Another “warm better than cold” item: Seagulls feel the benefits of climate change | JunkScience.com

It may be a wet summer, but seagulls are benefiting from climate change.

Interview with John Christy at Cretaquarium’s Climate Change exhibition | JunkScience.com

Professor John R. Christy speaks about the climate change effect at the “Climate Change” exhibition. The exhibition is hosted by Cretaquarium.

District by District, Climate Change in Los Angeles - NYTimes.com

The biggest surprise from the more detailed modeling, he said, is that the coasts and mountains are warming a lot faster than anyone suspected.

Is catastrophic global warming, like the Millennium Bug, a mistake? | The SPPI Blog

However, the reliability and explanatory power of climate models was satirised convincingly [by Lindzen]. And I found myself believing – or accepting the possibility – that warming would reduce rather than increase tropical storms.

Aus: Are the Greens really back-pedalling on carbon? | JunkScience.com

A scheme with a too-high starting price ($23/tonne), and a too-high floor price from 2015 ($15/tonne) will leave both Labor and Greens stranded on a tiny atoll of electoral support, at risk of disappearing under a rising sea of conservative votes.

Climate change suspended reef growth for 2 millennia

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Climate change drove coral reefs to a total ecosystem collapse lasting thousands of years, according to a paper published this week in Science. The paper shows how natural climatic shifts stopped reef growth in the eastern Pacific for 2,500 years. The reef shutdown, which began 4,000 years ago, corresponds to a period of dramatic swings in the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). "As humans continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the climate is once again on the threshold of a new regime, with dire consequences for reef ecosystems unless we get control of climate change," said coauthor Richard Aronson, a biology professor at Florida Institute of Technology.

Climate Change Buoying Wildfires Across Country : NPR

TRENBERTH: Well, there's a tremendous amount of natural variability - the day-to-day stuff we call weather. There is also a natural variability in climate system - the dominant phenomenon there is the El Nino phenomenon. And over the last couple of years, we've been under the other phase, the cold phase, of that called La Nina. And so there is this natural variability. But when the natural variability from both the weather and the climate system are going in the same direction as the global warming from human influences, that's when we really break records. And the breaking of records is a clear symptom of this. And it's apt to have very large impacts, and we've seen that a lot this summer.