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Minnesota To Look Like Kansas?

By postMigrator April 15, 2008 April 15, 2008 Uncategorized

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“Climate change will not impact forests in a vacuum.”
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Spring Grove Herald
April 15, 2008

Experts think SE Minnesota will look like Kansas if trends continue

Mary Whalen
Special to the Herald

Although climate change is headlined on a daily
basis in newspapers across the country and around
the world, many wonder if Minnesota will really
be affected by changing global patterns.

Tuesday, April 8, those gathering at the
Lanesboro Public Library heard a presentation
entitled “Climate Changes on Forests” by Dr. Lee
Frelich, director, University of Minnesota Center
for Hardwood Ecology, and vice president, Eastern
Native Tree Society.

Volcano May Have Plunged Planet Into Cold

By postMigrator April 14, 2008 April 14, 2008 Uncategorized

Nature 11 April 2008

News

The volcano that changed the world

Eruption in 1600 may have plunged the globe into cold climate chaos.
Alexandra Witze

Four centuries ago, a Peruvian volcano blew its
top – and the whole world may have felt it, a new
study suggests.

The eruption in 1600 of Huaynaputina, a
stratovolcano in the Andes mountains, blanketed
nearby villages with glowing rock and ash, and
killed some 1,500 people. But it may also have
had a far wider effect, by injecting sulphur
particles high into the atmosphere and disrupting
the climate worldwide.

Global Warming Researchers Reverse Stance on Storm Intensity Theory

By postMigrator April 14, 2008 April 14, 2008 RT Newswire

Blog: Science Global Warming Researchers Reverse
Stance on Storm Intensity Theory
Michael Asher (Blog) – April 13, 2008 3:56 AM

The image of a hurricane-spawning smokestack was
used to promote the film, An Inconvenient Truth.

Author of the theory that global warming breeds
stronger hurricanes recants his view

Noted Hurricane Expert Kerry Emanuel has publicly
reversed his stance on the impact of Global
Warming on Hurricanes. Saying “The models are
telling us something quite different from what
nature seems to be telling us,” Emanuel has
released new research indicating that even in a
rapidly warming world, hurricane frequency and
intensity will not be substantially affected.

“The results surprised me,” says Emanuel, one of
the media’s most quoted figures on the topic.

Would “Carbon Market” Save Forests?

By postMigrator April 12, 2008 April 12, 2008 Uncategorized

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“Š we all thought that carbon markets would win,
but after Bali there are more and more voices
saying, ‘maybe the market doesn’t work that well
here’,”Š

“But perhaps the biggest fear among sceptics is
that an endless stream of deforestation credits
will simply allow companies in the developed
world to pay a little extra and pass costs on to
consumers without otherwise changing their
policies.”
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NATURE
Vol 452
6 March 2008

NEWS

Scientists and policy-makers will meet in Bonn
this June to discuss one of the most pressing
concerns to come out of December’s United Nations
climate meeting – how to manage the world’s
tropical forests. Jeff Tollefson examines some of
the proposals.

Save the trees

Rainforest nations walked away from the United
Nations (UN) climate meeting in Indonesia last
December with pretty much all they had hoped for:
a place at the negotiating table and an
acknowledgement that deforestation belongs in a
future global-warming treaty. The landmark
decision in Bali was accompanied by an outpouring
of concern – and in some cases money – from the
international community.