An early Holocene sea-level jump and delta initiation
"It is possible that the final collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, accompanied by catastrophic drainage of glacial lakes, at approximately 8500 cal BP caused such a jump"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1029.shtml
Climate Change..... After the Day After II
Moderator: Super Moderators
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Greenland is now a country fit for broccoli growers
The climate is changing so quickly that a land of hunters is becoming one of farmers and fearful scientists.
Isabel Hilton in Qassiarsuk The Guardian Friday September 14 2007
After a summer of catastrophic flooding in Britain, it would be encouraging to see the conference season as an opportunity for British politicians to move from the highly rhetorical to the real in their climate change policies. The reaction of some Conservatives, however, to the relatively modest suggestion that airport expansion in Britain should be halted, or that those who pollute should pay, is a reminder that there are still people who suffer from the delusion that doing nothing on climate is an option, or that inaction will somehow guarantee that things stay the same. Eric Rode Frederiksen knows different.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... ange/print
The climate is changing so quickly that a land of hunters is becoming one of farmers and fearful scientists.
Isabel Hilton in Qassiarsuk The Guardian Friday September 14 2007
After a summer of catastrophic flooding in Britain, it would be encouraging to see the conference season as an opportunity for British politicians to move from the highly rhetorical to the real in their climate change policies. The reaction of some Conservatives, however, to the relatively modest suggestion that airport expansion in Britain should be halted, or that those who pollute should pay, is a reminder that there are still people who suffer from the delusion that doing nothing on climate is an option, or that inaction will somehow guarantee that things stay the same. Eric Rode Frederiksen knows different.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... ange/print
Dance to heal the earth. Not just when you're dancing, but always. Live the dance, whenever you move, in all you do, dance to heal the earth.
Sir John Houghton interview
Sir John Houghton CBE FRS was co-chairman of the Scientific Assessment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1988-2002. He was previously chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (’92-’98), chief executive of the Met Office (’83-’91) and Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Oxford (’76-83)
http://www.gocarbonfree.com/global_warm ... ghton.html
A 55 million-year-old British bog uncovered by the Channel Tunnel rail link is giving scientists insights into a ancient period of global warming
"A lot of temperate and polar wetlands are going to be wetter, and of course warmer as well.....That implies a switch to more anaerobic conditions which are more likely to release methane. That's what's predicted, and that would be a positive feedback - and we have evidence now that this is what happened"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7003668.stm
Correlations between optical, chemical and physical properties of biomass burn aerosols
"Single scattering albedo and Angstrom absorption coefficients were measured using a photoacoustic technique combined with a reciprocal nephelometer"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0502.shtml
Arctic vault takes shape for world food crops
"We're trying to capture the diversity not just between different species but within different species -- that's the basis for evolution"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28554506.htm
Climate change could decrease rice yields 40%
".....rice yields "decrease by 10 percent for every 1 degree increase in growing-season minimum temperature"
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ ... 920a9.html
Africa floods linked to 'La Nina' weather in Pacific
"At least 1.5 million people have been affected and 270 have died in some of Africa's worst flooding in decades, which has struck 18 countries"
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jja ... 7XUuMwWBJg
Damage to the planet ‘is already inevitable’
“The choice is now between a future with a damaged world and a future with a severely damaged world”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 485887.ece
Sir John Houghton CBE FRS was co-chairman of the Scientific Assessment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1988-2002. He was previously chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (’92-’98), chief executive of the Met Office (’83-’91) and Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Oxford (’76-83)
http://www.gocarbonfree.com/global_warm ... ghton.html
A 55 million-year-old British bog uncovered by the Channel Tunnel rail link is giving scientists insights into a ancient period of global warming
"A lot of temperate and polar wetlands are going to be wetter, and of course warmer as well.....That implies a switch to more anaerobic conditions which are more likely to release methane. That's what's predicted, and that would be a positive feedback - and we have evidence now that this is what happened"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7003668.stm
Correlations between optical, chemical and physical properties of biomass burn aerosols
"Single scattering albedo and Angstrom absorption coefficients were measured using a photoacoustic technique combined with a reciprocal nephelometer"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0502.shtml
Arctic vault takes shape for world food crops
"We're trying to capture the diversity not just between different species but within different species -- that's the basis for evolution"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28554506.htm
Climate change could decrease rice yields 40%
".....rice yields "decrease by 10 percent for every 1 degree increase in growing-season minimum temperature"
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ ... 920a9.html
Africa floods linked to 'La Nina' weather in Pacific
"At least 1.5 million people have been affected and 270 have died in some of Africa's worst flooding in decades, which has struck 18 countries"
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jja ... 7XUuMwWBJg
Damage to the planet ‘is already inevitable’
“The choice is now between a future with a damaged world and a future with a severely damaged world”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 485887.ece
Overview of current sea ice conditions
http://nsidc.org/news/press/2007_seaice ... index.html
http://nsidc.org/news/press/2007_seaice ... index.html
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Good grief, look at the anomalies at the bottom of the page. And that's just through 2006. Can't wait to see data for 2007.
