Lowered Evapotranspiration Causing Drying and Heating of Southern Hemisphere
Huge areas of the Southern Hemisphere are now drying out. This could lead to increased drought stress on vegetation and less overall productivity, and as a result less carbon absorbed, less cooling through evapotranspiration, and more frequent or extreme heat waves
More Dark Global Warming News on a Hot Friday
Two articles: “Ten Nations at ‘Extreme Risk’ Because of Water Shortages, Report Says” and “Heat Waves to Intensify Across U.S. in Next 30 Years, Study Says”
Lack of Water a Present and Future Crisis for Mexican People
Inspired by Oxfam report “Suffering the Science: Climate change, poverty and people,” Canadian writes open letter to Mexican mother about need for climate change mitigation.
A New Global Warming Prediction: two articles on more extreme global climate change to come
Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Chicago, Professor Chris Field said greenhouse gases increased far more rapidly than expected between 2000 and 2007; “We are basically looking now at a future climate that is beyond anything that we’ve considered seriously in climate policy.”
Prof Field said his 2007 report, which predicted temperature rises between 1.98F (1.1C) and 11.52F (6.4C) over the next century, seriously underestimated the scale of the problem.
Lest we forget Australia on fire…
“Given that this was the hottest day on record on top of the driest start to a year on record on top of the longest driest drought on record on top of the hottest drought on record the implications are clear…
It is clear to me that climate change is now becoming such a strong contributor to these hitherto unimaginable events that the language starts to change from one of “climate change increased the chances of an event” to “without climate change this event could not have occurred.” The Australian Bureau of Meteorology
World failure to act on climate change a cause of raging wildfires
The Australian Government is wondering how to stimulate the economy. It is planning to give away much of the surplus from boom times in handouts. It has made the usual token allocations to climate change mitigation, allocations that will in no way deflect the coming climate holocaust.
Australian Climate Tragedy Ignites
Australian Bushfire disaster, drought strangling Argentina, drought emergency in China and worst drought California has ever seen – all happening in early 2009
Too darn hot in Australia at 43 degees Celsius, or 110 Fahrenheit
The worst heat wave to strike Australia in a century is due to climate change. That was the blunt message from their government this week as the country struggled to cope with the heat-related chaos, including buckling rail lines, numerous heat related deaths and sweeping power blackouts. The searing heat has topped 43 degrees Celsius (110 Fahrenheit) in Melbourne for the third straight day – and the first time in recorded history.
