Friday, August 22, 2008

Fewer April Showers for U.S. Southwest as Climate Changes

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Things could get uglier for desert flowers looking to bloom in May--and for the region's water supply, year-round by D...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

U.S. Court of Appeals rejects E.P.A. limits on emissions rules

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by Felicity Barringer, New York Times , August 19, 2008 A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out an Environmental Protection Ag...

9 Polar Bears Spotted on Risky Open Ocean Swims

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Thursday, August 21, 2008 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Nine polar bears were observed in one day swimming in open oc...
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Expansion of oxygen-minimum zones in the oceans

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Oxygen Depletion: A New Form of Ocean Habitat Loss Scientists confirm computer model predictions that oxygen-depleted zones in tropical oce...

Jeremy B. C. Jackson: Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.)

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Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean Jeremy B. C. Jackson * Cent...

Scripps scientist Jeremy Jackson warns of mass extinctions and "Rise of Slime"

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Oceans on the Precipice: Scripps Scientist Warns of Mass Extinctions and 'Rise of Slime' Threats to marine ecosystems from ov...

Bob Tisdale on the Thermohaline Circulation and SSTs

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For those of you who understand these things: http://bobtisdale.blogspot.com/2008/06/thermohaline-circulation-upwelling-area.html and http:/...

'Clock ticking' on global warming: UN climate chief

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August 21, 2008 ACCRA (AFP) — Time is running out in the fight against global warming, the UN's top climate change official warned as a ...

At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice

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BLOGGER'S NOTE: SEE ALSO THESE POSTS WITH SATELLITE PHOTOS OF THE BREAKUP, CRACKS, AND JAKOBSHAVN GLACIER: http://climatechangepsycholo...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Northern Greenland's Petermann Glacier front breakup, July-August 2008

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SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW CONTINUED BREAKUP OF TWO OF GREENLAND’S LARGEST GLACIERS, PREDICTED NEAR-FUTURE CONTINUED DISINTEGRATION » ...

APA psychologists rally to fight climate change fatalism

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by Andy Coghlan, NewScientist Environment , 20 August 2008 FEELING blue about climate change? Don't despair. Psychologists say they can ...

Peak temps may rise twice as fast as average temps

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NewScientist Environment , August 20, 2008 PEAK temperatures may rise twice as fast as average temperatures as climate change hots up. By 21...

Jakobshavn Glacier Retreats to New Minimum

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Jakobshavn Glacier Retreats to New Minimum MODIS image of Jakobshavn Glacier with lines indicating continued retreat. The Jakobs...

Zager and Evans: "In the Year 2525"

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Link to YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive The...
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Parts of British coast may be "abandoned to the sea"

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BBC, 18 August 2008 Lord Smith said coastal erosion was his agency's most difficult issue S...

Global Temperatures of the Last Five Centuries

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Henry N. Pollack, Shaopeng Huang and Po-Yu Shen Summary Pollack et al. recently generated a global temperature reconstruction using a t...
Monday, August 18, 2008

James Hansen: "We need politicians with the guts to say that..."

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The current: Coal in the crossfire by Bill McAuliffe, S...

Atmospheric Scientists Map Pollution Decrease

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[BLOGGER'S NOTE: this article is from last year, but it is full of good information that is still pertinent.] What's In Our Air? ...

Climate Change Threatens One In Five Plant Species In Germany

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A loser of climate change: Common spruce (Picea abies) is adapted to cool and humid conditions which are projected to prevail in smaller are...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Climate Changes Creating Green And Flowering Mountains in Sweden

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Young sapling of elm (Ulmus glabra) stablished close to the local birch treeline. (Credit: Leif Kullman, Umeå University) Sweden's mount...