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Climate change media to 20 January 2009
SUSTAINABILITY--------------
Halt all carbon emissions by 2050: Worldwatch
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE50C7LS20090114
Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, 14 January 2009
To avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, world carbon emissions will have to drop to near zero by 2050 and "go negative" after that, the Worldwatch Institute reported on Tuesday.
REPORT
•• http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5984
BLOG
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/rooted/2009/01/15/negative-emissions-needed-for-a-safe-climate-world-watch-institute
Is Your ‘Ecology’ Deep or Shallow?
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/is-your-ecology-deep-or-shallow/
Andrew Revkin, DotEarth, 16 January 2009
I’m belatedly exploring the passing of Arne Naess, the philosopher and mountaineer who divided ecological thinking and action into deep and shallow.
ENERGY & INNOVATION-------------
Paint it white
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/16/white-paint-carbon-emissions-climate
David Adam, The Guardian, 16 July 2009
Global warming may seem like an overwhelmingly complex problem to tackle. But one scientist thinks the answer is brilliantly simple: all we need is white paint.
Nuclear power: a real solution?
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2464945.htm
Barry Brook, ABC Unleashed, 14 January 2009
DEBATE
http://www.marklynas.org/2008/11/14/nuclear-power-greenpeace-responds
http://www.marklynas.org/2009/1/5/tom-blees-rebuttal-to-greenpeace-on-nuclear
POLITICS & POLICY---------
•• Obama's new climate advisor
http://usclimateaction.org/userfiles/flash/Holdren.html
Address by Professor John Holdern, Barak Obama's climate advisor, at the "American Response to Climate Change Conference" at The Wild Center, Tupper Lake New York, 25-26 June 2008.
'We have only four years left to act on climate change - America has to lead'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/18/obama-climate-change
Robin McKie, The Observer, 18 January 2009
In this rare interview in New York, Jim Hansen explains why President Obama's administration is the last chance to avoid flooded cities, species extinction and climate catastrophe
As Europe fiddles, US may take lead on climate change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/13/climate-change-united-states-eu
Fred Pearce, The Guardian, 13 January 2009
With a new administration and Congress, America appears ready to commit itself to tackling global warming
Rudd: Giving up on climate change?
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8385
Mike Pope, OnLineOpinion, 14 January 2008
Communicating the Science of Climate Change
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/01/communicating-the-science-of-climate-change/langswitch_lang/sw
RealClimate, 12 January 2009
SCIENCE & IMPACTS-----------
The hydrate hazard
http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0902/full/climate.2009.2.html
Anna Armstrong, nature Reports Cimate Change, 15 January 2009
A moderate increase in sea-floor temperature could trigger the widespread release of methane from ocean hydrates, finds new research.
Tibetan glacial shrink to cut water supply by 2050
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N16295929.htm
Timothy Gardner, Reuters, 16 January 2008
Nearly 2 billion people in Asia, from coastal city dwellers to yak-herding nomads, will begin suffering water shortages in coming decades as global warming shrinks glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, experts said.
AND
Many glaciers will disappear by middle of century and add to rising sea levels, expert warns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/19/glacier-rising-sea-levels
Juliette Jowit, the Guardian, 19 January 2009
Melt rates for 2007 fall but still third worst on record, threat to livelihoods of 2bn dependent on rivers
Rain speeds Antarctic Peninsula glacier melt
http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKTRE50F35D20090116?sp=true
Alister Doyle, Reuters, 16 January 2009
More rain on the Antarctic Peninsula is speeding a melt of glaciers such as the Sheldon, which has retreated 2 km in 20 years and is nudging up world sea levels, a leading expert said.
Something else for the deniers to deny
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/16/133718/826
Joseph Romm, Gristmill, 16 January 2009
The ocean is absorbing less carbon dioxide
Arctic Heats Up More Than Other Places: High Sea Level Rise Predicted
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116111135.htm
ScienceDaily, 16 January 2009
Temperature change in the Arctic is happening at a greater rate than other places in the Northern Hemisphere, and this is expected to continue in the future.
NASA: 'Likely that a new global temperature record will be set within the next 1-2 years'
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/15/114949/536
Joseph Romm, Gristmill, 15 January 2009
The bigger climate news is that "in the period of instrumental measurements, which extends back to 1880 ... The ten warmest years all occur within the 12-year period 1997-2008."
2008 TEMPERATURE DATA
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/
Heard Island: Australia's bellwether on climate change
http://www.theage.com.au/national/heard-island-australias-bellwether-on-climate-change-20090115-7i6p.html
Andrew Darby, The Age, 16 January 2009
THE latest bulletin is in from Australia's home of rapid polar environmental change, and it says the pace is hot.
World's forests gasping for air
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/worlds-forests-gasping-for-air/1405336.aspx
Ros Beeby, Canberra Times, 13 January 2009
The capacity of the world's forests to soak up greenhouse gases has dropped by 40 per cent in the past 20 years, according to a new report.
Slicing and dicing global greenhouse gas data
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/11/192838/298
Jon Rynn, Gristmill, 13 January 2009
King tides -- a glimpse of future sea level rise
http://www.physorg.com/news150998525.html
PhysOrg.com, 12 January 2009
Tomorrow, beach-goers will get a glimpse of what our coastlines may look like in 50 years, when New South Wales and South East Queensland experience the highest daytime ‘king tides’ forecast for 2009
Aborigines to feel climate shift most: report
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/13/2465230.htm
ABC News, 13 January 2009
Antarctic ice shelf set to collapse
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/20/2469687.htm
ABC New, 20 January 2009
A huge Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent.
Signs of alarm among fauna at bottom of the sea
http://www.theage.com.au/national/signs-of-alarm-among-fauna-at-bottom-of-the-sea-20090118-7jyz.html
Andrew Darby, The Age, 19 January 2009
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