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Other NewsEditorialsClimate change should have effect on politics.Azaleas are budding and daffodils can be found in full bloom along rural roads around West Alabama. Is that proof of global warming? Hardly, but that doesn’t mean evidence of sustained, rapid climate change isn’t mounting. Tuscaloosa News 02 Feb Climate data chills global warming alarmism.The Earth's temperature hasn't increased significantly in about 15 years. Yet governments around the world used the threatened overheating as an excuse to regulate, tax and subsidize in order to curb greenhouse gases. Orange County Register 02 Feb Taking the long view on the world's energy supplies.Now researchers are warning that energy sources we normally think of as innocuous could affect the planet's climate too. If we start to extract immense amounts of power from the wind, for instance, it will have an impact on how warmth and water move around the planet, and thus on temperatures and rainfall. New Scientist 31 Jan Reach out about climate.Where political leadership on climate change is lacking, scientists must be prepared to stick their heads above the parapet. Nature 06 Jan Climate change is here.Three eminent universities, in a 460-page report to the state Energy Research and Development Authority last week, pretty much stated the obvious. They said New York state’s climate is changing. Catskill Daily Mail 04 Jan A tempestuous year.Is there a connection between last year’s extreme weather events and global warming? The answers might be a lot clearer if the Republicans in Congress were less hostile to climate change research. New York Times 01 Jan TCEQ finally gets it right.We were heartened this past week to see the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality correct one of its embarrassing misjudgment of altering a scientific report about sea-level rise in Galveston Bay, removing sections about human impact on climate change and sea-level rates in the bay. Houston Chronicle 28 Dec Embrace of global warming gives faith.Hallelujah to spreading the word about climate change. Mankato Free Press 26 Dec OpinionA shameful attack on free speech.If you disagree with the views of a prominent climate scientist, one approach might be to attend his forthcoming lecture at his home campus, Pennsylvania State University, and engage in civil debate when he’s done. Another would be to mount a faceless Facebook campaign. What would you do? New York Times 03 Feb Cut emissions, boost health.Reducing greenhouse gases would save billions in health care costs. Policy makers should take note. European Voice 02 Feb In climate fight, tracking the line between diagnosis and treatment.The last few days have seen frenzied volleys in the fight over climate science and policy. Most of the authors in both camps are scientists. It will be economic pressures, not scientific findings, that largely determine what the world’s nations do, or don’t do, to limit the flow of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from fuel burning. New York Times 02 Feb Check with climate scientists for views on climate.Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work. The Journal failed to do its homework. Wall Street Journal 02 Feb Expertise a prerequisite to comment on climate.The opinion piece "Climate change 'heretics' refute carbon dangers" was the climate-science equivalent of dentists practising cardiology. Sydney Australian 02 Feb Delmarva classrooms take on climate change.Yes, there is still more to learn about climate change. But enough credible science is out there to convince me that we need to act. Whether or not we agree on the primary causes or priority solutions, we need to do everything we can. We need to behave more responsibly. Worcester County Times 02 Feb Declining fisheries will affect us all soon enough.The warning signs of a growing crisis are clear: the Atlantic bluefin tuna spawning population, estimated at just 40 per cent of its peak in 1974, is now a “species of concern,” along with its cousin, the Pacific bluefin. In British Columbia, ling cod have nearly disappeared. Vancouver Sun 01 Feb Wall Street Journal's climate change stance is suspect.The Wall Street Journal is taking a lot of heat for an op-ed published on Jan. 27 that reassures its readers that there’s no need to panic over global warming. Newark Star-Ledger 01 Feb |
Clear and present dangers not so clear, or present.Let’s face it, human beings are not very good at dealing with distant, relatively uncertain threats. By the time some of the worst consequences of climate change clearly manifest themselves as near-term challenges, it will be too late to stop them. Climate Central 03 Feb Storm over climate change among weather forecasters.You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. But weather forecasters, many of whom see climate change as a natural, cyclical phenomenon, are split over whether they have a responsibility to educate viewers on the link between human activity and the change in the Earth's climates. Reuters 03 Feb Evidence for jellyfish invasion is lacking.Over the last decade, reports of proliferating jellyfish have multiplied, as have fears that they are overrunning the world’s oceans. In a new study, however, researchers argue that there simply isn’t enough long-term data to conclude that global jellyfish numbers are on the rise. New York Times 03 Feb Temperatures – not acid – could cook coral to death.A warming ocean is encouraging the growth of coral in the far Southern Hemisphere, according to new research published in Science – suggesting that temperature changes play a bigger role, at least in the near term, in the fate of corals than any ocean acidification. Scientific American 03 Feb Global warming: German researchers find more evidence for links between Arctic sea ice decline and European weather.German scientists say they’ve found more evidence showing links between declining Arctic sea ice and shifting weather patterns, with cold, snowy winters more