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Russia: Climate scientists withheld Yamal data despite warnings from senior colleagues
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 9th, 2010
Guardian: In a unique experiment, The Guardian has published online the full manuscript of its major investigation into the climate science emails stolen from the University of East Anglia, which revealed apparent attempts to cover up flawed data; moves to prevent access to climate data; and to keep research from climate sceptics out of the scientific literature. As well as including new information about the emails, we will allow web users to annotate the manuscript to help us in our aim of ...
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Comments Off on Russia: Climate scientists withheld Yamal data despite warnings from senior colleaguesAustralia: WA drought ‘could be worst for 750 years’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 9th, 2010
WA Today: Scientists have made a surprising link between climate patterns in Australia and Antarctica. If you thought the drought affecting south-west WA since the 1970s was extreme, you were right. But just how extreme has been a matter of contention. Now, scientists believe it could be the worst of its kind in 750 years, after making an unexpected discovery. Researchers from the Australian Antarctic Division and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-operative Research ...
U.S. proposes new climate service
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 9th, 2010
Washington Post: The Obama administration proposed a new climate service on Monday that would provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service, modeled loosely on the 140-year-old National Weather Service, would provide forecasts to farmers, regional water managers and businesses affected by changing climate conditions. The move is essentially a reorganization of NOAA, ...
RELEASE: Global Campaign to Protect and Restore Old Forests Gaining Traction
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on February 9th, 2010
Campaigns to end industrial primary rainforest logging in Papua New Guinea and Madagascar based upon ecological science, and meant to end corruption and ecological harm
By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org
Ecological Internets (EI) ongoing campaigns in Madagascar [1] and Papua New Guinea [2] (PNG) to end primary forest logging [search] (please continue to take action below), is part of EIs global networks campaign to globally protect and restore old forests. Ecological science reveals forest and other terrestrial ecosystem destruction to be a primary cause of climate change, biodiversity loss, water and soil degradation, and social disintegration. Yet forest policy-makers, including major environmental groups, continue to assert sustainable forest management and FSC certified logging of primary and old-growth forest logging is possible and desirable. They are wrong, as ecologically intact old forests are vital components of Earths biosphere and are the optimal land cover to absorb and hold carbon long-term, while maintaining biodiversity and operable ecosystems, and the Earth System.
The term old forests is used to encompass primary unlogged forests, late successional natural regrowth, and planted mixed-species forests regaining old-growth characteristics. Forests logged industrially for the first time are permanently ecologically damaged in ...
Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on RELEASE: Global Campaign to Protect and Restore Old Forests Gaining TractionIndia: Need for precise information on climate change: Saran
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 8th, 2010
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 ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on India: Need for precise information on climate change: SaranForgotten Species: the fiery Luristan Newt
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 8th, 2010
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
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 8th, 2010
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 ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Australia: Ice core research could back climate change claimsClimate scientists hit out at ‘sloppy’ melting glaciers error
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 8th, 2010
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 ...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Climate scientists hit out at ‘sloppy’ melting glaciers error“We cannot eat electricity”
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 8th, 2010
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’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 8th, 2010
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 ...