Climate Changes Updates 8-10 July 2013
1) Antarctic’s Pine Island glacier produces giant iceberg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23249909
2) Climate change’s heat intensifies drought in the USA
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/09/climate-change-drought-texas/2451409/
3) Climate Change Could Make Hurricanes Stronger—and More Frequent
4) Droughts could hit food production in England in 2020s, report warns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/10/droughts-hot-dry-summers-england
5) Trees Use Water More Efficiently as Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130710141845.htm
6) Cloud Brightening to Cool Seas Can Protect Coral Reefs: Targeted Cooling Could Offer a 50-Year ‘Breathing Space’ for Coral Protection
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130710103434.htm
7) Birds Outpace Climate Change to Avoid Extinction
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130710062444.htm
8) Evolution Too Slow to Keep Up With Climate Change
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130709175747.htm
9) How Early Earth Kept Warm Enough to Support Life
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130709155642.htm
10) Nanomaterial to Help Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130709115024.htm
11) Glimpse Into the Future of Acidic Oceans Shows Ecosystems Transformed
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130708171040.htm
12) Innovative Study Estimates Extent to Which Air Pollution in China Shortens Human Lives
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130708161941.htm
13) Sydney’s Urban Areas to Be Hit Hardest by Global Warming
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130708115148.htm
14) Earthworms Could Help Scientists ‘Dig’ Into Past Climates
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130708102924.htm
15) Climate change to strain water supplies used by power plants: study
16) Businesses offered environmental qualifications to drive greener workforce
17) Power plants near river mouths cause less damage to ecosystems
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/53984
18) Chinese lose 2.5 billion years of life expectancy due to coal burning
http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/46193
19) Global Warming Down Under
http://www.enn.com/climate/article/46192
20) Climate change will still not be taught in English primary schools
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/jul/08/climate-change-geography-national-curriculum
21) “You won’t find climate change deniers on the fire line in the American west”
22) CO2 making the deserts bloom
http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/co2-making-deserts-bloom.html
23) Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming
http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-global-warming-basic.html
- Comment: it’s time for the fourth era of climate change
http://www.rtcc.org/comment-its-time-for-the-fourth-era-of-climate-change/
25) Congress tells NASA to prioritise Mars exploration over climate change
http://www.rtcc.org/congress-tells-nasa-to-prioritise-mars-exploration-over-climate-change/
- Comment: education is the key to addressing climate change
http://www.rtcc.org/comment-education-is-the-key-to-addressing-climate-change/
27) Acting up – climate change cause needs performers’ help
http://theconversation.com/acting-up-climate-change-cause-needs-performers-help-14822
28) Birds have potential to adapt to climate change
http://theconversation.com/birds-have-potential-to-adapt-to-climate-change-15961
29) Beefing up the planet adds more global warming
30) Microbes will inherit Earth as Sun gets hotter