Thursday, July 29, 2010

Jim Hoggan | International Scientists Confirm Climate Change is "Undeniable"

Jim Hoggan | International Scientists Confirm Climate Change is "Undeniable": "An international team of climate scientists led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that climate change is 'undeniable' and clearly driven by the 'human fingerprints' of greenhouse gas emissions.�"

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Sea levels rising in parts of Indian Ocean; Greenhouse gases play role, study finds

Sea levels rising in parts of Indian Ocean; Greenhouse gases play role, study finds: "cienceDaily (July 13, 2010) — Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, appear to be at least partly a result of human-induced increases of atmospheric greenhouse gases, says a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder."

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

When 500 Million Trees Fall in the Rainforest... : Discovery News

When 500 Million Trees Fall in the Rainforest... : Discovery News: "Violent winds in a squall line of a single storm in January of 2005 killed half a billion trees in the Amazon forest, according to the first 'body-count' of its kind."

Scientists Quantify Global Warming's Threat to Public Health: Scientific American

Scientists Quantify Global Warming's Threat to Public Health: Scientific American: "Extreme weather induced by climate change has dire public health consequences, as heat waves threaten the vulnerable, storm runoff overwhelms city sewage systems and hotter summer days bake more pollution into asthma-inducing smog, scientists say."