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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR ABOUT TO ANNOUNCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL RESOURCE SCIENCE

Submitted by theadminx on Wed, 10/03/2012 - 14:37

Seeking nominations for climate change advisers

The Hill (3 OCT 2012), by Ben Geman

The Interior Department is creating a panel of outside experts to help steer its scientific work on the effects of climate change on natural resources.

The department, in a notice to be published Thursday, will seek nominations for the new, roughly 25-member “Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science.”

Poll: Most Americans doubt Scientology is a true religion...

Submitted by nabashalam on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 22:17

Poll: Most Americans doubt Scientology is a true religion: That is no surprise, of course. What is surprising is that 13 percent of those polled said Scientology is a religion.

IRREVERSIBLE WARMING WILL CAUSE SEA LEVELS TO RISE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO COME, NEW RESEARCH SHOWS

Submitted by theadminx on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 21:45

Science Daily (2 OCT 2012)

Greenhouse gas emissions up to now have triggered an irreversible warming of Earth that will cause sea levels to rise for thousands of years to come, new research has shown. 

The results come from a study, published today (Oct. 2) in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, which sought to model sea-level changes over millennial timescales, taking into account all of Earth's land ice and the warming of the oceans -- something which has not been done before.

CLIMATE CHANGE EXPECTED TO SHRINK FISH: Warmer Oceans Will Starve Them of Oxygen

Submitted by theadminx on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 16:43

Fish are expected to be up to a quarter smaller by 2050 than they are currently as a result of global warming and the expected changes to the marine ecosystem from climate change, according to research published online in the journal Nature Climate Change September 30.

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate1691.html

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Submitted by nabashalam on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 11:58

CLIMATE CHANGE COULD CRIPPLE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES FORESTS

Submitted by theadminx on Sun, 09/30/2012 - 23:33

Trees Face Rising Drought Stress and Mortality as Climate Warms

ScienceDaily (30 SEP 2012)

Combine the tree-ring growth record with historical information, climate records, and computer-model projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim picture for the future of trees in the southwestern United States. That's the word from a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Arizona, and other partner organizations.

CLIMATE CHANGE OFFERS GRIM LONG-TERM PROGNOSIS FOR SEAFOOD

Submitted by theadminx on Sat, 09/29/2012 - 09:25

The ocean acidification caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will disrupt marine ecosystems

Scientific American (28 SEP 2012), by Lauren Morello and ClimateWire

MONTEREY, Calif. -- Move over, polar bear.

The white prowler of Arctic ice fields may now be an icon of climate change, but when it comes to ocean acidification -- the shift in ocean chemistry caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions -- it's the tiny Pacific Northwest oyster that dominates the discussion.

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