Showing posts with label impacts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label impacts. Show all posts
2010-11-11

Mass Extinction #6

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One of these days I should go back and take a look at the details of the first 5 mass extinctions. The last one was 65 million years ago, an...
2010-10-20

Coffee forests threatened by climate change impacts

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This is serious. At least superficially similar to the pine beetles infecting forests in the Rockies, there's a pest called the coffee b...
2010-03-15

Impact in North America?

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There's been a lot of talk about an extraterrestrial impact in North America about 11,000 years ago. The idea is that such an event coul...
2009-09-21

Displacing world leaders from their comfort zones

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Just read an interesting article about plans for the upcoming UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen [ LINK ]. Apparently the world leade...
2009-09-11

The warming arctic

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Over the past week or so, I've noticed a number of articles and posts about the Arctic. There seems to be some kind of ongoing flap abou...
2009-07-23

Did the rain in Spain fall mostly on the plain, grandma?

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A study about precipitation patterns in the Mediterranean region finds that there is a ubiquitous decrease [ LINK ]. The news article doesn...
2009-07-22

It's not just about polar bears

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I just sat down to have a quick look at some of the (too many) RSS feeds I subscribe to, and I clicked on ClimateArk.org , which is essentia...
2009-07-10

Are we all going to burn?

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Well, if the USA Senate has anything to say about it, we'll all sit and burn coal until we choke on the carbon dioxide floating in the a...
2009-05-29

More coverage of the Carteret Islands

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In the NYTimes.com today (slash yesterday) there's a story about the disappearing Carteret Islands by NEIL MacFARQUHAR. Again the artic...
2009-05-08

Climate change refugees

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George Monbiot says that about 2,600 people are evacuating from Carteret Islands in the tropical west Pacific. He attributes the evacuation ...
2009-05-02

Melting glaciers, changing rivers

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Well, in another blatant theft from DeSmogBlog, I bring you Jeanne Roberts' article about glaciers in the Swiss-Italian Alps melting. T...
2008-09-26

Great animation about climate change

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Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray. Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo . I saw this poste...
2008-08-13

Endangered Species Act to be undermined by new rules

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This is outrageous. The Bush administration is trying to introduce some kind of executive rule that would allow federal agencies to convenie...
2008-05-06

Impact of warming on insects and other ectotherms

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There has been quite a lot of press coverage of a new paper in PNAS (doi:10.1073/pnas.0709472105) by Deutsch et al. about how global warming...