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Insurers starting to balk in climate-threatened Florida When insurers get serious about climate change, EVERYBODY gets serious about climate change	JMG	12 Apr 2007	Gristmill
United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a 'most-admired' company in many different rankings, has decided not to insure multiple homes in FL for one policyholder -- the first step in what will eventually be the revolt of the insurance companies against climate denialists (and against Florida legislators who want policyholders in other states to share the costs of insuring the damages from more intense and frequent hurricane strikes). This is great news (unless you own m ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, Florida (all these topics)

Summary of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, part III This time, it's personal	Joseph Romm	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill
(Continued from parts I and II.) Last but not least (actually, what quite literally hits closest to home!): North America Moderate climate change in the early decades of the century is projected to increase aggregate yields of rain-fed agriculture by 5-20 percent, but with important variability among regions. Warming in Western mountains is projected to cause decreased snowpack, more winter flooding, and reduced summer flows, exacerbating competition for ove ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, politics, United States (all these topics)

Summary of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, part II Continued ...	Joseph Romm	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill
And now for the IPCC report's regional assessments, continued from yesterday:Africa By 2020, between 75 and 250 million people are projected to be exposed to an increase of water stress due to climate change. The area suitable for agriculture, the length of growing seasons, and yield potential, particularly along the margins of semi-arid and arid areas, are expected to decrease. This would further adversely affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition in the co ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC (all these topics)

Well-grounded fear of flying Monbiot says what needs saying	JMG	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The estimable Bart A.'s Energy Bulletin unearths yet another gem amidst the rising tide of dreck pouring out of the Series of Tubes: A must read interview with George Monbiot.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Summary of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers, part I Summarizin'	Joseph Romm	10 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The summary for policymakers (PDF) of the report by the IPCC Second Working Group is out! A summary of the summary: Where does the information come from? The IPCC, WGI's 4AR on the Scientific Basis of climate change. 29,000 observational data series crossed with expected changes to physical and biological systems based on those observations, with 89% consistency between the two. Models, some of which account for non-anthropogenic sources of warming (solar an ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC (all these topics)

Was It Something We Said? Global warming and other woes cause rise of eco-anxiety		10 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Was It Something We Said? Global warming and other woes cause rise of eco-anxiety The world already has ecotourism, eco-movies, and eco-purses -- in fact, more eco-trends than you can shake an eco-stick at. So it was only a matter of time before another trapping of modern life took the prefix: eco-anxiety. Seems people are flocking to, yes, eco-therapists to talk about the unpleasant feelings they get u ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, green living, news (all these topics)

Global warming floods London ... In Second Life	Chris Schults	09 Apr 2007	Gristmill
How did Grist miss this one last week, as reported by National Geographic News? Tokyo, Amsterdam, and the entire Mediterranean island of Ibiza were inundated with floodwaters today due to rising sea levels brought on by global warming. Oh: Or at least, that would have been the headline if events in the virtual world Second Life mirrored reality. A rolling flood temporarily swamped several areas of the online world as part of a campaign to illustrate the poten ...
Topics: climate change impacts, funnies, green living, websites (all these topics)

A unique insight into the IPCC process The innerworkings of it all	Andrew Dessler	07 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Those opposed to action on climate change are compelled to attack the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its reports. Not doing so would cede the scientific high-ground of the argument and essentially doom their preferred do-nothing policy approach. One way to attack the IPCC is to describe it as a nameless bureaucracy pursuing its own political agenda, and entirely disconnected from the scientific community. For example, a report from the Fraser ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, IPCC, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Climate in the UN Security Council Highlighting security risks of climate change	Geoff Dabelko	06 Apr 2007	Gristmill
On April 17, the UK will use the prerogative of the chair of the UN Security Council to devote a day to the security implications of climate change. UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett is scheduled to deliver a major address meant to put climate-security links squarely on the high table of security policy. John Ashton, the UK special envoy for climate change and an adviser to Beckett, has been making the case for treating climate as a security issue since he too ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Why Ask Why? Try Everything Dry American Southwest soon will face permanent drought, says study		06 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Why Ask Why? Try Everything Dry American Southwest soon will face permanent drought, says study Tired of depressing climatic news? Too bad, here's more! A new study in Science predicts that as early as 2021, global warming could create Dust Bowl-like conditions in the American Southwest. Much of the region has been severely dry since 2000, and researchers say 18 of the 19 computer models studied pred ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, desertification, news (all these topics)

We Hear Mars Is Nice This Time of Year Top scientists say global warming is triggering ecosystem changes around the globe		06 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
We Hear Mars Is Nice This Time of Year Top scientists say global warming is triggering ecosystem changes around the globe The natural world is already getting knocked around by climate change, the world's top climate experts said today. In the second of four reports being released this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group looked at the impacts of global warming, both present and proj ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC, news (all these topics)

Latest IPCC report notes grim effects of climate change on ecosystems As expected, the news is mostly bad, and then worse, and then worse still	Lisa Hymas	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Climate change is already having big impacts on the natural world and notable effects on human societies, according to the latest climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, being released on Friday. In short, climate change isn't in the future; it's in the right now. The previous installment from the IPCC, released in early February, concluded with at least 90 percent certainty that humans are causing global warming. This latest report says wit ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC (all these topics)

A man leaps off the top of a building ... When people ask silly questions	JMG	05 Apr 2007	Gristmill
'If fossil fuels are the problem, wouldn't running out of them be good?' There's an old joke about economists and other Panglossians that bears on this question: A man leaps off the top of a skyscraper and, as he passes by each floor, true to his optimistic tendencies, he says, "Well, so far, so good." Running out of fossil fuels is like this man running out of floors. The critical thing is not to jump ... i.e., not to commit all that carbon to the atmosphere ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy, oil (all these topics)

