"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic

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“Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic

The tipping point

The Manila Times Internet Edition | OPINION > The tipping point

Climate change makes bats drop dead

Scorching heatwaves linked to climate change have caused thousands of Australian bats to drop dead after flapping their wings in a desperate bid to cool off, scientists say.

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Climate change makes bats drop dead

2007 set to be 6th warmest year on record

OSLO (Reuters) – This year is set to be the sixth warmest since records began 150 years ago, cooler than earlier predicted which means a slight respite for European ski resorts or bears trying to hibernate.

“2007 will likely be near equal with 2006, so joint sixth warmest year,” Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at Britain’s University of East Anglia, told Reuters.

2007 set to be 6th warmest year on record

Asia Faces “Unprecedented” Water Crisis

SINGAPORE - Developing countries in Asia could face an “unprecedented” water crisis within a decade due to mismanagement of water resources, the Asian Development Bank said in a report on Thursday. The effects of climate change, rapid industrialization and population growth on water resources could lead to health and social issues that could cost billions [...]

Asia Faces “Unprecedented” Water Crisis

Environment: We Can Stop Global Warming

By implementing new technologies, we can avert a potentially disastrous future.

Environment: We Can Stop Global Warming

World must fix climate in less than 10 years: U.N.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Unless the international community agrees to cut carbon emissions by half over the next generation, climate change is likely to cause large-scale human and economic setbacks and irreversible ecological catastrophes, a U.N. report said on Tuesday.

World must fix climate in less than 10 years: U.N.

Rich and poor gird for climate change

BRASILIA (Reuters) – People around the world are preparing for floods, droughts and other natural disasters in ways largely dictated by wealth and poverty as evidence of climate change mounts, a U.N. report said on Tuesday.

Rich and poor gird for climate change

Great Lakes evaporate away (ES&T)

Recent water-level declines in the Lake Michigan–Huron system correlate with an increase in evaporation over the past century and a half.

Great Lakes evaporate away (ES&T)

A Darwinian Rapture

A Darwinian Rapture – The Smirking Chimp

War has historic links to global climate change

Climate change and conflict have gone hand-in-hand for the past 500 years, a study reveals – the findings reflect fears over the current changes

War has historic links to global climate change

Climate change "unequivocal": UN report

The Nobel-winning IPCC group of climate scientists have issued their starkest warning yet on global warming, prompting a U.N. demand for politicians to smash the deadlock on tackling the worsening threat.

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Climate change “unequivocal”: UN report

Global Warming: ‘Frightening’ UN Climate Report May Be Too Optimistic

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called the latest climate report “as frightening as a science-fiction movie.” However, the IPCC report may already be out of date and the true situation could be even more serious than previously thought.

Global Warming: ‘Frightening’ UN Climate Report May Be Too Optimistic

MIT sees acceleration in US greenhouse emissions

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century, and technological change may cause increased emissions rather than control them, according to a new study by an MIT economist and his colleague.

What’s more, technology itself cannot be relied on as the most efficient tool for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or solving the global energy crisis, said Professor Emeritus Richard Eckaus of the MIT Department of Economics and his co-author, Ian Sue Wing, of Boston University.

MIT sees acceleration in US greenhouse emissions

As the World Burns

TOM ENGELHARDT | Uncomfortable questions nobody wants to raise about the worldwide drought.

As the World Burns

Emergency Brakes Needed to Stop Climate Crash

TORONTO - In the end, governments accepted evidence from the world’s top scientists that climate change impacts could be abrupt and irreversible, and that they require urgent action. “The threat is real,” said United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. “I have seen the impacts of climate change in Antarctica and the Amazon with my own eyes,” Ban [...]

Emergency Brakes Needed to Stop Climate Crash

A World Dying, but Can We Unite to Save It? Pollution in the seas is now speeding global warming, says a devastating new climate report.

Humanity is rapidly turning the seas acid through the same pollution that causes global warming, the world’s governments and top scientists agreed yesterday. The process — thought to be the most profound change in the chemistry of the oceans for 20 million years — is expected both to disrupt the entire web of life of [...]

A World Dying, but Can We Unite to Save It? Pollution in the seas is now speeding global warming, says a devastating new climate report.

The Big Thirst: The Great American Water Crisis

The US drought is now so acute that, in some southern communities, the water supply is cut off for 21 hours a day. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, a once-lush region where the American dream has been reduced to a single four-letter word: rain. On Dancing Fern Mountain, in the hills above Chattanooga, Tennessee, two brothers worry [...]

