Archive for February 8th, 2010

India: Need for precise information on climate change: Saran

Press Trust of India: Against the backdrop of an IPCC report making a wrong conclusion about Himalayan glaciers melting, Prime Minister`s Special Envoy on Climate Change Shyam Saran on Monday harped on more research to generate precise information on the matter. "It is clear that climate is changing. Now we need precise information on the subject," he said. Mr. Saran`s views assume significance in the wake of a report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wrongly concluding that ...

Forgotten Species: the fiery Luristan Newt

Mongabay: Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have received little attention from the media, conservation groups, and the public. This series is an attempt to give these 'forgotten species' some well-deserved attention. The salamander was a mythical creature before it was a real one: the word salamander means a legendary lizard that both ...

Australia: Ice core research could back climate change claims

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A 750-year-old core of ice showing a link between increased snow over Antarctica and drought in south-west Western Australia could provide evidence that the climate is changing because of human activity. Dr Tas van Ommen, from the Australian Antarctic Division, has studied the ice core taken from from Law Dome in eastern Antarctica. His research shows that rainfall over south-west Western Australia has decreased between 15 and 20 per cent since the 1960s, while snowfall at Law ...

Climate scientists hit out at ‘sloppy’ melting glaciers error

Guardian: Climate scientists who worked on the UN panel on global warming have hit out at "sloppy" colleagues from other disciplines who introduced a mistake about melting glaciers into the landmark 2007 report. The experts, who worked on the section of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that considered the physical science of global warming, say the error by "social and biological scientists" has unfairly maligned their work. Some said that Rajendra Pachauri, the ...

“We cannot eat electricity”

Thanh Nien: Both local and international experts said at a forum on the Mekong River environment organized by the Can Tho University on Wednesday that the dams will seriously threaten food security in riparian countries. Dao Trong Tu, former Vietnam country coordinator for the Mekong River Commission, said three hydropower dams are already under construction in China, and another 11 were planned in Laos and Cambodia. La Chhuon, an expert of Oxfam Australia in Cambodia, said fishermen in ...

Australia: WA drought is ‘proof of climate change’

AAP: The author behind a new study linking 30-year drought in Western Australia with heavy snowfall in Antarctica says it is strong evidence man-made greenhouse gases have provoked dramatic climate change. The Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Tasmania said it had found a direct link between snowfall in eastern Antarctica and rainfall in Australia's southwest. The heavier it snows in Antarctica, the less it rains in southern WA, the centre ...