Superstorm Sandy blows up into climate talks issue
• ft.comSuperstorm Sandy has emerged as an unlikely cause of contention in fractious global climate talks threatening to run overtime into Saturday after delegates failed to agree a deal.
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As climate warms, Arctic spawns massive ice islands
• edition.cnn.comIn mid-July this year, a roar echoed around one of the most remote inlets of northern Greenland -- and an island was born.
Climate Justice Advocates Slam Doha's Emerging 'Sham of a Deal'
• Common Dreams'Sluggish' climate talks missing essential ingredient—Urgency—as COP18 climate summit in Doha nears end.
Upper Atmospheric Variation
• arcleine whether previous findings of a "discernible human influence" on tropospheric and stratospheric temperature were sensitive to current uncertainties in climate models and satellite data.
Bella Gaia
• http://world.the-environmentalist.orgA new and unforgettable video by director and composer, Kenji Williams, compiling views from NASA and other sources of the Bella Gaia, the beautiful Earth.
Leave the Carbon in the Ground: An Open Letter to Governments and Their Negotiators
• Common DreamsTo really address climate change UNFCCC-COP18 should decide to leave under the soil more than 2/3 of the fossil reserves
'Alarming' Year of Extremes as Climate 'Tipping Point' Looms
• Common DreamsUN groups issue stark warnings at climate summit in Doha
Global Temperature in Decline?
• arcleinThe most recent global temperature record, released this week, shows the average global temperature fell last year for the second year. There is now general agreement that the rising trend has stalled. This is the background against which governments
Politicians urged to seize the moment on climate change after Sandy
• The Guardian via RawStory.comHurricane Sandy might be fresh in the American public’s memory, but for advocates seeking action on climate change time is running out.
Britain delays emissions cut decision to 2016
• RawStory.comThe British government’s long-awaited legislation to secure investment in low-carbon energy will not include a target to cut emissions by 2030, according to details released on Friday.
Obama under pressure to show Doha he is serious on climate change
• Suzanne Goldenberg via The GuardianThe climate has been back on Obama's lips since his re-election, but the Doha conference will show if he is all talk
Doubts as greenhouse gas leader hosts climate meet
• RawStory.comQatar has much to prove in the coming days as the fossil fuel producing nation with the world’s largest per capita carbon footprint hosts the 18th UN climate change conference.
Anti-consumerist ‘Reverend’: Black Friday boosts global warming
• Arturo Garcia via RawStory.comIn an interview with MSNBC host Alex Witt, Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping linked the journey of millions to storefronts on Black Friday to the global warming that ultimately fueled Superstorm Sandy.
Greenhouse gases rose to record levels in 2011: UN
• RawStory.comThe volume of greenhouse gases causing global warming rose to a new high last year, the UN World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday, warning it is becoming increasingly unlikely the world can limit rising temperatures to UN-backed targets.
UN: Goals on curbing greenhouse gases even further out of reach
• RawStory.comThe gap has widened between countries’ pledges for reducing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and what is needed to keep planet warming in check, the UN warned.
Investment alliance with $22 trillion in assets pleads for urgent climate action
• Stephen C. Webster via RawStory.comAn alliance of some of the world’s largest investment groups, worth a combined total of $22 trillion in assets, urged world leaders this week to take calls for action on climate change seriously.
CIA closes dedicated climate change unit
• RawStory.comThe CIA has shuttered its unit dedicated to studying the impact of climate change on national security, shifting its activities elsewhere, an official said Tuesday.
World Bank warns global temp. could rise devastating 4 degrees this century
• RawStory.comThe World Bank warned Sunday that global temperatures could rise by four degrees this century without immediate action, with potentially devastating consequences for coastal cities and the poor.
Hurricane Sandy Pushing Obama, Romney to Break Climate Silence
• http://www.commondreams.org"The presidential candidates decided not to speak about climate change, but climate change has decided to speak to them"
UN pinpoints climate-linked health risks
• Raw StoryTwo UN agencies on Monday presented a new tool to map health risks linked to climate change and extreme weather conditions, enabling authorities to give advance warnings and act to prevent “climate-sensitive” diseases from spreading.
We Are All from New Orleans Now: Climate Change, Hurricanes and the Fate of America's Coastal Ci
• Common DreamsThe presidential candidates decided not to speak about climate change, but climate change has decided to speak to them.
Upcoming Food Scarcity – Promotion or Reality?
• http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff ReportUN warns on food security as prices hit six-month high ... Food prices around the world jumped by 1.4pc in September to a six-month high, the United Nations said, as the severe US drought cut grain harvests.
Gross Sea Temperature Hits High on NE Continental Shelf
• arcleinfrom the ocean bottom to the sea surface and across the region, and the above average temperatures extended beyond the shelf break front to the Gulf Stream.
An 1800 Year Oceanic Tidal Cycle Driving Climate Change
• arcleinA well defined 1,800-year tidal cycle is associated with gradually shifting lunar declination from one episode of maximum tidal forcing on the centennial time-scale to the next. An amplitude modulation of this cycle occurs with an average peri
Some Time Soon Earth Will Enter A New Ice Age
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Alice RobertsWe're enjoying a relatively long and stable period of pleasant weather at the moment. And by that, I don't mean the past few years or decades. I mean the past 12,000 years or so.
Vicki Arroyo: Let's prepare for our new climate
• http://www.ted.com, TEDGlobal 2012Set aside the politics: Data shows that climate change is happening, measurably, now.
Record Arctic Snow Loss May Be Prolonging North American Drought
• http://www.wired.com, By Brandon KeimMelting Arctic snow isn’t as dramatic as melting sea ice, but the snow may be vanishing just as rapidly, with potentially profound consequences for weather in the United States.
Al Gore to do 'dirty weather report'
• thehill.comAl Gore hopes to show links between climate change and the effects of extreme weather worldwide with an online and social media-fueled event built around the idea of “dirty weather.”
Sea Ice Smashes Record By 500,000 Sq Kms.
• arcleinThis year the ice is “rotten” practically all the way to the North Pole, says Barber, a veteran Arctic researcher and director of the Centre for Earth Observation Science at the University of Manitoba. “The multi-year ice, what’s left of it, is so
News Corp Misleads Audience on Climate Change
• http://www.motherjones.com, By Tim McDonnellBrace yourself for some shocking news: a new study on Friday found that the two major publications of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation greatly mislead their audiences about climate change.
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