http://nsidc.org/sotc/sea_ice.html
So many polar bear cubs have been lost this summer.
http://nsidc.org/sotc/sea_ice.html
So many polar bear cubs have been lost this summer.
Dance to heal the earth. Not just when you're dancing, but always. Live the dance, whenever you move, in all you do, dance to heal the earth.
Negative ocean-atmosphere feedback in the South Atlantic Convergence Zone
"The results confirm earlier analyses using numerical models that suggest the existence of a negative feedback between the South Atlantic Convergence Zone and the underlying South Atlantic sea surface temperature field"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0401.shtml
Increase In Atmospheric Moisture Tied To Human Activities
"positive feedback"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 090803.htm
Uncertainty in geological and hydrogeological data
"This paper discusses a range of available techniques to describe the uncertainty related to geological model structure and scale of support. Literature examples on uncertainty in hydrogeological variables such as saturated hydraulic conductivity, specific yield, specific storage, effective porosity and dispersivity are given"
http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11 ... 1-2007.pdf
Climate Change Spurring Dengue Rise, Experts Say
"Climate change is incurring lots of unintended consequences for health around the world"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... rming.html
Ancient Climate Change (Nature Podcast 20 September)
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v4 ... -09-20.mp3
"The results confirm earlier analyses using numerical models that suggest the existence of a negative feedback between the South Atlantic Convergence Zone and the underlying South Atlantic sea surface temperature field"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0401.shtml
Increase In Atmospheric Moisture Tied To Human Activities
"positive feedback"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 090803.htm
Uncertainty in geological and hydrogeological data
"This paper discusses a range of available techniques to describe the uncertainty related to geological model structure and scale of support. Literature examples on uncertainty in hydrogeological variables such as saturated hydraulic conductivity, specific yield, specific storage, effective porosity and dispersivity are given"
http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11 ... 1-2007.pdf
Climate Change Spurring Dengue Rise, Experts Say
"Climate change is incurring lots of unintended consequences for health around the world"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... rming.html
Ancient Climate Change (Nature Podcast 20 September)
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v4 ... -09-20.mp3
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Sea level rise could flood many cities
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting. In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is may be slowly erased.
Global warming — through a combination of melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters expanding — is expected to cause oceans to rise by one meter, or about 39 inches. It will happen regardless of any future actions to curb greenhouse gases, several leading scientists say. And it will reshape the nation.
Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways.
Storm surges worsened by sea level rise will flood the waterfront getaways of rich politicians — the Bushes' Kennebunkport and John Edwards' place on the Outer Banks. And gone will be many of the beaches in Texas and Florida favored by budget-conscious students on Spring Break.
That's the troubling outlook projected by coastal maps reviewed by The Associated Press. The maps, created by scientists at the University of Arizona, are based on data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Few of the more than two dozen climate experts interviewed disagree with the one-meter projection. Some believe it could happen in 50 years, others say 100, and still others say 150.
Sea level rise is "the thing that I'm most concerned about as a scientist," says Benjamin Santer, a climate physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Read the complete story from the AP>
Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting. In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is may be slowly erased.
Global warming — through a combination of melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters expanding — is expected to cause oceans to rise by one meter, or about 39 inches. It will happen regardless of any future actions to curb greenhouse gases, several leading scientists say. And it will reshape the nation.
Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways.
Storm surges worsened by sea level rise will flood the waterfront getaways of rich politicians — the Bushes' Kennebunkport and John Edwards' place on the Outer Banks. And gone will be many of the beaches in Texas and Florida favored by budget-conscious students on Spring Break.
That's the troubling outlook projected by coastal maps reviewed by The Associated Press. The maps, created by scientists at the University of Arizona, are based on data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Few of the more than two dozen climate experts interviewed disagree with the one-meter projection. Some believe it could happen in 50 years, others say 100, and still others say 150.
