By WALTER GIBBS, The New York Times. Published: May 15, 2007 OSLO — Mainstream climatologists who have feared that global warming could have the paradoxical effect of cooling northwestern Europe or even plunging it into a small ice age have stopped worrying about that particular disaster, although it retains a vivid hold on the public imagination. Read the full article…
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Sea ice is being depleted at triple the rate that was predicted
The effects of global warming are already being felt worldwide, but the Earth’s poles are suffering the worst of it. Climate researchers have built a series of models to predict what impact rising temperatures will have on the amount of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, and it appears they didn’t make these models conservative enough. Sea ice is being depleted at triple the rate that was predicted. The research was reported in a...
Full IPCC Assessment Report 4 report now available
The complete Work Group 1 IPCC 4th Assessment report (AR4) is now available online.
James Hansen on Climate Change
Many of those who try to deny the reality of anthropogenic climate change say that scientists are talking up climate change to get grant money. Well, here is America’s top climate researcher and head of the NASA Goddard Institute, a man who needs no grants to earn a living, and a man who  is putting his job at risk by speaking up. Hansen is one of the most respected climatologists in the world. Here he is speaking...
Changing Climes: Global Warming Impacts Appearing Around the Globe
Scientific American discusses the summary report of the second working group of the IPCC. The second report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reveals that global warming impacts are already advancing, and will get worse From space, climate change is obvious. For more than 20 years satellite images have shown springtime greenery bursting forth earlier and earlier in that season. Thanks to global warming, the growing season is lengthening in many parts of...
IPCC Warning Bleak Despite Political Interference
(source) By Richard Littlemore, DeSmogBlog, 6 Apr 07 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its bleakest ever report on climate change today (April 6, 2007) – overcoming a pitched round of political interference in the process. The worst fears of those who would deny climate change were confirmed in a marathon session of the IPCC’s Working Group II: agenda driven politicians are indeed trying to overwhelm the efforts of impartial scientists. But...
Global warming could bring hunger, melt Himalayas
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) – Global warming could cause more hunger in Africa and melt most Himalayan glaciers by the 2030s, according to a draft U.N. report due on Friday which also warns that the poorest nations are likely to suffer most. The U.N. climate panel, giving the most authoritative study on the regional impact of climate change since 2001, also predicts more heatwaves in countries such as the United States,...
Did the IPCC lower its sea-level predictions?
Since the IPCC released its latest Summary for Policy Makers, there has been a lot of hype made about the fact that the IPCC has lowered its predicted range of sea-level rise due to anthropogenic climate change. But in reality, the change is due to a different way to tabulate the numbers that leaves out some of the contributions of the polar ice caps because of too much uncertainty. When looked at more closely,...
Weather experts expect more natural disasters
Heavy rain, hurricanes likely to become ‘more intense’ with warming Updated: 10:35 a.m. ET March 20, 2007 function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) { var n = document.getElementById("udtD"); if(pdt != '' && n && window.DateTime) { var dt = new DateTime(); pdt = dt.T2D(pdt); if(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,((''.toLowerCase()=='false')?false:true));} } } UpdateTimeStamp('633099981548730000'); MADRID, Spain – Global warming is likely to bring more tidal waves, floods and hurricanes, leading meteorologists said on Monday. “What we know is that global warming...