likely in Europe following summers when Arctic sea ice is low. Summit County Citizens Voice 03 Feb Mysteries of killer whales uncovered in the Antarctic.Two of the world’s leading experts on the world’s top marine predator are now in Antarctica, tagging and photographing killer whales. Climate change and other human impacts, such as overfishing and the accumulation of toxic chemicals, are rapidly altering the whales’ habitats and their prey. Yale Environment 360 03 Feb New meteorological theory argues that the world's forests are rainmakers.First published in 2007 by two Russian physicists, Victor Gorshkov and Anastassia Makarieva, the still little-known biotic pump theory postulates that forests are the driving force behind precipitation over land masses. Mongabay 03 Feb Climate change okay for one coral.Climate change is wreaking havoc on coral reefs, heating and acidifying the waters in which they live. But some corals are actually benefiting from a warming world, according to a new study. Science 03 Feb Warming boosts some coral growth.As coral growth rates decline around the world due to increases in temperature and atmospheric CO2, some reefs off the coast of Western Australia are trending in the opposite direction, a new study has found. Australia ABC News 03 Feb Study finds coral reef growth thrives in warmer waters.A government-run research body has found in an extensive study of corals spanning more than 1000km of Australia's coastline that the past 110 years of ocean warming have been good for their growth. Sydney Australian 03 Feb Some corals like it hot.Corals on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have fallen on hard times recently. But on the opposite side of the continent, their West Coast brethren have been living the good life for at least a century, a new study finds. Global warming may be helping these creatures out – at least for now. Science News 03 Feb Marching in near lock-step.A stunning new archive of the oxygen isotopic composition of tropical precipitation recorded in the deposits of a Peruvian cave is helping to elucidate how climate change—both past and future—in one region of the globe may drive climate changes in far-flung regions. Science 03 Feb Authors of Wall Street Journal climate piece downplay industry ties.
Half of the 16 scientists who penned a controversial Wall Street Journal opinion piece proclaiming there is "no need to panic" about global warming have ties to either the oil and gas industry or groups dedicated to debunking climate science, a DailyClimate.org investigation has found. Daily Climate 02 Feb Texas Tech scientist sees intimidation effort in hate mail.At Texas Climate News’ request, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe provided a sample of recent emails to illustrate the exponential escalation of the "virulence, hatred and nastiness." Caution: Some of the language is offensive. Texas Climate News 02 Feb Big trees in trouble.New research suggests that tropical forests could shrink over time, triggering a positive feedback that could destabilize the climate. As older trees die, forests would release some of their stored carbon into the atmosphere, prompting a vicious cycle of further warming, forest shrinkage and carbon emissions. New Scientist 02 Feb Wall Street Journal rapped over climate change stance.The Wall Street Journal has received a dressing down from a large group of leading scientists for promoting retrograde and out-of-date views on climate change. The Guardian 02 Feb Romney takes Fla. with variety of weapons, including a climate attack .Mitt Romney's crushing victory in Florida spoiled Newt Gingrich's southern momentum with a barrage of personal attacks, including one about the former speaker's views on climate change that the son of Ronald Reagan said gives conservatives "cardiac arrest." ClimateWire 02 Feb Learn from climate history: Epidemiologist.The decline of the Mayan empire, the Black Death and the Great Famine in medieval Europe, the collapse of the Ming Dynasty - what's the link? Professor Tony McMichael says it's climate change, which threatens civilisation with reduced food production, disease, wars and displacement. Australia ABC News 01 Feb In Colorado classrooms, climate change skepticism rising like ocean levels.Climate change skepticism is creeping into classrooms even as advocacy groups try to broaden their reach using new-school X Games athletes to spread the message to high schools students. Colorado Independent 01 Feb Global warming caused mostly by humans.A new NASA study tries to lay to rest the skepticism about climate change, especially vocal this year on the GOP presidential campaign trail. USA Today 01 Feb Fossil DNA has clues to surviving rapid climate change.Surviving the last ice age was more than just a matter of growing a woolly coat. Rapid global temperature swings had to be matched by equally rapid adaptation. Now a remarkable find from Canada's permafrost could help explain how the trick was done, through a process that might offer organisms a way to cope with the dramatic climate change the world is facing. New Scientist 01 Feb Pace of warming quicker than thought, experts say.An analysis of 62 years of Environment Canada weather data by the University of Victoria's Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium has found that B.C.'s temperature has been warming by about 0.25 C per decade. Victoria Times Colonist 01 Feb Coal magnate appoints climate sceptic to boards.Gina Rinehart, one of Australia's richest women and an opponent of the government's carbon tax, has appointed controversial climate change sceptic Professor Ian Plimer to the board of several key family companies. Australian Associated Press 01 Feb 30,000-year-old bison bone yields new clues on climate-change adaptation.A 30,000-year-old bison bone plucked from the thawed permafrost inside a Yukon gold mine has helped a team of Australian scientists make a potentially groundbreaking discovery about the way animals adapt to climate change. Postmedia News 01 Feb |
