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[Ghana Business News] The impacts of climate change on Africa : Ghana Business News: Two-thirds of Sub-Saharan Africa’s surface area is desert or dry land, and the region is also home to many fragile terrestrial and coastal ecosystems. Climate projections for Africa presented in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) include a likely average temperature increase of 1.5 to 4° C in this century, which is higher than the global average.

[Global Mechanism] News > Protecting sustainable livelihoods from the impacts of ...: This was the theme of a UNFCCC COP15 side event organized by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on 11 December, within the framework of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)’s Development and Climate Days. This event brought together panelists from IFAD, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Mechanism (GM).

[Fragilecologies Blog] “Climategate vs. emailgate: what a difference 'branding' makes ...: My impression is that no-one in or around the climate community, from von Storch to McIntyre to Curry to Michaels to Pielke to Sonja B-C to Christy to hundreds of others of an independent or questioning mind, who had had anything to do with the Team and their crushing process, or who had observed their reaction to MM2003 or indeed any criticism, or had had much to do with the IPCC process, like you, is really, maybe with some hindsight, terribly surprised at the content.

[Ideaion News Press] Experts: Cold Snap Doesn't Disprove Global Warming | Ideaion News ...: experts say the cold snap doesn't disprove global warming at all ”” it's just a blip in the long-term heating trend. “It's part of natural variability,” said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric .

[Deep Climate] Contrarian scholarship: Revisiting the Wegman report « Deep Climate: Anyone who would like to discuss with me the facts revealed by the Wegman report that there is a paleoclimate mafia controlling what gets published, that they have systematically published erroneous interpretations of paleoclimatic data, and that almost any paleoclimatic temperature profile can be obtained depending on how you manipulate the proxies, just email me at drdrapp [at] earthlink.net and tell me your name, address, professional affiliation, and recent work you have done climate science. If you are legit, I will respond.

[Roy Spencer, Ph. D.] Can Global Warming Predictions be Tested with Observations of the ...: As I will demonstrate in my AGU talk on December 16, for all practical purposes it is not possible (at least not yet) to measure cloud feedbacks because the two directions of causation are intermingled in nature. As a result, it is not possible with current methods to measure feedbacks in response to a radiative forcing event such as a change in cloud cover, or even a major volcanic eruption, such as that from the 1991 eruption of Mt.

[Global Warming: Man or Myth] How to Talk to a Conservative about Climate Change « Global ...: Many key climate indicators are already moving beyond the patterns of natural variability within which contemporary society and economy have developed and thrived. These indicators include global mean surface temperature, sea-level rise, global ocean temperature, Arctic sea ice extent, ocean acidification, and extreme climatic events.

[BBC Blog Network] BBC - The Editors: Coverage of Copenhagen climate conference: The calculated total CO2 emissions attributable to human activities, such as intentional burning of fossil fuels, that is against the 98% that comes from natural events, such as the direct release of trapped CO2 from geo-physical events such as volcanic activity or the natural (indirect and gradual) release of dissolved CO2 from the oceans sea water - the source of which is most likely to be the totally un-monitored deep sea events such as seabed volcanic activity - all of which have been (conveniently?) forgotten about by the climate change 'scientists' and lobby groups.

[Smart Takes Blog RSS | SmartPlanet] Does global warming science need a restart (or at least a new ...: SmartPlanet.com is the premier destination for savvy advice, thought-provoking analysis and expert discussion on the intersection of technology, business and life. Covering decisions that reach from the boardroom to the living room, SmartPlanet.com is the place to go for innovative insight and ideas that impact the world around you.

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