The Warm on Terror Bipartisan bill calls for intelligence assessment of climate impacts	Amanda Griscom Little	05 Apr 2007	Muckraker
How might U.S. national security be threatened by mega-droughts, coastal flooding, killer hurricanes, food scarcity, and the other ecological calamities scientists widely predict will occur if global warming continues apace? Is climate change the real ticking bomb? Photo: iStockphoto No one knows, but Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) think it's time to f ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, legislation, Muckraker, national security, politics (all these topics)

In climate science, small changes matter How can 3 percent be important?	Andrew Dessler	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Consider this argument often made by climate skeptics: Water vapor is the most important gas, contributing 97 percent of the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide is only small percentage. Therefore, regulating carbon dioxide will have no impact on our climate. WhileEven if these numbers are generally correct, there are lots of problems with this argument. For example, it disregards the fact that climate forcing by water is really a feedback, and that changes in car ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Hot planet, poison fish This one will hit harder in the global south	Tom Philpott	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Climate change is affecting the oceans in any number of unpredictable ways. For example, under pressure from rising ocean temperatures (and toxic waste), coral reefs -- those glorious engines of biodiversity -- are degrading. I knew that. But this one was new to me: They also become breeding grounds for poisonous algae. And that poison accumulates in the big fish that eat the little fish that eat the algae -- making coral-dwelling fish toxic and sometimes even deadly ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, oceans (all these topics)

Drown and Out Baby seals drown from melting ice as Canada hunt begins		04 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Drown and Out Baby seals drown from melting ice as Canada hunt begins Pop an antidepressant before reading this: Canada has reduced this year's quota for its annual harp seal hunt by 20 percent, to a mere 270,000 -- not because of pressure from conservationists and animal activists, but because thousands of baby seals have already fallen through melting ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and drowned. ...
Topics: Canada, climate, climate change impacts, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Highway to hell More on fourth IPCC report	Joseph Romm	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Bring your tissue to this one. On Friday, the IPCC publicizes its 'emotional heart,' the Second Working Group's contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report, covering impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Preliminary drafts have been leaked. Why is it shaping up to be such a tear-jerker? According to Andrew Weaver, a lead author of Working Group I and climate scientist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, this one illustrates 'a highway to extinction, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, IPCC (all these topics)

Congress stepping up on climate and security Finally recognizing environmental threats to national security	Geoff Dabelko	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Building on Dave's link yesterday: Last week, the Senate's number two Democrat Dick Durbin and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel proposed a bill calling for a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to assess the threat of climate to the United States and abroad. Refreshingly, the bill requires a 30-year time horizon. Climate scientists will still find this window painfully small, but security analysts (and the rest of government, frankly) will recognize this as progress ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Department of Defense (all these topics)

Pushing intelligence agencies to weigh in on climate change Like, totally geo-green	David Roberts	02 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Interesting: Senators of both parties are pushing for U.S. intelligence agencies to assess the danger to the nation's security posed by global warming. Sens. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., Wednesday introduced legislation that would 'require a National Intelligence Estimate to assess the security challenges presented by the world's changing climate,' according to a statement from their offices. National Intelligence Estimates, or NIEs, repres ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Congress, Department of Defense, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Chaos and Effect New climate report from IPCC will have bad news and worse news		02 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Chaos and Effect New climate report from IPCC will have bad news and worse news On Friday, a comprehensive new report will map the likely effects of global warming -- and it ain't pretty. The good news is, we can expect higher food production in northern, more affluent regions. Whee! Now the bad news: globally, we can expect increased poverty and starvation, drinking-water shortages, more infectious diseases, flooding ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

Inundated with information on sea level rise How high and how fast?	Joseph Romm	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
How high and fast will sea levels rise? An important piece (PDF) by Stefan Rahmstorf in Science concludes: A rise of over 1 m by 2100 for strong warming scenarios cannot be ruled out, because all that such a rise would require is that the linear relation of the rate of sea-level rise and temperature, which was found to be valid in the 20th century, remains valid in the 21st century. These scenarios, which are really nothing more than business-as-usual emissions plus ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, James Hansen, water crisis (all these topics)

A Fine Discovery Some coral may be resistant to acidification, reefs still doomed		30 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
A Fine Discovery Some coral may be resistant to acidification, reefs still doomed The world's oceans are on track to be more acidic by 2100 than they've been for 20 million years, thanks to our fiendish friend carbon dioxide. But research by Israeli scientists shows that the coral polyps living in underwater reefs may be able to survive, even as the reefs themselves are destroyed. Marine zoologist Maoz Fine p ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, oceans (all these topics)

Say what?	David Roberts	29 Mar 2007	Gristmill
CNN: Global warming 'could create opportunities for pharmaceutical, chemical, biotech and healthcare companies, but present serious challenges for paper, agriculture, furniture, energy and the overall economy.' Too bad for you suckers who invested in Overall Economy Inc.!
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Fire on the mountain Sky Islands getting crispier	Erik Hoffner	29 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Just when you thought Arizona couldn't get any hotter, right? Yesterday's NYT article on how that state's Sky Islands, the uniquely biodiverse plateaus, are changing due to higher heat regimes is borne out not only by news of such destructive fires but also by daily observation on the ground. A friend who works for the Sky Island Alliance in Tucson says her staff, while out ripping up roads or monitoring wildlife corridors, has been noticing that species are disappearin ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

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