What resource wars?
"The third avenue for concern about coming resource wars is through the dangers of global climate change. The litany is now familiar. Sea levels will rise, perhaps a lot; storms will probably become more intense; dry areas are prone to parch further and wet zones are likely to soak longer. And on top of those probable effects, unchecked climate change raises the odds of suffering nasty surprises if the world's climate and ecosystems respond in abrupt ways. Adding all that together, the scenarios are truly disturbing"
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Eco ... 4Dj02.html
Ice elevation near the West Antarctic Ice Sheet divide during the Last Glaciation
"We conclude that ice streams in the Ross Sea Embayment had thin, low-slope profiles during the last glaciation and interior WAIS ice elevations during this period were several hundred meters lower than previous reconstructions"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1412.shtml
.....the ice floes at the foot of the world
“The climate change here in the past ten years has been up to ten times the global average”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 852908.ece
An Assessment of the Reconstruction of Paleosalinity and Paleotemperatures with Water Isotopes
"However, on orbital timescales and during abrupt climate change events, the climate goes under significant reorganization"
http://www.nyas.org/snc/calendarDetail. ... 30:00%20PM
Controlling spatiotemporal chaos in excitable media using an array of control points
"The dynamics of activation waves in excitable media can give rise to spiral turbulence"
http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1489
Climate Change..... After the Day After II
Moderator: Super Moderators
While the engineers & programmers develop more powerful tools for simulating reality..... Our data-sets enhanced through more abundent and sensitive detecters... We only need to use our eyes to witness the ecocide unfolding... A reverse Ordovician radiation event... so 2 speak.. We will watch as mass migrations reshape continents, ideologies and the soul of our species..... Prepare Pirates..... Prepare
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Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....
Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....
Scientists reveal secrets of ancient ocean in new book
"Call it the ocean that time forgot. About 400 million years ago, the Rheic Ocean played a big role in Earth’s history. When this massive body of water closed, the Appalachians were lifted to Himalayan heights and the planet’s continents slammed together to form the supercontinent of Pangaea"
http://www.physorg.com/news114190634.html
Variations in stratospheric inorganic chlorine between 1991 and 2006
"A consistent time series.... formed using space-borne observations together with neural networks"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0053.shtml
Quantum Computing D-Wave
"D-Wave’s breakthrough in quantum technology represents a substantial step forward in solving commercial and scientific problems which, until now, were considered intractable........ This type of simulation*, by direct solution of the fundamental laws of nature, will become the backbone of engineering design in the nanotech regime where quantum mechanics reigns"
http://www.dwavesys.com/index.php?page= ... -computing
*further reading: 78-page synopsis of the demo of their Quantum Computer that was held in Mountain View CA on February 13 this year
http://dwave.files.wordpress.com/2007/0 ... slides.pdf
NASA backs quantum computing claim
"The company plans to scale its machine much larger in the next 18 months, reaching 32 qubits by the end of 2007, then 512 qubits and 1,024 qubits by the end of 2008"
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/3494/070309 ... index.html
NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face
"The close agreement between the North Pole pressure gauges and Grace data demonstrates Grace's potential for tracking world ocean circulation"
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-131
Bali Summit on Climate Change: A waste of time?
"Nothing will happen in Bali. It's a beautiful place, I'm sure everyone will enjoy themselves there"
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/ ... index_html
"Call it the ocean that time forgot. About 400 million years ago, the Rheic Ocean played a big role in Earth’s history. When this massive body of water closed, the Appalachians were lifted to Himalayan heights and the planet’s continents slammed together to form the supercontinent of Pangaea"
http://www.physorg.com/news114190634.html
Variations in stratospheric inorganic chlorine between 1991 and 2006
"A consistent time series.... formed using space-borne observations together with neural networks"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0053.shtml
Quantum Computing D-Wave
"D-Wave’s breakthrough in quantum technology represents a substantial step forward in solving commercial and scientific problems which, until now, were considered intractable........ This type of simulation*, by direct solution of the fundamental laws of nature, will become the backbone of engineering design in the nanotech regime where quantum mechanics reigns"
http://www.dwavesys.com/index.php?page= ... -computing
*further reading: 78-page synopsis of the demo of their Quantum Computer that was held in Mountain View CA on February 13 this year
http://dwave.files.wordpress.com/2007/0 ... slides.pdf
NASA backs quantum computing claim
"The company plans to scale its machine much larger in the next 18 months, reaching 32 qubits by the end of 2007, then 512 qubits and 1,024 qubits by the end of 2008"
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/3494/070309 ... index.html
NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face
"The close agreement between the North Pole pressure gauges and Grace data demonstrates Grace's potential for tracking world ocean circulation"
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-131
Bali Summit on Climate Change: A waste of time?
