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Contribution potential of glaciers to water availability in different climate regimes26.11.2010 As a result of global warming glaciers are shrinking. In an article in PNAS an Austrian team of glaciologists present a global survey of the effect of glacier retreat on water supply in populated areas. more
More Indonesian volcanoes active and one in the Phillippines24.11.2010 With casualty numbers after the eruption of Merapi steadily rising to more than 320, yet another volcano, Bromo in East Java has started to spew ash. The Ministry of Mines and Energy has given out a high alert for Bromo. The exclusion zone has been extended to 3 km, last Wednesday. more
Scientific Assistant in support of IPCC Chapters 5 and 6 of the Fifth Assessment Report24.11.2010 Position Description: This position is within the « Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement », a joint institute of CNRS, CEA and UVSQ. The incumbent will work in Saclay (30 km south-west of Paris). more
PhD position: The effect of forest management on the European carbon sink23.11.2010 The project aims to understand and quantify the role of forest management in mitigating climate change. Specifically, it wants to challenge the current focus on the carbon cycle only, and replace it with an overall climate impact approach. Hence, the entire forest management spectrum, ranging from short rotation crops to old-growth forests will be analysed for its effects on the water, energy and carbon cycles of the forest ecosystem. more
Earth Journalism Toolkit19.11.2010 The Earth Journalism Toolkit helps journalists to report on environmental health and climate change. Here you will find information about various environmental problems and ways to address them. The toolkit includes tips for journalists covering each issue, case studies of specific problems and examples of good reporting. more
Tweets from Space18.11.2010, Twitpic Cool! This guy Astrowheels posts tweets with stunning photos while orbiting the Earth. more
Global Warming could cool down temperatures in winter17.11.2010, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany The overall warming of the earth's northern half could result in cold winters. The shrinking of sea-ice in the eastern Arctic causes some regional heating of the lower levels of air – which may lead to strong anomalies in atmospheric airstreams, triggering an overall cooling of the northern continents, a study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research shows. “These anomalies could triple the probability of cold winter extremes in Europe and northern Asia,” says Vladimir Petoukhov, lead author of the study and climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. “Recent severe winters like last year’s or the one of 2005-06 do not conflict with the global warming picture, but rather supplement it.” (Press Release Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) more
Fossilized glycolipids reveal past oceanic N2 fixation by heterocystous cyanobacteria10.11.2010 New paper in PNAS reports on use of new analytic tools to study the role of heterocystous cyanobacteria in fixing nitrogen in the surface waters of the oceans. more
Twitter chatbot argues with global warming deniers automatically08.11.2010 Climate sceptics often recycle the same, long refuted, arguments over and over. Nigel Leck got tired of countering their arguments and built a Twitter chatbot to answer them automatically. visit
Inaccurate news reports misrepresent a climate-science initiative of the American Geophysical Union08.11.2010 An article appearing in the Los Angeles Times, and then picked up by media outlets far and wide, misrepresents the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and a climate science project the AGU is about to relaunch. The project, called Climate Q&A Service, aims simply to provide accurate scientific answers to questions from journalists about climate science. more
Update: High alert at Mt Merapi, Indonesia's most dangerous volcano06.11.2010 Late 4 November, Merapi has entered a more violent stage. Eruption now strongest since 1870's more
In Search of Lost Time: Ancient Eclipses, Roman Fish Tanks and the Enigma of Global Sea Level Rise04.11.2010 Where Geophysics meets Archeology: lecture by Harvard Professor Jerry Mitrovica about how climate change can be reconstructed using records kept by Babylonian, Chinese, Arabic and Greek scholars, as well as Roman fish tanks. Video of this lecture: see Links. more
Where do winds come from? A new theory on how water vapor condensation influences atmospheric pressure and dynamics.04.11.2010 New article in EGU open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics by St Petersburg-based Anastassia Makarieva and colleagues. more
Silica deposits on Mars may preserve one of the planet's most recent habitable microenvironments01.11.2010 New article in Nature Geoscience: Silica deposits in the Nili Patera caldera on the Syrtis Major volcanic complex on Mars more |