Why a 2-6deg temperature rise is bad
Professor Barry Brook over at has a couple of great posts (and simple and easy to understand) on why a temperature rise of 2-6 deg C will be not-so-good for us all.
Archive for the ‘Global Warming Effects’ Category
The world is melting, faster
News of Switzerland and Italy changing their borders due to melting glaciers. Scientists are shocked over the rate of Siberian permafrost melt.
India disappearing under the ocean: video
Kinda makes me being worried about being able to go snowboarding a little redundant at that point. When people are directly affected and lose their livelihoods and land, skiing and snowboarding kind of seems unimportant all of a sudden.
Climate change: here, now – Part II the human toll
The woman says she checks every couple of hours to make sure her husband is not lying in his orchard with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his head. When the meeting is over, the counselor adds their names to a suicide watch list.
The melting continues and Wilkins’ bridge collapses
The NSIDC has released the March figures for Arctic ice extent.
Importantly, they describe how the decline in older ice continues. This is important, because more 1st-year ice means more susceptibility to higher melt.
Australian BOM analyses recent heatwave
The Australian BOM analyses the recent SE Aust heatwave
The Siberian Tundra melt – why this matters to you
Why the Siberian permafrost melt is bad news for you
Climate change trajectory – very fast
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Dead wrong. Key word there is dead.
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Is climate change adaptation expensive?
Why acting on climate change won’t prove expensive.
Global Warming, here, now
Sometimes the climate change problem seems so overwhelming that many of us feel there’s little one person can do. After all, it’s caused in large part by huge power plants burning tonnes of coal per hour, hundreds of millions of cars and billions of tonnes of CO2, so how does changing my light bulbs help?