The Big Thirst: The Great American Water Crisis

More bear species threatened with extinction

Now only two of the eight bear species in the world remain unthreatened by extinction, according to the World Conservation Union

More bear species threatened with extinction

Eco-ruin ‘felled early society’

One of Europe’s earliest known urban societies may have brought destruction on itself, a study suggests.

Eco-ruin ‘felled early society’

Unravelling the sceptics

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Unravelling the sceptics

Climate scepticism: The top 10

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 629 | 629 | Climate scepticism: The top 10

Environment: We Can’t Shop Our Way to Safety

Concerned with toxic chemicals, more people are buying products with labels like “organic,” “green,” and “natural.” But a consumerist response to environmental threats is not only inadequate, it is dangerous.

Environment: We Can’t Shop Our Way to Safety

Why we’ll never be sure of the effects of global warming.

After decades of timid proclamations, the new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released earlier this year, finally concluded with “very high confidence” that humans are causing global warming. And yet, the range of possible values for just how far that warming will go is roughly unchanged from the last report, made six years ago. In fact, we’re as hazy on this issue as we were almost 30 years ago. Ask the most basic questions of a climate scientist today—How hot will it get? Will we bake and flood the planet beyond recognition, or will we just have balmier Novembers?—and you’ll get pretty much the same answers you would have gotten when Jimmy Carter was sporting cardigans in the White House.

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Why we’ll never be sure of the effects of global warming.

Worst Drought in a Century Hurting Australian Farmers

Global warming may be to blame for Australia’s unprecedented seven-year drought, which has become so severe that farms are disappearing as rapidly as rivers.

Worst Drought in a Century Hurting Australian Farmers

Richard Heinberg’s Museletter: Big Melt Meets Big Empty

Richard Heinberg’s Museletter: Big Melt Meets Big Empty

How to stop climate change: the easy way

Changing your light bulbs may not be enough to save a single polar bear, but there are things we can do collectively – and easily – that will really make a measurable difference in the battle against global warming. Mark Lynas has a three-part plan. Illustration by James Fryer

How to stop climate change: the easy way

20 Years on, World in Dire Straits , U.N. Says

LONDON-Two decades after a landmark report sounded alarm bells about the state of the planet and called for urgent action to change direction, the world is still in dire straits , a U.N. agency sai…

20 Years on, World in Dire Straits , U.N. Says

Health risks rise as Earth warms

Environment – Expert: Health risks rise as Earth warms – sacbee.com

Warming could wipe out half of all species

Warming could wipe out half of all species | Environment | The Guardian

‘Humanity’s very survival’ is at risk, says UN

‘Humanity’s very survival’ is at risk, says UN - Times Online

Rising Seas Will Swamp America’s Shores

According to Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press, because of rising waters caused by climate change, “In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is may be slowly erased.”

Rising Seas Will Swamp America’s Shores

Warming said to have potential to wipe out most species

LONDON (Reuters) – Rising temperatures could wipe out more than half of the earth’s species in the next few centuries, according to researchers who published a study on Wednesday linking climate change to past mass extinctions.

Researchers at the University of York said their study was the first to examine the relationship between climate, extinction rates and biodiversity over a long period.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, suggest climate change was the cause of large-scale extinctions, said Peter Mayhew, an ecologist who worked on the study.

Warming said to have potential to wipe out most species

Oceans ’soaking up less CO2′

Scientists say there has been a worrying drop in the amount of CO2 soaked up by the world’s oceans.

Oceans ‘soaking up less CO2’

‘Warm wind’ hits Arctic climate

The Arctic is being hit by melting ice, hotter air and dying wildlife, a US report on the impact of global warming says.

‘Warm wind’ hits Arctic climate

UK scientists defend Gore film

Two leading UK scientists criticise a High Court judge for his controversial ruling on the climate change film An Inconvenient Truth.

UK scientists defend Gore film

Arctic Report Card, 2007

Report

Arctic Report Card, 2007

State of the Arctic, 2006

Report

State of the Arctic, 2006

Giants who are a barometer of ocean’s health

THE sea boils with fish frantically trying to escape as eager seabirds circle above. A massive surge of water and a true giant of the deep enters centre stage. At up to 35ft long and weighing ten tonnes, a surfacing minke whale makes an impressive sight.

Giants who are a barometer of ocean’s health

Global warming: Too late to implement many mitigation strategies

American Institute of Physics: Governments have wasted too much time to successfully implement some of the easiest strategies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions says Rosina Bierbaum of the University of Michigan. Bierbaum was speaking at the American Institute of Physics Industrial Physics Forum held in Seattle, Wahsington. Nor will simply relying on adaptation strategies be sufficient to deal with the impending impacts of climate change. “Any measures are only going to get more costly and difficult to implement” as time goes on, she said, quoting an old proverb: “It is easier to close the jaws of an alligator when they are small….Our alligator is entering its rebellious adolescence.”