Sea level rise is "the thing that I'm most concerned about as a scientist," says Benjamin Santer, a climate physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Read the complete story from the AP>
It's either real or it's a dream, There's nothing that is in between. ~ Jeff Lynne
Working Toward a New Framework on Tackling Climate Change
Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
Remarks at the Atlantic Council of the United States
http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/92707.htm
General Assembly president urges sustained momentum on climate change
“move the world towards a sense of genuine belonging, shared opportunity and responsibility”
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?N ... Cr1=debate
Poor nations need incentives to cut emissions
“[Tackling climate change] means all of us, including the largest economy in the world, the US, taking on binding emissions reduction targets. It is inconceivable that dangerous climate change can be avoided without this happening”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14beaa7a-6b00 ... fd2ac.html
Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
Remarks at the Atlantic Council of the United States
http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/92707.htm
General Assembly president urges sustained momentum on climate change
“move the world towards a sense of genuine belonging, shared opportunity and responsibility”
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?N ... Cr1=debate
Poor nations need incentives to cut emissions
“[Tackling climate change] means all of us, including the largest economy in the world, the US, taking on binding emissions reduction targets. It is inconceivable that dangerous climate change can be avoided without this happening”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14beaa7a-6b00 ... fd2ac.html
Climate group warns of catastrophic fires
"A new report shows weather conditions in Victoria have intensified over the last two decades and fire danger days will increase by 65 per cent by 2020"
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/26/2043853.htm
Extreme weather threat grows, but China can cope
"Because of unusually high temperatures and low rainfall around the Taihu Lake area this year, the lake's water volume has greatly reduced. At the same time, the density of zinc, nitrogen and phosphorus increased comparatively, easily leading to an outbreak of algae. The high temperatures and drought around Dongting Lake also created conditions for the rat scourge"_
http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/225840.htm
It’s Time to Join The Rest of The World
Alden Meyer: director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_releas ... -0065.html
Forcing of coastal sea level rise patterns in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea
"In the Mediterranean removing the steric component increases the trends by 40% and makes them consistent with the Atlantic trends. The remaining sea level rise rates are due to mass addition and their spatial pattern in the region can be related to Greenland ice-melting rates"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0641.shtml
Siberian thaw could speed up global warming
"This will lead to a type of global warming which will be impossible to stop..... The deposits of organic matter in these soils are so gigantic that they dwarf global oil reserves"
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/ ... 11928.html
"A new report shows weather conditions in Victoria have intensified over the last two decades and fire danger days will increase by 65 per cent by 2020"
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/26/2043853.htm
Extreme weather threat grows, but China can cope
"Because of unusually high temperatures and low rainfall around the Taihu Lake area this year, the lake's water volume has greatly reduced. At the same time, the density of zinc, nitrogen and phosphorus increased comparatively, easily leading to an outbreak of algae. The high temperatures and drought around Dongting Lake also created conditions for the rat scourge"_
http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/225840.htm
It’s Time to Join The Rest of The World
Alden Meyer: director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_releas ... -0065.html
Forcing of coastal sea level rise patterns in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea
"In the Mediterranean removing the steric component increases the trends by 40% and makes them consistent with the Atlantic trends. The remaining sea level rise rates are due to mass addition and their spatial pattern in the region can be related to Greenland ice-melting rates"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0641.shtml
Siberian thaw could speed up global warming
"This will lead to a type of global warming which will be impossible to stop..... The deposits of organic matter in these soils are so gigantic that they dwarf global oil reserves"
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/ ... 11928.html
Lovelock urges ocean climate fix
"We are taking the very strong line that we are not going to save the planet by the regular approaches like the Kyoto Protocol or renewable energy.... What we have to do is to look at it in a systems sense, or a Gaian sense, and see if it's curable by direct action"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7014503.stm
"We are taking the very strong line that we are not going to save the planet by the regular approaches like the Kyoto Protocol or renewable energy.... What we have to do is to look at it in a systems sense, or a Gaian sense, and see if it's curable by direct action"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7014503.stm
Symbiogenesis theorist speaks at Tufts
Lynn Margulis : Oct. 4 @ 4 p.m. in Cabot Auditorium, Cabot Center, on Tufts University’s Medford/Somerville campus
http://www.townonline.com/somerville/ho ... x428367232
Global Warming Fix
