World leaders will have a difficult time as ever getting a reasonable deal on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, especially after the end of the United Nations climate summit. Together with U.S. President Barack Obama, more than 100 world leaders promised to find a global agreement that would efficiently address climate change. These leaders took center stage yesterday in order to point out how … [Read more...]
Antarctica Sea Ice Breaks Surface Record
The Earth’s poles have been exhibiting some surprising climatic influences. The poles usually go through temperature changes causing them to lose ice deposits during the summers and recover during the cold seasons. During the last years though, the Northern Arctic Sea has expanded, taking bites out of the thick polar ice sheet. But on the other side of the world, the Southern Antarctic sea-ice … [Read more...]
Ban Ki-moon Taking Part in Upper West Side People’s Climate March
Tens of thousands of people gathered on Sunday to take part in Manhattan’s Upper West Side Climate March, a demonstration that organizers called the largest march demanding immediate action on climate change. More than 100,000 people are expected at the People’s Climate March this weekend, according to organizers, coinciding with 2,000 other similar events planned in more than 150 countries. … [Read more...]
New York Gets Ready for UN Climate Change Summit
Climate change has been linked to human activity by virtually the entire scientific community. The main concern is that the changes will affect our lives in the coming decades through a number of concrete manifestations following the constant temperature increase. To combat the dangerous effects determined by climate change, a number of international large scale meetings have taken place in the … [Read more...]
US Mayors to Sign Vote on Climate Change Resolution
Confronting climate change is a major agenda of this week’s U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Dallas, Texas including climate protection awards, climate panels and a discussion with U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and U.S. DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz. Mayors signed the latest version of the Climate Protection Agreement (CEP). Endorsed by over 1,000 mayors, it supports a national goal of … [Read more...]
Arctic Warming Responsible For Changing Weather
A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that the increasing temperature of the Arctic will actually lead to fewer deep freezes over the next century. While various oceanic and atmospheric patterns such as El Niño, La Niña and the North Atlantic Oscillation have been blamed for the series of unusual weather recently, the study reveals that Arctic amplification could be … [Read more...]
Antarctic basin melting faster than estimated
A new study published in Nature indicates that Antarctica's melting glaciers has launched so many icebergs into the ocean, the fastest pulse being the, 1A, 14,600 years ago that it has raised the sea level 6.5 feet (2 meters) in just 100 years. The results are the first direct confirmation for dramatic melting in Antarctica's past. Researchers at UC Irvine and the Jet Propulsion … [Read more...]
Climate Change Making Food Less Nutritious
According to a new research the increasing level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, will destruct some of the staple crops that many of the world’s poorest people are dependent upon for nutrition, making them less nutritious. A study led by the Harvard University School of Public Health published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, warns about the substantial reduction of levels of iron, zinc … [Read more...]
Coastal chaos likely as East Antarctica ice sheets Melts, Irreversible Slide
In a glaring exposure, the scientists have found that the vast ice sheets of East Antarctica could begin an irreversible slide into the sea due the rising temperatures and global warming. The melting of ice sheets in East Antarctica may cause an unstoppable process of global coastal destruction, scientists cautioned. It is noteworthy, East Antarctica collectively holds enough water to raise … [Read more...]
On Earth Day, let’s wake up to save planet
The world is observing Earth Day on April 22 (Tuesday) and we are facing a series of challenges in the light of declining climatic conditions and global warming. “The heavens reek, the waters below are foul ... we are in a crisis of survival.” That’s how Walter Cronkite and CBS hyped the first Earth Day, back in 1970. Somehow we have survived since the first Earth day, but question arises … [Read more...]