Carbon Footprints
The carbon footprint is a certificate that measure emissions are carbon dioxide (CO2) that are made in the production of goods, from raw material procurement to the treatment of waste, through the manufacturing and transport. Therefore CO2 footprint is the measure of the impact that human activities on the environment and is determined by the amount of greenhouse gases produced,...
Rising rivers set to wreck Bangladesh
Arguments over the causes of global warming will bring little succour to the people of Bangladesh. Flooding in the country is set to increase by up to 40 per cent this century as global temperatures rise, the latest climate models suggest. Each year, roughly a fifth of Bangladesh is flooded, and climate change is forecast to exacerbate the problem as sea levels rise, monsoons become...
Scientists Warn Of Western Drought
ECHO SUMMIT, Calif. — Frank Gehrke skied out on an unseasonably warm March day to take the final Sierra Nevada snowpack measurements of the season near this mountain pass south of Lake Tahoe — only to be stopped short by a muddy meadow where usually there would be deep snow. Something is happening to the snowpack, according to measurements Gehrke has collected...
A new Ice Age? None soon, says study
Evidence from the oldest layers of Antarctic ice ever collected suggests that the earth is not even halfway through the current warm era NEW YORK – Despite the recent trend towards global warming, scientists have long wondered whether the earth is nearing another Ice Age, an end to the 12,000-year temperate spell in which civilisations arose. Some have said such a transition...
Asian farmers sucking the continent dry
The world is on the verge of a water crisis as people fight over ever dwindling supplies, experts told the Stockholm Water Symposium. A generation ago, Indian farmers in the state of Gujarat used bullocks to lift water from shallow wells in leather buckets. Now they haul it from 300 metres below ground using electric pumps. But that technological revolution is about to have devastating...
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Season creep. How global warming is already affecting the world around us. An analysis of the impact of climate change on seasonal cycles
Even though the full impact of global warming has yet to be felt, the world around us is already feeling the heat. According to the latest scientific studies reviewed for…
Vulnerability of African mammals to anthropogenic climate change under conservative land transformation assumptions
Recent observations show that human-induced climate change (CC) and land transformation (LT) are threatening wildlife globally. Thus, there is a need to assess the sensitivity of wildlife on large spatial…
POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON NEW MEXICO
This report has been prepared by state agency personnel pursuant to Governor Richardson’s Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Executive Order 05-033, issued June 9, 2005 (Richardson 2005). The purpose…
Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years
Theory and modellingpredict that hurricane intensity should increase with increasing global mean temperatures, but work on the detection of trends in hurricane activity has focused mostly on their frequencyand shows…
Snow and glacier cover assessment in the high mountains of Sikkim Himalaya
This study highlights the assessment of snow and glacier cover for possible inferences of global climate change impacts in high mountains like the Himalaya. The test catchment of the River…
Climate variability at Marion Island, Southern Ocean, since 1960
In recent decades, instrumental data recorded at the South African Weather Service station on Marion Island (46°54′S and 37°51′E) in the Southern Ocean shows that the local climate of this…
Relationship between increases in global mean temperature and impacts on ecosystems, food production, water and socio-economic systems
This paper attempts to associate different levels of global mean surface temperature increase and/or sea level rise with specific impacts and risks for species, ecosystems, agriculture, water and socio-economic damages…
Potential impact of sea level rise: Nile Delta
Rising sea level would destroy weak parts of the sand belt, which is essential for the protection of lagoons and the low-lying reclaimed lands in the Nile delta of Egypt…
Climate change: small island developing states
Small island developing States (SIDS) have long been recognized by the international community as a special case whose needs and concerns have to be addressed (see box 1). Although these…
Climate change effects on species interactions in an alpine plant community
Author: Kari Klanderud I examined the role of species interactions on the population dynamics of the herb Thalictrum alpinum and the sedge Carex vaginata by removing the dwarf shrub Dryas…
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