By John Vidal in Gazipara, www.guardian.co.uk 9 May 2012 Rebecca Sultan’s life has been shattered twice in a few years. First, the 140mph winds of Cyclone Sidr ripped through her village, Gazipara, flattening houses, killing 6,000 people and devastating the lives of millions as it slammed into southern Bangladesh in 2007. Then, 18 months later, […]
By Rob Jordan8 May 2012 Americans’ support for government action on global warming remains high but has dropped during the past two years, according to a new survey by Stanford researchers in collaboration with Ipsos Public Affairs. Political rhetoric and cooler-than-average weather appear to have influenced the shift, but economics doesn’t appear to have played […]
By Barbara Lewis; Editing by John Stonestreet7 May 2012 BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU nations are dithering over how to fill a multi-billion-euro fund to help tackle climate change, just as the region’s executive body hosts talks with countries likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather. The European Union recommitted to providing 7.2 billion euros […]
Outlet glacier categories and rates of velocity change (percentage change from beginning of 5-year period). Black-outlined images show 2000 to 2005 results, and red-outlined images are 2005 to 2010 results. The background velocity map for both periods is a 2007 to 2010 composite, with the five ice-sheet regions indicated: north (N), northwest (NW), southwest (SW), […]
By Tamera Jones4 May 2012 Scientists have long been concerned that the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse if global temperatures keep climbing. If it did, sea levels are predicted to rise by as much as five metres. Now, genetic evidence from an Antarctic octopus reveals that this may have happened at some point […]
In late 2011, Professor Ian Plimer, a geology professor and expert mineralogist with no background in climate science, released his latest book, How to get expelled from school: a guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters. In response to Professor Ian Plimer’s 101 questions on climate change science, the department provides Accurate Answers […]
By Phil Plait 8 May 2012 I wrote a few days ago about the disgusting billboards put up by the far-right Heartland Institute, a climate-change denial group that apparently has no lower bounds to what they’ll do. The billboards, which went up in Chicago, likened climate scientists (and anyone who knows global warming is real) […]
By Katie Nguyen, AlertNet; Additional reporting by Laurie Goering in London and Katy Migiro in Nairobi2 May 2012 LONDON (AlertNet) – It was designed to increase production and exports of vegetable oil, a commodity in short supply after World War Two, and foster growth in post-war Britain and Tanganyika. Instead, Britain’s scheme to carve out […]
By Jeff Masters1 May 2012 A European heat wave of unparalleled intensity for so early in the year smashed all-time April heat records over much of Central and Eastern Europe on Saturday and Sunday. According to wunderground’s weather historian Christopher C. Burt, and weather records researcher Maximiliano Herrera, new national April heat records were set […]
4 May 2012 (Monash) – Changes in the ocean’s chemistry, as a result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, threaten marine plankton to a greater extent than previously thought, according to new research. The research, published in Nature Climate Change, revealed around half the CO2 released through human activity dissolves in the ocean, where […]
