The Maldives: Global change, local action Oct 25, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009. Few understand better how global actions affect local life than the Maldivians, whose 100-island nation faces inundation from rising seas by 2100. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Caribou crash Oct 20, 2009
The global survey by the University of Alberta published in June in the peer-reviewed journal Global Change Biology, has deepened concerns about the caribous future. Drawing on scores of other studies, government databases, wildlife management boards and other sources, the biologists found that 34 of 43 herds being monitored worldwide are in decline. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Arctic ice cap to disappear in 20-30 years: study Oct 15, 2009
"It's a concrete example of global change in action. "With a larger part of the region now in first year ice, it is clearly more vulnerable. The area is now more likely to become open water each summer, bringing forward the potential date when the summer sea ice will be completely gone. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Report: China could cheaply control coal-plant emissions Oct 14, 2009
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Department of Energy. A map of China shows geologic structures able to store carbon dioxide captured from coal plants and other industries, color-coded to show how full they would be (by percentage) in 2100. (USA Today -- Tech)
World will miss 2010 target to stem biodiversity loss, experts say Oct 12, 2009
Such thresholds, if breached, will make global change impacts difficult to control, and slow and expensive to reverse. Biodiversity and carbon: How biodiversity loss impacts rates of natural carbon sequestration and carbon cycling on land and in the ocean. (EurekAlert!)
* The methane bomb Russia cant admit to Oct 12, 2009
According to a paper in the scientific journal Global Change Biology published this week by Bruce Forbes of Finlands Arctic Center, rising temperatures are making the Arctic tundra greener, adding significant growth of shrub willows over the last 30 years. The worlds largest country has a thick band of permafrost X which contains organic matter whose microbes can emit the powerful greenhouse gas, methane X stretching from Murmansk near Finland to the far eastern region of Chukotka near... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Nature Reports Climate Change Oct 11, 2009
To keep global change within safe limits, we'll need to define near-term targets as well as acceptable upper bounds. A novel proposal defines sustainability by picking out planetary boundaries for essential Earth-system processes - and leading experts respond. (Nature News Service)
Could fall blaze turn to blahs? Oct 10, 2009
But the study also showed that trees produced more anthocyanins, Published in the scientific journal Global Change Biology, the study found that elevated CO2 kept photosynthesis going longer, which kept leaves green longer. Brian Nearing can be reached at 454-5094 or bnearing@timesunion. (Albany Times Union)
Tropical regions to be hardest hit by fisheries shifts Oct 9, 2009
The study is published Thursday in the U.S. journal Global Change Biology. "Our projections show that climate change may lead to a 30 to 70 percent increase in catch potential in high-latitude regions and a drop of up to 40 percent in the tropics," says lead author William Cheung, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom who conducted the study while at UBC.. (Xinhuanet, China)
Panama Butterfly Migrations Linked To El Niño, Climate Change Oct 7, 2009
This research is presented in the journal Global Change Biology and was conducted with support from the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration. Research permits were provided by Panama's National Environmental Authority, ANAM, and meteorological data by the Panama Canal Authority, ACP, and the Terrrestrial-Environmental Science Program of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. (Science Daily)
There's Still Time To Cut The Risk Of Climate Catastrophe, Study Shows Oct 6, 2009
Ron Prinn, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and a co-author of the new study, says that "our results show we still have around a 50-50 chance of stabilizing the climate" at a level of no more than a few tenths above the 2 degree target ... Both studies used the MIT Integrated Global Systems Model, a detailed computer simulation of global economic activity and climate processes that has been developed and refined by the Joint Program on the Science and... (Science Daily)
Mighty caribou herds dwindle, warming blamed Oct 5, 2009
The global survey by researchers at the University of Alberta, published in June in the peer-reviewed journal Global Change Biology, has deepened concerns about the caribou's future. Drawing on scores of other studies, government databases, wildlife management boards and other sources, the biologists found that 34 of 43 herds being monitored worldwide are in decline. (MSNBC -- International)
Is Garbage The Solution To Tackling Climate Change? Oct 4, 2009
New research published in Global Change Biology: Bioenergy, reveals how replacing gasoline with biofuel from processed waste could cut global carbon emissions by 80. See also. (Science Daily)
