Sea level predicted from paleo-temperature data, using sea-level proxy data from the whole period. Shaded error bands indicate 1σ and 2σ uncertainties. A correction of −0.2 K was applied to temperatures for AD 500–1100. Sea level predicted from adjusted temperature (gray) and summary of proxy-reconstructed sea levels from North Carolina (pink). GIA-adjusted sea level expressed […]
By Darryl Fears26 June 2011 From his government office in Virginia Beach, Clay Bernick can see the future, and that future looks a rather lot like the movie Waterworld. The sea level is rising in Virginia Beach and the entire area known as Hampton Roads because of the warming climate, and the area also happens […]
By Peter Huck27 June 2011 This month, as the US reeled from some very nasty weather – floods in Mississippi, drought in Texas, tornadoes in the Midwest – the New York Times got right down to brass tacks: given damage to property, crops and lost business, how much would insurers have to fork out? Ten […]
By Ashwini Shrivastava 26 Jun 2011 Leh (PTI) – Ten months after a deadly natural disaster claimed over 250 lives, relief and rehabilitation work being carried out by the authorities here is hitting a roadblock– due to paucity of funds. Piles of mud and stone are still lying at Choglumsar, which bore the major brunt […]
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist 24 June 2011 Two dolphins that would be more at home frolicking in the warm bays of southern California or Mexico are cruising the chilly waters of Puget Sound and biologists are baffled by an apparent trend for tropical species to head north. Reports of strange whistles started coming in […]
Berlin, June 21, 2011 (AFP) – Munich Re stated that deadly weather catastrophes in China had soared around four-fold in the last 30 years, costing its economy billions. Munich Re said in a report that the number of annual disasters including violent storms, floods, extreme temperatures, droughts and forest fires had risen to about 48 […]
By Al GoreJune 22, 2011 The first time I remember hearing the question “is it real?” was when I went as a young boy to see a traveling show put on by “professional wrestlers” one summer evening in the gym of the Forks River Elementary School in Elmwood, Tennessee. The evidence that it was real […]
ScienceDaily (June 21, 2011) — The rate of sea level rise along the U.S. Atlantic coast is greater now than at any time in the past 2,000 years — and has shown a consistent link between changes in global mean surface temperature and sea level. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the […]
LONDON, UK, June 21, 2011 (ENS) – The oceans are at high risk of entering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history, a panel of international marine experts warns in a report released today [pdf]. A deadly trio of factors – warming, acidification and lack of oxygen – is creating the […]
By Sabrina Mao and David Stanway; Editing by Nick Macfie19 June 2011 ZHUJI, China (Reuters) – Torrential rain across southern and eastern China which has killed more than 100 people and triggered the evacuation of half a million has left large areas of farmland devastated as food prices surge, state media said on Sunday. Weeks […]
