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Significant climate anomalies 2008/2009. Source: ClimateChange Compendium. Shifts in the hydrological cycle resulting in the disappearance of regional climates with related losses of ecosystems, species and the spread of drylands northwards and southwards away from the equator. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).
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of the human-made climate impact; two-thirds of this impact are caused by emissions other than CO 2 , according to a new study by researchers in Europe and the US. This new study is based on a thorough review of a decade of research on aviation emissions. Aviation accounts for 3.5% —Marianne Tronstad Lund, co-author. Lee, D.W.
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A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climatechange science from mid-2006 to the present day. by Jack Rosebro.
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One focuses on the science that supports human-induced climatechange, and the others review options for limiting the magnitude of and adapting to the impacts of global warming. The reports are part of a congressionally requested suite of studies known as America’s Climate Choices.
Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climatechange as soon. Parties to this second period will turn their economy-wide targets into quantified emission limitation or reduction objectives and submit them for review by 1 May 2012. Green Climate Fund.
Illustration of the steps in an iterative risk management approach for addressing climatechange. From: America’s Climate Choices. This trend cannot be explained by natural factors such as internal climate variability or changes in incoming energy from the sun. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).
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The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has published a new short guide to the science of climatechange. The guide summarizes the evidence and clarifies the levels of confidence associated with the current scientific understanding of climatechange. Future climatechange.
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The National Science Foundation’s Office of Inspector General has completed its review of allegations of research misconduct against Penn State Professor of Meteorology Michael Mann, and has found no direct evidence to support such allegations. The Office of Inspector General’s review can be downloaded as a pdf at [link] online.
The Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen) has begun a review of the tax exemption for biofuels, with the results to be published in 2011. The review intends to assess the effectiveness of the exemption, and answer the following questions: Is the tax exemption for biofuels appropriate based on the parliamentary climatechange?
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Times staff writer, Susan Salter Reynolds, well known for her book reviews and “Discoveries&# column. carbon producers citizen volunteer climatechange energy efficiency environment environmental legislation renewable energy solar power 350.org org Bill McKibben Eaarth Joe Galliani L.A.
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The people whose business model is to wreck the ecology and the climate and profit from it. They know full well what the climate models predict based on a continued burning of their product. . They know that the work they do contributes every day to the wrecking of our climate and all the hell and high water that goes with that.
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