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Antarctic'ed Off Antarctica ice melt more widespread and faster than thought, says study		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:48 PM on 14 Jan 2008 Antarctica holds about 90 percent of the Earth's ice, so it's a bit problematic that the continent seems to be melting faster than expected. Not only is large-scale ice loss more widespread than thought, but the rate of meltiness has accelerated over the last decade, says a study in the journal Nature Geoscience. The West Antarctic ice sheet lost about 132 billion tons of ic ...
Topics: Antarctica, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Sub Woofer Iditarod sled dog race forced to change starting point		10 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:47 PM on 10 Jan 2008 The famous Iditarod sled dog race is undergoing permanent changes as organizers cope with urban sprawl and a warming climate. For the ceremonial start to the competition on Mar. 1, racers will travel 11 miles instead of the traditional 18 miles. The race itself will kick off Mar. 2 from Willow, Alaska, 30 miles north of the traditional starting town of Wasilla. Says Stan Hooley of the Iditarod Tra ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, news, placemaking, sports, sprawl (all these topics)

You Give Me Fever Warming climate may lead to spread of dengue fever in U.S., say health officials		09 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:18 PM on 09 Jan 2008 Climate change is likely increasing cases of malaria in Kenya, various viral diseases in Australia's outback, and tropical dengue fever in the U.S. "Widespread appearance of dengue in the continental United States is a real possibility," write Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. David Morens in a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Climat ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health, news (all these topics)

The high costs of doing nothing, part I Spending on adaptation and mitigation now is an investment, spending later is a waste	Joseph Romm	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- A dirty little secret of climate change is that somebody wants us to pay much higher taxes and higher energy bills. But it's not the advocates of climate action. It's the other guys. Make no mistake: The costs of switching to clean energy and an energy-efficient economy are far less than the costs of doing nothing. A study release ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, economy, severe weather (all these topics)

Now Where Did We Put That Respirator? For every 1 degree Celsius globe warms, some 21,000 people could die, says study		04 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:06 PM on 04 Jan 2008 For every 1 degree Celsius of anthropogenic global warming, some 21,000 people worldwide could die, including more than 1,000 in the U.S., says a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. According to computer modeling by researcher Mark Jacobson, increased air pollution due to rising carbon-dioxide levels will lead to more fatalities. "Th ...
Topics: air pollution, California, climate, climate change impacts, health, news, scientific research (all these topics)

The Ecologist dishes it up Climate refugees and Wi-Fi pollution	Erik Hoffner	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Ecologist is such a great magazine. But I'm sorry that they don't make any of their content freely available online for me to link to here, because the Dec/Jan issue has some really important reading. For one, the world's first (human) climate refugees are about to lose their islands (in the Sunderbans Delta, which straddles the border of India and Bangladesh and is the world's largest mangrove forest, due to increased flows of water from melting glaciers in the Gan ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity (all these topics)

Scientists Admit Globe Cooling!!1! In 2008, globe will cool down a bit -- but still be bloody hot, say researchers		03 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:31 PM on 03 Jan 2008 Thanks to a strong La Ni�a, this upcoming year is likely to have lower average global temperatures than have occurred since 2000, according to U.K. forecasters. (Note to climate skeptics: This is the point where you stop reading and write a press release gleefully announcing that the earth is cooling and global warming is a hoax.) For those of you s ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

U.S. miscalculates threat of global warming Sea-level rise at our doorstep; puts nation at risk	Edward Mazria	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
What the scientific community has failed to communicate, and the public has failed to grasp, is that the U.S. is particularly vulnerable to very small increments of sea-level rise. The IPCC Fourth Assessment projects a sea-level rise of 0.18 meters to 0.59 meters this century. Even though the report includes a caveat that this range does not include any significant contribution from the Greenland and West Antarctica ice sheets, global warming skeptics continua ...
Topics: climate change impacts, oceans, climate science, climate (all these topics)

The rising tide Sea levels may rise five feet by 2100	Joseph Romm	31 Dec 2007	Gristmill
A recent Nature Geoscience study, 'High rates of sea-level rise during the last interglacial period,' ($ubs. req'd) finds that sea levels could rise twice what the IPCC had project for 2100. This confirms what many scientists have recently warned (also see here), and it matches the conclusion of a study (PDF) earlier this year in Science. [As an aside, in one debate with a denier -- can't remember who, they all kind of merge together -- I was challenged: 'Name one ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, oceans (all these topics)

Remember When Y2K Was Our Biggest Worry? 2007 was the year of warm temperatures and wacky weather		31 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 31 Dec 2007 The year 2007 was typified by warm temperatures and wacky weather. This year in the U.S., 263 all-time high temperature records were tied or broken. New York City was hit by a tornado in August, the same month that more than 60 percent of the U.S. was abnormally dry or in drought. The Middle East saw a rare cyclone in June, Europe sizzled under killer heat waves all ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Mamma Mia! Italian village first host to outbreak of spreading tropical disease		27 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:19 AM on 27 Dec 2007 Congratulations to Castiglione di Cervia, Italy, the first place in modern Europe to feel one dismal effect of a warming world: a tropical disease out of its natural habitat. This summer, more than 100 people in the village of 2,000 came down with fever, exhaustion, and terrible bone pain later found to be caused by chikungunya, a disease spread by warm-climate-lovin' tiger mosquitoe ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health, Italy, news (all these topics)

Did You Want Rise With That? Sea-level rise this century could be twice IPCC's predictions, says research		17 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 17 Dec 2007 If you thought the predictions of sea-level rise by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were bad, you should probably stop reading. Researchers publishing in brand-new journal Nature Geoscience say the oceans could surge twice as high this century as the IPCC's predictions, or some 64 inches. So, um, let's hope they're wrong. source:� Reuters < ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news (all these topics)

