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Global warming turns tundra to forest

Gabriel — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:40:57 +0000

In just a few decades shrubs in the Arctic tundra have turned into trees as a result of the warming Arctic climate, creating patches of forest which, if replicated across the tundra, would significantly accelerate global warming. Scientists from Finland and Oxford University investigated an area of around 100,000 km2, known as the northwestern Eurasian […]

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Atmospheric warming altering ocean salinity and the water cycle

Gabriel — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:37:51 +0000

A clear change in salinity has been detected in the world’s oceans, signaling shifts and acceleration in the global rainfall and evaporation cycle tied directly to climate change. Lead author Paul Durack said that by looking at observed ocean salinity changes and the relationship between salinity, rainfall and evaporation in climate models, they determined the […]

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Oceans acidifying faster today than in past 300 million years

Gabriel — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:22:36 +0000

Anthropogenic CO2 emissions, in addition to causing global warming, alter the chemistry of seas and oceans, causing them to turn progressively acidic. This change has severe effects on marine organisms and ecosystems. An international research published in the latest edition of the journal Science concludes that in the past 300 million years the chemistry of […]

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Climate balancing: sea-level rise vs. surface temperature change rates

Gabriel — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:13:27 +0000

Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy, according to a team of University of Bristol and Penn State climate scientists. Designing the approach to control both sea level rise and rates of surface air temperature changes requires a balancing act to accommodate […]

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Europe’s birds and climate change

Gabriel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:23:52 +0000

For the past 20 years, the climate in Europe has been getting warmer. Species of bird and butterfly which thrive in cool temperatures therefore need to move further north. However, they have difficulty adapting to the warmer climate quickly enough, as shown by new research published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Åke Lindström is […]

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The new ice age could start in the next millennium

Gabriel — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:08:53 +0000

Research shows that a new ice age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2 due to humans, despite the advantageous trend in solar radiation of our current age. In terms of the ebb and flow of the Earth’s climate over the course of its history, […]

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Climate Change Makes Major Snowstorms More Likely

Gabriel — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:54:38 +0000

Global warming is “loading the dice” to increase the frequency of record-setting snowstorms like those that have pounded the United States and Europe the past two winters, according to Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). “Heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with a warming planet,” said Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for the Weather Underground website. “In […]

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Global Warming Evidence in a Single Graphic

Adrian — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:14:27 +0000

A summary graphic of just some evidence for global warming is showed in this picture adapted from “The Guide to Global Warming Skepticism”. This is a globally coherent fingerprint of climate changes impacts across natural systems (Parmesan & Yohe 2003). This paper looks at climate changes in a whole range of systems, including more than […]

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Climate Change: The Evidence and Our Options

Gabriel — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:13:42 +0000

One of the world’s foremost experts on climate change is warning that if humans don’t moderate their use of fossil fuels, there is a real possibility that we will face the environmental, societal and economic consequences of climate change faster than we can adapt to them. Lonnie Thompson, distinguished university professor in the School of […]

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Brazil Outpaces All Other Countries in Reducing Global Warming Emissions

Gabriel — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:38:51 +0000

Brazil announced yesterday that it reduced tropical rainforest destruction to another record low level. The country’s National Institute for Space Research found that the loss of Amazonian forest reached a record low of 2,490 square miles (6,450 square kilometers) between August 2009 and July 2010, 67 percent lower than the average deforestation rate between 1996 […]

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