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Sea urchin could hold key to tackling climate change
The humble sea urchin could hold the key to turning harmful greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into chalk on an industrial scale, British scientists have revealed. Continue reading
New study documents the natural relationship between CO2 concentrations and sea level
Lead author Dr Gavin Foster, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton which is based at NOC and Project Coordinator of the “Descent Into the Icehouse2 project, said, “A specific case of interest is one in which CO2 levels are kept at 400 to 450 parts per million, because that is the requirement for the often mentioned target of a maximum of two degrees global warming.” Continue reading
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Tagged carbon dioxide, Desent into the Icehouse, paleoclimatology, sea-levels
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AGU highlight – Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change While Advancing Human Development
Here the Charney Lecture from the AGU meeting earlier this December. Definately, worth the time. Drew Shindell “Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change While Advancing Human Development” There are more interesting videos from selected sessions on the AGU Virtual Meeting site
Ocean Acidification in Google Earth Tour at High CO2 Conference
A new Google Earth tour explores the phenomenon of ocean acidification and explains why even small changes to ocean chemistry could have profound implications for marine life and future economic activities. Continue reading
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What is Climate? Climate Change, Lines of Evidence — video series
The US National Research Council has been doing a lot recently to expand its knowledge exchange on climate change. In a series of videos it explains how scientists have arrived at the current state of knowledge about recent climate change … Continue reading
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Ocean-based Food security threatened in a high CO2 World
A Ranking of Nations’Vulnerability to Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Emissions from human activities are changing the ocean’s chemistry and temperature, in ways that threaten the livelihoods of those who depend on fish and seafood for all or part of … Continue reading
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Climate Change, Migration, and Megacities: Addressing the Dual Stresses of Mass Urbanization and Climate Vulnerability
This article assesses the dual stresses that climate change and climate-induced migration are imposing on megacities in developing and emerging market countries. While cities in these countries are experiencing unprecedented urbanization, impacts of climate change such as desertification, flooding, … Continue reading
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14 measures to reduce warming by targeting short-lived pollutants
Led by NASA researcher Drew Shindell, a double dozen of scientists argue in an article publiched in the journal Science that it is possible to mitigate near-term climate-change and improve human health and food security the same time. They … Continue reading
As climate talks stall, Earth’s ‘carbon sponges’ choke
The location of the discussions may have served as a reminder of the importance of the world’s greatest absorbers of carbon emissions: forests and oceans. Between them – and in roughly equal shares – the planet’s forests and oceans absorb about half the carbon dioxide we pump into the air. Their plight is the subject of two films screened at the 7th edition of the ‘Pariscience’ science film festival, held in the French capital between October 6 and 11. Continue reading
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Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, forests, ocean acidification, oceans
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Antarctic Ice Melt: The Big Picture.Climate Central
A new radar map shows the flow of Antarctica’s massive ice sheet toward the sea in unprecedented, stunning detail, revealing new insight into sea level rise. The vast ice sheets that cover Antarctica are sliding inexorably into the sea. Continue reading
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Tagged Antarctic, climate change, satellites, sea-levels
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