News: Archive for October, 2014
‘Ocean acidification has risen by a quarter since pre-industrial times as a result of rising carbon emissions, casting a shadow over the seas as a future source of food, scientists warned Wednesday.’
via Scientists sound alarm over ocean acidification | AFP.com.
‘Climate change could affect the ratio of human males to human females that are born in some countries, a new study from Japan suggests. The researchers found that male fetuses may be particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.’
via Climate change could alter male-female ratio – CBS News.
‘The US oil and gas boom has been one of the biggest and most consequential energy stories of the last decade. And one of the best books for understanding how that boom is affecting America is Michael Levi’s The Power Surge, published back in 2013.’
‘Warnings like these might appear to explain the urgency about climate change shown these days by the Obama administration, where almost every top official has been declaring it the world’s biggest, potentially catastrophic threat.’
‘But in fact those quotes point more to the futility of efforts to stop it.’
via Wasting Money On An Already Lost Battle Against Climate Change? – Investors.com.
‘Thirty-five thousand walrus on a beach in Alaska, rolling in filth and the carcasses of their kin, have become the unwitting new poster children for climate change.’
via Are walrus at risk from climate change? | Environment | theguardian.com.
‘Nowadays, when there’s a killer heat wave or serious drought somewhere, people wonder: Is this climate change at work? It’s a question scientists have struggled with for years. And now there’s a new field of research that’s providing some answers. It’s called “attribution science” — a set of principles that allow scientists to determine when it’s a change in climate that’s altering weather events … and when it isn’t.’
via When Can A Big Storm Or Drought Be Blamed On Climate Change? : NPR.
‘Earth lost half its wildlife in the past four decades, according to the most comprehensive study of animal populations to date, a far larger decline than previously reported.’
via Wildlife Numbers Drop by Half Since 1970, Report Says – WSJ.
‘The extreme atmospheric conditions associated with California’s crippling drought are far more likely to occur under today’s global warming conditions than in the climate that existed before humans emitted large amounts of greenhouse gases.’
via Stanford scientists say drought linked to climate change.
‘The goal of last week’s climate summit at the United Nations was “to raise political momentum for a meaningful universal climate agreement in Paris in 2015.” But previous attempts at such agreements have ended in frustration.’
via Is a Global Climate Treaty Only a Pipe Dream? – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com.
‘The People’s Climate March in New York City on Sept. 21 promised to be “the largest climate march in history.” If media coverage is any indicator, it was. According to Google Trends, news headlines in September mentioned the phrase “climate march” more than any time in the history of the service’s data collection.’
via How Many People Really Showed Up To The People’s Climate March? | FiveThirtyEight.