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Things Are Looking Upward
Last year's world CO2 emissions exceeded most dire IPCC predictions |
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26 Sep 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:33 AM on 26 Sep 2008 The world's carbon dioxide emissions in 2007 exceeded even some of the direst predictions of climate scientists, growing 3 percent from 2006 according to an annual report from the Global Carbon Project. The climb in overall emissions last year was especially surprising given the economic downturn that was expected to help curb emissions. For the first time, developing n ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics) |
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Go Without the Floe
2008 Arctic sea-ice melt second-meltiest ever |
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17 Sep 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:52 AM on 17 Sep 2008 Sea-ice melt in the Arctic this year was the second-largest on record, falling just short of 2007's all-time record melt, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The slightly larger ice cover this year is hardly cause for celebration, though; sea ice may have covered more of the ocean's surface overall, but the ice also appeared to be thinner and weaker than in previous y ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics) |
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Predicting a See-Change
U.S. intelligence report says climate change likely to lead to security threats |
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10 Sep 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:34 AM on 10 Sep 2008 A new draft report from the United States' top intelligence analyst forecasts future security threats to the U.S. and other nations from climate change, as well as declining influence of the U.S. on world affairs. The report is intended to brief the new U.S. president early next year on the security outlook for the next 15 years, and parts of the assessment ma ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Like Fight on Ice
Arctic ringed by navigable water; rush to exploit it may spur new int'l law |
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08 Sep 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:43 AM on 08 Sep 2008 For the first time in recorded history, the world's cap of Arctic sea ice is surrounded by a ring of theoretically navigable water. It's a phenomenon sure to pique the interest of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the U.S., which all have Arctic territories and are maneuvering to claim as much of the region as possible. A recent example: Can ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, Canada, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics) |
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Breaking and Exiting
Another large section of Canadian ice shelf breaks loose |
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04 Sep 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:21 AM on 04 Sep 2008 In a predictable yet mildly troubling reminder of the Arctic's continued ice melt, researchers say yet another massive ice chunk has broken off from an ice shelf in Canada. The Serson Ice Shelf just saw its mass more than halved when two large sections broke off recently, leaving it about 47 square miles smaller. For those of you keeping track at home, this summer has seen 19 square mi ... |
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| Topics: Canada, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics) |
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I'll Huff and I'll Puff ...
Warming seas make strong storms stronger, says new study |
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03 Sep 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:39 PM on 03 Sep 2008 As Gustav, Hanna, Ike, and Josephine become household names, more research has been added to the ongoing debate over the impact of climate change on hurricanes. A new study published in Nature indicates that warming seas have not increased the intensity of your everyday hurricane, but have made the mightiest storms even mightier. In essence, "if the seas continue to warm, w ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Like Death, Warmed Over
Arctic ice in a 'death spiral' as it hits second-lowest point ever |
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29 Aug 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:11 AM on 29 Aug 2008 Summer sea-ice melt in the Arctic is already the second-meltiest since satellite records began, and by the end of the melt season in mid-September, this year could surpass the all-time record low set last year, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. For the second time ever -- the first being last year -- the Northwest Passage shipping route is o ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics) |
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Polar Party
Polar bears in open water prompt more worries about climate change |
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25 Aug 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:48 PM on 25 Aug 2008 Ten polar bears were recently spotted swimming in open water off of the northwest coast of Alaska, federal officials confirmed on Friday. Polar bears were not often spotted in open water until about 2004, said Susanne Miller, who heads up the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's polar bear project. She and other biologists worry that the bears could exhaust themselves with long swims, wh ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, polar bears (all these topics) |
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On the Brink of Disaster
Report identifies areas where natural disasters could hit hardest |
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22 Aug 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:51 PM on 22 Aug 2008 Natural disasters made more severe by climate change will hit especially hard in regions with shaky political, economic, and security situations, says a new report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and relief agency CARE International. Vulnerable areas include central Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Sahel; Afghanistan, the Casp ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, severe weather, United Nations (all these topics) |
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At Least Buy Us All Umbrellas
Science orgs plead for more funding for severe-weather preparation |
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21 Aug 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:30 AM on 21 Aug 2008 More floods, storms, and droughts are a-comin', and the U.S. lacks funding to predict and prepare for 'em, say eight scientific organizations. The groups, including the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society, made a plea Wednesday for Congress and the next U.S. president to double the current budget for climate research and forecasting between ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate science, news, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Pickled Pikas
Climate change endangers American pika, say groups |
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20 Aug 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:50 PM on 20 Aug 2008 The American pika should be listed as an endangered species because climate change could cause its extinction, say Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against California and the federal government. The pika, a rabbit cousin characterized by inordinate cuteness and a squeaky call, is "the polar bear of the Lower 48," says Greg Loarie of Earthjust ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, litigation, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Make a Rudd for It
Australia continues to deal with epic drought |
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15 Aug 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:46 PM on 15 Aug 2008 Longstanding drought has wreaked havoc across Australia, drying up lakes into shallow, acidic puddles and threatening drinking-water supplies. Unable to coax rain from the sky, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has fast-tracked a plan to buy back water entitlements from the heaviest irrigators in the Murray-Darling basin, an agricultural stronghold which produces all of the country's rice, nearly all of it ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Australia, climate, climate change impacts, news, water conflicts, water crisis (all these topics) |
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NOAA's Arctic
U.S. scouts out territory in Arctic; ice-cover loss could be worst ever |
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12 Aug 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:09 PM on 12 Aug 2008 U.S. scientists will head to the Arctic this week on a quest to map the ocean floor, and will collaborate with Canada on a surveying trip in September. The two nations -- and their Arctic-bordering compatriots Russia, Denmark, and Norway -- are scrambling to measure their respective continental shelves, with an eye to claiming as much as they can of the estimated 90 billion bar ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, Canada, climate, climate change impacts, news, oil and gas drilling, scientific research, United States (all these topics) |
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When It Rains, It Pours
Climate change will increase extreme rainfall, says study |
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08 Aug 2008 |
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| Posted at 12:21 PM on 08 Aug 2008 Photo: Ali Nishan Climate change will likely lead to more powerful rainstorms, says a new study published in Science. Computer models may "substantially" underestimate the number of heavy rainfalls that will occur in a warming world, say scientists who researched naturally occurring weather events during El Niņo patterns between 1987 and 2004. "A warmer atmosphere co ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Ice, Ice Scraping
Antarctic icebergs scraping seafloor bare more often due to climate change |
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18 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:14 AM on 18 Jul 2008 The warming Antarctic is changing life on the seafloor as well as above as icebergs freed from surrounding sea ice earlier than in previous years can pummel bottom-dwelling creatures for much of the year, according to a new study. "Our results suggest that as the winter sea-ice season shortens, the thousands of icebergs that float around the coastline of the Antarct ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Uganda Drink That?
