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Denmark to Set Up Ice Cap Stations
Denmark is to set up seven unmanned measuring stations along the edge of Greenland's vast ice cap, to monitor how fast the frozen sheet covering the massive island is thinning, Environment Minister Connie Hedegaard announced Friday.
U.N. Body: Emission Controls Need to Stay
Environmentalists from 165 nations agreed that climate controls need to remain in place after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, a U.N. body on climate change said Friday.
Group: Global Warming Threatens Millions
Millions of people around the world face death and devastation due to floods, famine, drought and violence caused by global warming, according to a report by a charity group.
Gore Invites 250 to View His Documentary
Al Gore led a discussion of the documentary which focuses on his efforts to educate people about global warming following a private screening of the film on Saturday.
British Expert Warns of Global Warming
Global temperatures are likely to rise by 5.4 degrees by the end of the century, sharply increasing drought and water shortages, Britain's chief scientist said.
Museum Highlights Arctic Climate Change
It's becoming harder to find the right snow to build an igloo, and melting permafrost is turning land into mud. With climate change the nature of the Arctic is changing, too, in ways that worry the people who live there.
Ancient Tree Possibly Found in Indiana
A large oak tree dug up last summer in a gravel pit could be 6,000 years old or more and might have been entombed by a glacier during the last ice age, scientists say.
Blair: Global Warming Is Advancing
The threat posed by climate change may be greater than previously thought, and global warming is advancing at an unsustainable rate, Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a report published Monday.
On Tipping Points and Climate Change
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.
Mother Earth: Check, Please
Source: wired.com
Global warming is real. Humans are largely to blame. Al Gore says so. So does Myron Ebell.
Climate Change May Have Helped Humans Out of Africa, Study Says
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.
Climate change 'real and severe'
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.
Big Tobacco and Big Oil
This is yet another interesting point from An Inconvenient Truth that I'd like to discuss.
A tale of two crises
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.
Earlier Return for Long-Haul Migrant Birds
Source: sciencenow.sciencemag.org
Climate change has led several migrating bird species to re-set their travel clocks.
2005 Hurricane Season: Blame the Heat
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.
Climate Change May Not Benefit Crops
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.
As the World Melts
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.
As the World Melts: Interview with Lonnie Thompson
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.
Academy Affirms 'Hockey-Stick' Graph
Source: nature.com
US National Academy of Science affirms hockey-stick graph but it criticizes the way the controversial climate result was used.
Ecology and Political Upheaval
Source: sciam.com
Small changes in climate can cause wars, topple governments and crush economies already strained by poverty, corruption and ethnic conflict.
Geo-Engineering in Vogue
Source: realclimate.org
Gavin Schmidt of Real Climate weighs in on the topic of geoengineering.
GOP Ignores Danger of Global Warming
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]
Warming Was Top Factor in 2005 Hurricanes, New Data Says
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.
Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy
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.
US Supreme Court to rule on climate change
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.
Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise
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.
Greenland's Ice Sheet Is Slip, Sliding Away
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]
NAS Report to Congress Confirms Global Warming
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.
Kyoto promises are nothing but hot air
Source: New Scientist
MANY governments, including some that claim to be leading the fight against global warming, are harbouring a dirty little secret.
Global warming will bring Canadians major culture shock: task force
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 ...
Panel: Earth warmest in 400 years
Source: msnbc.msn.com
OK, climate change naysayers. Let's hear more about the vast left wing conspiracy.
National Academies Synthesis Report
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.
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