Wilkins Antarctic Ice shelf collapses

Antarctica's Wilkins Ice shelf has collapsed, suggesting unstoppable warming now taking place in the Antarctic...

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Carbon Capture and Storage

A possible solution to coal fire power plants may have been found as a safe method of storing CO2 is discovered by scientists...

Arctic melting

Arctic could be ice free during the summer within 11 years, say clmate scientists. The end of this years Arctic summer melt, in or around September will determine whether matters are in fact getting worse or not...

Antartica Melting?

Scientists say that the West Antarctic ice sheet may take upto 1000 years to melt, which is good news...sort of, but it has collapsed before when CO2 levels reached 400 ppm in the atmosphere. This is a bit of a worry, as what the article doesn't mention is that CO2 levels are already at 385 ppm, up from 315 ppm since accurate measurements began in 1958. CO2 levels are rising at an average of around 1.5 ppm a year, which means 400 ppm could be reached in just 7 years time....What will happen to the ice sheet then, as this level of CO2 will surely bring with it an increase in sea temperature....?

As for Polar bears, which live in the Arctic, not the Antarctic, they appear to be getting smaller. The melting ice cap there, means they can't catch as much food as they used too, which is affecting their weight...

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/the-incredible-shrinking-polar-bear-1651315.html

Antarctica melting?

This article refers to the potential collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antartica, which may melt once CO2 levels get to 400 parts per million, a level that may be reached by 2050. This may be the best case scenario however as CO2 levels now stand at 385 ppm, and are increasing at around 1.7-2.3 ppm per year approx, meaning 400 ppm could be reached by 2017.... much sooner than suggested..?

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Lord Stern admits that his Stern Review on The Economics of Climate Change report may have underestimated the problem......read more
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/lord-stern-on-global-warming-its-even-worse-than-i-thought-1643957.html

Al Gore hopeful that new climate change deal will be reached in Copenhagen later this year...read more
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/gore-says-global-climate-deal-will-be-reached-1645050.html

World water shortage will become a serious problem by 2030....read more
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/water-scarcity-now-bigger-threat-than-financial-crisis-1645358.html

Finally...10 unlikely ways to save the world as climate change accelerates...read more
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/water-scarcity-now-bigger-threat-than-financial-crisis-1645358.html

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Future looks bleak for all of us as latest super computer forecast suggests that there is little better than a 50/50 chance of keeping world temperatures below disastrous thresholds of + 2 degrees above pre-industrial age, even if unprecedented reductions in Co2 levels are made immediately. World temperatures have already increased by 0.75 degrees since pre-industrial times. An increase of 2 degrees will have serious consequences for all of humanity... read more

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NASA's CO2 mapping satellite fails to make orbit and ends in disaster, setting back ability to accurately measure world CO2 levels.... read more.

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Scientists reveal pace of global warming now much faster than first thought as feedback mechanisms kick into place as higher co2 levels, cause higher temperatures,which in turn cause greater melting in the permafrost, which in turn releases more co2 and so on....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/14/AR2009021401757.html?hpid=topnews

UK to embrace nuclear power in effort to reduce relliance of fossil fuels.... your questions answered here...
http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/big-question/the-big-question-does-nuclear-power-now-provide-the-answer-to-britain8217s-energy-needs-1630345.html

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Can America and China get together to battle global warming together....?
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/united-on-climate-change-obamas-chinese-revolution-1604027.html
Bush fires focus the minds of Australians back on to climate change....
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/australia-fires-a-climate-wakeup-call--experts-1606105.html
And lastly....polar explorer sets off to Arctic to gather data to find out how long ice cap will survive...
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/polar-explorer-sets-off-on-arctic-survey-1606552.html

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Whats new this week?

well, Melbourne thermometers topped 43C (109.4F) on a third successive day for the first time on record as Australia continues to swelter under record temperatures believed to be caused by global warming... read more;

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/parched-australia-faces-collapse-as-climate-change-kicks-in-1522529.html

Brazil's rainforest is razed to allow cattle to graze in order for Brazil to expand it's beef export desires... read more;

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/rainforest-razed-so-cattle-can-graze-1521677.html

Antarctica, now officially warming.

Scientists now confirm that Antarctica is also now officially warming, records from 1957 to present day confirm...read more.

Wilkins Ice shelf about to collapse- watch video.

The Wilkins ice shelf in Antartica is literally hanging on a thread... now only 500 metres connects it to the Antarctic Peninsular.... watch this video to learn more..

New Runway- No Way, say Climate Change Activists

Climate change activists vow not to let a third runway open at London Heathrow, threatening to close the airport rather than let new runway get built...read more.

ExxonMobil make dramatic climate change U-Turn

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Under 1 year until largest Global Warming conference...

In less than one year, Copenhagen will be host to the largest climate change conference the world has ever seen.... will it be successful...? read more...

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Geoengineering needed to avert climate disaster

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Have British scientists invented carbon neutral cement?

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Humankind has 8 years left to avert climate disaster.

Humakind has only around 8 years left to avoid the worst affects of climate change. An effort the equivalent of putting man on the moon will be required...read more..

NASA hunts for its rubber ducks...

NASA has lost it's rubber duckies.... NASA inserted 90 rubber ducks into melt-holes in the Greenland Ice sheet with a view to tracking how the ice is melting...so far they have failed to turn up..! read more...