Scientists monitor only a few of India’s vital glaciers, which are receding by as much as 100 feet each year. By Janaki Kremmer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor NEW DELHI – Billions of people in China and the Indian subcontinent rely on South Asia’s Himalayan glaciers – the world’s largest store of fresh water outside the polar ice caps. The massive ice floes feed seven of the world’s greatest Asian rivers in...
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Scientists: Climate change clues in the sky
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 top of the world, trying to solve a mystery and learn something new about global warming. The...
The Challenge of Sustainable Water
Water supplies around the world are already severely stressed. Population growth and global warming will only worsen those problems. By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scientific American While oil shortages grab the headlines, water scarcity is creating at least as many headaches around the world. The most dramatic conditions are in Asia, where the world’s two megacountries, China and India, are grappling with deepening and unsolved water challenges. China’s great northern plain, home to more than...
U.N. nations reach deal to cut emissions
The U.N. is making some progress, but they are still draggin their feet despite the urgency. Things are not happening nearly fast enough, and the longer we wait, the tougher it’s going to get. ————————– NAIROBI, Kenya – More than 180 nations at the U.N. climate conference agreed Friday on the next steps toward negotiating deeper future cuts in global-warming gases, after conceding to China that developing nations won’t be pressed immediately to reduce...
Signs of Warming Continue in the Arctic
November 17, 2006 — By Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Signs of warming continue in the Arctic with a decline in sea ice, an increase in shrubs growing on the tundra and rising concerns about the Greenland ice sheet. “There have been regional warming periods before. Now we’re seeing Arctic-wide changes,” James Overland, an oceanographer at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, said Thursday. Read the full story…
Polar Bear Survival Rate Falls as Climate Warms
November 16, 2006 — By Yereth Rosen, Reuters ANCHORAGE — Polar bear cubs in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea are much less likely to survive compared to about 20 years ago, probably due to melting sea ice caused by global warming, a study released Wednesday said. The study, published by the U.S. Geological Survey, estimated that only 43 percent of polar bear cubs in the southern Beaufort Sea survived their first year during the past five...
Ice-Melt Isolates Remote Communities in Canada
November 14, 2006 — By Jonathan Spicer, ReutersTORONTO — Aboriginal communities in Ontario’s far north are becoming increasingly isolated as rising temperatures melt their winter route to the outside world and impede their access to supplies. Read the full story…
Mr. Cool: Nurturing doubt about climate change is big business
Here is an excellent article by Charles Montgomery that appeared in The Globe and Mail on August 12th, 2006. In this article Montgomery debunks the junk science being publicized by Tim Ball and his “Friends of Science” foundation. Mr. Ball uses a lot of falsehoods, inaccurate data, and manipulated graphs to make his case. Montgomery also shows how the “Friends of Science” are funded mostly by the energy industry. The article is well worth...
Global Warming Spurs Ocean Methane Release
This article describes another of the plausible “positive feedback” processes which could lead to runaway warming. Source: Scientific American, August 29, 2006 Since time immemorial, methane and oil have seeped from beds buried beneath the ocean sediment off the California coast. The methane bubbles up and out of the sea, adding to the store of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. The oil floats up as well and, over time, breaks down into tar...
Hello world!
This new blog will be dedicated to our planet, and saving it from Global Warming. I intend to post lots of information on the science behind global warming, what humans are doing about it, and what we should or could be doing. I also intend to denounce the naysayers and the denial machine that has been put in place to give the appearance of scientific uncertainty. I expect some intense and controversial discussions!