Methane levels jump by almost 28 million tonnes in two years
”It’s not good news for future global warming. It’s a big jump and we don’t know if it will continue,” CSIRO senior climate scientist Paul Fraser said. Fears methane spike will fuel warming Canberra Times BY ROSSLYN BEEBY, SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTER 30/10/2008 10:13:00 AM Global methane levels have jumped by almost 28 million tonnes [...]
Powerful Video from Australia on Climate Emergency
Action on climate change more urgent than ever Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 23/10/2008 Click here to watch video: Lateline Reporter: Margot O’Neil Scientists are concerned that the will to tackle climate change has waned in the midst of the financial crisis, with the latest data showing climate change is moving more rapidly than they ever expected. Transcript: [...]
Wanted: A Climate Bailout
“We are now in danger of passing a third tipping point–the descent into cataclysmic, irreversible climate change.” Comment By Mark Hertsgaard This article appeared in the November 17, 2008 edition of The Nation. October 29, 2008 What a difference an emergency makes. Scare people enough and $700 billion can materialize almost overnight. The White House [...]
Our climate unsafe beyond 350 ppm atmospheric CO2
“We need to find ways to remove (CO2) and reach the safe level more quickly.” We did it, we can undo it By Thomas E. Lovejoy, Tim Flannery and Achim Steiner International Herald Tribune Monday, October 27, 2008 In the course of Earth’s history, life collectively has had a strong influence on atmosphere and climate. It [...]
Global warming – No more business as usual: This is an emergency!
By David Spratt http://links.org.au/node/683 October 10, 2008 — A year ago I was researching what was intended to be a short submission to the Garnaut review [commissioned to advise the Australian federal government of Labor Party Prime Minister Kevin Rudd], when events in the polar north turned the world of climate policy upside down. It [...]
“Geo-Engineering” Schemes Investigated by Royal Society
Climate damage science studied By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7698805.stm The UK’s Royal Society is to investigate whether ambitious engineering schemes could reduce the impact of global warming. Several “geo-engineering” schemes have been proposed including putting mirrors into space and iron filings in oceans. The society says these must be properly [...]
New Report: Melting Arctic Ocean Raises Threat of ‘Methane Time Bomb’
Yale Environment 360 http://e360.yale.edu/content/fe ature.msp?id=2081 Scientists have long believed that thawing permafrost in Arctic soils could release huge amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Now they are watching with increasing concern as methane begins to bubble up from the bottom of the fast-melting Arctic Ocean. By Susan Q. Stranahan For the past 15 [...]
Loss of total Arctic ice mass shocks scientists
Arctic ice thickness ‘plummets’ By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News Tuesday, 28 October 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7692963.stm The data proves that overall volume of sea ice is decreasing, say researchers The thickness of Arctic sea ice “plummeted” last winter, thinning by as much as 49 centimetres (1.6ft) in some regions, satellite data has [...]
Living Planet analysis shows looming ecological credit crunch
Editor’s note: On the graph depicting the Ecological Footprint of Nations Per Person, by Country, the US ranks second, slightly below the UAR, and Canada ranks seventh. “ Carbon emissions from fossil fuel use and land disturbance are the greatest component of humanity’s footprint, underlining the key threat of climate change.” Humanity’s demands exceed our planet’s capacity [...]
What the Public Doesn’t Get About Climate Change
by: Bryan Walsh 28 October 2008 StopGlobalWarming.org As I report on climate change, I come across a lot of scary facts, like the possibility that thawing permafrost in Siberia could release gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, or the risk that Greenland could pass a tipping point and begin to melt rapidly. But one [...]