"Nothing will happen in Bali. It's a beautiful place, I'm sure everyone will enjoy themselves there"
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/ ... index_html
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Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....
Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....
In The Third Assessment IPCC Report published in 2001 (Edited by Robert T. Watson from the World Bank) Questions were asked.... Minds unleashed... we would ponder about: "abrupt and non-linear changes in many ecosystems, which would affect their function, biodiversity, and productivity"...The rate of die-off and destabilization of the Gaiasphere in the previous 6 years is truly frightening..... Other pearls to juggle included "Some changes in the climate system would be effectively irreversible" I have to say here that we do not even know how to ask this question.... as it implies we understand the climate system... which we do not... A point that also needs to be raised here... Is, what Is the effect of ongoing terrestrial and space based technological manipulation of the Ionosphere having?... As you are all aware... we are living within the geometry of the Earth-Ionosphere Cavity (The Schumann Resonance are quasi standing wave electromagnetic waves within the cavity) Lightning discharges in the cavity create global resonances in the 5–50 Hz range... Biological life on our Planet is adapted and evolved within this cavity.... as our lungs are to the air that we breath.... Would we today allow Atmospheric testing of Nuclear bombs....? did the 500+ atmospheric tests (between 1945 and 1980) actually precipitate the ozone holes...? Do we really ever understand what we are doing...? So we have a real problem here, as there are things... many things..... that are not in the modelers model... or even scale of reference...... A scale with notes missing... limits the range of the score.... So will the 2007 Assessment report due out later today provide a viable path, progress an unfinished symphony..... !! Entrained in the Noosphere as we all now are.... and have been for a while......
UN calls for joint climate effort
"Today the world's scientists have spoken clearly and with one voice........In Bali I expect the world's policymakers to do the same"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7098902.stm
Asian leaders promote green region, nuclear power
"core mechanism"
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHe ... frZR0Ihy2w
Sea level anomalies control phytoplankton biomass in the Costa Rica Dome area
"Satellite data show that chlorophyll-a concentration (Chl-a) in the northeastern tropical Pacific is well correlated with sea level anomaly (SLA). This correlation spans a wide spectrum of scales from large-scale phenomena like ENSO to mesoscale cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1631.shtml
Global Water Resources Observations Benefit From Space Technology
"An improved description of the continental part of the water cycle will be of major importance for the monitoring of water resources, for the identification of climate change impacts on the dynamics of river basins and aquatic ecosystems, for the inventory and better management of water resources available for human consumption and activities (agriculture, urbanisation, hydroelectric energy resources"
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/88891.php
UN calls for joint climate effort
"Today the world's scientists have spoken clearly and with one voice........In Bali I expect the world's policymakers to do the same"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7098902.stm
Asian leaders promote green region, nuclear power
"core mechanism"
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jHe ... frZR0Ihy2w
Sea level anomalies control phytoplankton biomass in the Costa Rica Dome area
"Satellite data show that chlorophyll-a concentration (Chl-a) in the northeastern tropical Pacific is well correlated with sea level anomaly (SLA). This correlation spans a wide spectrum of scales from large-scale phenomena like ENSO to mesoscale cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1631.shtml
Global Water Resources Observations Benefit From Space Technology
"An improved description of the continental part of the water cycle will be of major importance for the monitoring of water resources, for the identification of climate change impacts on the dynamics of river basins and aquatic ecosystems, for the inventory and better management of water resources available for human consumption and activities (agriculture, urbanisation, hydroelectric energy resources"
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/88891.php
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Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....
Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....
2007 IPCC AR4 Synthesis Report (Summery 4 Policy Makers) Highlights.....
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-repor ... yr_spm.pdf
"If there's no action before 2012, that's too late....
