09.02.10

Siberia is Melting

Posted in global warming at 1:15 pm by nemo

Frozenology
Tony Wood: Siberia is MeltingThe apocalyptic scenes in European Russia – thousands burned out of their homes, millions of hectares of crops destroyed, Moscow wreathed in smoke from smouldering peat bogs – have dominated news reports. Further east, as Tony Wood discovered, the permafrost is melting. The city of Yakutsk is in the middle of the coldest inhabited region on earth, the Sakha Republic. Temperatures of -68°C have been recorded there. The permafrost extends 250 to 350 metres below the city. Elsewhere it reaches depths of almost a mile. The effects its melting will have, both locally and globally, are potentially devastating

09.01.10

Decline of Horseshoe Crab

Posted in global warming at 2:36 pm by nemo

Climate Change Implicated in Decline of Horseshoe Crabs
ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2010) — A distinct decline in horseshoe crab numbers has occurred that parallels climate change associated with the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that used genomics to assess historical trends in population sizes.

Bjørn Lomborg to oppose GW

Posted in global warming at 12:56 pm by nemo

Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change
Exclusive ‘Sceptical environmentalist’ and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world

08.29.10

Hansen on activism

Posted in global warming at 11:48 am by nemo

Am I an activist for caring about my grandchildren’s future? I guess I am
Concerted action to tackle climate change will happen only if the public demands it for the sake of future generations

08.27.10

El Niños Growing Stronger

Posted in global warming at 1:43 pm by nemo

El Niños Are Growing Stronger, NASA/NOAA Study Finds
ScienceDaily (Aug. 27, 2010) — A relatively new type of El Niño, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA. The research may improve our understanding of the relationship between El Niños and climate change, and has potentially significant implications for long-term weather forecasting.

Dry water

Posted in global warming at 12:44 pm by nemo

‘Dry Water’ Could Make a Big Splash Commercially, Help Fight Global Warming
ScienceDaily (Aug. 26, 2010) — An unusual substance known as “dry water,” which resembles powdered sugar, could provide a new way to absorb and store carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming

08.25.10

Sea level will likely be 30-70 centimetres higher by 2100

Posted in global warming at 12:53 pm by nemo

Sea Level to Rise Even With Aggressive Geo-Engineering and Greenhouse Gas Control, Study Finds
ScienceDaily (Aug. 24, 2010) — New findings by international research group of scientists from England, China and Denmark just published suggest that sea level will likely be 30-70 centimetres higher by 2100 than at the start of the century even if all but the most aggressive geo-engineering schemes are undertaken to mitigate the effects of global warming and greenhouse gas emissions are stringently controlled.

Geoengineering won’t undo sea level rises

Posted in global warming at 12:51 pm by nemo

Geoengineering won’t undo sea level rises

Declining trees spell gloom

Posted in global warming at 12:42 pm by nemo

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/declining-trees-spell-gloom-for-planet-20100824-13qfn.html

08.23.10

Disaster at the Top of the World

Posted in global warming at 12:24 pm by nemo

Disaster at the Top of the World

08.22.10

Acid oceans

Posted in global warming at 12:18 pm by nemo

Acidification

08.21.10

Decline in plant growth

Posted in global warming at 12:00 pm by nemo

Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth
ScienceDaily (Aug. 21, 2010) — Global plant productivity that once was on the rise with warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline because of regional drought, according to a new study of NASA satellite data.

Arctic sea ice

Posted in global warming at 11:58 am by nemo

Is the Ice in the Arctic Ocean Getting Thinner?ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2010) — The extent of the sea ice in the Arctic will reach its annual minimum in September. Forecasts indicate that it will not be as low as in 2007, the year of the smallest area covered by sea ice since satellites started recording such data. Nevertheless, sea ice physicists at the Alfred Wegener Institute are concerned about the long-term equilibrium in the Arctic Ocean.

