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Up to 9% of Methane lost in leaks erodes green credentials of natural gas
Jeff Tollefson. 2 Jan 2013. Methane leaks erode green credentials of natural gas. Losses of up to 9% show need for broader data on US gas industry’s environmental impact. Nature, volume 493 Scientists are once again reporting alarmingly high methane … Continue reading
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Worldwide hunger and starvation
Kenneth R. Weiss. 22 July 2012. As the world’s population grows, hunger persists on a massive scale. Nearly 1 billion people are malnourished, and a child dies of hunger every 11 seconds. Los Angeles Times series “Beyond 7 billion”. … Continue reading
Posted in 2) Collapse, Climate Change, Hunger, Overpopulation, Starvation
Tagged climate change, deforestation, desert, disease, drought, hunger, overpopulation, pests, starvation
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Permafrost Carbon Dioxide
Morello, Lauren. 27 Nov 2012. Large-Scale Melting of Permafrost May Be Underway. Release of CO2 is overlooked in climate models; better monitoring needed. Scientific American. As the climate warms, thawing permafrost could have a major impact on the world’s … Continue reading
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Sea Level Rise
Rising sea levels will make some of the best farm land in the world unavailable (i.e. California’s central valley and other low-lying areas), and the civil wars from billions of people fleeing to higher land already occupied by others will … Continue reading
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Reg Morrison on methane’s potential for another major extinction event
Reg Morrison. 18 Mar 2012. The Climate Debate Is global warming real? Here’s a fresh look at an old argument. http://regmorrison.edublogs.org You should go to the link above, it’s got great PHOTOS and a whole lot more information. EVOLUTION’S SHOTGUN … Continue reading
Posted in Extinction, Runaway Greenhouse
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New finding: Plants far more harmed by Climate change than previous estimates
Shifts in the timing of flowering and leafing in plants due to global warming appear to be much greater than estimated by warming experiments. Predicting plant responses to climate change has important consequences for human water supply, pollination of crops … Continue reading
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Extreme heat lowers wheat yields
3 Feb 2012. Extreme heat ages vital crop. New Scientist. Global warming will have a bad effect on heat-sensitive wheat, slashing yields even more than was originally feared IT COULD be much harder than we thought to feed everyone in … Continue reading
Posted in 2) Collapse, Climate Change, Food
Tagged climate change, food production, global warming, wheat
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Biodiversity in glacier-fed rivers threatened by climate change
So many of these articles belong in several different places, the web of life is hard to categorize and put in one spot. 16 Mar 2012. “Glacial river biodiversity”. Nature Climate Change. Glacial melt water increases biodiversity in mountainous freshwater … Continue reading
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Global warming temperature could get hot enough to make earth uninhabitable for us
Due to limits of human heat tolerance, much of Earth’s surface may not be habitable by 2300 if we continue to emit greenhouse gases at the current rate. Sherwood states that well-known threats like rising oceans and economic depressions are … Continue reading
Posted in Extinction, Heat
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Huge releases of arctic methane
Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. At the American Geophysical Union Meeting in San Francisco, Dr Semiletov announced he’d found an unprecedented amount of methane bubbling up from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (which … Continue reading
Posted in Extinction, Runaway Greenhouse
Tagged extinction, methane, methane hydrate, runaway greenhouse
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