 2000.

with a possible ice-free Arctic Ocean by summer 2030, senior scientist Mark Serreze said…..

… Deborah Williams — who was an Interior Department special assistant for Alaska under former President Bill Clinton, and who is now president of the nonprofit Alaska Conservation Solutions — says:

…"That's what so breathtaking about this," she said. "This has all happened faster than anyone could have predicted. That's why it's so urgent action must be taken."…

… If lack of sea ice is at the heart of upcoming problems for walrus, Ragen said, there's no solution likely available other than prevention…

What can we do? What can I do? What can you do? … How do we ‘reverse things‘? This goes way beyond having a walrus come sit on your lap the next time you go visit the beach. Or watching them die as a species in front of your eyes.

If you think that it is only the northern portion of our planet that is in trouble, be advised that the Antarctic (South Pole) is in no better shape….

With a surface size about 1.5 times the size of the United States, Antarctica contains 90 percent of the Earth's fresh water, making it the largest potential source of sea level rise from global warming.

In fact, every where you look, scientists and world community groups and readers are proclaiming our world is ‘at risk’….

SYDNEY, Australia - Worldwide economic growth has accelerated the level of greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold scientists had not expected for another decade, according to a leading Australian climate change expert…..

… Carola Traverso Saibante, spokeswoman for IPCC headquarters is in Geneva, "What the report establishes is that the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is already above the threshold that can potentially cause dangerous climate change," Flannery told the broadcaster late Monday.