Global warming: Too late to implement many mitigation strategies

Ancient Fossils Point to Carbon Dioxide As a Driver of Global Warming

PASADENA, Calif – A team of American and Canadian scientists has devised a new way to study Earth’s past climate by analyzing the chemical composition of ancient marine fossils. The first published tests with the method further support the view that atmospheric CO2 has contributed to dramatic climate variations in the past, and strengthen projections that human CO2 emissions could cause global warming.

In the current issue of the journal Nature, geologists and environmental scientists from the California Institute of Technology, the University of Ottawa, the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Brock University, and the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve report the results of a new method for determining the growth temperatures of carbonate fossils such as shells and corals. This method looks at the percentage of rare isotopes of oxygen and carbon that bond with each other rather than being randomly distributed through their mineral lattices.

Ancient Fossils Point to Carbon Dioxide As a Driver of Global Warming

Environment: Our Drinkable Water Supply Is Vanishing

Thanks to global warming, pollution, population growth, and privatization, we are teetering on the edge of a global crisis.

Environment: Our Drinkable Water Supply Is Vanishing

Decline of species in experts’ study exposes threat of climate change

THE increasing threat of climate change to Scotland’s wildlife and its habitats has been laid bare in the most comprehensive report on the country’s biodiversity ever published.

Decline of species in experts’ study exposes threat of climate change

Biofuel threatens China, India water supply

North Queensland Register – nqr.farmonline.com.au

Scientist: Greenhouse-Gas Levels Already Past ‘Worst-Case’ Scenario

FOXNews.com – Scientist: Greenhouse-Gas Levels Already Past ‘Worst-Case’ Scenario – Science News | Current Articles

Heat may kill hundreds of New Yorkers

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The number of heat-related deaths in and around New York City will nearly double by 2050 – and could rise as high as 95 percent—due to global warming if no efforts are made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a new study shows.

“All kinds of households in the region might want to think about what global warming and greenhouse gas emissions might mean for their quality of life in the not-too-distant future,” Dr. Kim Knowlton of Columbia University in New York City, the study’s lead author, told Reuters Health.

By taking steps now to cut emissions, New Yorkers could prevent 300 of these expected deaths annually, Knowlton says. “We can save lives by taking progressive action now to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. That’s the good news.”

Heat may kill hundreds of New Yorkers

Environment: Ice Caps Melting Fast: Say Goodbye to the Big Apple?

The talk of sea level rise should not be in centuries, it should be decades or perhaps even single years. And coastal regions like New York and Florida are in the front line for devastation.

Environment: Ice Caps Melting Fast: Say Goodbye to the Big Apple?

Australian scientist warns planet on climate collision course

Sydney – The UN climate change report to be released next month will show that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already reached dangerous levels, Australia’s pre-eminent conservationist said Tuesday. Scientist and Australian of the Year Tim Fl…

Australian scientist warns planet on climate collision course

Climate Change Disaster Is Upon Us, Warns UN

Julian Borger of The Guardian UK writes: “A record number of floods, droughts and storms around the world this year amount to a climate change ‘megadisaster,’ the United Nations emergency relief coordinator, Sir John Holmes, has warned.”

Climate Change Disaster Is Upon Us, Warns UN

Water crisis inevitable, warns Greenpeace

THE Philippines is headed for an inevitable water crisis, says environment group Greenpeace. Citing experts’ predictions, Greenpeace warns that by the year 2025, there will be a water availability deficit in several river basins such as Pampanga and Agno, in Pasig-Laguna, Cagayan Valley, all other regions in Luzon, in Jalaur and Ilog Hibangan, and in Cebu. A [...]

Water crisis inevitable, warns Greenpeace

World moves into the ecological red

LONDON (Reuters) – The world moved into “ecological overdraft” on Saturday, the point at which human consumption exceeds the ability of the earth to sustain it in any year and goes into the red, the New Economics Foundation think-tank said.

Ecological Debt Day this year is three days earlier than in 2006 which itself was three days earlier than in 2005. NEF said the date had moved steadily backwards every year since humanity began living beyond its environmental means in the 1980s.

“As the world creeps closer to irreversible global warming and goes deeper into ecological debt, why on earth, say, would the UK export 20 tonnes of mineral water to Australia and then re-import 21 tonnes,” said NEF director Andrew Simms.

