Showing posts with label IV Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IV Science. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2012

Climate change 'impacts Europe's mountain plants' AFP


Climate change 'impacts Europe's mountain plants'

AFP - 
WASHINGTON - The acceleration of climate change is stressing mountain plants in Europe and driving them to migrate to higher altitudes, according to a study released by US researchers.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

***** BBC News - NASA Hansen's climate warning


BBC News - NASA Hansen's climate warning

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17675576NEW3 days ago - 8 min
World-renowned American climate scientist James Hansen of NASA has been in Scotland to pick up science ...

Friday, April 13, 2012

NYT - Would you ask your hospital's accountant for a diagnosis? On Astronauts, NASA, and Climate Concerns New York Times


On Astronauts, NASA, and Climate Concerns

New York Times (blog) - 
By ANDREW C. REVKIN The letter, widely cast as signifying a “rebellion,” complains about the agency's “unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change.” A clear focus is the research center run by the agency's star climatologist, ...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Fallows: Graph of Actual vs 1981 Science Prediction atlantic


Now This Is Interesting: A Climate Prediction From 1981

The Atlantic -
By James Fallows It is very much worth checking out an item on Real Climate, from two Dutch scientists. They have found a paper by James Hansen and others from 1981, before climate change was even an occasion for political disagreement.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

World's biggest wind farm planned for off south coast of England Telegraph.co.uk


World's biggest wind farm planned for off south coast of England

Telegraph.co.uk - 
By Robert Mendick, Chief reporter The development comprises 200 turbines, each the height of a skyscraper and spread over an area the size of Glasgow.

1981 climate change predictions were eerily accurate io9


1981 climate change predictions were eerily accurate

io9 - 
The paper, written by a team of atmospheric physicists led by the now-controversial James Hansen at NASA's Institute for Space Studies at Goddard Space Flight Center, was recently rediscovered by researchers Geert Jan van Oldenborgh and Rein Haarsma ...

Friday, April 6, 2012

***** Loving, here: THIS IS IT. THE CLARION CALL. HEED IT. DON'T STOP, OR KISS YOU KIDS ASS GOODBY.


TRUST ME.  STUDY THIS. NOW.

*** Loving, here: THIS IS IT. THE CLARION CALL.  HEED IT. DON'T STOP, OR KISS YOU KIDS ASS GOODBY.

6% REDUCTION / YEAR IN CO2 STARTING NOW, TODAY, 2012, 
NOT 13, NOT 14.  NOW, OR IT WILL BE OVER YOUR DEAD BODY.  
RIGHT?

***** REDUCE 6%/YR. NOW. NASA's Hansen et al, CASE FOR Protecting Young People and Nature


Scientific Case for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change to Protect Young People and Nature

Global warming due to human-made gases, mainly CO2, is already 0.8{\deg}C and deleterious climate impacts are growing worldwide. More warming is 'in the pipeline' because Earth is out of energy balance, with absorbed solar energy exceeding planetary heat radiation. Maintaining a climate that resembles the Holocene, the world of stable shorelines in which civilization developed, requires rapidly reducing fossil fuel CO2 emissions. Such a scenario is economically sensible and has multiple benefits for humanity and other species. Yet fossil fuel extraction is expanding, including highly carbon-intensive sources that can push the climate system beyond tipping points such that amplifying feedbacks drive further climate change that is practically out of humanity's control. This situation raises profound moral issues as young people, future generations, and nature, with no possibility of protecting their future well-being, will bear the principal consequences of actions and inactions of today's adults.
Comments:28 pages, 6 figures; version submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Subjects:Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
Cite as:arXiv:1110.1365v3 [physics.ao-ph]

Submission history

From: Robert Schmunk [view email]
[v1] Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:37:19 GMT (469kb)
[v2] Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:43:56 GMT (422kb)
[v3] Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:23:44 GMT (600kb)

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Antarctic ice shelf dwindles as satellite continues to look on msnbc.com


Antarctic ice shelf dwindles as satellite continues to look on

msnbc.com - 
[ In Images: Tracking a Retreating Glacier ] You can follow LiveScience senior writer Wynne Parry on Twitter @Wynne_Parry. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.

Glaciers in the Himalayas have declined by 21 percent in the last three decades thinkprogress


Five Iconic Mountains Threatened By Climate Change

ThinkProgress - 
According to the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, glaciers in the Himalayas have declined by 21 percent in the last three decades.

Insurance Journal: Climate Contrarian Case Wilts as More Studies Confirm Warming Trends


Climate Contrarian Case Wilts as More Studies Confirm Warming Trends

Insurance Journal - 
The arctic ice sheet is already considered beyond reversal, done deal. With the exposed new land, the arctic keeps warming til it is gone.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

!!! Listen up. Old news. Credible NEW SOURCE: Ice age thaw may serve as global warning: First greenhouse gas spiked, then ... Washington Post


Ice age thaw may serve as global warning: First greenhouse gas spiked, then ...

Washington Post - 
When the last ice age peaked about 25000 years ago, the ice sheet extended to Iowa and New York City, Shankun said. The ice sheet was actually so large that it was unstable, said study co-author Peter Clark of Oregon State University.

GOPig Barton wrong AGAIN. Will he Care? Nah: Study: Carbon Dioxide Increase Caused End of Ice Age U.S. News & World Report


Study: Carbon Dioxide Increase Caused End of Ice Age

U.S. News & World Report - 
Joe Barton, in an attempt to discredit Al Gore's

30-year-old global temperature predictions close to spot-on Register


30-year-old global temperature predictions close to spot-on

Register -
In the ongoing debate over climate change, it's at times a good idea to check in with historial predictions made by climate modelers and see how well they have been able to predict global warming - which is exactly what a pair of researchers at the ...