Which plants will survive droughts, climate change?

By Stuart Wolpert5 April 2012 New research by UCLA life scientists could lead to predictions of which plant species will escape extinction from climate change. Droughts are worsening around the world, posing a great challenge to plants in all ecosystems, said Lawren Sack, a UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior author of […]

Ready or not: How water-ready is your state?

4 April 2012 (NRDC) – As climate change affects communities across the U.S., some states are leading the way in preparing for the impacts on water resources. These states are reducing carbon pollution and planning for climate change impacts. Yet many states are not acting and remain woefully unprepared. Green: The state has developed an […]

Global warming is a moral issue on par with slavery: NASA scientist

By Severin Carrell, www.guardian.co.uk 6 April 2012 Averting the worst consequences of human-induced climate change is a “great moral issue” on a par with slavery, according to the leading Nasa climate scientist Prof Jim Hansen. He argues that storing up expensive and destructive consequences for society in future is an “injustice of one generation to […]

Tornadoes fuel $1.2 billion March storm cost in U.S.: insurance broker Aon

By Andrew Frye 5 April 2012 Severe weather in the U.S., led by tornadoes in the Midwest and Tennessee Valley, caused more than $1.2 billion of insured losses in March, according to Aon Corp. (AON), the world’s biggest insurance broker. Insurers reported more than 170,000 claims tied to storms from March 2 and 3, London-based […]

Ice age study delivers blow to global-warming skeptics

By Pete Spotts, Staff writer 5 April 2012 Rising levels of carbon dioxide drove much of the global warming that thawed Earth at the end of the last ice age. That’s the conclusion a team of scientists has drawn in a new study examining the factors that closed the door on the last ice age, […]

Antarctic ice shelf dwindles as satellite continues to look on

By Wynne Parry, LiveScience5 April 2012 As a European satellite enters its second decade in orbit, it continues to observe the retreat of an Antarctic ice sheet, which has been dwindling due to warming. The satellite, Envisat, was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) on March 1, 2002. One of its first observations was […]

Science and the doubting conservatives

1 April 2012 (Los Angeles Times) – With so many scientific issues becoming battlefields in the culture wars — from climate change to stem-cell research to evolution (see above) — we hardly needed a new study to tell us that scientists have become a favorite target of the right. Yet a paper written by University […]

Graph of the Day: 2011-2012 Ratio of U.S. Heat to Cold Records

By Steve Scolnik 2 April 2012 (Capital Climate) – U.S. daily record high temperatures continued to surge into the end of March, with new heat records overwhelming cold records by the incredible ratio of 35.3 to 1. The total number of heat records was 6,182, nearly double the number in the sweltering month of August […]

Tornadoes and climate change 2012

In recent years, meteorologists have documented a rash of unusually early tornadoes. In addition, tornadoes are moving northward. The early March swarm of tornadoes was driven in part by unusually warm temperatures. Climate Nexus Infographics Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,North America

Masters Tournament azaleas respond to abnormally warm winter – ‘We’re so far ahead of schedule, we might miss the bloom’

  By Michael Buteau 2 April 2012 Even truckloads of ice may not be enough to maintain one colorful tradition of the Masters Tournament by the time the golf season’s first major championship begins this week. Most of the thousands of azaleas that line the fairways of Augusta National Golf Club probably are already in […]

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