Tag: climate change
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Is the jellyfish joyride almost over?
This week, a group of researchers published preliminary results from what will be the most comprehensive review of jellyfish population data. They say that there is not yet enough evidence to support any conclusions about a global upswing in jellyfish populations. “We are not at a point to make these claims,” says Robert Condon, a…
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New study finds ocean acidification reduces coral recruitment
Hardly a week goes by without a new study being published that documents another negative impact of ocean acidification on ocean life. Now a new paper by Chris Doropoulos (Doropoulos et al 2012) from Ove Hoegh-Guldberg’s lab at UQ reports findings of an experiment suggesting that acidification can even reduce coral recruitment. Crazy! Coral “recruitment” is…
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Marching towards 400 ppm
From CO2now
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Warmer climate threatens ‘antifreeze’ fish
From Futurity; Fish with “anti-freeze” proteins evolved to survive arctic waters, and climate warming may now endanger their survival, research shows. “A rise of 2 degrees centigrade of water temperature will likely have a devastating impact on this Antarctic fish lineage, which is so well adapted to water at freezing temperatures,” says Thomas Near, associate…
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Breaking news: Denialgate – Internal Heartland documents expose climate denial funding network
Internal Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the heart of the climate denial machine – its current plans, many of its funders, and details that confirm what DeSmogBlog and others have reported for years. The heart of the climate denial machine relies on huge corporate and foundation funding from U.S. businesses including Microsoft, Koch Industries,…
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Drowning out the truth about the Great Barrier Reef
Below is a repost of an article by Dr Ove Hoegh-Guldberg in The Conversation. One of the most straightforward climate change storylines is the link between global warming and coral reefs such as the Great Barrier Reef. When our reef waters get too warm, corals sicken (bleach), often causing disease and death. And when the corals go,…
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Great Decision 2012: The future of the ocean
How can we save the world? What can an average Joe Blow on the street like us, without a colossal wad of cash to pay nefarious lobbyists, do to nudge the ship of state in the right direction? One answer, not very sexy but more effective than just changing your light bulbs, is active participation…
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The smoking gun: plot by fossil fuel giant to further corrupt the Aussie media exposed
An explosive new piece of investigative journalism Monckton, Rinehart and a plan to capture the Australian media by Aussie super journo Graham Readfearn is turning the climate change world upside down. Emmett just blogged about the corruption of our media and I had an interesting email conversation yesterday with him, Randy Olson and Steve Miller about enviro communication. Steve echoed…
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Why, you ask, is big oil misinforming us about climate change?
Bill McKibben has a new piece (excerpted below) about all this crazy weather, climate change, the carbon bubble, and why big oil is out to wreck our planet: If we spew 565 gigatons more carbon into the atmosphere, we’ll quite possibly go right past that reddest of red lines. But the oil companies, private and state-owned, have…
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Money and the root of all climate change denial
[I started writing this as an addition to a string of interesting and thoughtful comments on John’s excellent post, which questions whether it is really the incompetence of scientists that’s responsible for the failure of this country to recognize climate change. But decided to post it up here instead.] There are a host of factors…