The atmosphere is to the earth as a layer of varnish is to a desktop globe. It is thin, fragile and essential for preserving the items on the surface.150 years of burning fossil fuel have overloaded the atmosphere to the point where the earth is ill. It now has a fever. Read the detailed article, Soothing Gaia’s Fever for an evocative account of that analogy. The items listed here detail progress on coordinating 6.5 billion people in the most critical project undertaken by humanity.Â
Irreversible warming will cause sea levels to rise for thousands of years to come, new research shows Posted: 01 Oct 2012 04:15 PM PDT Greenhouse gas emissions up to now have triggered an irreversible warming of Earth that will cause sea levels to rise for thousands of years to come, new research has shown. Tree Continue Reading →
ScienceDaily: Severe Weather News Changes in Atlantic Ocean temperature affects western Amazonia climate Posted: 01 Oct 2012 05:35 AM PDT A new paper reveals that changes in the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean quickly translate into climate change in western Amazonia. You are subscribed to email updates from ScienceDaily: Severe Weather News To stop receiving Continue Reading →
Increasingly Extreme Weather Is Costing Us in More Ways Than OneEnergy CollectiveThis year’s extreme weather events are not only destroying forests, crops and homes, they’re also acting as a drag on the economy. Wells Fargo estimated that the drought could cost the economy $50 billion over the next year. Aon Benfield, a reinsurance …See all Continue Reading →
Great Barrier Reef loses more than half its coral cover Population explosion of coral-eating starfish, storms and acidification of oceans causing rapid decline, study finds Share258 Email Alok Jha, science correspondent guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 October 2012 20.00 BST Bleached coral at the Keppel Islands on the southern Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia. Photograph: Reuters Continue Reading →
Groundwater‑use big contributor to sea–level risedesalination.bizIn a paper, Model estimates of sea–level change due to anthropogenic impacts on terrestrial water storage, published in Nature Geoscience , the team of six centred on the University of Tokyo say that, while the global sea–level is rising, only part of …See all stories on this topic » There Continue Reading →
Climate change could cripple southwestern U.S. forests: Trees face rising drought stress and mortality as climate warms Posted: 30 Sep 2012 11:21 AM PDT Combine the tree-ring growth record with historical information, climate records, and computer-model projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim picture for the future of trees in the southwestern Continue Reading →