Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Watch a polar bear melt in Montreal north-south climate change display
"We must constantly raise awareness about these new risks"
Wild weather can send greenhouse gases spiralling : Nature News & Comment
Climate change has a disconcerting tendency to amplify itself through feedback effects.
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The meeting was organized by the CARBO-Extreme project, a €3.3-million (US$4.5-million) collaboration of 27 groups from 12 countries, funded by the European Union.
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So far, scientists have detected no increase in extreme weather events. But they expect one. ...The world’s soils contain almost 100 gigatonnes of carbon — twice as much as the entire atmosphere. Just a 10% increase in soil-respiration rates, says Bahn, would release more CO2 in a year than humans pump out.
The well-funded and organized campaigns that influence climate change science online | Plugged In, Scientific American Blog Network
[Practicing yogi David Wogan] [Al Gore's] effort is relatively new and is up against a better funded and organized opposition.
The New Nostradamus of the North: Admiral Locklear, head of U.S. Pacific Command, forced to interrupt his climate change planning activities because of North Korea
It must have been extremely difficult for the admiral to interrupt his climate threat planning activities in Hawaii for a brief interlude in the Congress today:

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