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Nuuk beachfront real estate Greenland can warm 2-4°C in one year	Joseph Romm	21 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A new article in Science Express (PDF)($ub. req'd), 'High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years,' examines, 'The last two abrupt warmings at the onset of our present warm interglacial period.' The article explores the underlying causes of ... ... abrupt shifts of northern hemisphere atmospheric circulation resulting in 2-4°K changes in Greenland moisture source temperature from one year to the next. The article conclud ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, Greenland (all these topics)

NOAA: Global warming has damaged our weather Worse heat waves, floods, droughts, hurricanes, and storms to come	Brad Johnson	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Wonk Room. The traditional media rarely discusses extreme weather events in the context of global warming. However, as the Wonk Room Global Boiling series has documented, scientists have been warning us for years that climate change will increase catastrophic weather events like the California wildfires, the East Coast heatwave, and the Midwest floods that have been taking lives and causing billions in damage in recent days. Yesterday, th ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, politics (all these topics)

D.C.'s newest baseball team: The Washington Exxons Protestors object to a green baseball stadium sponsored by the world's dirtiest corporation	Mike Tidwell	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Imagine a Major League Baseball stadium constructed to actually fight lung disease. Imagine engineers eschewing asbestos in every form, using only materials approved by the American Lung Association. Imagine emergency inhalers at every seat, with team officials aggressively marketing the 'healthy-lung' park to conscientious fans. Then imagine your surprise, in visiting the park, to see a huge Marlboro cigarettes ad plastered across the left field fence. Ima ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, green living, politics (all these topics)

Back to Nature Nature publishes my climate analysis and solution	Joseph Romm	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here is perhaps my most succinct and citable explanation of why 'Both national and global climate policy (PDF) must redirect its focus from setting a price on carbon to promoting the rapid deployment of clean technologies' (online here). True, I didn't think I would appear in Nature again. But Nature online asked me for my critique of the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Bill bill, and they were open to a big-picture commentary based on the latest climate science. They even r ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Getting a Rise Out of You Oceans warming faster than thought, says research		18 Jun 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, oceans (all these topics)

Thinking outside the Oxfam Four short films explore how climate change affects women worldwide	Holly Richmond	18 Jun 2008	Gristmill
'Is climate change a feminist issue?' NewScientist enviro blogger Catherine Brahic asked last week, then answered, '[F]or me, climate change is not a gender issue. Climate change will not affect women more than men.' She was responding to several short films Oxfam recently produced that profile four women in Brazil, Uganda, the U.K., and Bangladesh. The films explore their experiences educating others in their communities about, and ameliorating, the effects o ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity, severe weather (all these topics)

After the deluge As Midwest floods recede, what's being washed into the groundwater?	Tom Philpott	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Flooded road in eastern Iowa. Photo: Dan Patterson Things are grim in Iowa, arguably the epicenter of global industrial food production. If Iowa were a nation, it would be the globe's second-largest corn producer, behind only China. The state leads the U.S. [PDF] in the production of corn, hogs, and eggs, and ranks number two in soybeans.In short, it's a rotten place for a massive, flood-inducing early-summer deluge. Of the state's 99 counties, 24 have been ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, health, industrial ag, Iowa, severe weather (all these topics)

Ich Infect Dich Icky disease afflicting Alaskan salmon		16 Jun 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news (all these topics)

A preview Climate chaos shuts down trains	JMG	15 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The National Association of Rail Passengers reports that Amtrak is taking a pounding from the flooding in the midwest, making trips difficult or impossible and generally showing how we've managed to go from the finest rail system in the world to one that would shame Bulgaria (to steal Kunstler's line).Thanks, climate change!
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, public transportation (all these topics)

Guess I won't be seaing you Arctic sea ice update: 2008 poised to repeat -- or beat -- 2007	Joseph Romm	13 Jun 2008	Gristmill
For months, the deniers have been extolling the fact that the Arctic sea saw record refreezing last fall. And they have been claiming that this somehow fits into the absurd claim that the planet is now in a major cooling trend. But back in the real world, the planet keeps warming, and the Arctic is taking the worst of it, which could lead to potentially catastrophic methane emissions from the tundra, as noted here. The National Snow and Ice Data Center just reported:A ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

I'm melting Breaking news: Permafrost loss linked to Arctic sea ice loss	Joseph Romm	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
A major new study published Friday in Geophysical Research Letters by leading tundra experts has found 'Accelerated Arctic land warming and permafrost degradation during rapid sea ice loss.' The lead author is David Lawrence of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who I interviewed for my book and recently interviewed again via email about his recent work. The study's ominous conclusion:We find that simulated western Arctic land warming trends during rapid sea ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (all these topics)

Still, waters run deep Mainstream media misses connection between global warming and Midwest floods	Joseph Romm	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The British and the Chinese understand global warming has driven their record flooding. The United States? Not so much. Although you wouldn't know it from most U.S. media coverage, the record 'once-in-a-hundred-year flooding' the Midwest now seems to be getting every decade or so is precisely what scientists have been expecting from the warming. A 2004 analysis [PDF] by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center found an increase during the 20th century of 'precipitation ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

