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6-Oct-08

Seas turn to acid as they soak up CO2

"Scientists calculate that the seas are absorbing so much carbon dioxide that they are 30 per cent more acidic than they were at the start of the Industrial Revolution."

Category: Climate Change

3-Oct-08

Yup'ik Eskimos: The first climate refugees

"For more than 2,000 years the Yup'ik Eskimos have carved out a subsistence living on the frozen wastes of southwest Alaska. But now the ice is melting the village is having to move to a new site, and the world's first...

Category: Climate Change

3-Oct-08

Short versus long term: To what climate are we adapting?

"Moves to adapt our society for a changing climate may have focused rather too much on long-term scenarios and not enough on how to cope with weather and short-term variability, argues Mike Hulme. He says the past two British...

Category: Climate Change

3-Oct-08

UK urged to fund space climate observation project

"The UK government has been urged to fund the next stage of a major European programme to monitor the effects of global climate change from space."

Category: Climate Change, Space

2-Oct-08

Met Office warns of need for drastic cuts in greenhouse gases from 2010

"• 3% a year may keep temperature rise to 2C • Study says inaction could have dire consequences... The world will have to take drastic action within two years to reduce greenhouse gas pollution if it is to avoid the worst...

Category: Climate Change

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