Africa to fall short on water Millennium Goals: UN

By Staff WritersNov 26, 2010 Nairobi (AFP) – Most African countries will fail to attain the United Nation’s Millennium Goals on access to water and sanitation, the world body’s environment agency said on Friday. “Only eight countries in Africa are expected to attain the MDG target of reducing by half the proportion of the population […]

Rising sea threatens coastal Norfolk: ‘No one who has a house here is a skeptic’

By LESLIE KAUFMANNovember 25, 2010 NORFOLK, Va. — In this section of the Larchmont neighborhood, built in a sharp “u” around a bay off the Lafayette River, residents pay close attention to the lunar calendar, much as other suburbanites might attend to the daily flow of commuter traffic. If the moon is going to be […]

Graph of the Day: Sea Surface and Air Temperature of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1873-2008

Sea surface and air temperature records for the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Sea surface temperature averages for the Gulf of St. Lawrence from May to November, from 1 km2 resolution NOAA AVHRR imagery, are available since 1985 (blue line) and show a 2ºC warming trend between a cooler and a warmer period centered around 1993. […]

An almanac of extreme weather

By JACK HEDINNovember 27, 2010 THE news from this Midwestern farm is not good. The past four years of heavy rains and flash flooding here in southern Minnesota have left me worried about the future of agriculture in America’s grain belt. For some time computer models of climate change have been predicting just these kinds […]

NASA study confirms that lakes are warming globally

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2010) — In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth’s largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change. Researchers Philipp Schneider and Simon Hook of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used satellite data to measure the […]

Met Office: ‘Overwhelming evidence of warming in a wide range of climate indicators’

Met Office Press Office26 November 2010 Ahead of the latest UN talks on climate change in Mexico, the Met Office analyses long- and short-term trends in climate and reveals that the evidence for man-made warming has grown even stronger in the last year. There is overwhelming evidence of warming in a wide range of climate […]

Another extreme drought hits the Amazon, raising climate change concerns

By Joe Romm November 26, 2010 We know from simple on-the-ground knowledge that the 2010 drought was extreme, leading to record lows on some major rivers in the Amazon region and an upsurge in the number of forest fires. Preliminary analyses suggest that the 2010 drought was more widespread and severe than the 2005 event. […]

California water district pulls out of delta restoration plan

By Mark Grossi, The Fresno BeeNov. 24, 2010 After investing millions of dollars, Westlands Water District is pulling out of an extensive planning effort to heal the troubled Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, saying high-ranking federal officials are derailing it. The draft of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan offers hope of restoring slumping water deliveries to […]

Next climate warming report will be dramatically worse: UN

By Staff WritersNov 22, 2010 United Nations (AFP) – United Nations leaders will demand “concrete results” from the looming Cancun climate summit as global warming is accelerating, a top UN organizer of the event said Monday. Robert Orr, UN under secretary general for planning, said the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on global […]

Cloud feedbacks found to amplify global warming

Honolulu HI (SPX) Nov 23, 2010 – Current state-of-the-art global climate models predict substantial warming in response to increases in greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. The models, though, disagree widely in the magnitude of the warming we can expect. The disagreement among models is mainly due to the different representation of clouds. Some models […]

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