Algae And Pollen Grains Provide Evidence Of Remarkably Warm Period In Antarctica's History Oct 3, 2009
(July 28, 2008) A global change in climate could explain the explosion in marine biodiversity that took place 460 million years ago. Researchers have now found evidence of a progressive ocean cooling of about. (Science Daily)
Tango gets UN cultural approval Oct 1, 2009
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation aims to preserve a list of legacies under threat from global change. Argentina and Uruguay, where the dance originated, jointly submitted it. (BBC News -- Americas)
Deal on climate change is elusive Sep 24, 2009
Source: Joint Global Change Research Institute. U.S., CHINA, JAPAN VOW TO CHANGE. (USA Today -- Tech)
Uncertain Future Predicted For Forests Sep 21, 2009
"We were dealing with the uncertainties in global change predictions using the projections established by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. These projections were based on different CO2 reduction scenarios and global circulation models. " ... How to manage the forest for global change ... Uncertainties in the response of a forest landscape to global climatic change is published in Global Change Biology 2009. (Science Daily)
Marbleheads Mazonson named one of 80 Siebel Scholars worldwide Sep 21, 2009
Jessica Mazonson, a second-year MBA student at Sloan School of Management at MIT from Marblehead, was recently named a , one of 80 worldwide and one of five from MIT. She will participate in an assembly of young leaders addressing issues of global change. In the opinion of one nominator, Mazonson will change the world. (Marblehead Reporter, MA)
Federal Agencies Tap Three GU Law Professors Sep 19, 2009
I am working in the Pentagon on a wide array of pressing and complex arms control issues, including the negotiation of a follow-on treaty to replace the soon-to-expire START [Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training] agreement between the United States and Russia on nuclear weapons, the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention and possible future initiatives regarding... (The Hoya, Washington DC)
Conflict Between Plant And Animal Hormones In The Insect Gut? Sep 18, 2009
Elevated CO2 is considered to be a serious catalyst of global change. . (Science Daily)
Study predicts an uncertain future for forests Sep 16, 2009
"We were dealing with the uncertainties in global change predictions using the projections established by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. These projections were based on different CO 2 reduction scenarios and global circulation models. " ... How to manage the forest for global change ... Uncertainties in the response of a forest landscape to global climatic change is published in Global Change Biology 2009. (EurekAlert!)
UW-Madison study reveals changing of Wisconsin climate Sep 16, 2009
We need to be able to adapt our natural systems and our planning for an inevitable amount of global change, he said. Vimont added that regardless of the future of human behavior, carbon dioxide levels are already too high. (The Digital Cardinal, WI)
Elsevier launches Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability Sep 10, 2009
The ESSP is a science partnership of the four international global environmental change research programmes an international programme of biodiversity science (DIVERSITAS), International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Change (IHDP), and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) - for the integrated study of the Earth system, the ways that it is changing, and the implications for global and regional sustainability. ESSP activities aim... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Carbon Auction Prices for U.S. Northeast Set to Fall Amid Senate Delays Sep 10, 2009
If passed by Congress, a national cap-and-trade program would be unlikely to see carbon prices as low as those currently seen in the Northeast, , associate research director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Joint Program on Global Change, said by phone. Under the House-passed bill, the federal government would auction around 18 percent of the permits in a national cap-and- trade program, according to the Congressional Budget Office. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
Cities Trap More Carbon Than Rain Forests, Study Says Sep 9, 2009
In total, U.S. cities contain about 20 billion tons of organic carbon, mostly in dirt, according to the new study to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Global Change Biology. Some of this carbon-rich topsoil is in parks and under lawns, but it's also sealed underneath buildings and roads a remnant of grasslands or forests that were there before development. (National Geographic)
German Science advisor recommends global CO2 budget for every man, woman and child... Sep 9, 2009
The German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) has conducted an audit to determine which countries should be allowed to emit how much carbon dioxide in order to remain within the two degree limit ... Sine 1992, he has been one of nine members of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). (The Drudge Report)
* FEATURE : Rebuilding should factor in climate change: experts Sep 7, 2009