An ice-free Arctic by 2013? Scientist claims that climate models are too conservative in predicting ice loss	Joseph Romm	16 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Maybe I'm not alarmist after all. Maybe this future is nearer than everyone thinks: I was called 'over-alarmist' by one of the people who took my bet that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2020. But one of the country's top ice experts, non-alarmist Professor Wieslaw Maslowski of the Naval Postgraduate School, told an American Geophysical Union audience this week: My claim is that the global climate models underestimate the amount of heat delivered to the ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

The United Nations and climate equity U.N. creating small Adaptation Fund by going carbon neutral	Joseph Romm	14 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The following essay is a guest post by Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- The IPCC has warned us that developing nations are poised to bear the most dramatic effects of global warming, and so far we (the world) have done practically nothing to counter or prevent that fact. But the U.N. is trying. This week in Bali, the U.N. announced that it will go carbon neutral by offsetting the operations of over 20 agencies, inclu ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate equity, climate (all these topics)

I Was the Walrus Walruses trampled as a result of climate change -- no, seriously		14 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:06 PM on 14 Dec 2007 Here's a climate-change impact you don't think about every day: trampled walruses. When walruses get tired of swimming, they clamber onto sea ice to rest. As ice is in increasingly short supply above the Arctic Circle, walruses are huddling on shore in extremely high numbers. And as the tusky animals are liable to stampede at the appearance of a polar bear, hunter, or low-flying ai ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, wildlife (all these topics)

The land down underwater What happens to a woman without a country?	Youth Movement	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
By Amanda McKenzie, national coordinator of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. ----- Along with 10 other young Australians, I traveled to Bali to bring the voice of Australia's youth to the U.N. Climate Change Conference. We have been reminding world leaders that our future is threatened. However, my personal concerns about my future were eclipsed when a young woman named Claire from the small island nation of Kiribati stood up in front of 200 internatio ...
Topics: Kiribati, climate equity, climate, climate change impacts, Bali 07 (all these topics)

Well, Sheet Greenland ice sheet is meeeelllting, it's meeelllting!		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:17 AM on 11 Dec 2007 The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate! As in, faster than it has since satellite measurements began in 1979, and with 10 percent more melting in 2007 than in the previous record year of 2005. Allow researcher Konrad Steffen to put it into perspective for you: "The amount of ice lost by Greenland over the last year is the equivalent of two times all the ice in the Alps, or a ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Greenland, news (all these topics)

Bird by bird A third of avian species on land could disappear this century as a result of climate change	Katy Balatero	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In more depressing bird news, researchers at my alma mater estimate that up to 30 percent of all land-dwelling bird species could be extinct by 2100 as a result of global climate change. The study, published this week in the journal Conservation Biology ($ub. req'd), modeled bird population responses to changes in vegetation for over 8,000 species and 60 scenarios, and is one of the first analyses of extinction rates to incorporate information from the recent IPCC rep ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, habitat loss, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

'For this purpose, we will rise, and we will act' Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech	Guest author	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE DECEMBER 10, 2007 OSLO, NORWAY Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen. I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it. Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painfu ...
Topics: climate change impacts, climate, Al Gore (all these topics)

What does climate change look like? Northwest flooding gives some clues	Eric de Place	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, it looks like the last few days, according to this report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In pictures, it looks like this and this.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, severe weather (all these topics)

What Part of Severe precipitation in U.S. significantly increased over past half-century, says report		05 Dec 2007	News
"Go Away" Don't You Understand? Severe precipitation in U.S. significantly increased over past half-century, says report Posted at 5:50 PM on 05 Dec 2007 The number of severe rainfalls and snowstorms across the U.S. has increased by around 24 percent in the last 50 years, says a new report from green group Environment America. In five states -- Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont -- instances of heavy precipitation have jumped by more than 50 per ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, severe weather (all these topics)

Note to Self: Learn to Swim Some 150 million people will be at risk from flooding by 2070, says report		04 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:49 PM on 04 Dec 2007 Some 150 million people in the world's biggest cities could be at risk of flooding by 2070, and at-risk coastal property could have a value of $35 trillion, says a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. About 40 million people and $3 trillion worth of property are now at risk, but population growth and urban development will make ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, lists, news (all these topics)

That's So Hot Right Now Apparel companies hire climatologists to predict consumer trends		03 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 10:15 AM on 03 Dec 2007 In the good old days, the only constant that the fickle fashion industry could rely on was the changing of the seasons -- now, it can't even rely on that anymore. A run of unseasonably warm winters has led some apparel companies to hire staff climatologists who help predict when consumers will be in the market for cold-weather clothes. Because, darling, buying a winter-antic ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, fashion, green living, news, shopping (all these topics)

Injustice The 100 most vulnerable nations have contributed least to climate change	David Roberts	01 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Another short new briefing (PDF) from the International Institute Environment and Development (IIED), this one on the 100 countries most vulnerable to climate change: Human-induced climate change is likely to have the heaviest impact on small low-lying island and coastal states, African nations, Asian mega-deltas and the polar regions. The 100 most vulnerable countries have contributed the least to total global carbon emissions. If the highest ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate equity (all these topics)

Bat an Ai-yi-yi Heat waves take a toll on Australian fruit bats		28 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 5:51 PM on 28 Nov 2007 Climate change has, ahem, taken a swing at bats. Unable to deal with scorching heat waves, thousands of Australian fruit bats have flapped their wings, panted, drooled -- then dropped dead. Which begs the question: Do bat researchers spend a lot of time yelling, "Quick -- to the bat cave!" We really, really hope so. sources:� Agence France-Presse, The Telegraph Fr ...
Topics: Australia, climate, climate change impacts, news, wildlife (all these topics)

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