——————————– “I think it’s well accepted that 2 degrees is likely to be exceeded,” said Vicky Pope, manager of the MetOffice Hadley Centre’s climate change research programme. “Largely thanks to man-made greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures worldwide rose some 0.7 degrees last century, and another 0.6 degrees is locked in as… Continue reading
————————————————————————- “Bees are such great environmental samplers. When they go out and forage, they go almost two miles away from the hive. That’s a very large area, about 2,500 acres, and the same size as the grid elements of a lot of climate ecosystem models,” Esaias said. “If we’re headed… Continue reading
Much of Greenland is on National Geographic’s map of earthquake zones around the world. Greenland’s ice is melting, plausibly faster than scientists dare contemplate — James Hansen recently issued an article on fast-shrinking ice and “scientific reticence.” The article below is an oldie (2004), but seems worth posting again, in… Continue reading
SCIENCE / ENVIRONMENT | September 8, 2007 Warming Is Seen as Wiping Out Most Polar Bears By JOHN M. BRODER and ANDREW C. REVKIN Shrinking polar ice caps will cause at least two-thirds of the world’s polar bears to disappear by 2050, government scientists reported on Friday. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/science/earth/08polar.html?ex=1189915200&en=e7137da5dc23a02b&ei=5070&emc=eta1 Continue reading