Posted by Skycypher in Accelerating Shift, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Tipping Point on 08 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Arctic ice ‘is at tipping point’
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
Scientists suggest the Arctic is already at a climatic “tipping point”
Arctic sea ice has shrunk to the second smallest extent since satellite records began, US scientists have revealed.
The National Snow and...
Posted by Skycypher in Accelerating Shift, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, High Energy Prices on 06 1st, 2008 | No Comments
Get used to high food costs, water shortages
May 28, 2008
Climate report offers a dire look at next 50 years in U.S.
By ROBERT McCLURE AND TOM PAULSON
P-I REPORTERS
Shocked by rising food prices? Get used to it — and be ready for water shortages, too, says a sweeping new scientific report rounding up likely effects of climate change on the...
Al Gore’s updated slide show
In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought...
Posted by Skycypher in Accelerating Shift, Climate Change, Global Warming on 03 18th, 2008 | No Comments
Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013′
By Jonathan Amos
Science reporter, BBC News, San Francisco
Arctic summer melting in 2007 set new records
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