Archive for October 11th, 2009
Last Time CO2 Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago: A Different World
You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth as high as they are today, a UCLA scientist and colleagues report Oct. 8 in the online edition of the journal Science.
“The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today — and [...]
Posted: October 11th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Negotiations.
Tags: 350ppm, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, emissions reductions, global warming, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, pollution, sea level rise, species extinction, West Antarctic
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Peering Under The Ice Of Collapsing Polar Coast
Starting this month, a giant NASA DC-8 aircraft loaded with geophysical instruments and scientists will buzz at low level over the coasts of West Antarctica, where ice sheets are collapsing at a pace far beyond what scientists expected a few years ago. The flights, dubbed Operation Ice Bridge, are an effort by NASA in cooperation [...]
Posted: October 11th, 2009 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Negotiations, Tipping Points.
Tags: Antarctica, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, Ice Shelves, icesheet loss, Larsen Ice Shelf, science, sea level rise, West Antarctic
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THERE IS A CERTAINTY
There is a certainty surrounding where humanity is headed. There is an awakening from the illogical sleepwalk the majority of the global population wish to continue on, but in only a few. The question to be asked and somehow answered though is how can we achieve a mass awakening and then action, before the end [...]
Posted: October 11th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Green Living, Nature.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, International negotiations, stop climate change
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