Ugandan coffee endangered by climate change |
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17 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:52 PM on 17 Jul 2008 Uganda's coffee industry could be basically kaput in 30 years, according to a new Oxfam report. Uganda is Africa's second-largest coffee exporter after Ethiopia, but the report direly predicts that if "average global temperatures rise by two degrees or more, then most of Uganda is likely to cease to be suitable for coffee." In the last two decades, inconsistent weather has reduced crop yiel ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, food, news, severe weather, Uganda (all these topics) |
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Go With the Floe
Russian researchers abandon shrinking ice floe |
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15 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:33 PM on 15 Jul 2008 Russian scientists are evacuating early from their research base on a shrinking Arctic ice floe. Last April, the floe was sturdy enough to build an air strip on. In September, 21 researchers and two dogs arrived, at which point their ice abode measured 1.2 by 2.5 miles. The researchers meant to leave in late August, but will evacuate this week from a floe that has shrunk to a mere 1,000 by 2,000 fee ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, Russia, scientific research (all these topics) |
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The Smog Days of Summer (and Spring, and Fall)
EPA says climate change could worsen smog levels, extend smog season |
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11 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:38 AM on 11 Jul 2008 In a draft report released Thursday, the U.S. EPA said smog levels could increase significantly in many areas of the United States due to climate change, especially in the Northeast, lower Midwest, and mid-Atlantic regions. Smog is mainly a summer phenomenon in most places, caused by sunlight reacting with nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compo ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, US EPA (all these topics) |
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A Penguin for Your Thoughts
Penguin declines don't bode well for the rest of us |
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01 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:49 PM on 01 Jul 2008 Penguin populations are declining, which is bad news not just for the tuxedoed birds but for, well, the world in general. A new scientific review published in the journal BioScience shows that everywhere they live, penguins are suffering from a combination of climate change, ocean pollution, overfishing, tourism, and development. "Many penguins we thought would be safe because t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, scientific research, water pollution, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics) |
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Home, Home Outside the Range
Climate change may force California endemic plants to migrate or die |
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25 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:10 AM on 25 Jun 2008 Climate change is expected to significantly affect California's endemic plants over the next century as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS One. Up to two-thirds of the state's unique plants could be wiped out in their current ranges by century's end and will have to move to cooler areas in order to ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news (all these topics) |
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Getting a Rise Out of You
Oceans warming faster than thought, says research |
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18 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:39 PM on 18 Jun 2008 The world's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the last four decades than what was previously thought, according to a new study published in Nature. The new research helps to explain recent sea-level rise that climate models weren't accounting for; melting ice gets all the press, but since heat expands, hotter water also contributes to rising seas. The research gives ''significant ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, oceans (all these topics) |
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Ich Infect Dich
Icky disease afflicting Alaskan salmon |
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16 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:54 PM on 16 Jun 2008 Alaska's prized wild salmon are suffering from a disease that scientists suspect of being boosted by -- you guessed it -- global warming. The emergence of Ichthyophonus as a threat to king salmon has coincided with a steady warming of Yukon River water over the past few decades, which scientists say has welcomed cold-averse parasites northward. "Climate change isn't going to increase infectious diseases ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news (all these topics) |
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Victoria Falling
Climate change, deforestation, erosion take toll on African landscape |
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10 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:01 PM on 10 Jun 2008 A new United Nations atlas depicts alarming changes to Africa's landscape. On a continent that produces a mere 4 percent of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions, significant landmarks are taking a hit from climate change: Lake Chad and Lake Victoria are shrinking each year, and Mt. Kilimanjaro could be snow-free by 2020. The deforestation rate in Africa is twice the world aver ... |
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| Topics: Africa, agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, deforestation, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Reef, or Madness
Ocean acidification to weaken coral reefs, make islands more vulnerable to storms |
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02 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:51 AM on 02 Jun 2008 Acidification of the ocean could make low-lying island nations like the Maldives and Kiribati more vulnerable to storms since it can significantly weaken coral reefs, according to a new report. When the oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, carbonic acid forms, which makes it more difficult for sea critters like coral and starfish to form shells and sk ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Well, You Don't Say
White House admits humans causing climate change |
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29 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:00 PM on 29 May 2008 The White House has begrudgingly admitted that "most of the recent global warming is very likely due to human generated increases in greenhouse gas concentrations." In a 271-page report -- court-ordered and four years late -- federal scientists have created a "one-stop shop" summary of potential climate impacts on the U.S. environment, economy, and public health. The report ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, progress, White House (all these topics) |
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