sduford on Nov 30 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - India’s monsoon rains have intensified over the last half-century as average temperatures have risen, and more severe weather could be in store if global warming continues, scientists reported on Thursday.
Heavy rains come more frequently and are more severe now than they were in 1951, the researchers wrote in the journal Science.
At the [...]
sduford on Nov 28 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming
By MERAIAH FOLEY, Associated Press Writer
SYDNEY, Australia - The rate at which humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has more than doubled since the 1990s, according to Australian research, the latest report warning about the high rate of emissions accumulating in the atmosphere.
Findings published by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization also [...]
sduford on Nov 27 2006 | Filed under: Politics
November 27, 2006 — By H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in a case that could determine whether the Bush administration must change course in how it deals with the threat of global warming.
A dozen states as well as environmental groups and large cities are [...]
sduford on Nov 27 2006 | Filed under: The Science
By Gavin Schmidt & Michael Mann, RealClimate
Extending the instrumental record of climate beyond the late 19th Century when many of the national weather centers were first started is an important, difficult and undervalued task. It often is more akin to historical detective work than to climatology and can involve long searches in [...]
sduford on Nov 26 2006 | Filed under: Environment, Global Warming
This article talks about some of the research being done on arctic clouds and how they may be affecting global warming. It also talks about the already dramatic effects of climate change on this fragile area.
By BETH DUFF-BROWN, Associated Press Writer, November 26, 2006
EUREKA, Nunavut Territory - Scientists are peering into the clouds near the [...]
sduford on Nov 25 2006 | Filed under: Books
A couple of months ago I read a great book titled “The Weather Makers” by Tim Flannery. This book is one of the first to provide a very complete yet clear view of what we are doing to the global climate, how it’s happening, what the consequences may be, and what we can do about [...]
sduford on Nov 22 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics
November 22, 2006 — By Jeremy Lovell, Reuters
LONDON — The world has less than a decade to take decisive action in the battle to beat global warming or risk irreversible change that will tip the planet towards catastrophe, a leading U.S. climate scientist said on Tuesday.
And the United States, the world’ biggest [...]
sduford on Nov 22 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming
By David Biello, Scientific American, November 21, 2006
Since 1978 chemists at the University of California, Irvine, have been collecting air in 40 locations from northern Alaska to southern New Zealand. Using gas chromatography, the scientists have measured the levels of methane in the lowest layer of our atmosphere. Although not nearly [...]
sduford on Nov 21 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer, November 21, 2006
WASHINGTON - Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.
These fast-moving adaptations come as a surprise even to biologists and ecologists because they are occurring so rapidly.
At least 70 species [...]
sduford on Nov 20 2006 | Filed under: Global Warming
WASHINGTON - Global warming gases trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb.
Methane — a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide — is being released from the permafrost at a rate [...]