Archive for September 30th, 2009
No rainforest, no monsoon: get ready for a warmer world
The full article from New Scientist
BY 2055, climate change is likely to have warmed the world by a dangerous 4 °C unless we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere the way we do now. This is the startling conclusion of a study by the UK Met Office, unveiled at a conference in Oxford this [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Nature, Negotiations, Tipping Points.
Tags: 350ppm, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, Copenhagen, global warming, icesheet loss, natural systems, species extinction, stop climate change
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Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us
Read the full thought provoking article from New Scientist
WHEN Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the word Anthropocene around 10 years ago, he gave birth to a powerful idea: that human activity is now affecting the Earth so profoundly that we are entering a new geological epoch.
The Anthropocene has yet to be accepted as [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Nature, Negotiations, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, CO2 Emissions, CO2 levels, glacial melt, global warming, natural systems, sea level rise, species extinction, stop climate change
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Google Earth Ramps Up for Copenhagen: New Layers for Exploring Climate Change Scenarios (Video)
Confronting the challenge
Google has launched an interesting tool in preparation for GOP15 that allows users to explore what the world might look like if various levels of warming, sea rises, and so forth occur. You’re able to see played out some of the what-if scenarios you’re hearing about as the Copenhagen date approaches. And if [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Nature, Negotiations, Technologies, Tipping Points.
Tags: 350ppm, activist, arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate change costs, climate change emissions reductions, climate negotiations, CO2 Emissions, coal, Copenhagen, emissions reductions, European Union, glacial melt, global warming, greenhouse emissions, icesheet loss, International negotiations, Kyoto, natural systems, Negotiations, sea level rise, species extinction, stop climate change, West Antarctic
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