Archive for 'Climate Change'
Change in a changing climate
Drawing from the Loess Plateau experience in China, this documentary demonstrates that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, to restore ecosystem functions in areas where they have been lost, to fundamentally improve the lives of people who have been trapped in poverty for generations, and to sequester carbon naturally.
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Posted: March 9th, 2010 under Climate Change, General.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming
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Australia drops to its knees and weeps – A future without BEER?
In the book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions I deal in some detail with the future issue of water scarcity, so this article in Techeye.net caught my attention ‘Beer threatened by climate change’. In the book I point out – excerpt Fosters Group openly and transparently in their “Sustainability report for 2007” details global operations water usage [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under Climate Change, General.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming, water shortages, water wars
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Dire water supply outlook for Western Australia
Australia’s top scientific research organisation says climate change is responsible for a sharp fall in Western Australia’s water resources and that the worst is yet to come.
The CSIRO has released a report showing significant climate change since the mid-1970s has impacted on surface and ground water yields and rainfall over that time has dropped by [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature.
Tags: Climate Change, science, water shortages
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Flow – For the Love of Water
Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature.
Tags: water shortages, water wars
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Mother Nature’s effervescence, ‘Bubbles,’
For those who have read my book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World, the reports this week by the science community of the discovery of methane release from thawing methane clathrates from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf will come as little surprise. In chapter 9 Mother Natures [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2010 under Climate Change, Foundation News, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, methane, methane clathrates, natural systems, science, Tipping Points
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Climate change human link evidence ’stronger’ Reports the UK Met Office
From the News desk at the BBC – A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change.
It says the evidence is stronger now than when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carried out its last assessment in 2007.
The analysis, published in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, glacial melt, global warming, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise, Tipping Points, World News
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Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way
This report fron the New York Times follows up on other reports posted this week by the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation.
Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of the greenhouse gas methane that are frozen into the Arctic permafrost, setting off potentially significant increases in global warming.
Now researchers at the University [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenhouse emissions, methane, methane clathrates, natural systems, science, Siberia
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Lawmakers From Coal States Seek to Delay Emission Limits
WASHINGTON from the New Your Times — Coal-country lawmakers moved Thursday to impose a two-year moratorium on potential federal regulation of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering gases.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, said theEnvironmental Protection Agency should refrain from issuing any new rules on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, coal lobby, Coal mining, global warming, Obama administration, United States
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What Do We Know About Climate Change?
Here Peter Sinclaire puts a case for ‘Climate Denial – Crock of the Week’
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Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature.
Tags: Antarctica, arctic, Climate Change, global warming, greenhouse emissions, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, natural systems, science, sea level rise, West Antarctic
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The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska.
Article and images courtesy of Reuters – Like many low-altitude glaciers, it’s steadily melting, shrinking two miles over the past 200 years as it tries to strike a new balance with rising temperatures.
At the Kenai Fjords National Park south of Anchorage, managers have learned to follow the Exit and other glaciers, moving signs and paths [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, Climate Change, glacial melt, global warming, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, India, science, Tipping Points
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