Liu Chung-ming (h), director of the Global Change Research Center at National Taiwan University, said the nation had to get used to extreme weather. We just had the highest temperature ever recorded, 39. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Ghanaian Wins Award for ICT Application in Health Sep 4, 2009
Accra, Sept. 3, GNA - Bright Simons, Coordinator of the mPedigree Network, was on Wednesday named as one of 15 Tech Awards Laureates 2009, global innovators recognized each year for applying technology to benefit humanity and spark global change. The Tech Awards, a signature programme of The Tech Museum, and presented by Applied Materials, Inc., selected mPedigree Network from among hundreds of nominations from 66 countries, a release from the Accra Office of the World Bank said on Thursday. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Facebook to tighten user privacy protection after Canada talks Sep 1, 2009
"This is a global change," Stoddart told reporters. "We're satisfied that, with these changes, Facebook is on the way to meeting the requirements of Canada's privacy law," she said, noting the popular website has a year to make the changes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Has Northern-hemisphere Pollution Affected Australian Rainfall? Aug 27, 2009
The five-day conference, organised by the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) and the Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS) and locally hosted by Monash University, brings together many of the world s leading experts to discuss the important processes that govern water availability and drought and their role in present and future climate and global change. Professor Christian Jakob, who holds the Chair for Climate Modelling at Monash University and who chairs... (Science Daily)
Report: Future U.S. Heat Waves Will Be Worse Aug 26, 2009
Its remedies are based on recent findings of global warming effects by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which coordinates climate research across federal agencies. "The report highlights the current vulnerabilities from heat waves growing," says climate scientist Amanda Staudt of the National Wildlife Federation, a report sponsor. (W-USA News, DC)
* A rough climate for change Aug 25, 2009
The White House played a quieter role than many supporters envisioned, given the hoopla surrounding Obamas advisory dream team, which includes former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner as climate tsar, Nobel laureate Steven Chu at the Department of Energy and Harvard global change expert John Holdren as chief science adviser. One school argued that the White House so thoroughly trusted veteran Democrat Henry Waxman to lead the charge that they outsourced all the work to... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
* The challenge of empowering an umpire for emissions credits Aug 24, 2009
To achieve this, the Global Change Council of Germany suggests that a budget formula be adopted ... Claus Leggewie is director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen and a member of the Global Change Council of Germany. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
The Reformation in the Context of G... Aug 23, 2009
The Reformation in the Context of Global Change. The Reformation in the Context of Global Change ... The very page of human history into which the Protestant Reformation was born was a great century of global change. (Suite101.com)
Ban Ki-moon Really Is the World's Most Dangerous Korean Aug 22, 2009
At a moment when global change is more imperative than ever, Ban has been AWOL. Indeed, in recent months, Ban's feverish attempts to disprove his numerous detractors have simply highlighted that ineptitude. In trying to refurbish his battered image, he has only further injured it. (Slate)
* MORAKOT: THE AFTERMATH: Former fire director proposes Cabinet emergency center Aug 22, 2009
Liu Chung-ming (h), the head of National Taiwan Universitys Global Change Research Center, said the damage caused by Typhoon Morakot had created the first instance of climate refugees in the country, and urged the government to quickly classify other areas that are under threat. Liao Pen-chuan (), an associate professor at National Taipei Universitys Department of Real Estate and Building Environment, called on the government to propose a plan to restore deforested and... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
* EDITORIAL: Difficult terrain for reconstruction Aug 19, 2009
The head of National Taiwan Universitys Global Change Research Center, Liu Chung-ming (h), warns that changes to the environment have wrought permanent damage on some lowland areas that makes them unsuitable for habitation. Areas in Pingtung County have sunk below sea level, putting residents at increasing risk of severe flooding. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Climate Models Confirm More Moisture In Atmosphere Attributed To Humans Aug 18, 2009
20, 2005) A NASA study is offering new insight into how the Earth's water cycle might be influenced by global change. In recent years, scientists have warned that the water cycle may be affected by temperature. (Science Daily)
Invasive weeds grow with global warming Aug 17, 2009
