Climate

Sea change for shore habitats

This view from Maupiti in the Society Islands (French Polynesia) gives a fantastic panorama of the reef and higher ground vegetation that will survive sea-level rise. Many endangered plants, though,...

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The Big Climate Debate

This is or was the Frio River in Texas. Drought for several years has somewhat reduced the flow. It has always been known as a cool (frio) and consistently flowing...

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Extreme global warming from carbon emissions

The US has worked out how the continental heat builds up, then rolls out, over poor old Texas at the moment; US heat form image Credit: US National Weather Service...

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Oceans 2012

The Titanics will be safe at last- no more icesheets or bergs if the melt continues at this rate!; Iceberg Image Credit:Shutterstock Around this globe of ours, there have been...

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WMO on extreme climate

Hurricanes and other extreme events are damaging even the biggest economies. More than just the road closed when Katrina hit New Orleans; Hurricane Katrina damage image; Credit: © Shutterstock Many...

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Ice disappearance accelerates

The icebergs of the Antarctic have now started appearing with the size of Manhattan Island or the city of Chicago. A fleet of them could be very impressive, but consider...

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What Climate Change? (the instruments have all been cut)

Jason-2 Satellite illustration; Credit: © CNES Professor John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota is a researcher in climate monitoring and renewable energy generation, particularly in Africa,...

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Coal, oil and gas are killing climate

Here is the Australian Climate Commission's complex figure showing global warming resulting largely from the burning of fossil fuel; image; Credit: Australian Climate Commission The Australians have suffered more than...

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HFCs to be reduced?

No, it's not the hot, friendly cows. It's your refrigerator and air conditioning that's causing all the US and Chinese pollution of the ozone layer; Cow image; Credit: © Shutterstock...

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Wildfires are lasting longer

The new sprouts of recovery after a disastrous forest fire give some hope for the future, but not for those whose homes have been destroyed; Wildfire aftermath image; Credit: ©...

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