What we do in the next 2 2 3 years will determine our future.....
This is the defining moment"
Rajendra Pachauri IPCC
Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level
"There is high agreement and much evidence that all stabilisation levels assessed can be achieved by
deployment of a portfolio of technologies that are either currently available or expected to be
commercialised in coming decades, assuming appropriate and effective incentives are in place for their development, acquisition, deployment and diffusion and addressing related barriers"
"Risks of large-scale singularities. There is high confidence that global warming over many centuries would lead to a sea level rise contribution from thermal expansion alone which is projected to be much larger than observed over the 20th century, with loss of coastal area and associated impacts. There is better understanding than in the TAR that the risk of additional contributions to sea level rise from both the Greenland and possibly Antarctic ice sheets may be larger than projected by ice sheet models and could occur on century time scales. This is because ice dynamical processes seen in recent observations but not fully included in ice sheet models assessed in AR4 could increase the rate of ice loss"
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-repor ... yr_spm.pdf
"If there's no action before 2012, that's too late....
What we do in the next 2 2 3 years will determine our future.....
This is the defining moment"
Rajendra Pachauri IPCC
Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level
"There is high agreement and much evidence that all stabilisation levels assessed can be achieved by
deployment of a portfolio of technologies that are either currently available or expected to be
commercialised in coming decades, assuming appropriate and effective incentives are in place for their development, acquisition, deployment and diffusion and addressing related barriers"
"Risks of large-scale singularities. There is high confidence that global warming over many centuries would lead to a sea level rise contribution from thermal expansion alone which is projected to be much larger than observed over the 20th century, with loss of coastal area and associated impacts. There is better understanding than in the TAR that the risk of additional contributions to sea level rise from both the Greenland and possibly Antarctic ice sheets may be larger than projected by ice sheet models and could occur on century time scales. This is because ice dynamical processes seen in recent observations but not fully included in ice sheet models assessed in AR4 could increase the rate of ice loss"
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Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....
Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....
The Climate Change Bill - Cm 7040 pdf 700k
2.6: "The Stern Review recently stated that without intervention greenhouse gas levels will reach no less than 550ppm CO2 by the middle of this century. This level alone would commit the world to a warming of at least around 2 C above pre-industrial levels in the long term, with some recent studies suggesting up to a 20% probability that the warming could be greater than 5 degrees C. A climatic change of this magnitude would be far outside the experience of human civilisation and comparable to the difference between temperatures during the last ice age and today"
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/do ... 0/7040.pdf
Up in smoke? Asia and the Pacific
"The human drama of climate change will largely be played out in Asia, where over 60 per cent of the world’s population, around four billion people, live. The latest global scientific consensus from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that all of Asia is very likely to warm during this century. Warming will be accompanied by less predictable and more extreme patterns of rainfall. Tropical cyclones are projected to increase in magnitude and frequency, while monsoons, around which farming systems are designed, are expected to become more temperamental in their strength and time of onset"
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/s ... acific.pdf
Insider Briefing on Bali Global Warming Talks To Be Held by Telephone This Morning"
"Experienced U.S. climate negotiators from two Administrations will hold a conference call at 10 am EST this morning, Monday, Nov. 19, to give reporters a behind-the-scenes look at what to expect from December's 13th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia"
http://www.pr-inside.com/insider-briefi ... 307603.htm
Chief of Staff of the Army Statement on the Army's Strategic Imperatives
"Resource demand for energy, water, and food for growing populations will increase competition and conflict. Adverse impacts of climate change and natural disasters may cause humanitarian crises, population migrations, and epidemic diseases"
http://www.emilitary.org/article.php?aid=12693
Wave Dragon
"large scale ocean energy solution for bulk electricity generation"
http://www.wavedragon.net/
GE chief urges nuclear incentives