"Just as native species are expected to shift in range and relative competitiveness with climate change," they wrote in a study published in the journal Global Change Biology, "the same should be expected of invasive species." Using each weed's preferred habitat characteristics and a scenario in which fossil fuel emissions are not reduced, Bradley and her colleagues created an invasion risk map for each weed. Their results were mixed. (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Townships under sea level must be relocated Aug 16, 2009
Liu Chung-ming is director of the Global Change Research Center at National Taiwan University. TRANSLATED BY DREW CAMERON This story has been viewed 508 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Climate Change Could Have Negative Effects On Stream And Forest Ecosystems Aug 15, 2009
Global Change Biology, 2009; 15 (7): 1767 DOI. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Growing up in Gaza Aug 13, 2009
We make changes in ourselves, in our community, and we pave the way for global change. We are thinking globally and acting locally. (CNN)
Climate-caused Biodiversity Booms And Busts In Ancient Plants And Mammals Aug 11, 2009
"Our paper documents the fact that global change affected plants and animals on a wide scale," said Gunnell, an associate research scientist and vertebrate collection coordinator at the U-M Museum of Paleontology ... (July 28, 2008) A global change in climate could explain the explosion in marine biodiversity that took place 460 million years ago. (Science Daily)
Glaciers shrinking rapidly, study says Aug 11, 2009
"We feel it's definitely the signature of global change and ," Josberger said. The melt of glaciers is resulting in higher sea levels and affecting ecosystems and the rivers that emanate from these glaciers, Josberger said. (CNN)
Glaciers melting Aug 10, 2009
"We feel it's definitely the signature of global change and climate warming," Josberger said. The melt of glaciers is resulting in higher sea levels and affecting ecosystems and the rivers that emanate from these glaciers, Josberger said. (CNN -- International)
Marine microbes creating green waves in industry Aug 8, 2009
The research at PML is timely and highly relevant to UK and international societal needs and its research, development and training programmes have at their core the mission to contribute to issues concerned with understanding global change and the health and sustainability of marine ecosystems. . (EurekAlert!)
Cash for Clunkers Aug 8, 2009
As a carbon dioxide policy, this is a terribly wasteful thing to do, according to Henry Jacoby, co-director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at MIT. The amount of carbon you are saving per federal expenditure is very, very small. . (Townhall.com)
Symposium to discuss geoengineering to fight climate change at the ESA Annual Meeting Aug 6, 2009
"The bigger the scale of the approach, the riskier it is for the environment," says session organizer Robert Jackson , director of Duke University's Center on Global Change. Global alterations of Earth's natural cycles have too many uncertainties to be viable with our current level of understanding, he says. (EurekAlert!)
What kills terror? Politics & policing Aug 6, 2009
However, groups espousing social revolutions or global change of political power may not be willing to sit across the table to hammer out a bargain as there is hardly any meeting ground between the two sides. According to the study, a combination of coercive and political action by the government can force the terrorists to come around to negotiations. (India Times, India)
Clunkers effect on pollution? A blip Aug 5, 2009
"As a carbon dioxide policy, this is a terribly wasteful thing to do," said Henry Jacoby, a professor of management and co-director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at MIT. "The amount of carbon you are saving per federal expenditure is very, very small.". Officials expect a quarter-million gas guzzlers will be junked under the original $1 billion set aside by Congress money that is now all but exhausted. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Study predicts hotter summers Aug 5, 2009
Deep South Georgia temperatures will hit 90 on 165 days per year by 2080 as global warming progresses - nearly half the days in the year, according to a report recently released by the United States Global Change Research Program. The report, compiled from ongoing research from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a dozen other federal agencies, is the first federal report to look at regional impacts of global change caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases humans... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Higher Carbon Dioxide May Give Pine Trees A Competitive Edge Aug 4, 2009
Way is scheduled to present the results at a poster session on Aug. 3 during the Ecological Society of America's 2009 annual meeting in Albuquerque, N.M. She is also first author of a report on the study scheduled for publication in the research journal Global Change Biology. Way and her co-researchers collected, counted and analyzed seeds produced at the Duke Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) site in Duke Forest, near the university's campus. (Science Daily)
A look at Obamas third term Aug 3, 2009
