Blogging the End of the World™
(Reuters) – Next year is set to be one of the top-five warmest on record, British climate scientists said on Tuesday. The average global temperature for 2009 is expected to be more than 0.4 degrees celsius above the long-term average, despite the continued cooling of huge areas of the Pacific Ocean, a phenomenon known as […]
By Adrianne Appel BOSTON, Dec 31 (Tierramérica) – Warm ocean currents may have confused some 2,500 penguins from Argentina’s Patagonia region that washed up — dead and alive — on Brazil’s northern coast. About half the penguins that were found on Brazilian beaches in October were dead, and the others were starving and in very […]
Coral growth in decline at Great Barrier Reef Warming, more acidic oceans cited; ‘pretty scary’ findings, one expert says By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com The rate at which corals absorb calcium from seawater to calcify their hard skeletons — and thus grow — has declined dramatically in the last two decades and signs point to manmade […]
By ARTHUR MAX, The Associated Press POZNAN, Poland — Chief Bill Erasmus of the Dene nation in northern Canada brought a stark warning about the climate crisis: The once abundant herds of caribou are dwindling, rivers are running lower and the ice is too thin to hunt on. Erasmus raised his concerns recently on the […]
WARMER temperatures and earlier melting of sea ice are causing polar bears to go hungry. The number of undernourished bears has tripled in a 20-year period. Seth Cherry of the University of Alberta, Canada, and colleagues monitored the health of polar bears in the ice-covered Beaufort Sea region of the Arctic during April and May […]
By By Shahid Husain Karachi — Global warming and the ongoing thinning of Tibetan glaciers will result in as many as 15 million ‘environmental refugees’ in South Asia in the near future, said Chairperson Hisaar Foundation and member of Stockholm-based Global Water Partnership Technical Committee, Simi Kamal. She made the observation at a selected gathering […]
Who knew Roger Ebert was such a Desdemona? It’s all coming to pieces, isn’t it — the world we live in, the continuity we thought we could count on, the climate, the economy, the fragile peace. The 20th century was called "the American Century," with some reason. I do not believe the 21st century will […]
Via Climate Progress: Climate change is happening more rapidly than anyone though possible, the German government’s expert, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, warned in an interview. The threats posed by climate change are worse than those imagined by most governments, warned Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the scientist who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on Global Warming Effects […]
Report Projects 4-Foot Rise in Global Sea Level by End of Century By NITYA VENKATARAMAN An Iditarod without snow, Florida’s coastal towns lost forever to the Gulf of Mexico, wheat farmers in Kansas without crops. What sounds like the climatic end of days could be coming a lot sooner than previously anticipated. A recent report […]
BY TSUYOSHI TAKEDA, THE ASAHI SHIMBUN As the fields of ice surrounding his home rapidly become thinner, Ikuo Oshima knows firsthand that the effects of global warming are not a problem of the distant future, but a present danger. It was the vast fields of the Arctic ice where Oshima, 61, managed to feed and […]
