Month: November 2008

I have the WWF full report as pdf file. Please feel free to ask.
Lance

“Lance Olsen” <lance@wildrockies.org>
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“…early signs of change suggest that the less than 1°C of global warming
that the world has experienced to date may have already triggered the first
tipping point of the Earth’s climate system”

“The reality of 2008 tells us that climate change is causing dangerous
anthropogenic interference at lower thresholds and earlier than expected..”
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WWF
A CLOSING WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY –
GLOBAL GREENHOUSE REALITY 2008
By Dr. Martin Sommerkorn, WWF International
Arctic Programme, msommerkorn@wwf.no

Summary

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Isolated Indonesia tribe immune to global crisis:

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4AR02I20081128

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on the net
The National Hurricane Center: www.nhc.noaa.gov/

WASHINGTON — The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, seemed to strike the United States and Cuba as if on redial, setting at least five weather records for persistence and repeatedly striking the same areas.

“It was pretty relentless in a large number of big strikes,” said Georgia Tech atmospheric sciences professor Judith Curry. “We just didn’t have the huge monster where a lot of people lost their lives, but we had a lot of damage, a lot of damage.”

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