Posts tagged: Climate Change

Some Crazy Weather, Australian Style — A Trend, or Just Unusual Weather?

March 23, 2010
Weather is not climate. One region is not global climate. Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that Australia’s bizarrely hot weather last summer – so hot that Koala’s were abandoning their normally shy habits and bonding closely with humans in return for some much needed water and cooling off — was followed by yet [...]

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New Report Concludes Changing Climate Altering Patterns of Migratory Birds

March 13, 2010
The report, a follow-up to a comprehensive report from a year ago showing that almost one-third of the nation’s birds are either threatened or in “significant decline,” was issued by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Thursday.
From the press release:
“For well over a century, migratory birds have faced stresses such as commercial hunting, [...]

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Climate Change Effect Increasingly Visible and Measurable, Broad Studies Review Concludes

March 08, 2010
New research by Britain’s Met Office reviewed more than 100 recent studies on Climate Change.  The review concludes that is is an “increasingly remote possibility” that human activity is not the main cause of observed climate change.
This is not exactly new news. But it does offer additional recent independent studies consistent with the [...]

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South of Australia Got So Hot in Summer 2009, Koalas were Asking People for Water

March 5, 2010
First, the scientific analysis:  This nicely laid out NASA surface map compares the land surface temperature from January 25 to February 1, 2009  to the average mid-summer temperatures the continent experienced between 2000-2008, and shows bizarre land surface temperature anomalies for the last week of January, 2009, or “mid summer.”
In response, Koalas, which [...]

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