Thursday, August 05, 2010

The Reference Frame: Study: Arctic cooler in 1989 than in 1870
The Czech media just informed the nation about another study that rules out the industrial activity as the cause of the bulk of the 20th century climate change.
Warming is not related to industrial activity, a study shows (novinky.cz)
That's a pretty clear title, isn't it? ;-)
[We're saved!: NSF pays for Montana State people to repeatedly take fossil-fueled trips to Iceland, where they will deliberately manipulate water temperatures]
He and his collaborators in a four-year study funded by the National Science Foundation will concentrate on one watershed that contains over 15 streams, Cross said. Some of the streams are hot and some are cold, but their water chemistry is almost identical. The streams are heated indirectly by geothermal activity and have likely been at these temperatures for hundreds of years.
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The researchers are also interested to see what happens when they experimentally add slightly warmer water to these streams, Cross said. They are currently gearing up for a three-year temperature manipulation of a whole stream ecosystem.

"The beauty of this natural laboratory is that there are streams with strongly contrasting temperatures just a few meters apart," Cross said.
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The postdoctoral researcher from MSU will live in Iceland year-round, Cross said. Cross and his MSU graduate students will travel periodically to Iceland, probably totaling two months a year there.
UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund - Yahoo! News
BONN, Germany – Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements are among ways being considered by a panel of the world's leading economists to raise a staggering $100 billion a year to fight climate change.

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