World moves into the ecological red

How we can save ourselves

How we can save ourselves – Opinion – theage.com.au

Climate change inevitable, says CSIRO

Climate change inevitable, says CSIRO | The Australian

Australia in climate crisis: Garrett

Australia in climate crisis: Garrett | The Australian

Hot, parched and sinking - apocalypse Sydney

Hot, parched and sinking – apocalypse Sydney – Environment – smh.com.au

Artic Melt Unnerves the Experts

Climate Change – Sea Ice – Arctic – New York Times

Tourism set to suffer from the climate change it generates: UN

Tourism set to suffer from the climate change it generates: UN - Yahoo! News

The Race Against Warming

Bill McKibben – The Race Against Warming – washingtonpost.com

Arctic thaw may be at tipping point

Arctic thaw may be at tipping point | Environment | Reuters

The Earth is out of time

The Earth is out of time – In Depth – theage.com.au

Environment: Top 100 Ways Global Warming Will Change Your Life

Say goodbye to French wines, baseball and the Great Barrier Reef. Say hello to massive amounts of mosquitoes, the northwest passage and hurricanes.

Environment: Top 100 Ways Global Warming Will Change Your Life

The Global Water Shortage… Taking Double-Digit Gains Right Now

A global water crisis is unfolding right before our eyes. But this severe and pressing issue is serving as both a catalyst for life-saving innovation and huge profits.

The Global Water Shortage… Taking Double-Digit Gains Right Now

The Global Water Shortage… Taking Double-Digit Gains Right Now

A global water crisis is unfolding right before our eyes. But this severe and pressing issue is serving as both a catalyst for life-saving innovation and huge profits.

The Global Water Shortage… Taking Double-Digit Gains Right Now

Global Warming: The Great Equaliser

By Adam Parsons
As the latest summit to discuss a post-Kyoto treaty continues in New York this week, the single most revealing statement has already been spoken: We need to climate-proof economic growth. These few words, told to reporters by the UNs top climate official, Yvo de Boer, during the recent Vienna round of talks, define the blinded establishment approach to tackling climate change

Global Warming: The Great Equaliser

Global Warming: The Great Equalizer

As the latest summit to discuss a post-Kyoto treaty continues in New York this week, the single most revealing statement has already been spoken: “We need to climate-proof economic growth.” These few words, told to reporters by the UN’s top climate official, Yvo de Boer, during the recent Vienna round of talks, define the blinded establishment approach to tackling climate change. [1] Only if continued trade liberalisation and corporate profits are kept sacrosanct, remains the assumption, is it possible to consider even a broad agreement on future cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions. (more…)

Global Warming: The Great Equalizer

News: The North Pole Is Melting

News: The North Pole Is Melting

Climate Change Triggers Bloodshed

When climate change makes it hard to find food, animals decrease their numbers through cannabilism, while humans do it through warfare.

Climate Change Triggers Bloodshed

Ice withdrawal ’shatters record’

Arctic sea ice shrank to the smallest area on record this year, researchers in the US confirm.

Ice withdrawal ‘shatters record’

Global Warming: The Great Equaliser

By Adam Parsons
As the latest summit to discuss a post-Kyoto treaty continues in New York this week, the single most revealing statement has already been spoken: We need to climate-proof economic growth. These few words, told to reporters by the UNs top climate official, Yvo de Boer, during the recent Vienna round of talks, define the blinded establishment approach to tackling climate change

Global Warming: The Great Equaliser

Overextension: our American way of life is not sustainable

Culture Change – Overextension: our American way of life is not sustainable

Can Anyone Stop It?

By Bill McKibben

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming
by Bjørn Lomborg

Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility
by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

What We Know About Climate Change
by Kerry Emanuel

Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
edited by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman

During the last year, momentum has finally begun to build for taking action against global warming by putting limits on carbon emissions and then reducing them. Driven by ever-more-dire scientific reports, Congress has, for the first time, begun debating ambitious targets for carbon reduction. Al Gore, in his recent Live Earth concerts, announced that he will work to see an international treaty signed by the end of 2009. Even President Bush has recently reversed his previous opposition and summoned the leaders of all the top carbon-emitting countries to a series of conferences designed to yield some form of limits on CO₂.

Can Anyone Stop It?

