All the data you need to show that the world is warming April 14, 2010 According to the IPCC 4th Assessment Report (2007): Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level. At continental, regional, and ocean basin scales, numerous long-term changes in climate have been observed. These include...
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Yale Environment 360: Canadian Ice Sheet Is Melting Rapidly, Study Shows
One of the largest ice sheets in Canada’s high Arctic has been swiftly shrinking in recent decades as a result of warmer summers, according to a new study. The 895-square-mile ice cap on Devon Island, an uninhabited island in Baffin Bay, has declined steadily since 1985, according to analysis by scientists at the University of Calgary. Because the remote Arctic area is essentially a desert, with minimal annual precipitation, any increase of snow takes years...
7 Biggest Environmental Disasters — Where Are They Now?
These 7 catastrophic environmental disasters have had a profound effect upon the earth and local residents that continues today, as many as 50 years later. via 7 Biggest Environmental Disasters — Where Are They Now? | | AlterNet.
Weathermen, and other climate change skeptics : The New Yorker
APRIL 12, 2010 Joe Bastardi, who goes by the title “expert senior forecaster” at AccuWeather, has a modest proposal. Virtually every major scientific body in the world has concluded that the planet is warming, and that greenhouse-gas emissions are the main cause. Bastardi, who holds a bachelor’s degree in meteorology, disagrees. His theory, which mixes volcanism, sunspots, and a sea-temperature trend known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, is that the earth is actually cooling....
Bye-bye, global cooling myth: Hottest March and hottest 1st Quarter on record
It was the hottest March in both satellite records (UAH and RSS), and tied for the hottest March on record in the NASA dataset. It was the hottest (or tied for hottest) January through March in all three records. The record temperatures we’re seeing now are especially impressive because we’ve been in “the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.” It now appears to be over. It’s just hard to stop the march of...
The Natural World Vanishes: How Species Cease To Matter
We’ve been decimating fish populations, and few seem to care. How “inter-generational amnesia” leads to complacency. Read the whole story…
Climate Scientist Bashing: a popular sport amongst German journalists
A new popular sport in some media these days is “climate scientist bashing”. Instead of dealing soberly with the climate problem they prefer to attack climate scientists, i.e. the bearers of bad news. The German magazine DER SPIEGEL has played this game last week under the suggestive heading “Die Wolkenschieber” – which literally translated can mean both “the cloud movers” and “the cloud traffickers” (available in English here ). The article continues on this level,...
The predominant moral issue of the 21st century, almost surely, will be climate change
The country’s top climatologist, NASA’s James Hansen, writes in HuffPost: The predominant moral issue of the 21st century, almost surely, will be climate change, comparable to Nazism faced by Churchill in the 20th century and slavery faced by Lincoln in the 19th century. Our fossil fuel addiction, if unabated, threatens our children and grandchildren, and most species on the planet. Read the full story…
How the ‘climategate’ scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics’ lies
Claims based on email soundbites are demonstrably false – there is manifestly no evidence of clandestine data manipulation http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/09/climategate-bogus-sceptics-lies
The Golden Frog of Panama
The Golden Frog of Panama. The cute little Golden Frog was a national symbol of Panama. It fell victim of the chytrid fungus which wiped it out in 2007. The Panamanian golden frog declared extinct by BBC Natural History crew Thankfully Panamanian authorities along with several zoos around the world were able to collect a few specimens to start a breeding program and preserve the species until a cure is found. Houston Zoo makes...