Climate Changes Updates 7 January
- Major Cuts to Surging Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Needed Now, Not Down the Road, Study Finds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130107100053.htm
- Seismic Fabric Coming On the Market
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130107095734.htm
- Counting the Cost of Mercury Pollution
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130107082308.htm
- Carbon market shrinks 36% but signs for a prosperous 2013 remain
http://www.rtcc.org/carbon-market-shrinks-36-but-signs-for-a-prosperous-2013-remain/
- Hobbits set to dominate in a warming world
http://www.rtcc.org/hobbits-set-to-dominate-in-a-warming-world/
- Climate scientists say sea level rise estimates must be increased
http://www.rtcc.org/climate-scientists-say-sea-level-rise-estimates-must-be-increased/
- Prince Charles repeats call for urgent climate change action
http://www.rtcc.org/prince-charles-repeats-call-for-urgent-climate-change-action/
- Prince Charles urges swift climate action as he prepares to become a grandfather
- Dark matter for Greenland melting
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Dark-matter-Greenland-melting.html
- Plans to build 292 Himalayan hydroelectric dams described as “train wreck”
http://www.rtcc.org/sea-level-rise-could-reach-one-metre-by-2100/
- ‘Dome of heat’ covers the continent
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/dome-of-heat-covers-the-continent-20130107-2ccno.html
- Bushfire threatens town in state’s west
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/bushfire-threatens-town-in-states-west-20130107-2cclw.html
- Canberra‘s hot, but Batemans forecast to boil
- Sydney to swelter but heat records won’t be broken
- Fires blaze as state prepares for heatwave
- Biofuels may not be as green as hoped: Nature
- Climate threat to state assets
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-threat-to-state-assets-20130106-2cbfm.html
- New Doubt Cast on Link Between Global Warming and Increased Drought
http://www.enn.com/agriculture/article/45426
- Sea Level Rise
http://www.enn.com/sci-tech/article/45423
- Sea level rise of more than 3 feet plausible by 2100
http://www.enn.com/climate/article/45422
- ‘Reef Balls’: A Strange Name for an Ocean Cure-All
- News
Tennessee Senators Block Reappointment of Energy and Climate Policy Professor to TVA Board
Retiring Republican Chair of House Rules Committee Calls Climate Action a Priority
California Receives Federal Waiver on Vehicle Emission Standards
New York to Increase Energy Efficiency of State Buildings
Gov. O’Malley Orders Maryland Agencies to Consider Sea Level Rise in Building Placement
Kyoto Protocol’s Second Commitment Period Began Jan. 1, 2013
Post-Sandy, Rebuilding Quickly Versus Rebuilding Resiliently
Arctic Ocean Absorbing More Solar Energy Than Previously Thought
New Study Finds Methane Leaks of Up to Nine Percent at Fracking Sites