Tragic Planet

The good folks over at RealClimate.org wrote a devastating letter to Steve Levitt, author of Freakonomics for his inaccurate and misleading handling of Climate Change.
Well worth reading here.
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Climate change is accelerating and surpassing even the worst-case scenarios predicted by the models. Meanwhile the world’s nations are bickering over details of inadequate action. Are we committing suicide on an unprecedented scale?
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A new reality check on the global carbon emissions budget
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An interesting article
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Here’s a thought provoking analogy, comparing what’s happening with climate-change denial to what has happened with the cod fisheries in Newfoundland.
The tragedy of climate commons
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From The New York Times
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: April 23, 2009
For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming.
“The role of greenhouse gases in [...]

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More than two trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming.
More than half of the loss of landlocked ice in the past five years has occurred in Greenland, based on measurements [...]

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An excellent article by Dan Gardnerколи под наем.
The jist of his message? Even if you don’t “believe” in anthropogenic climate change, there are many good reasons to get off our addiction to fossil fuels, and do it fast.
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This article: New global warming threat as scientists discover massive methane ‘time bomb’ under the Arctic seabed discusses an actual observation of this very dangerous climate feedback mechanism. The title is misleading because this is no a “new” global warming threat, but something scientists have been predicting for years. Now it has actually been observed, [...]

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From CBC
Canada’s ice shelves suffered massive erosion over the summer, losing almost one-quarter of their area, researchers have found.
The ice shelves on the north coast of Ellesmere lost 214 square kilometres over the summer, or an area three times larger than Manhattan Island, said a group of researchers from Ontario, Quebec and the United States [...]

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