Lovelock on NPR
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007 ... 92807.html
Lynn Margulis : Oct. 4 @ 4 p.m. in Cabot Auditorium, Cabot Center, on Tufts University’s Medford/Somerville campus
http://www.townonline.com/somerville/ho ... x428367232
Global Warming Fix
Lovelock on NPR
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007 ... 92807.html
Arctic ice island breaks in half
"Ultimately, the ice island should break up faster because of the warmer temperatures - I'd be surprised if it lasted more than a decade or so"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7022192.stm
"I think things are happening so rapidly that even by as soon as 2040, that many parts of the world will be so uninhabitable that people will be migrating to the cooler and pleasanter places... Some call the North polar Ice (floating Ice) the canary in the mine, it really is... In as little as 5, 10, 15 years almost all of the Ice floating on the North pole will be gone... that's a huge change and makes a huge change to the heat budget of the Earth.. it will effect us all" James Lovelock
"Ultimately, the ice island should break up faster because of the warmer temperatures - I'd be surprised if it lasted more than a decade or so"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7022192.stm
"I think things are happening so rapidly that even by as soon as 2040, that many parts of the world will be so uninhabitable that people will be migrating to the cooler and pleasanter places... Some call the North polar Ice (floating Ice) the canary in the mine, it really is... In as little as 5, 10, 15 years almost all of the Ice floating on the North pole will be gone... that's a huge change and makes a huge change to the heat budget of the Earth.. it will effect us all" James Lovelock
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Third World Conference on the Future of Science (Venice, 21 September 2007)
"We should not be wasting time with attempts like sustainable development, renewable energy and so on. I think these are good ideas, splendid ideas, but they are probably about 200 years too late. Malthus was right, when he said in 1800 or so, that the Earth is almost unsustainable, and had sustainable development been introduced then, and renewable energy, we may not be in the mess that we are in now. Now it is far too late. We need now first of all, I feel strongly about this, the benefits of nuclear energy, which after all is the energy, the natural energy of the universe, the bizarre and odd thing that we do, is burning fossil fuel in oxygen, and no wonder were in a mess as a consequence of it.
I think that we also that we confront huge inertia, the inertia of the Earth itself, consider what would happen if we stopped all fossil fuel burning tomorrow, by some act of miracle, if you like, that shall we say the Governments made it a hanging matter to burn a tonne of coal or litre of gasoline, and it was enforced. If that happened it wouldn't getter cooler, it would get hot, much hotter soon, because the moment you stop burning fossil fuel everywhere, the first thing that happens is the aerosol haze of pollution drops out of the atmosphere, and it would do so in a few months, but the carbon dioxide and other gases greenhouse, will hang around for decades if not centuries" James Lovelock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOaDY13bI84
"We should not be wasting time with attempts like sustainable development, renewable energy and so on. I think these are good ideas, splendid ideas, but they are probably about 200 years too late. Malthus was right, when he said in 1800 or so, that the Earth is almost unsustainable, and had sustainable development been introduced then, and renewable energy, we may not be in the mess that we are in now. Now it is far too late. We need now first of all, I feel strongly about this, the benefits of nuclear energy, which after all is the energy, the natural energy of the universe, the bizarre and odd thing that we do, is burning fossil fuel in oxygen, and no wonder were in a mess as a consequence of it.
I think that we also that we confront huge inertia, the inertia of the Earth itself, consider what would happen if we stopped all fossil fuel burning tomorrow, by some act of miracle, if you like, that shall we say the Governments made it a hanging matter to burn a tonne of coal or litre of gasoline, and it was enforced. If that happened it wouldn't getter cooler, it would get hot, much hotter soon, because the moment you stop burning fossil fuel everywhere, the first thing that happens is the aerosol haze of pollution drops out of the atmosphere, and it would do so in a few months, but the carbon dioxide and other gases greenhouse, will hang around for decades if not centuries" James Lovelock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOaDY13bI84
Rapid reduction of Arctic perennial sea ice
"Dynamic and thermodynamic effects appear to be combining to expedite the loss of perennial sea ice"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1138.shtml
Larsen B Ice Shelf rheology preceding its disintegration inferred by a control method
"Results demonstrate that variable rheology is essential to understanding ice shelf evolution, especially the close relationship among frontal retreat, fracture, ice flow acceleration, and the destabilization of ice shelves"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0980.shtml
"Dynamic and thermodynamic effects appear to be combining to expedite the loss of perennial sea ice"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 1138.shtml
Larsen B Ice Shelf rheology preceding its disintegration inferred by a control method
"Results demonstrate that variable rheology is essential to understanding ice shelf evolution, especially the close relationship among frontal retreat, fracture, ice flow acceleration, and the destabilization of ice shelves"
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2 ... 0980.shtml