| Earth's glaciers and ice caps are shrinking Earth’s glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
University of Colorado Boulder, Tuesday 14 February 2012 |
| UK’s Climate Change Risk Assessment launched The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment has reviewed the evidence for over 700 potential impacts of climate change in a UK context. Detailed analysis was undertaken for over 100 of these impacts across 11 key sectors. Defra, Friday 10 February 2012 |
| Call for abstracts: CIRCLE2 JI on Climate Uncertainties One of the main goals of CIRCLE-2 Joint Initiative (JI) on Climate Uncertainties is to develop and publish advances in the theme of “dealing with and communicating climate and climate change uncertainties in support of adaptation decision-making” in the form of a final publication. CIRCLE, Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
| Public-Private Partnerships to solve the climate crisis More cooperation between government and business is the only road ahead to save the climate, according to former UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer. He spoke at a Nordic Council seminar in Oslo on January 24, where he urged the Nordic countries to take the lead towards a global climate solution. The Nordic Council, Tuesday 24 January 2012 |
| Climate Balancing: sea-level rise vs. surface temperature change rates Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy. Designing the approach to control both sea level rise and rates of surface air temperature changes requires a balancing act to accommodate the diverging needs of different locations. ScienceDaily.com, Wednesday 18 January 2012 |
| UK Hydrological summary for December 2011 published - end of a remarkable year Meteorologically, 2011 was a remarkable year: it was the second warmest in the UK temperature record (from 1910) and was notable for extreme regional disparities in rainfall receipt – with continuing drought conditions in the English Lowlands contrasting dramatically with Scotland, which had its wettest year on record. NERC - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Tuesday 17 January 2012 |
| Managing private and public adaptation to climate change New research has found that individuals and the private sector have an important role to play in the provision of public policies to help society adapt to the impacts of climate change. ScienceDaily.com, Friday 13 January 2012 |
| Climate change is altering mountain vegetation at the large scale Climate change is having a more profound effect on alpine vegetation than at first anticipated, according to a study carried out by an international group of researchers and published in the journal Nature Climate Change. NERC - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Tuesday 10 January 2012 |
| Geographical Patterns of Rainfall Extremes Using statistical analysis methods to examine rainfall extremes in India, a team of researchers has made a discovery that resolves an ongoing debate in published findings and offers new insights. The study reports no evidence for uniformly increasing trends in rainfall extremes averaged over the entire Indian region. It does, however, find a steady and significant increase in the spatial variability of rainfall extremes over the region. WaterLink International / Nature Climate Change, Monday 26 December 2011 |
| Climate sensitivity greater than previously believed Many of the particles in the atmosphere are produced by the natural world, and it is possible that plants have in recent decades reduced the effects of the greenhouse gases to which human activity has given rise. One consequence of this is that the climate may be more sensitive to emissions caused by human activity than we have previously believed. ScienceDaily.com, Wednesday 21 December 2011 |
