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[Go Green Toolshed] Go Green Toolshed » Blog Archive » How Will Global Warming Change ...: Real-world measurements have confirmed at least some of them: sea level is clearly rising, .It's reasonable to expect, for example, that ecosystems will change as plants and animals respond to a rising thermometer ”” but how do you measure the change of an ecosystem that may consist of hundreds or even thousands of species?

[New America Today] How Will Global Warming Change Ecosystems? - New America Today: Other measurements are a lot more difficult, though. It's reasonable to expect, for example, that ecosystems will change as plants and animals respond to a rising thermometer -- but how do you measure the change of an ecosystem that may consist of hundreds or even thousands of species?

[Mobilization for Climate Justice] What Really Happened in Copenhagen? | Mobilization for Climate Justice: In a bitter irony, on December 11 in the midst of the climate conference, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the Obama administration had approved Royal Dutch Shell’s plan to drill for oil off Alaska’s northwest coast as early as next summer, endorsing drilling for fossil fuels in the climate-effected ecosystems of the Arctic, where global warming already impacts Alaska natives and entire villages are in danger of losing their lands and ways of life.

[Foreign Policy] The Glaciers Are Still Melting | Foreign Policy: In the real world, we all know about the Medieval Warm Period, when grapes grew on Newfoundland, the Vikings colonized Greenland and farmed there! - and the seas were by their own description "free of ice." Oh no!

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: February 14, 2010: Scientists have made lots of projections over the past few years about how warming temperatures and a changing climate will affect the planet. Real-world measurements have confirmed at least some of them: sea level is clearly rising, for instance, and the ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is shrinking and thinning ”” in the latter case, faster than anyone had expected just a few years ago.

[SmarterCities] Switchboard, from NRDC :: Ali Chase's Blog :: NRDC presents on ...: Understanding the current science and recognizing the limitations in what we know is an important first step in addressing these impacts for future conservation efforts in the Arctic. This symposium will explore sea ice conditions in a melting Arctic, offer background on the links between sea-ice and Arctic ecosystems, examine how they may be responding to ice loss, and discuss the data and steps we need to develop a strong conservation plan.

[Wednesday-Night] Wednesday-Night - » Canada & the Arctic: The flights are the first step towards building a case that Canada’s Arctic sovereignty could reach past the Pole despite Russia’s determination to extend its own northern footprint. Canada and Denmark recently completed a series of joint mapping flights from three remote northern airstrips to begin studying the series of undersea mountains and ridges that will determine how the United Nations will divvy up most of the Arctic Ocean.

[Calgary Herald - News] Arctic sea ice vanishing faster than 'our most pessimistic models ...: WINNIPEG ”” Sea ice in Canada's fragile Arctic is melting faster than anyone expected, the lead investigator in Canada's largest climate-change study yet said Friday ”” raising the possibility that the Arctic could, in a worst-case scenario, .“If you go into the rain forest and you cut down all the trees, the ecosystem in that rain forest will collapse,” he said.

[Foreign Policy] Inside the Climate Bunker | Foreign Policy: I can report a further dramatic twist to what has inevitably been dubbed "Glaciergate" - the international row surrounding the revelation that the latest report on global warming by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) contained a wildly alarmist, unfounded claim about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. Last week, the IPCC, led by its increasingly controversial chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, was forced to issue an unprecedented admission: the statement in its 2007 report that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035 had no scientific basis, and its inclusion in the report reflected a "poor application" of IPCC procedures.

[Conservation International Blog] CI's Response to Climate Change Skeptics | Conservation ...: they will still melt, it will just take longer. One could hold up similar counter-examples, noting that the IPCC Report also mistakenly underestimated sea level rise and Arctic and Antarctic ice melt (both occurring faster than the IPCC thought would happen this century).

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Actually, Weather Is Climate: Briggs’ neighbourhood is not a reasonable guide to global climate, to define climate as either yearly or decadal is simply making a mistake. Looking at decadal averages using an artificial calendar (not one based on some natural division that might be linked to climate) is a convenient way to summarise long term trends but only the non-scientific would suggest that we can characterise climate over such a short time span.

[Richard Black's Earth Watch] BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Crunch time for the cosy cousin?: Bowmanthebard tells us biodiversity per se isn't important and to an extent I agree, but let's remember for each and every species that goes extinct for whatever reason, it isn't just the one species that is affected, there is a knock on effect and other species move in to fill the void. The rhododendron introduced to the UK is an example of how a foreign species can cause havoc and destruction of the native population.

[Greentech Media: All Content] “Revenue-neutral”: The last hope for climate change legislation ...: Further no one has had to admit that their ice measurements were off by a factor of 10 and that there is only a 1% decrease in ice in the arctic since the start of measurement (which is again within the margin for error of the original measurement satellites.) And further they haven’t had to admit (while using the same data to false claim the opposite) that total ice in Antarctica has actually increased. (it’s only the western shores that have less, but taken in total there is MORE not less ice, but of course they buried that tidbit and released the western shore numbers in big bold letters…

[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » The Case for Snow-Control ...: Is it your contention that the temperate to tropical zones will be the only ones heating up under AGW, with the Arctic seas being ice-free except for all the northern landmasses, which will remain buried under miles of ice? Since these diminant lifeforms depended on a lush vegetative ecosystem to begin the food chain, it would seem that it was pretty nice back then for all life.

[blog.cagle.com - main] Cartoons | blog.cagle.com - main: Christy simply doesn’t deny human climate change.” Frankly as a major cause, it does for me, you still haven’t answered the problematic math of 3.619 of total GhG’s being CO2 and 3.502% naturally occurring and only 0.117% of all CO2 in GhG, he, and I have apparently seen the 95% of GhG that is water vapor, of which only 0.001% is man made does absolutely no damage and should not be “regulated”, there is an argument that both “gases” are passive, where gases like Methane and Nitrous Oxide are active. In short, Christy, nor anyone can argue that 3% of CO2 is anthropomorphic, at the vary least any affects the whole, but eliminating 3% completely will not change the variable calculations when it’s only 0.117% of the total of all GhG.

[Anthozoa] Emergent Conservation Issues « Anthozoa: Stratographic aerosols:  Geoengineering is increasingly being thrown around in academic circles and in the news.  This particular idea has to do with injecting particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect sunlight, sort of a planetary sun block.  This study concedes that such an approach could lower temperatures, but also warns that it would be ineffectual for reducing the atmospheric carbon load or mitigating ocean acidification.  Some aerosols could even reduce the pH of precipitation and increase ozone destruction, while virtually all could modify regional climates. Pretty gloomy possible outcomes for something that’s supposed to help, if you ask me.  We can all agree that something needs to be done, but I personally doubt that large-scale geoengineering within earth systems that are not even totally understood should be considered without further research.

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