New Orleans is set to lose up to half of its population, who may never return after they fled the devastation wreaked by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita a few weeks ago.
Many evacuees will be able to return to places near their former homes. But thousands will not be able to return for years, both because […]
The editors of Climate Change and Biodiversity, Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah, assert in their preface that “It is now clear that climate change is the major new threat that will confront biodiversity this century.” The burning of fossil fuels, if it is not restricted, may eventually impose at least as many extinctions as […]
From Slashdot just now: Tropical Storm Alpha Sets Naming Record
Tropical Storm Alpha formed Saturday in the Caribbean, setting the record for the most named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season. This is the first time the U.S National Hurricane Center has resorted to using the Greek alphabet since it began naming tropical cyclones in 1953. […]
Direct from United Press International Japanese to buy carbon credits from China
Dongyue Chemical, China’s largest chlorofluorocarbon producer, has applied to the Chinese government to cut its emissions of HFC23 gas, a byproduct of CFC production, and sell those cuts as greenhouse gas emission rights equivalent to an annual 10 million tons of carbon dioxide — […]
There’s an article in the Bradenton Herald today that asks “Did global warming cause Katrina?“. It’s more of the same but at the end this quote adds new weight to the aargument. Why? More and more former long-term climate change skeptics are crossing the floor.
[E]ven if a natural trend is at work […]
I know this headline is becoming an almost daily occurrence, but I’d feel remiss if I didn’t keep linking to some of them. Do you ever get the feeling you are hovering on the edge of a very dangerous precipice?
Today’s Independent is reporting the following:
At this time of year the shoreline in […]
A bold new vision for city life will be the topic of a United Nations public lecture on the environment to be held at the University of New South Wales.
The Asia Pacific Regional Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Surendra Shrestha, will be the keynote speaker at the lecture on sustainable development hosted by […]
Just in from Reuters: Dutch windmills at risk from climate change
DE BILT, Netherlands, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Windmills, one of the Netherlands’ trademarks, may go idle because of less wind as a result of climate change, Dutch scientists predict.
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From an article in today’s Nwy York Times (subscription needed) Old Ways of Life Are Fading as the Arctic Thaws
In Bykovsky, a village of 457 on Russia’s northeast coast, the shoreline is collapsing, creeping closer and closer to houses and tanks of heating oil, at a rate of 15 to 18 feet a year. Eventually, […]
From Purdue University:Climate model predicts dramatic changes over next 100 years.
The most comprehensive climate model to date of the continental United States predicts more extreme temperatures throughout the country and more extreme precipitation along the Gulf Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and east of the Mississippi.
The climate model, run on supercomputers at Purdue University, takes […]