Anthropogenic Climate Change

Earth's ozone layer on track to recovery, scientists report

15 years of carbon dioxide emissions on Earth mapped

Last decade's slowdown in global warming enhanced by an unusual climate anomaly

Researchers find one type of algae able to adapt to warming oceans

Some insight into Germany's approach to alternative energy programs

My German language instructor sent this over the weekend. Interesting read.

Interesting.

Advanced molecular 'sieves' could be used for carbon capture

Krugman on a recent IMF paper: Backing Cap-and-trade policies would also help back preventing respiratory ailments caused by Coal, which drive up medical costs and reduce productivity in people.

It's looking more and more like investing in clean energy and other environmental measures would be a net positive to growth, not a negative. Krugman's column points out that this is, ironically, equally hard to swallow for many on the left as it is for those on the right.

While the right has maintained an position of "we can't fix climate issues (if they even exist) without tearing down our economy and putting tons of people out of work", many on the left have tacitly agreed with the premise, even as they disagree with whether or not we should take action. This has hindered the debate rather seriously.

It's very very counter-intuitive (and there's a lot of residual "renewable energy is just a hippy pipe dream" feelings I think from like, Carter's time.) and humans are notoriously idiotic at grasping counter-intuitive.

Study links changing winds to warming in Pacific

It seems that the US may have to shift from the East Coast to the Mid West, Anchorage Alaska and much of the Washington-Oregon-California coast as our major regions of stability.

I wonder what that'll mean politics wise.

Insects' fear limits boost from climate change, study shows

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GOCE reveals gravity dip from ice loss (w/ Video)

Solar dimming caused by air pollution increases river-flows

I've noticed this paragraph on The Other Wiki's page on Historical climatology:

Evolving plumbing system beneath Greenland slows ice sheet as summer progresses

Earth's ocean abyss has not warmed, NASA study finds

Ocean warming in Southern Hemisphere underestimated, scientists suggest

It appears that removing aerosols from the atmosphere is partially to blame for a reduction in river water, thus amplifying drought.

(That was mctagg's solar dimming article, fwiw. But thanks for posting anyway :))

Slow Steaming and the Supposed Limits to Growth. Krugman continues his examination of the disingenuous arguments of those in the scientific field who argue that we must slow growth in order to be environmentally responsible.

Simple things like slowing down ships at sea (or cars on the road, as we discovered in the 70s) increase fuel efficiency, and the way to recover productivity is to increase the number of ships.

The comments are, as always, an interesting microcosm of the debate despite being moderated.

US tidal floods will be 'chronic' in 15 yrs, study claims

Antarctic sea ice reaches new record maximum

Mangroves protecting corals from climate change

Penguins Use Their Personalities to Prepare for Climate Change

Icebergs once drifted to Florida, new climate model suggests

Simulation explains why Asian glaciers are not melting

Rising sea levels of 1.8 meters in worst-case scenario, researchers calculate