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[Brainicane] Restoring Ecosystems Biggest Untapped Ally in Fighting Climate ...: Restoring Ecosystems Biggest Untapped Ally in Fighting Climate Change, New Report Says. temperate rainforest photo.

[Climate Progress] Human-caused Arctic warming overtakes 2000 years of natural ...: Overpeck, a study author and climate specialist at the University of Arizona, said the rising concentration of long-lived greenhouse gases guaranteed warming at a pace that could stress ecosystems and cause rapid melting of Greenland’s great ice sheet.

[Blogs and Tips - SustainLane] Carbon: The Critical Factor in Decline of Coral Reefs - Go Green ...: Abrupt carbonising of the environment will destroy carbonate-based ecosystems. Changes to water chemistry will flow on to all marine ecosystems as the oceans turn hostile to a high proportion of marine life.

[Global Geopolitics News and Analysis] SOUTH AMERICA: Glaciers - Going, Going, Gone? | Global Geopolitics ...: In Patagonia, some 20,000 square kilometres of glaciers are shared between Argentina and Chile. The Southern Ice Field in both countries spreads over 13,000 square kilometres, the Northern Ice Field in Chile covers 4,200 square kilometres, and the Darwin mountain range glaciers, also shared by the two countries, cover 2,500 square kilometres.

[350.org - Movement Dispatches and Climate News] BREAKING: Top UN Scientist Endorses 350! | 350.org: Chairman Pachauri's remarks are a poignant reminder of the urgency of this situation. Let's come together on October 24th for the 350 Day Of Action to show the world's leaders that we humanity want to do everything in our power to bring the CO2 atmospheric concentration back down below 350!

[GreenerWorking.com] GreenerWorking.com » Blog Archive » Who'll be the monkey in the ...: The Chamber's Bill Kovacs thinks having a judge decide whether climate change science ”” supported by the National Academy of Sciences and other reputable, international scientific organizations ”” is true or not. ...

[The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy] Tomgram: Chip Ward on the Ruins in Our Future | The Smirking Chimp: A visit this summer to the most famous ruins in the West, the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park and hollowed out palaces at Chaco Culture National Historic Park, proved a striking, if grim, reminder that we weren't the first to pass this way -- or to face possibly civilization-challenging aridity problems. The pre-Colombian Anasazi culture flourished between 900 and 1150 A.D., culminating in a city in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, that until the nineteenth century contained the largest buildings in the Americas, now uncovered from centuries of drifting sands.

[Watts Up With That?] Gavin Schmidt responds to criticism of his climate change picture ...: Since the pre-industrial level of CO2 was estimated to be about 285ppm and we are currently measuring around 387ppm, and since the relationship is logarithmic, then we have already seen most of the temperature rise associated with a doubling from 285 to 570 that can be directly attributed to a change in atmospheric CO2.

[ScienceBlogs Channel : Environment] Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe : Highly Allochthonous: The inspection of geological records of environmental variability is important in validating climate model physics - which will help us to understand the fate of Earth in the near future - however, there is probably little point in looking at equilibrium greenhouse climates of the past to try and understand the fate of Earth’s climate in centuries to come from the injection of large masses of carbon into the atmosphere, which will whack the system severely out of equilibrium.

[Chrisy58's Weblog] Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the ...: Side canyons, once submerged under 100 feet of water, have now been under the sun long enough to have turned into lush, mature habitats filled with willows and brush, birds and pack rats. A view from a cliff high above the once bustling, now ghostlike Hite Marina on the receding eastern side of Lake Powell shows the futility of chasing the retreating shoreline with cement: the water’s edge and a much-extended boat-launching ramp now have 100 acres of dried mud, grass, and fresh shrubs between them.

[Richard Black's Earth Watch] BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Can climate spending save money?: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall Christopher Stone ever mentioning 'Dyson Spheres' in 'Should Trees Have Standing?', nor does he discuss the migration of humans into the solar system, let alone as "a logical and perhaps inherent calling of the human race". Appropriately, in my view, his focus is on what we do and what we ought to do, with the resources of the planet on which we find ourselves.

[Breaking News] Global warming could make meat lose its juiciness: WASHINGTON - A new study by the United Kingdom's Royal Society has outlined five last-ditch schemes needed to prevent a global warming disaster. According to National Geographic News, United Kingdom's Royal Society's report is the first from a major scientific body devoted to ranking the various proposals for "geoengineering.""It is an unpalatable truth that unless we can succeed in greatly reducing (greenhouse gas) emissions, we are headed for a very uncomfortable and challenging climate future," said study leader John Shepherd, an earth scientist at the University of Southampton in England, in a statement.

[Watts Up With That?] UAH global temperature anomaly for May - down again, near zero ...: But for me AGW is just part of a collection of problems that steadily grow more serious and irreversible, such as the peaking of resources (peak oil naturally being the most conspicuous one), ocean acidification, disruption and destruction of ecosystems, etc. I’d be very surprised if all of that is a hoax or caused by natural variability.

[Richard Black's Earth Watch] BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Africa re(de)fines the climate ...: On the web-site, Shaviv states: “It was shown by the author, that these intrinsic variation in the cosmic ray flux are clearly evident in the geological paleoclimate data.” He goes on to say “that cosmic ray flux variations explain about two thirds of the variance in the reconstructed temperature signal. Thus, cosmic rays undoubtedly affect climate, and on geological time scales are the most dominant climate driver.” It is this claim is contradicted by the published articles by Royer et al (2004), and by Rahmstorf et al (2004).

[Boundless Line] Boundless Line: From Global Warming to Global Cooling: Growing up I have experienced living in a region that is called Savannah, Wikipedia define it as "grassland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy does not close." "The largest amount of Savannah is in Africa."

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Ocean current shutdown may take place more slowly than previously ...: LONDON - A new research by European scientists has provided evidence that an enormous plume of water spurts in giant jets from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus is fed by a salty ocean, a discovery that may have implications for the search for extraterrestrial life. The Cassini spacecraft made a surprising discovery about Saturn's sixth largest moon, Enceladus, on its exploration of the giant ringed planet in 2005.

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