Archive for 'Climate Science'
The Rain in Spain is Somewhere Else Now.
As we wrote in a recent blog, global warming is less scary perhaps than the combination of environmental degradation and global warming. The New York Times recently came out with an interesting article on how the combination of poor natural resources management and climate change are causing desertification in Spain (see Water Is a New [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2008 under Climate Changes, Climate Science.
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No Where to Run: Species Extinction and Climate Change
My favorite website - www.mongabay.com - has a terrific interview with Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo, an ecologist at Stanford University, on defaunation (the full interview is available here). Defaunation is the removal of species from an ecosystem through different processes, including hunting, deforestation, wildlife trade, invasive species, and extinction (both local and global) through forest fragmentation [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2008 under Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate Changes, Climate Science.
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Lots of Signal, Little Noise. New meta-analysis study on Climate Change.
A major meta-analysis study published in the May 15 edition of Nature that combined nearly 30,000 data sets on biological and physical changes around the world collected for at least 20 years between 1970 to 2004 with a detailed database of global temperature change found, not surprisingly, that the biological changes were strongly correlated with [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2008 under Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate Changes, Climate Science.
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Less Ice, Part II, The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Concurrent with the melting of the arctic ice cap, the world’s glaciers are also melting. There are examples of glaciers melting in many of the world’s mountain chains, including in three of the world’s great mountain chains, the Andes, The Himalayan glaciers, and the Rockies.
In the Andes, one estimate is that the glaciers have shrunk [...]
Posted: April 5th, 2008 under Climate Science.
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Less Ice, Part 1
National Geographic’s April 2008 issue reports on last year’s summer melt in the Artic Ocean (see also Andrew Revkin’s excellent article in the NYT in October 2007). According to the piece, by September, the ice covered had declined from its previous low, in 2005, by an area larger than Texas and California combined. The September [...]
Posted: March 29th, 2008 under Climate Science.
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Zero Carbon Emissions & the Lag Effect
Two new studies published last week have recently come out and suggested that there must be zero carbon output in global emissions by 2050 to prevent the world from any further warming. Staff writer Juliet Eilperin summarized the findings of these studies today in a front-page article in the Washington Post.
H. Damon Matthews of Concordia [...]
Posted: March 10th, 2008 under Climate Science.
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Global Cooling and Milankovitch Cycles
Debunkers of global warming have made a lot over the fact that we are experiencing an incredibly cold winter globally. The Heartland Institute has played an recent prominent role in contending that the current concerns over climate change are merely alarmist, and is sponsoring a conference debunking climate science. On their website, they make the [...]
Posted: March 2nd, 2008 under Climate Science.
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