Sunday 27 May 2012

Climate stuff from the week 14-20/5/12

[video] This is Not Cool: Murderers, Tyrants, and Madmen. Fossil fuel and motor industry advocates such as the Heartland Institute have been doing really sick things recently, including comparing people who don't deny the science of global warming to terrorists and serial killers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77VejUbuFsk

9% of North America's mammals are unlikely to be able to outrun climatic change! Migration is incomparably faster than adaptation, and yet even this proportion of *mammals* seem set to extinction due to the changing environments in which they live
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-one-tenth-hemisphere-mammals-outrun-climate.html

UN talks take first steps on 2015 climate deal
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-climate.html

Utah and Harvard researchers have developed a way to identify the sources of CO2eq emissions, using concentration measurements, and weather data.
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-co2-global-scientists-future-greenhouse.html

Thunderclouds trap pollution close to the ground, exacerbating its effect
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-pollution-teams-thunderclouds-atmosphere.html

Yep. Australia's been getting hotter too
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-years-climate-australia.html

Did you know the tropic of cancer is drifting northward? Well it is. Black carbon and tropospheric ozone is causing the atmosphere around the middle of the earth to expand, pushing its borders further toward the pole!
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-black-carbon-tropospheric-ozone-earth.html

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