Climate

IPCC: A final breakthrough?

Sitaantaagu or the Mendenhall Glacier, within the Alaskan Juneau ice field was studed by John Muir, but he never saw the new Mendenhall lake and even this erratic boulder looks...

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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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