Source: realclimate.org
The idea is that in many non-linear systems (of which the climate is certainly one), a small push away from one state only has small effects at first but at some 'tipping point' the system can flip and go rapidly into another state.
Source: wired.com
Global warming is real. Humans are largely to blame. Al Gore says so. So does Myron Ebell.
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
Rapid climate change may have enabled early humans to venture out of Africa and colonize the rest of the world, according to a new study.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
An expert panel convened by BBC News has concluded that climate change is "real and dangerous". Temperatures are likely to rise by 3C to 5C by the end of the century, with impacts likely to be "severe" but not "catastrophic", the panel said.
This is yet another interesting point from An Inconvenient Truth that I'd like to discuss.
Source: commentisfree.guardian.co.uk
The second in a series of quarterly posts chronicling the big stories in global energy crisis and climate change. A detailed history of the last 3 months.
Source: sciencenow.sciencemag.org
Climate change has led several migrating bird species to re-set their travel clocks.
Source: sciencenow.sciencemag.org
It's no secret that 2005 was a ferocious hurricane season. A record 28 tropical storms and hurricanes--including four category-5s--lashed through the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean, leaving an appalling toll of death, misery, and destruction in their wakes.
Source: sciam.com
Increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide may not be as helpful to crops as previously thought, according to a new study. As global temperatures rise, soil moisture levels fall.
Source: wired.com
Only by looking at the past and documenting the natural changes can we get the real perspective on how unusual today's climate is. [...] We have the only archive of tropical ice cores, which is important because many of these glaciers will melt within the next 15 years.
Source: wired.com
Wired News spoke with Lonnie Thompson, an Ohio State University professor and paleoclimatologist who has spent the last 31 years studying the ice fields atop many of the world's highest peaks.
Source: nature.com
US National Academy of Science affirms hockey-stick graph but it criticizes the way the controversial climate result was used.
Source: sciam.com
Small changes in climate can cause wars, topple governments and crush economies already strained by poverty, corruption and ethnic conflict.
Source: realclimate.org
Gavin Schmidt of Real Climate weighs in on the topic of geoengineering.
Source: alternet.org
The Republicans and their business donors are stalling any meaningful attempts to reduce the damage of global warming. [Also seeded for reference purposes : tons of climate change links here]
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, climate scientists began a heated debate: Was last year's superstrong hurricane season a result of global warming? Now a new study argues that global warming is probably the larger of the two factors.
Source: sfgate.com
Excerpt : The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
Source: New Scientist
The US Supreme Court decided on Monday to hear a case that will bring climate change and the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions before the court for the first time.
Source: realclimate.org
A plethora of research articles has appeared over the past year reporting new observations of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets along with associated modeling results.
Source: latimes.com
The LA Times reports on the work of Jay Zwally and Konrad Steffen, two climatologists studying the Greenland ice sheet at Swiss Camp. [free registration req'd]
Source: New Scientist
An expert US National Academies of Science Report requested by the US Congress concludes that the past few decades have been the warmest in the past 400 years & that multiple lines of evidence support a human cause.
Source: New Scientist
MANY governments, including some that claim to be leading the fight against global warming, are harbouring a dirty little secret.
Source: canada.com
Canadians are facing a culture shock in the coming decades as global warming forces radical lifestyle changes involving their homes, their appliances, their workplace and their means of transportation, members of a federal task force said Wednesday ...
Source: msnbc.msn.com
OK, climate change naysayers. Let's hear more about the vast left wing conspiracy.
Source: realclimate.org
The scientists over at Real Climate provide a quick overview of the National Academies Synthesis Report, released today. The long-awaited NAS synthesis report on surface temperature reconstructions over the last few millennia is being released today.