"We don't need 30 of these additional units, we need 130 or 230. We are going to need a substantial increase in nuclear power if we are to deal with generating electricity on the one hand and protecting the environment - read that to say climate change issues - on the other"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b0887632-9640 ... fd2ac.html
Doomsday vault begins deep freeze
"At these temperatures, seeds for important crops like wheat, barley and peas can last for up to 1,000 years"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7097052.stm
2.6: "The Stern Review recently stated that without intervention greenhouse gas levels will reach no less than 550ppm CO2 by the middle of this century. This level alone would commit the world to a warming of at least around 2 C above pre-industrial levels in the long term, with some recent studies suggesting up to a 20% probability that the warming could be greater than 5 degrees C. A climatic change of this magnitude would be far outside the experience of human civilisation and comparable to the difference between temperatures during the last ice age and today"
http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/do ... 0/7040.pdf
Up in smoke? Asia and the Pacific
"The human drama of climate change will largely be played out in Asia, where over 60 per cent of the world’s population, around four billion people, live. The latest global scientific consensus from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that all of Asia is very likely to warm during this century. Warming will be accompanied by less predictable and more extreme patterns of rainfall. Tropical cyclones are projected to increase in magnitude and frequency, while monsoons, around which farming systems are designed, are expected to become more temperamental in their strength and time of onset"
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/s ... acific.pdf
Insider Briefing on Bali Global Warming Talks To Be Held by Telephone This Morning"
"Experienced U.S. climate negotiators from two Administrations will hold a conference call at 10 am EST this morning, Monday, Nov. 19, to give reporters a behind-the-scenes look at what to expect from December's 13th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia"
http://www.pr-inside.com/insider-briefi ... 307603.htm
Chief of Staff of the Army Statement on the Army's Strategic Imperatives
"Resource demand for energy, water, and food for growing populations will increase competition and conflict. Adverse impacts of climate change and natural disasters may cause humanitarian crises, population migrations, and epidemic diseases"
http://www.emilitary.org/article.php?aid=12693
Wave Dragon
"large scale ocean energy solution for bulk electricity generation"
http://www.wavedragon.net/
GE chief urges nuclear incentives
"We don't need 30 of these additional units, we need 130 or 230. We are going to need a substantial increase in nuclear power if we are to deal with generating electricity on the one hand and protecting the environment - read that to say climate change issues - on the other"
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b0887632-9640 ... fd2ac.html
Doomsday vault begins deep freeze
"At these temperatures, seeds for important crops like wheat, barley and peas can last for up to 1,000 years"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7097052.stm
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Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....
PM Gordon Brown on climate change Full text
"The climate change crisis is the product of many generations, but overcoming it must be the great project of this generation.... our vision has one overriding aim: holding the rise in global average temperature to no more than 2ºC.... It requires us to build a global low carbon economy - ensuring that the 22 trillion dollars of new energy investment worldwide over the next 20 years contributes more to the solutions to global warming - energy efficiency and low carbon generation - than to its causes"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.j ... xml&page=3
Greenhouse-gas emissions by industrialised countries at new high
"By the end of 2005, the United States emitted 16.3 percent more greenhouse gases than in 1990. Australia, the other industrialised Kyoto holdout, was 25.6 percent above the 1990 benchmark"
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ieR ... y7CGY5tCYw
UK scientists lead China closer to carbon capture and storage
“CCS offers the opportunity to reduce emissions per unit of electricity by 85 - 90%. Large-scale deployment of CCS in China has potential to significantly reduce future greenhouse gas emissions”
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/b ... 96483.html
Namibia: Depleted Fish Stocks And Climate Change
"The ocean current flanking the western coastline is changing, forcing economic and social change on the people who have made a living from it in the past"
http://allafrica.com/stories/200711200574.html
Extreme environments in the forests of Ushuaia, Argentina
"Solar radiation.... showed high values of ultraviolet over the 200–400 nm range, suggesting that the environment is extreme in terms of incoming solar radiation..... The forest canopy absorbs and/or reflects a significant amount of that radiation. In separate analyses we showed that these tree species contain UV-absorbing pigments (cyanidin, delphidin, and flavonol glycosides). We submit that the rippled and glossy surface of leaves serves as a reflection/backscattering mechanism that protects their inner structure and function"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1096.shtml
