Real Climate Science

http://geology.about.com/

http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-08-18/dioxide.htm

Maybe the UN can sacrifice a goat?

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0404/1224293734092.html

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

A Queensland climate change scientist says the world has only another decade to reduce greenhouse gasses to save the Great Barrier Reef.

The director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, Professor Ove Hoegh Guldberg, is addressing a climate change conference in Cairns in the far north today.

Professor Hoegh says coral bleaching events are becoming more frequent because of rising sea temperatures and levels.

He says good management and the low population along the Great Barrier Reef have helped it bounce back in the past, but it could be gone in 40 years if carbon emissions are not reduced.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/04/3181225.htm

This is the view of leading Western District farmer, Mark Wootton, a self-described climate-change sceptic turned renewable energy lobbyist.

The trained geographer says his view changed as the weight of scientific evidence that human actions were causing climate change grew, and he now accepts the validity of the mainstream scientific view.

Now he argues that whether they “believe” the science of climate change or not, farmers can benefit by learning more about carbon markets.

And he says farming is to play a big role in solving climate change but to enable this, governments urgently need to put more money into extensive agricultural research and development.

http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/

Global warming will be a hot topic for the delegates gathered this week in Bangkok, writes FRANK McDONALD

WITH WORLD attention grabbed by a succession of natural disasters in New Zealand and Japan as well as popular revolts in north Africa and the Middle East, the United Nations will be seeking this week to put climate change back on the international agenda.

Nearly four months after last year’s moderately successful climate summit in the Mexican resort of Cancún, delegates from 193 countries have gathered in Bangkok for a preliminary round of talks aimed at paving the way for progress at next December’s summit in Durban.

They’re conscious that global warming “hasn’t gone away, you know”, as Gerry Adams TD once said of the Provisional IRA.

Indeed, 2010 was officially one of the hottest years on record, with heatwaves, floods, landslides, forest fires and other “extreme weather events”.

http://www.irishtimes.com/

When they said “snow is a thing of the past” what they meant was “bare ground is a thing of the past.”

http://www.weatherstreet.com//local_forecast_files/maine-snow-cover.htm

The Earth teeters on the brink of fiery destruction. Hansen gave Obama until 2012 to pull us back from certain CO2 meltdown. Will Hansen grant Obama an extension?

http://www.csmonitor.com/

http://news.google.com/newspapers

It turns out that the Arctic is actually very cold. Who could have imagined?

http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/2011/04/03/resolute-resignation/