Global boiling Senators ignore the warning signs	Brad Johnson	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Originally posted at the Think Progress Wonk Room. Recently, the United States Senate has taken several votes on building a green economy that moves away from fossil fuel dependence, creates new green industry, and addresses global warming. Each time, a minority of senators blocked the way. On Friday, 38 senators filibustered mandatory greenhouse-gas reduction legislation (S. 3036). This morning, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) joined 41 Republicans to filibuster the Cons ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, legislation, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

Victoria Falling Climate change, deforestation, erosion take toll on African landscape		10 Jun 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: Africa, agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, deforestation, news, United Nations (all these topics)

It actually doesn't fall on the plain ... or anywhere else Spain experiencing severe drought due to climate change	Joseph Romm	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Warming-driven desertification is spreading. Australia has gotten the most attention, but Spain is also turning into a desert. As Time reported: Spain is in the grip of its worst drought in a century as a result of climate change -- this year's total rainfall, for example, has been 40 percent lower than average for the equivalent period, and the country's reservoirs are, on average, only 30 percent full. The reservoirs serving Barcelona are only 20 percent full, and ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, desertification, severe weather, Spain, water crisis (all these topics)

Blast from the future Why does the Post let conservative columnists make up climate facts?	Joseph Romm	02 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Memo: To Washington Post, circa 2008 From: Future Historians of America (FHA), circa [you wouldn't believe us if we told you] Re: Historical Fact Checking Via: T-mail (Tachyon-Mail) As we attempt to document the reasons carbon dioxide concentrations are currently 945 ppm and rising 5 ppm a year, the FHA has a few questions we hope you can answer for us. It seems like every time the United States contemplated legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science (all these topics)

Reef, or Madness Ocean acidification to weaken coral reefs, make islands more vulnerable to storms		02 Jun 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Florida faces unfavorable tide New report calls for climate action, but not everyone's listening	Miles Grant	30 May 2008	Gristmill
With more coastline than any state in the lower 48 and about a tenth of its economy ($65 billion a year) based on tourism, Florida has more to lose than any other state from the threats of global warming. Rising sea levels creep closer to coastal development. Warmer tropics fuel stronger hurricanes. And higher ocean temperatures kill coral and harm fish populations, threatening the state's $4.5 billion sportfishing industry. Plenty of reasons that a report released y ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Florida, habitat protection, legislation, severe weather, state politics (all these topics)

Bush administration climate report ... at last Overdue federal report acknowledges climate-change realities	Kate Sheppard	30 May 2008	Gristmill
Under pressure from a court order, the Bush administration put out a new report on climate change yesterday that comes to the conclusion that 'most of the recent global warming is very likely due to human-generated increases in greenhouse gas concentrations.' The report covers familiar (to anyone who's been paying attention) ground -- the impacts of climate change on the environment, economy, and public health. A 1990 law requires that presidents submit a report t ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Green skies are the new black Two scientists offer a grim preview of where humanity is headed	David Roberts	29 May 2008	Gristmill
Feel like you're just not depressed enough today? Read the last bit of this Dot Earth post: During a break, I asked [Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Dr. F. Sherwood] Rowland two quick questions. The first: Given the nature of the climate and energy challenges, what is his best guess for the peak concentration of carbon dioxide? ... His answer? '1,000 parts per million,' he said. My second question was, what will that look like? 'I have no idea,' D ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Well, You Don't Say White House admits humans causing climate change		29 May 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, progress, White House (all these topics)

Heating heaven Early appearances of climate change in popular literature	Erik Hoffner	28 May 2008	Gristmill
Last week, I picked up a copy of the newly reissued 1971 Ursula Le Guin classic The Lathe of Heaven, which takes place in dystopic, post-collapse Portland, Ore., circa 2002 or so. It's typical brilliance from Le Guin, of whom I can't read enough, but I was interested to see that the novel begins by describing Mt. Hood devoid of snow due to the greenhouse effect. The climate is entirely different from that of the 1960s, with blue skies a thing of the past and rainfall pa ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, green living, Portland (all these topics)

You Could Hear a Pinniped Drop Walruses should be threatened species, says litigious green group		28 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 28 May 2008 Having seen no action on a petition from last year, the Center for Biological Diversity says it will sue to force the U.S. Interior Department to consider listing the walrus as a threatened species. Walruses do all of their resting between foraging trips, breeding, and chillaxing on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing. And "[a]s the sea ice recedes, so ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, litigation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Harm, Harm on the Range Climate change doing a number on U.S. West, says USDA report		27 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:56 PM on 27 May 2008 Climate change is having "profound impacts" on the U.S. West and will continue to do so in coming decades, says a new report spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Titled "The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity," the report focuses on Western rangelands, arid lands, forests, and fisheries. I ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, Department of Agriculture, news (all these topics)

Oh No You DDT Melting Antarctic glaciers may be releasing DDT, says study		27 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:44 AM on 27 May 2008 Adélie penguins in the Antarctic are as chock-full of pesticide DDT as they were in the 1970s, even though global DDT use has dropped 80 percent in the past three decades, says new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Researchers speculate that climate change is at fault -- honestly, is there anything climate change is not mucking up? -- as concentratio ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

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