"The climate change crisis is the product of many generations, but overcoming it must be the great project of this generation.... our vision has one overriding aim: holding the rise in global average temperature to no more than 2ºC.... It requires us to build a global low carbon economy - ensuring that the 22 trillion dollars of new energy investment worldwide over the next 20 years contributes more to the solutions to global warming - energy efficiency and low carbon generation - than to its causes"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.j ... xml&page=3
Greenhouse-gas emissions by industrialised countries at new high
"By the end of 2005, the United States emitted 16.3 percent more greenhouse gases than in 1990. Australia, the other industrialised Kyoto holdout, was 25.6 percent above the 1990 benchmark"
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ieR ... y7CGY5tCYw
UK scientists lead China closer to carbon capture and storage
“CCS offers the opportunity to reduce emissions per unit of electricity by 85 - 90%. Large-scale deployment of CCS in China has potential to significantly reduce future greenhouse gas emissions”
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/b ... 96483.html
Namibia: Depleted Fish Stocks And Climate Change
"The ocean current flanking the western coastline is changing, forcing economic and social change on the people who have made a living from it in the past"
http://allafrica.com/stories/200711200574.html
Extreme environments in the forests of Ushuaia, Argentina
"Solar radiation.... showed high values of ultraviolet over the 200–400 nm range, suggesting that the environment is extreme in terms of incoming solar radiation..... The forest canopy absorbs and/or reflects a significant amount of that radiation. In separate analyses we showed that these tree species contain UV-absorbing pigments (cyanidin, delphidin, and flavonol glycosides). We submit that the rippled and glossy surface of leaves serves as a reflection/backscattering mechanism that protects their inner structure and function"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1096.shtml
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Shamanic Anarchistic Archaic Revival....
Methanotrophy below pH_1 by a new Verrucomicrobia species
Acidimethylosilex fumarolicum SolV
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/va ... 06222.html
Genomic insights into methanotrophy: the complete genome sequence of Methylococcus capsulatus
"Methanotrophs are ubiquitous bacteria that can use the greenhouse gas methane as a sole carbon and energy source for growth, thus playing major roles in global carbon cycles, and in particular, substantially reducing emissions of biologically generated methane to the atmosphere"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entre ... s=15383840
Vulnerability of frozen carbon 1.4Mb
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/glob ... Carbon.ppt
Biogeochemical signatures through time as inferred from whole microbial genomes
"Throughout geologic time, a strong feedback has existed between the geosphere and the biosphere; therefore biological evolution and innovation can be linked to the evolution of ancient environments on Earth. Here we deduce geochemical signatures and phylogenetic relationships of prokaryotes from whole genome sequences and use this link to infer geochemical aspects of the biosphere through time"
http://www.ajsonline.org/cgi/content/full/305/6-8/467
Acidimethylosilex fumarolicum SolV
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/va ... 06222.html
Genomic insights into methanotrophy: the complete genome sequence of Methylococcus capsulatus
"Methanotrophs are ubiquitous bacteria that can use the greenhouse gas methane as a sole carbon and energy source for growth, thus playing major roles in global carbon cycles, and in particular, substantially reducing emissions of biologically generated methane to the atmosphere"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entre ... s=15383840
Vulnerability of frozen carbon 1.4Mb
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/glob ... Carbon.ppt
Biogeochemical signatures through time as inferred from whole microbial genomes
"Throughout geologic time, a strong feedback has existed between the geosphere and the biosphere; therefore biological evolution and innovation can be linked to the evolution of ancient environments on Earth. Here we deduce geochemical signatures and phylogenetic relationships of prokaryotes from whole genome sequences and use this link to infer geochemical aspects of the biosphere through time"
http://www.ajsonline.org/cgi/content/full/305/6-8/467
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Geo-engineering - (Audio stream BBC 29:59)
• Ken Caldeira : Department of Global Ecology, in the Carnegie Institution in the US
• Greg Benford : Physicist at the University of California, Irvine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/ram ... 061220.ram
• Ken Caldeira : Department of Global Ecology, in the Carnegie Institution in the US
