Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Frozen Planet: David Attenborough on global warming | Radio Times

The [Arctic] ice is almost half as thick as it was in the 1980s....

In 2010 it was announced that every single ice front [in the Antarctic] is in retreat.

Twitter / @MikeBaillie: Small pacific island boy t ...

Small pacific island boy told Ban Ki-moon that he is afraid to sleep at night because his island is slipping below the waves.

Avaaz - 3 days to save our dying planet!

Our oceans are dying, our air changing, and our forests and grasslands turning to deserts. From fish and plants to wildlife to human beings, we are killing the planet that sustains us, and fast. There is one single greatest cause of this destruction of the natural world -- climate change, and in the next 3 days, we have a chance to stop it.

Climate Changes Faster than Species Can Adapt

Newswise — BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The ranges of species will have to change dramatically as a result of climate change between now and 2100 because the climate will change more than 100 times faster than the rate at which species can adapt, according to a newly published study by Indiana University researchers.

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: My TEDxPSU Talk from Nov 1 ...

  My TEDxPSU Talk from Nov 13 has been posted ( have of course targeted the comment section)

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