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Wilkins ice shelf collapse continues
Cross-posted from The Great Beyond Following the collapse on April 4 of a narrow ice bridge that had connected the Wilkins ice shelf with a small island off the Antarctic Peninsula, the northern ice...
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The wheel of climate fortune
This week’s Nature has an extended climate special made of original research papers, features, commentaries, editorials, essays and book reviews. Here’s the content at a glance. An uplifting read the...
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Perestroika and permafrost
Russia has been a rather puzzling actor in the complicated diplomatic game which resulted in the Kyoto protocol, and which will be played out again in Copenhagen in December. Climate warming doesn’t...
View ArticleEurope looks to draw power from the Sahara
Cross-posted from The Great Beyond A gargantuan plan of supplying European consumers with electricity generated in the Saharan desert could see the light of day earlier than even the most optimistic...
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Why carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 24 million years or so have never dropped below 200 parts per million, despite environmental conditions that have been favourable for CO2 drawdown by...
View ArticleWhat the G8 target means
The G8 meeting last week – the last get-together of the leaders of the world’s major industrialized nations before the United Nations climate summit in December – was loaded with expectations as to...
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Warming speeds carbon release from peat
Northern peatlands, typical for subarctic Scandinavia and Russia, contain one third of the world’s soil organic carbon. How much extra carbon these soils will release to the atmosphere, through...
View ArticleThe real holes in climate science
When I started working last month on a news feature about gaps in climate science I was expecting a tough reporting job. Too fresh, so I thought, were the scars the field and many leading scientists...
View ArticleMet Office calls for improved global temperature record
The UK Met Office has asked the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to create a new state-of-the art dataset of global land surface air temperatures for improved climate diagnostics. Three...
View ArticleJudith Curry and Michael Mann speak out
The current issue of Discover has a couple of interesting interviews with prominent climate scientists Judy Curry of Georgia Tech and Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University. Not surprisingly,...
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