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Melting Arctic Permafrost Looms as Major Factor in Warming, Climate Change
Posted by Wunderground: Angela Fritz on September 27th, 2013
Wunderground: A heavyweight boxer in the climate change match is missing from the fifth climate assessment report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Friday.
Permafrost, which is frozen ground that doesn't melt during the summer, covers 24 percent of the land in the northern hemisphere. It also stores approximately 1.5 trillion tons of carbon – twice the amount of carbon currently in the atmosphere.
When the organic matter that makes up permafrost thaws, the carbon it contains...
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Comments Off on Melting Arctic Permafrost Looms as Major Factor in Warming, Climate ChangeUN Climate Change Report: Sea Level, Air Temperature To Rise
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 27th, 2013
National Public Radio: The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its latest assessment today. This is the fifth since 1990. The reports project the rate of global warming, sea level rise and other expected effects that result largely from our use of fossil fuels, which puts billions of additional tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year.
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on UN Climate Change Report: Sea Level, Air Temperature To RiseColorado Rivers Illustrate Realities of Extreme Weather Activated by Climate Change
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on September 27th, 2013
EcoWatch: The river raced. I was standing near the bridge on College Avenue over the Cache la Poudre River in Fort Collins, CO. Due to the torrential rainstorms, the river had peaked about six hours earlier in the middle of the night, but it was still flowing about 100 times bigger than it usually does in September. A huge tree raged along in the floodwaters, smacked up against the bridge with a cracking sound, and then disappeared under the bridge. Spectators oohed and aahed–a couple dozen of us were watching,...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 27th, 2013
Inter Press Service: Greenland will eventually truly become green as most of its massive ice sheet is destined to melt, the authoritative U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported Friday.
The IPCC`s new 36-page summary of the latest science includes a warning that there is a 20-percent chance the massive Greenland ice sheet will begin an irreversible meltdown with only 0.2 degrees C of additional warming. That amount of additional warming is now certain. However, it would take 1,000 years for...
Humans Are Main Cause Of Climate Change, Says UN Report
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 27th, 2013
RedOrbit: A new report by the UN-created Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that global warming is "unequivocal" and it is "extremely likely" that human activities are the main driver of this epic warming.
"Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes," said the report, which was released Friday morning in Stockholm,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Humans Are Main Cause Of Climate Change, Says UN ReportNine Arrested in Connection with Poisoning Elephants with Cyanide in Zimbabwe
Posted by Nature World: None Given on September 27th, 2013
Nature World: Several people have been arrested in connection with the cyanide poisoning of more than 80 elephants in Zimbabwe this month and other suspects are on trial in connection with the crime, according to local media.
At least 87 elephants have died of poisoning this month at Hwange National Park, Africa's third largest wildlife sanctuary. Poachers had removed the tusks on each one of the carcasses.
Wednesday, three poachers were convicted and sentenced to at least 15 years in prison for the illegal...
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Posted by Grist: Sarah Laskow on September 27th, 2013
Grist: Contrary to popular belief, environmentalists aren`t totally unconnected with reality. We realize, for instance, that we can get people up in arms about cute endangered species, but that no one cares if the Keystone XL pipeline is going to affect the American burying beetle. (Even if they are weird and bright orange and the largest beetle on the continent to collect dead birds, roll them up, and bury them next to their underground beetle nests.)
The burying beetles, though, according to the State...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Keystone XL could crush endangered fox cubs in their own densWhat the IPCC found: The big news from new climate assessment
Posted by Grist: John Upton on September 27th, 2013
Grist: It`s extremely likely that humans have been the dominant cause of global warming since the 1950s, according to a landmark report from the world`s top panel of climate scientists. And we`re failing in our efforts to keep atmospheric warming below 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 Fahrenheit, which many scientists say is needed to avoid massive disruption.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conducted an epic review of climate research over the last three years. It is summarizing the most important...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on What the IPCC found: The big news from new climate assessmentThe five worst effects of greenhouse-gas emissions
Posted by Globe and Mail: Jill Mahoney on September 27th, 2013
Globe and Mail: A major new report on climate change contains stark warnings about what continued greenhouse-gas emissions will do to the Earth.
Among the findings of the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
Temperatures will continue to rise around the world, with a high likelihood of more - and longer - heat waves.
Some regions will likely experience more intense, longer droughts.
Many areas will have heavier rain, with more parts of the world likely to experience monsoons....
Climate change likely to turn UK’s weather more extreme
Posted by Guardian: Fiona Harvey, on September 27th, 2013
Guardian: Warmer, wetter winters and more extreme rainfall are what the UK can expect from climate change, meteorological experts warned on Friday. Although the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does not go into detail on individual countries, the regional and global trends identified in the assessment can be extrapolated to reflect some of the likely impacts on Britain. Dr Peter Stott, of the Met Office, said more extreme rainfall was likely to be the most noticeable impact....
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