• Greg Benford : Physicist at the University of California, Irvine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/ram ... 061220.ram
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Carbon dioxide oozes from damaged peatlands
"A figure from the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research puts deforestation at around 25 percent of all man-made carbon dioxide emissions"
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar ... 2003389546
50-year-old fire put out
"The fire covered some 923,500 square metres, fuelled by coal 100 metres below ground"
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071122/ ... 7.281.html
Causes of sudden, short-term changes in ice-stream surface elevation
"Recent satellite-borne observations of Antarctica's ice streams show sudden, spatially confined surface-elevation changes that are interpreted as caused by subglacial water movement"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1775.shtml
"A figure from the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research puts deforestation at around 25 percent of all man-made carbon dioxide emissions"
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar ... 2003389546
50-year-old fire put out
"The fire covered some 923,500 square metres, fuelled by coal 100 metres below ground"
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071122/ ... 7.281.html
Causes of sudden, short-term changes in ice-stream surface elevation
"Recent satellite-borne observations of Antarctica's ice streams show sudden, spatially confined surface-elevation changes that are interpreted as caused by subglacial water movement"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1775.shtml
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Natural disasters quadrupled in last two decades
"This year we have seen floods in South Asia and in Mexico that have affected more than 250 million people. This is no freak year. It follows a pattern of more frequent, more erratic, more unpredictable and more extreme weather events that are affecting more people"
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1135389
Quantifying the transmission potential of pandemic influenza
http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3088
Long-term Geosphere–Biosphere Coevolution and Astrobiology
"Autocatalytic recycling is an almost inevitable planetary phenomenon"
http://tracer.env.uea.ac.uk/esmg/papers ... -FINAL.pdf
"This year we have seen floods in South Asia and in Mexico that have affected more than 250 million people. This is no freak year. It follows a pattern of more frequent, more erratic, more unpredictable and more extreme weather events that are affecting more people"
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1135389
Quantifying the transmission potential of pandemic influenza
http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3088
Long-term Geosphere–Biosphere Coevolution and Astrobiology
"Autocatalytic recycling is an almost inevitable planetary phenomenon"
http://tracer.env.uea.ac.uk/esmg/papers ... -FINAL.pdf
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Oceanic gas hydrate instability and dissociation under climate change scenario
"The results suggest that while many deep hydrate deposits are indeed stable under the influence of rapid seafloor temperature variations, shallow deposits, such as those found in arctic regions or in the Gulf of Mexico, can undergo rapid dissociation and produce significant carbon fluxes over a period of decades"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1671.shtml
US announces delegation to Bali climate change conference
"The United States is committed to advancing negotiations in Bali, leading to a new international approach on energy security and climate change"
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007- ... 153336.htm
Rapid melting of Himalayan Glaciers
"The glaciers in the Himalayas are melting at a very rapid rate which has major implications for water supply in the Northern part of the sub-continent... Because most of our rivers originate in those glaciers, there is a strong likelihood of a reduction in water supply..... This has also led to sea-level rise. In the 20th century, the sea-level rose by 17 centimetres. That is a significant increase, at this rate, we are likely to find that in the 21st century sea-level rise will be anywhere between 18 to 59 centimetres.... This incidentally does not take into account the possibility of the collapse of Greenland and the Antarctica ice-sheet. Now, if that were to happen, we will get sea-level rise to several metres and affect the geographical features of the earth”
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/11/27/top16.htm
Pilot's pics show Arctic ice collapse
"Greenland had been totally white even in the height of summer until last year, because it was covered by the ice sheet.... Before this year, the September 2005 level of 5.31 million square kilometers was the smallest area of sea ice ever recorded in the area"
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20 ... Y03103.htm
Climate change threatens unprecedented human development reversals
"One of the hardest lessons taught by climate change is that the historically carbon intensive growth, and the profligate consumption in rich nations that has accompanied it, is ecologically unsustainable."