Global cooling continues (now called global change ) ... Top scientists at both the Obama administration and the UN are seeking ways to put soot between the earth and the sun to block more sunlight before global change kills somebody somewhere. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
NASA and JAXA Sign Agreement for Future Earth Science Cooperation Jul 31, 2009
JAXA will supply the DPR for the core observatory, an H-IIA rocket for the core observatory's launch in July 2013 and data from a conical-scanning microwave imager on the upcoming Global Change Observation Mission satellite. For more information about GPM, visit. (PR Newswire)
Is time running out to seal post-Kyoto climate pact? Jul 23, 2009
"For us a key measure is: Has this (an agreement in Copenhagen) set us toward achieving a genuine effective global response to global change? And if we're going to achieve that we've got a lot work to do yet.". DEVELOPING NATIONS ARE NOW A LEADING SOURCE OF EMISSIONS.. (Scientific American)
Predator-Prey: Key To Nature's Synchronicity Jul 23, 2009
"The loss of these cycles, either through species extinctions or global change, may have drastic consequences for the stability of ecosystems and the persistence of species.". The presence of predator creates a cyclic pattern nearly identical to that found in other examples of synchrony in nature. (Science Daily)
Tech 'has changed foreign policy' Jul 22, 2009
Page last updated at 16:55 GMT, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 17:55 UK. Tech 'has changed foreign policy. (BBC News -- Science)
Greensense: Ready to change your game? Jul 20, 2009
The report, which summarizes the science and the impacts of climate change on the United States now and in the future, was published by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). This program, which began as a presidential initiative in 1989 and was mandated by Congress in the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-606), coordinates and integrates federal research (from 13 separate federal agencies) on changes in the global environment and their implications for society. (Reading Advocate, MA)
A glimpse of a future with free health care Jul 20, 2009
After two consecutive summers of global cooling, now referred to as "global change," food has become relatively scarce ... The average utility bill is $2,800 per month, but Obama has told the nation that this shouldn't concern anyone because "global change" will ensure that the next winter will never occur. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Arctic Mystery: Identifying the Great Blob of Alaska Jul 19, 2009
"The fact that the locals say they've never seen anything like it suggests that it might represent some exotic species which has drifted into the region, perhaps as a result of global change. For the moment that's just a guess.". So far in Alaska, nothing suggests the Chukchi Sea blob is toxic, although the Coast Guard's Hasenauer said toxicity tests were planned. (Time.com)
Water Webs: Connecting Spiders, Residents In The Southwest Jul 18, 2009
The authors note: "Water seems to be the ecological currency governing consumption behavior at multiple trophic levels, which indicates a role for water in understanding effects of global change on animal communities.". This article coincides with the June 18 release of the national report "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States," funded by the National Science and Technology Council and authored by members of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, including ASU professor Nancy... (Science Daily)
MARSHFIELD REED'S ARK: Weather study takes time Jul 17, 2009
The effect of such human activity is what is now under major research and debate as to whether it speeds up the underlying global change of climate, so that there is an additional human-enhanced global warming. Geography is the study of the locations of interesting things, including the reasons for, and the consequences of, those locations. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Green deserts Jul 17, 2009
"Whether this is due to global change or is a trend anyway, it's hard to distil actually out of the [data] but certainly we've had record highs of temperature," said Joh Henschel, director of Gobabeb. "Three years ago we had the hottest day on record, 47 degrees Celsius.". (BBC News -- Science)
A Real Choice on Climate Change: Do Nothing Jul 17, 2009
According to research compiled by the United States Climate Change Science Program (now the Global Change Research Program), a clearinghouse for global warming science conducted by federal agencies, reducing global emissions by 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2050 would require developing countries to reduce per capita greenhouse gas emissions by 62 percent below business as usual, even if developed countries somehow cut greenhouse gases by 100 percent. Yet the G8 pledged to reduce emissions... (Townhall.com)
Speak out: More government involvement on unemployment? Jul 16, 2009
Now there s another wait and see due to the global change bill and health care reform bill that are killing businesses with increased taxes. The GDOL, is a dysfunctional cesspool of halfway literate miscreants that have no motivation or inclination to do anything for the citizens of Georgia. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
