Summer is over in the northern hemisphere, but it’s been another chilling season for researchers who study Arctic sea ice.
“It’s definitely a bad report. We did pick up little bit from last year, but this is over 30 percent below what used to be normal,” said Walt Meier, a research scientist with the National Snow [...]
Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks
NASA data show some African drought linked to warmer Indian Ocean
A new study, co-funded by NASA, has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. Computer models and observations show a decline in rainfall, with implications for the region’s food security.
Rainfall in eastern Africa during the rainy season, which runs from March through May, has declined [...]
Interactive Global Warming Signs & Sources
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Save your MONEY or your PLANET? HMMMMMMMMMMMM
Idiocy raises its ugly head again. There is a new bill on the docket and it is known as the Lieberman Bill. This bill is a move toward saving our planet. Which in my opinion; is the most important goal on our planet. I can tell by using my immediate surroundings as an example that [...]
Ominous Arctic Melt Worries Experts
An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.
Greenland’s ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and [...]
Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013′
Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.
Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.
Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving [...]
Growth has already pushed Earth past tipping point, new study says
The final synthesis report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change will show that growing economies herald growing greenhouse gas emissions and the result has been a growing threat of global warming, says scientist and Australian of the Year conservationist Tim Flannery.
”We thought we’d be at that threshold within about a decade,” Flannery [...]
Metop sees Antarctic ozone ‘hole’
Europe’s new Metop satellite has revealed the extent of ozone thinning over Antarctica this year.
At its worst in late September, the hole was twice as big as Europe.
Nearly 200 governments recently agreed a faster timetable for phasing out the chemicals thought to be depleting the protective layer in the stratosphere.
This has been the first [...]
Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — Dozens of world leaders are to gather at the United Nations on Monday for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, and President Bush is skipping all the day’s events but the dinner.
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, is hoping to jump-start negotiations on replacing the [...]
Global Warming Could Cause World Crop Collapse
With the U.N.-affililated Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) already warning of declining grain harvests due to extreme weather, a U.S. study released last week suggests that global warming could cause world agricultural systems to face possible collapse by 2080, with countries in the south being the hardest hit.
India, Pakistan, most of Africa and most of [...]