http://unian.net/eng/news/news-223778.html
Is Humanity Bringing About It's Own Extinction
"Given the grim developments of our age, biologists, bioanthropologists, and astrophysicists are weighing the possibility that our species, homo sapiens, may go extinct even in this century"
http://www.ipsnews.net/columns.asp?idnews=40227
"The results suggest that while many deep hydrate deposits are indeed stable under the influence of rapid seafloor temperature variations, shallow deposits, such as those found in arctic regions or in the Gulf of Mexico, can undergo rapid dissociation and produce significant carbon fluxes over a period of decades"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1671.shtml
US announces delegation to Bali climate change conference
"The United States is committed to advancing negotiations in Bali, leading to a new international approach on energy security and climate change"
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007- ... 153336.htm
Rapid melting of Himalayan Glaciers
"The glaciers in the Himalayas are melting at a very rapid rate which has major implications for water supply in the Northern part of the sub-continent... Because most of our rivers originate in those glaciers, there is a strong likelihood of a reduction in water supply..... This has also led to sea-level rise. In the 20th century, the sea-level rose by 17 centimetres. That is a significant increase, at this rate, we are likely to find that in the 21st century sea-level rise will be anywhere between 18 to 59 centimetres.... This incidentally does not take into account the possibility of the collapse of Greenland and the Antarctica ice-sheet. Now, if that were to happen, we will get sea-level rise to several metres and affect the geographical features of the earth”
http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/11/27/top16.htm
Pilot's pics show Arctic ice collapse
"Greenland had been totally white even in the height of summer until last year, because it was covered by the ice sheet.... Before this year, the September 2005 level of 5.31 million square kilometers was the smallest area of sea ice ever recorded in the area"
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20 ... Y03103.htm
Climate change threatens unprecedented human development reversals
"One of the hardest lessons taught by climate change is that the historically carbon intensive growth, and the profligate consumption in rich nations that has accompanied it, is ecologically unsustainable."
http://unian.net/eng/news/news-223778.html
Is Humanity Bringing About It's Own Extinction
"Given the grim developments of our age, biologists, bioanthropologists, and astrophysicists are weighing the possibility that our species, homo sapiens, may go extinct even in this century"
http://www.ipsnews.net/columns.asp?idnews=40227
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Methane mystery continues
"Perhaps only woody plants, not grasses, emit the greenhouse gas"
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071128/ ... 7.307.html
An Antarctic assessment of IPCC AR4 coupled models
"We assess 19 coupled models from the IPCC fourth assessment report archive from the simulation of the 20th century, based on the calculation of “skill scores.” The models show a wide range of scores when assessed against Antarctic or global measures of large-scale circulation indices. Except for continental mass balance, the model average proves a more reliable estimate than that for any one model. Individual models show a very wide scatter in simulated Antarctic temperature trends over the past century; the large trend over the Antarctic peninsula in winter is not well represented, which makes it clear that whatever has been driving these trends is not well captured by many GCMs. Trends in temperature are clearly linked to the sea ice simulation, another variable that most models do not simulate well"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1648.shtml
Asian Water Development Outlook 2007
"If the present unsatisfactory trends continue, in one or two decades, Asian developing countries are likely to face and cope with a crisis on water quality management that is unprecedented in human history"
http://www.adb.org/Water/Knowledge-Center/awdo/AWDO.pdf
How solar power could become organic - and cheap
"We're very interested in solar cells where we take an organic layer that's printable or sprayable containing an inorganic material like lead sulphide which will actually do the photon capture"
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00 ... 291122.htm
Temperatures and precipitation totals over the Russian Far East and Eastern Siberia: long-term variability and its links to teleconnection indices
"The present study examines the spatial-temporal regime of the mean monthly temperature (MMT) and monthly precipitation (MPT) anomalies over the Russian Far East and Eastern Siberia for the period 1949–2003. The original data were analyzed spatially by means of complex principal component analysis and temporally by means of the maximum entropy method and traditional Fourier spectral analysis. The interannual variability in these anomalies can be represented by the single dominant modes. These dominant modes oscillate with periods of about 2–3 yr and 6–8 yr that are accompanied by statistically significant changes in such monthly teleconnection indices, as the Arctic and North Pacific Oscillations"
http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11 ... 1-2007.pdf
"Perhaps only woody plants, not grasses, emit the greenhouse gas"
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071128/ ... 7.307.html
An Antarctic assessment of IPCC AR4 coupled models
