It takes 196,000 pounds of plants to produce a gallon of gasoline. It takes 40 acres of plants, roots, stalks, and leaves, to go 20 miles in the average car. This is how much ancient plant matter had to be buried millions of years ago to produce one gallon of gas. It is just incredible…
From Berkeley press release: Vegetation around the world is on the move, and climate change is the culprit, according to a new analysis of global vegetation shifts led by a University of California, Berkeley, ecologist in collaboration with researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Researchers present(ed) evidence that over the past century,…
I was chasing down the location of one of my favorite webcams today – Brooks Lake Lodge in the Shoshone National Forest just east of Grand Teton National Park and immediately south of Yellowstone National Park. I was curious as to the elevation of the lodge, they had a good snow year there this year…
From the Telegraph: "Rising temperatures have melted much of the ice on the steep trail to the summit and climbers are struggling to get traction on the exposed rock surface, according to the 49-year-old Sherpa, known only as Apa. The melting ice has also exposed deep crevasses which climbers could fall into, and experts have…
Not in the future, this is happening now. New research by a team from Italy including Dr. Renato Ariano, director of the allergy service at Bordighera Hospital in Italy shows that higher temperatures and longer growing seasons are lengthening the pollination period for some plants and trees. This increases the pollen load they produce and…
Warm winters in recent years have caused reindeer herders to repeatedly delay the rounding up of their herds. They have moved the slaughter from the traditional time of December to February because the lakes are not freezing over until then. The reindeer lose 20 percent of their weight during the wait. The AFP report quotes…
Every year or two, one or more of the Great Lakes will freeze over and ignite a winter storm of fury about how the Algorians (Al-Gore-ians)are wrong again. The Great Lakes are freezing over so the climatemongers must be wrong. The reality of course is that our planet is warming and it is warming faster…
This was a very interesting study. Harvard University scientists have compared the meticulous notes kept by Thoreau’s at Walden pond to the site today. Their results show that climate change has had a definite impact. In a prepared statement, one of the authors (C. Davis) says "These results demonstrate for the first time that climate…
June 17, 2009 http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts
Two degrees are in the bag. Now the EPA acts… We don’t get those two degrees back back even if we stopped emitting all greenhouse gases today. We should have acted when Kyoto said. The scientist new what they were up too, even though it seems that everything they do these days is conservative. Three…
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan research has shown. Even with the significant ice coverage this year. Lake Michigan is near normal to a bit above average this year, Superior has more ice than in the last six years. The U.S. December – Feb temp was 0.58 degrees above normal even though…
March 14, 2009 The stern report was the second most important report after the IPCC 3rd Assessment in 2001 and likely the most important political report on climate change ever written. It was commissioned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and was published in the middle of the Bush reign It could not have made…
One of the most often repeated impacts of climate change is the disappearance of the glaciers from Glacier National Park. The science has been that the year 2030 would see the melting of the last glacier. The glaciers of Glacier National Park have melted by 67 percent in the past hundred years. Unfortunately, temperatures in…
IPY is the largest internationally coordinated planetary research effort in the past 50 years. More than 160 endorsed science projects are included in this report from researchers in more than 60 countries from the period March 2007 to March 2009 to allow for observations during the alternate seasons in both polar regions. The IPY is…
MIT projections are almost double the IPCCs. Very scary stuff, and this makes four major publications in as many weeks that the media has not acknowledged. And it is great climate change art too. The "no policy scenario" is business as usual. The policy scenario is the middle scenario of several likely alternatives used by…
(170 pages) Ecological thresholds occur when external factors, positive feedbacks, or nonlinear instabilities in a system cause changes to propagate in a domino-like fashion that is potentially irreversible. Atmospheric carbon dioxide has reached levels unprecedented in possibly the last 24 million years. CO2 concentrations have risen by 34%, mostly in the last several decades. Global…
