Friday, January 15, 2010

[And by the way, can we have more money now?]: Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels, figures [allegedly] show | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Palmer said it was a "disgrace" that so few satellites were launched to monitor levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. He said it was unclear whether the team would be able to continue the methane monitoring in future.
[He gets around]: Bay zoologist comes face to face with effects of climate change
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University zoology lecturer Dr Pierre Pistorius’s vast and varied research includes in-depth studies into the dwindling southern elephant seal populations on Marion Island, tracking reproduction changes in Norwegian moose, and monitoring coral reef resilience at the world’s largest raised atoll in the Seychelles.
Global Warming Fears: Norway's Moose Population in Trouble for Belching - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.
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Norway has some 120,000 moose but an estimated 35,000 are expected to be killed in this year's moose hunting season, which starts on September 25, Norwegian newspaper VG reported.
2008: Moose multiplying in Scandinavia - UPI.com
OSLO, Norway, April 19 (UPI) -- Biologists say there are now record numbers of moose in Scandinavia -- the greatest population since the Ice Age.

By the end of the 20th century, there were 30 times as many moose as there had been 100 years earlier, Aftenposten reports. The number of collisions between moose and trains, trucks and cars was also a record this winter.

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