"We assess 19 coupled models from the IPCC fourth assessment report archive from the simulation of the 20th century, based on the calculation of “skill scores.” The models show a wide range of scores when assessed against Antarctic or global measures of large-scale circulation indices. Except for continental mass balance, the model average proves a more reliable estimate than that for any one model. Individual models show a very wide scatter in simulated Antarctic temperature trends over the past century; the large trend over the Antarctic peninsula in winter is not well represented, which makes it clear that whatever has been driving these trends is not well captured by many GCMs. Trends in temperature are clearly linked to the sea ice simulation, another variable that most models do not simulate well"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1648.shtml
Asian Water Development Outlook 2007
"If the present unsatisfactory trends continue, in one or two decades, Asian developing countries are likely to face and cope with a crisis on water quality management that is unprecedented in human history"
http://www.adb.org/Water/Knowledge-Center/awdo/AWDO.pdf
How solar power could become organic - and cheap
"We're very interested in solar cells where we take an organic layer that's printable or sprayable containing an inorganic material like lead sulphide which will actually do the photon capture"
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00 ... 291122.htm
Temperatures and precipitation totals over the Russian Far East and Eastern Siberia: long-term variability and its links to teleconnection indices
"The present study examines the spatial-temporal regime of the mean monthly temperature (MMT) and monthly precipitation (MPT) anomalies over the Russian Far East and Eastern Siberia for the period 1949–2003. The original data were analyzed spatially by means of complex principal component analysis and temporally by means of the maximum entropy method and traditional Fourier spectral analysis. The interannual variability in these anomalies can be represented by the single dominant modes. These dominant modes oscillate with periods of about 2–3 yr and 6–8 yr that are accompanied by statistically significant changes in such monthly teleconnection indices, as the Arctic and North Pacific Oscillations"
http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11 ... 1-2007.pdf
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Nature (6 December 2007) Volume 450 Number 7171 pp761-920
"Nearly fifty years ago things were up and running by March 1958 Charles Keeling and colleagues began a series of measurements of atmospheric CO2 on Mauna Loa in Hawaii. The results, made graphic in the jagged 'Keeling curve' running across this week's cover, made the world take notice eventually. The Mauna Loa measurements constitute the longest continuous record of atmospheric CO2 in the world. The steady rise in CO2 that they record now forms the accepted backdrop to today's climate science and economic and political decision making. As well as being an important resource in itself, the Mauna Loa record highlights the vital importance of Earth monitoring programmes. The fiftieth anniversary of the start of this work is marked in this issue by News Features and other pieces on the Earth monitoring being done today, historical pieces on the Mauna Loa data and more"
Earth Monitoring:_The planetary panopticon p778
Technology will soon allow the world to be mapped in near-real time and at high resolution. Declan Butler investigates the potential for operational monitoring of the planet.
Earth Monitoring:_Observing the ocean from within p780
Earth Observation:_Not enough eyes on the prize p782
Earth Monitoring:_The crucial measurement p785
"Nearly fifty years ago things were up and running by March 1958 Charles Keeling and colleagues began a series of measurements of atmospheric CO2 on Mauna Loa in Hawaii. The results, made graphic in the jagged 'Keeling curve' running across this week's cover, made the world take notice eventually. The Mauna Loa measurements constitute the longest continuous record of atmospheric CO2 in the world. The steady rise in CO2 that they record now forms the accepted backdrop to today's climate science and economic and political decision making. As well as being an important resource in itself, the Mauna Loa record highlights the vital importance of Earth monitoring programmes. The fiftieth anniversary of the start of this work is marked in this issue by News Features and other pieces on the Earth monitoring being done today, historical pieces on the Mauna Loa data and more"
Earth Monitoring:_The planetary panopticon p778
Technology will soon allow the world to be mapped in near-real time and at high resolution. Declan Butler investigates the potential for operational monitoring of the planet.
Earth Monitoring:_Observing the ocean from within p780
Earth Observation:_Not enough eyes on the prize p782
Earth Monitoring:_The crucial measurement p785
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Climate Change On the Living Earth - 29/10/2007
Professor James Lovelock at the Royal Society on 29th October 2007
"Most of all, we have to understand that the Earth System is now in positive feedback and is moving ineluctably towards the stable hot state of past climates._I cannot stress too strongly the dangers inherent in systems in positive feedback"
http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=7250
Professor James Lovelock at the Royal Society on 29th October 2007
"Most of all, we have to understand that the Earth System is now in positive feedback and is moving ineluctably towards the stable hot state of past climates._I cannot stress too strongly the dangers inherent in systems in positive feedback"
http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=7250
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