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Climate study warns of snowless Czech winters, summer droughts
Posted by Czech Position: Chris Johnstone on January 10th, 2012
Czech Position: The Czech Republic will be warmer on average by around 4.0 degrees Celsius by the end of the century with the risk of serious droughts every other year and snow remaining for a long time only on the most mountainous areas.
That scenario is the result of climate change modeling put together by around 50 scientists from the Czech Meteorological Office (CHMÚ), Prague's Charles University, and the Czech Academy Of Sciences and publicized for the first time in Tuesday's edition of the Czech daily Hospodárské...
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Global warming delays natural patterns of glaciation, researchers say
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 10th, 2012
Korea Herald: Unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are disrupting normal patterns of glaciation, scientists said.
The Earth's current warm period that began about 11,000 years ago should give way to another ice age within about 1,500 years, according to the study published online Jan. 8 in Nature Geoscience.
However, current levels of carbon dioxide are trapping too much heat in the atmosphere to allow the Earth to cool as it has in its prehistoric past in response to changes...
Israel: ‘Higher temperatures, extreme weather coming’
Posted by Jerusalem Post: Haron Udasin on January 10th, 2012
Jerusalem Post: An Environmental Protection Ministry climate change report predicts that over the next decade, the country will see an annual decrease in rainfall, and increases in temperature, southern desertification, heat waves, periods of torrential rains and flooding.
“Global climate change is already here – that’s a fact,” Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan said in a statement released by his office. “We are all experiencing the manifestation of diminishing precipitation, heat waves, floods and...
Concern over seed dispersal risks
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 10th, 2012
BBC: Drivers of biodiversity loss, such as habitat fragmentation and climate change, are threatening seed dispersal around the globe, a study has warned.
Scientists said plant species that were unable to adapt were being driven "to the brink of extinction in most human-modified landscapes".
The way seeds were spread in landscapes had to be given more attention within conservation schemes, they added.
The findings have been published in the journal Biological Conservation.
"The global pollination...
Farmers bear brunt of climate change
Posted by NewsDay: Problem Masau on January 10th, 2012
NewsDay: Farmers across the country have been caught in a catch-22 situation as the summer agricultural season continues to change. Most farmers said in recent years, the decision when to plant has increasingly become a nightmare.
“Traditionally farmers start to plant their seeds in late October, but these years the seasons seem to have changed and the rains are starting to fall regularly in December. Crops which would have been planted in November will wilt because of the dry spell,” said Aaron Hombe,...