08.20.10

Lake Mead

Posted in global warming at 1:14 pm by nemo

Lake Mead’s Water Level Plunges as 11-Year Drought Lingers

08.17.10

Bleached coral

Posted in global warming at 11:58 am by nemo

Massive Coral Mortality Following Bleaching in Indonesia
ScienceDaily (Aug. 17, 2010) — The Wildlife Conservation Society has released initial field observations that indicate that a dramatic rise in the surface temperature in Indonesian waters has resulted in a large-scale bleaching event that has devastated coral populations.

Pakistan floods and climate change

Posted in global warming, you've got mail at 11:34 am by nemo

Climate Change Debate Rises with Pakistan Floods

http://act.commondreams.org/go/1875?akid=140.96588.Y7Sj9w&t=6

08.14.10

‘Green Cement’

Posted in global warming at 11:51 am by nemo

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/08/13/13climatewire-can-green-cement-make-carbon-capture-and-stor-9325.html?pagewanted=all:
Can ‘Green Cement’ Make Carbon Capture and Storage Obsolete?

08.13.10

Record heat

Posted in global warming at 9:39 am by nemo

World feeling the heat as 17 countries experience record temperatures
2010 sees record highs in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine but also many African, Middle Eastern and Latin American countries

08.11.10

More on orchids/climate change

Posted in global warming at 12:58 pm by nemo

Comment re: orchids and climate change

Enezio E. de Almeida Filho said,
August 11, 2010 at 5:03 am ·
This is an OPEN ACCESS paper that can be downloaded for free here:

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/msq150v1

Supplemental Information:

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol0/issue2010/images/data/msq150/DC1/mbe-10-0157-File006.doc

08.10.10

Common orchid gives scientists hope in face of climate change

Posted in Evolution, global warming at 11:55 am by nemo

Common orchid gives scientists hope in face of climate change
A study led by scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s Jodrell Laboratory, which focuses on epigenetics in European common marsh orchids, has revealed that some plants may be able to adapt more quickly to environmental change than previously thought. The new study, published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, brings new hope to plant conservation.

Russia’s heatwave

Posted in global warming at 11:36 am by nemo

The statistics are staggering. Russia’s heatwave is the most severe in 1000 years, the mortality rate in Moscow has doubled, and morgues are overflowing …

08.09.10

Butterflies/global warming

Posted in global warming at 11:31 am by nemo

Butterflies Shed Light on How Some Species Respond to Global Warming
ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2010) — With global warming and climate change making headlines nearly every day, it could be reassuring to know that some creatures might cope by gradually moving to new areas as their current ones become less hospitable. Nevertheless, natural relocation of species is not something that can be taken for granted, according to Jessica Hellmann, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame Department of Biological Science in Notre Dame, Ind. By studying two species of butterfly, she and her team have found evidence suggesting that a number of genetic variables affect whether and how well a species will relocate.

Our Diminished Oceans

Posted in global warming at 11:16 am by nemo

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/aug/06/our-diminished-oceans/

Our Diminished Oceans
Bill McKibben

What may turn out to be the summer’s most important news story (and just
possibly the millennium’s) didn’t make the pages of the Times. A study
in Nature last week concluded that as oceans warmed, phytoplankton—the
tiny organisms that form the crucial first level of the entire marine
food chain—were disappearing. In fact, since you need a subscription to
read the whole study, let me reprint the key portion of the abstract here:

08.08.10

Greenland glacier fragment

Posted in global warming at 11:49 am by nemo

Greenland Glacier Calves Island Four Times the Size of Manhattan
ScienceDaily (Aug. 7, 2010) — A University of Delaware researcher reports that an “ice island” four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962.

08.07.10

Oxygen crisis

Posted in global warming at 11:45 am by nemo

A Looming Oxygen Crisis and
Its Impact on World’s Oceans

As warming intensifies, scientists warn, the oxygen content of oceans across the planet could be more and more diminished, with serious consequences for the future of fish and other sea life.
by carl zimmer

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