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Science paper examines role of aerosols in climate change
A group of scientists affiliated with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) have proposed a new framework to account more accurately for the effects of aerosols on precipitation in climate models.   view more (2008-09-08)

AMENDED CONVENTION WIDENS EUMETSAT’S REMIT
All Member States have now finally approved EUMETSAT’s amended Convention which widens the Organisation’s objectives to include the operational monitoring of the climate and detection of climate change. The Convention is the legal basis for EUMETSAT. It is a treaty under international law amongst all the Member States that constitutes... view more... (2000-11-17)

Ocean temperatures and sea level increases 50 percent higher than previously estimated
New research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.    view more (2008-06-19)

Linking Climate, Water and Civilisation in the Middle East and North Africa
A novel and exciting study that will provide new insights into the key relationships between climate, water availability and human activities in the semi-arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is getting under way at the University of Reading. The research will help shape our perception of the past, present and future of one of... view more... (2004-08-06)

Television Has Less Effect on Education about Climate Change than Other Forms of Media
Worried about climate change and want to learn more? You probably aren't watching television then. A new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Xiaoquan Zhao suggests that watching television has no significant impact on viewers' knowledge about the issue of climate change. Reading newspapers and using the web, however, seem to... view more... (2009-10-19)

International meeting on the Southern Ocean
The Role of the Southern Ocean in Global Processes: an Earth System Science Approach - 14-16 July 2003, London Over 80 experts from around the world will meet next week (14-16 July) to discuss the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. It's the first attempt by scientists to take a collective approach to investigating an important marine... view more... (2003-07-10)

Computer models show major climate shift as a result of closing ozone hole
A new study led by Columbia University researchers has found that the closing of the ozone hole, which is projected to occur sometime in the second half of the 21st century, may significantly affect climate change in the Southern Hemisphere, and therefore, the global climate.   view more (2008-06-13)

Ocean Cores May Give Clues On Climate Change
Core samples taken from far below the ocean floor are helping a University of Edinburgh geologist to form a picture of dramatic climate changes which took place 30 to 40 million years ago. Dr Bridget Wade is part of an international team of scientists studying climate shifts between the Eocene period - the warmest cycle in the last 65 million... view more... (2002-05-03)

Health toll of climate change seen as ethical crisis
The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the problem, posing a significant ethical dilemma for the developed world, according to a new study.   view more (2007-11-08)

Should we implement the Kyoto protocol? Spiked and Natural Environment Research Council launch debate on global warming.
On Tuesday 20 November, the online publication spiked and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) are launching a debate on global warming. To initiate the debate, Professor Bj'¸rn Lomborg, author of the controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist, will put the case against implementing the Kyoto protocol. Dr Mike Hulme, executive... view more... (2001-11-13)

Controversial new climate change results
New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.   view more (2009-11-11)

Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change
Because land use changes are responsible for 50 percent of warming in the US, policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation and urbanization on climate change, in addition to greenhouse gas emissions.   view more (2009-11-11)

Where Does the North Pole Ice Come From? The Origin of the Northern Hemisphere Ice Age
Large areas of the Northern Hemisphere are currently covered with ice. This has, however, not always been the case. In the current issue of the science magazine "Nature", scientists from the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) present a possible solution for the oldest mystery of palaeo... view more... (2005-02-23)

Beyond CO2: Study reveals growing importance of HFCs in climate warming
Some of the substances that are helping to avert the destruction of the ozone layer could increasingly contribute to climate warming.   view more (2009-06-23)

Stronger coastal winds due to climate change may have far-reaching effects
Future increases in wind strength along the California coast may have far-reaching effects, including more intense upwelling of cold water along the coast early in the season and increased fire danger in Southern California, according to researchers at the Climate Change and Impacts Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz.   view more (2008-12-22)

How chilly was the last ice age?
Polar oceans permanently covered with ice, temperatures ten to twelve degrees Celsius lower than today in the North Atlantic region, tropical oceans on the other hand only two degrees Celsius below modern values: Until quite recently these were the general ideas climate researchers had about the climax of the last ice age 20.000 years ago. Now... view more... (1999-05-03)

European climate change reports launched in Brussels
Two new reports examining climate change adaptation and policy making across Europe will be launched today in Brussels in the presence of Peter Gammeltoft, Head of Unit 'Protection of Water & Marine Environment' at the European Commission.   view more (2009-06-24)

Global Warming Linked To Increase Of Tick-borne Encephalitis In Sweden
The increase in incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in Sweden reported over the past two decades is directly related to the country's increasingly mild climate over the same period, conclude authors of a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is caused by a virus, carried by tick parasites, that causes brain... view more... (2001-07-05)

Overall Antarctic snowfall hasn't changed in 50 years
The most precise record of Antarctic snowfall ever generated shows there has been no real increase in precipitation over the southernmost continent in the past half-century, even though most computer models assessing global climate change call for an increase in Antarctic precipitation as atmospheric temperatures rise.   view more (2006-08-11)

Global warming capable of sparking mass species extinctions
The Earth could see massive waves of species extinctions around the world if global warming continues unabated, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Conservation Biology.   view more (2006-04-12)
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