Carbon Footprints

From the BBC News: Unexpected warming in Antarctica
Winter air temperatures over Antarctica have risen by more than 2C in the last 30 years, a new study shows.
Research published in the US journal Science says the warming is seen across the whole of the continent and much of the Southern Ocean.
The study questions the reliability of [...]

From World Science online: Global warming yields “glacial earthquakes,” future sea level rise
In a [recent] study, seismologists reported an unexpected offshoot of global warming: “glacial earthquakes,” in which Manhattan-sized glaciers lurch unexpectedly. Glaciers are normally slow-moving masses of ice.
The lurches yield temblors up to magnitude 5.1 on the moment-magnitude scale, which is similar to the [...]

From Forbes: Severe cyclone batters Australia oil and mining region
A severe tropical cyclone packing winds of up to 235 kilometers an hour has battered a major oil and mining region of western Australia, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents and the lock-down of key industries, officials said.
Emergency officials said torrential rains and a storm [...]

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Neato — DS

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From The Scotsman: Nightmare vision of underwater Britain
THE UK’s major coastal cities could be submerged as a result of massive sea-level rises over the next two centuries, transforming the British mainland into a string of islands, according to latest research.
The team unveiled three potential scenarios:
• A seven-metre rise in sea levels if the Greenland or [...]

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The antarctic is melting., originally uploaded by pyrator.

This is a dramatic visualisation of how rising sea levels could affect parts of the UK. The large version has some great detail. See see [...]

In today’s Financial Times: Global struggle to meet Kyoto commitments
Governments around the world are struggling to meet their commitments under the Kyoto protocol on climate change, writes Fiona Harvey. However, even countries that have rejected the protocol, such as the US and Australia, or are not covered by its requirements – rapidly developing countries such [...]

The cover story of today’s UK Independent: Global warming: Your chance to change the climate
Four senior ministers today made one of the most embarrassing admissions of the Labour Government’s nine years in office – that the official policy for fighting climate change has failed.
Yet, as they did so, a group of MPs will offer [...]

From the ABC News in the USA: Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job? As usual the full article has more details but I have lifted selected quotes below:
[North] American attitudes about global warming are shifting, according to a new poll by ABC News, Time magazine and Stanford University — but it has taken [...]

From the News Wire in New Zealand: Weather Stats Indicate Climate Change
Rainfall records show New Zealand’s weather is changing in line with forecasts for climate change.
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research says its analysis of rainfall over the past 100 years shows western New Zealand is getting wetter.
It says the figures also confirm [...]