The Rising Cost of Nature

Daily News Egypt – Full Article

Let the East Bloom Again

Let the East Bloom Again – New York Times

Extinction crisis escalates: Red List shows apes, corals, vultures, dolphins all in danger

Extinction crisis escalates: Red List shows apes, corals, vultures, dolphins all in danger – IUCN News

Climate Change Brings Risk of More Extinctions

Climate Change Brings Risk of More Extinctions – washingtonpost.com

Medieval Diaries Shed Light on Warming

Ancient texts dispel any doubts that Earth is warming up more dramatically than ever.

Medieval Diaries Shed Light on Warming

The End Of The World?

By William M. H. Kotke
We are all looking at the end of the world as we know it. Our attention is focused on the holes in the ozone layer, planet warming, peak oil, the spread of DU weapons, the collapse of the house of credit cards, and the prospect of the planetary financial elite quickly establishing fascist control of the planet. Below this threshold of conscious awareness our biological survival systems are rapidly eroding

The End Of The World?

Global Warming Impact Like Nuclear War

By Jeremy Lovell
Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) security think-tank said global warming would hit crop yields and water availability everywhere, causing great human suffering and leading to regional strife

Global Warming Impact Like Nuclear War

Bush aide says warming man-made

The US chief scientist John Marburger says climate change is almost certainly down to human activities.

Bush aide says warming man-made

Global warming impact like "nuclear war": report

Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) security think-tank said global warming would hit crop yields and water availability everywhere, causing great human suffering and leading to regional strife.

Global warming impact like “nuclear war”: report

Warming in the Age of Pangaea: A Prequel?

A warming 300 million years ago holds clues to how climate change can alter the planet.

Warming in the Age of Pangaea: A Prequel?

Planetary Thinking

WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Planetary Thinking

The Nexus of Water, Energy and Climate

The Nexus of Water, Energy and Climate – FORA.tv

Fred’s Footprint: Measuring our global impact

New Scientist Environment Blog: Fred’s Footprint: Measuring our global impact

Climate change ticks ever closer

TheStar.com – Environment – Climate change ticks ever closer

Global warming to decimate China’s harvests

Global warming to decimate China’s harvests – Yahoo! News

Warming Will Exacerbate Global Water Conflicts

Warming Will Exacerbate Global Water Conflicts – washingtonpost.com

Prepare for another ten scorching years

A new climate model can do what no other can – predict the impact of global warming over the next decade

Prepare for another ten scorching years

Global warming: Met Office predicts plateau then record temperatures

British scientists are predicting a succession of record-breaking high temperatures in the most detailed forecast of global warming’s impact on weather around the world.

Global warming: Met Office predicts plateau then record temperatures

Analysts See ‘Simply Incredible’ Shrinking of Floating Ice in the Arctic

The area of floating ice in the Arctic has shrunk more this summer than in any other summer since satellite tracking began in 1979.

Analysts See ‘Simply Incredible’ Shrinking of Floating Ice in the Arctic

The Earth fights back

Never mind higher temperatures, climate change has a few nastier surprises in store. Bill McGuire says we can also expect more earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis

The Earth fights back

Environment: Pharmaceuticals in Our Water Supply Are Causing Bizarre Mutations to Wildlife

From inter-sex fish in the Potomac River to frog mutations in Wisconsin, federal officials are studying the effects of pharmaceuticals such as pain killers and depression medicine in our water supply.

Environment: Pharmaceuticals in Our Water Supply Are Causing Bizarre Mutations to Wildlife

What Would The World Be Like At 2 C?

By John James
Thats when the biosphere begins to absorb less of the CO2 that we produce, and that is a point beyond which we cant do anything more about it. 2 C global warming leads automatically to 3 C, because of positive feedbacks. 3 C leads automatically to 4 C. Once we get to that point, we wash our hands of it. Theres nothing more we can do. So we must not get to that point. That is critical. We cant allow 2 C of warming to happen

What Would The World Be Like At 2 C?

Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine

Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine – Newsweek Technology – MSNBC.com

Glaciers in Retreat

Studying Indian glaciers offers a snapshot of the consequences of global warming for India and raises vital questions about how the country will respond to them.

Glaciers in Retreat

China’s Massive Glaciers Melting

The glaciers in northwest China have shrunk by 20 percent since 1964.

China’s Massive Glaciers Melting

Humans ‘affect global rainfall’

Human-induced climate change has affected global rainfall patterns over the 20th Century, a study suggests.

Humans ‘affect global rainfall’

Ozone has ’strong climate effect’

Ozone could be a more important driver of climate change than scientists had previously thought.

Ozone has ‘strong climate effect’

The Climate Engineers

The Climate Engineers

No Link Between Cosmic Rays and Global Warming

Wired Science – Wired Blogs