Research warns two degree rise will halve rainforest "carbon sink"

New study warns that even "safe" level of global warming will lead to huge increase in rainforest mortality rates by James Murray The impact of global warming on tropical rainforests will be so severe that even increases in temperature that are widely regarded as "safe" could raise tree mortality rates to such a level that […]

Glacier National Park to be glacier-free by 2020

From Climate Progress: [I welcome your ideas for a new name for the park. The pictures below are Grinnell Glacier circa 1940, top, and 2004, bottom.] National Geographic News reports the oft-repeated statistic that the glaciers at Montana’s Glacier National Park will disappear by the year 2030 is being revised: But Daniel Fagre, a U.S. […]

In India's Sundarbans, Ghoramara Island loses half of its land to rising sea

Sunderbans (West Bengal), Feb 25 (IANS) West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi Wednesday said the shrinking of the Ghoramara Island due to rising sea levels posed a threat not just to India, but to the world as well. ‘The accelerated shrinking of the Ghoramara due to the advancing sea is a threat not just for […]

Climate change lays waste to Spain's glaciers; drought looms

Spain loses 90% of its glaciers thanks to global warming, threatening drought as rivers dry up by Giles Tremlett The Pyrenees mountains have lost almost 90% of their glacier ice over the past century, according to scientists who warn that global warning means they will disappear completely within a few decades. While glaciers covered 3,300 […]

Antarctic glacier melt accelerating

AP – Antarctic glaciers are melting faster across a much wider area than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday — a development that could lead to an unprecedented rise in sea levels. A report by thousands of scientists for the 2007-2008 International Polar Year concluded that the western part of the continent is warming up, not […]

Unprecedented global warming in past year

From Climate Progress: From January 2008 to January 2009, the planet warmed a remarkable 0.37°C (see data here). This is 20 times (!) the annual rate of warming in recent decades and 20 times what most climate models have projected we should be experiencing. The N.Y. Times and WSJ have made this stunning news of […]

Graph of the Day: Australian Lake Water Level, 1962-2008

From Tamino: One of the most dramatic signs of the recent drought is the level of lakes in the region. The level for lake Alexandrina is at a remarkable all-time low, presently half a meter below sea level. Drought in Australia Technorati Tags: Australia,drought,global warming

Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegrating rapidly

Madrid – Antarctica’s Wilkins Ice Shelf is rapidly disintegrating, Spanish scientists reported on Tuesday, with potentially ominous implications for climate change. An ice sheet of 14,000 square kilometres has broken off from the Wilkins Shelf, and has itself broken into several large icebergs, according to a statement from Spain’s National Research Council (CSIC). CSIC scientists […]

Lovelock: Too late for Earth

The Gaia thinker’s latest book warns that climate disaster is imminent by Camilla Cavendish  You may feel, as job losses soar and parts of the world descend into turmoil, that you’re apocalypsed-out for February. If so, you may not immediately leap at James Lovelock’s forthcoming book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia. His warning that climate […]

More 'megafires' to come, say scientists

  By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Sunday, 2 September 2007 Fires of unprecedented ferocity are sweeping around the world, fuelled by global warming and misguided environmentalism. Dubbed "megafires", they rage over thousands of miles at 1,000C and create their own weather, even triggering tornadoes. Rapidly increasing in number, they are often unquenchable by any human […]

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