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[Jennifer Marohasy] Jennifer Marohasy » Marine Cloud Whitening: Best Solution to AGW?: For myself, I would much rather that the supporters of the AGW hypothesis looked for contradictory evidence rather than confirmatory evidence, as such endeavours invariably lead to new and greater insights into the true nature of things than any confirmatory evidence ever does, as the history of science will clearly show to any who care to look.

[Antarctic Sun - Science News Feed] The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica - Palmer LTER Getting ...: That study’s lead investigator, Eric Rignot of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, speculated that the losses, concentrated in West Antarctica’s Pine Island Bay sector and the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, are the result of warmer ocean waters, which “bathe the buttressing floating sections of glaciers, causing them to thin or collapse.” Martinson's LTER ocean data support that speculation.

[Malaria Journal - Latest articles] Malaria Journal | Full text | Comparison of PCR-based detection of ...: This study compared the diagnostic accuracy of three PCR-based assays that do not only differ in their sequence target, but also in the number of copies of their target region, for the detection of Plasmodium falciparum in 401 individuals living in a malaria-endemic area in Nigeria. Compared to a composite reference generated from results of all the 3 PCR assays, the stevor gene amplification had a sensitivity of 100% (Kappa = 1;

[The Nature Conservancy] The Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire - Study Finds Widespread ...: Our mountains and their fragile ecosystems are especially susceptible because air pollution affects them through rain, snow and fog, while some of our rivers and streams are becoming too acidic for Eastern brook trout and other aquatic species. And high mercury concentrations in our lakes have affected reproduction in common loons and have been shown to impact bald eagles, mallards, and other birds that reside here.

[CCSP Announcements] Final Draft for Approval Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.2 ...: This assessment, SAP 4.2, focuses on abrupt ecological responses to climate change, or thresholds of ....

[Evolution] Evolution » Lake Malawi Cores and Human Origins?: On the basis of well dated paleoecological records from Lake Malawi, which reflect both local and regional conditions, we show that this aridity had severe consequences for terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. During the most arid phase, there was extremely low pollen production and limited charred-particle deposition, indicating insufficient vegetation to maintain substantial fires, and the Lake Malawi watershed experienced cool, semidesert conditions (

[Comments for RealClimate] RealClimate: The Acid Ocean - the Other Problem with CO2 Emission: In addition to its pivotal role in the atmosphere in the regulation of global climate, CO2 and its sister chemical species, HCO3- and CO32- comprise the carbonate buffer system which regulates the pH of seawater. ...

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Clinton's New Energy and Climate Policy: Establishing an "E8" to Speed Global Action to Address Climate Change: Hillary would invite the G8 nations and key developing countries to join the United States in establishing an "E8." This group would be comprised of the world's major carbon-emitting nations, and would hold an annual summit devoted to international ecological and resource issues -- global warming foremost among them. The E8 would not be a substitute for the United Nations effort to forge a global climate agreement, but rather would streamline negotiations among major emitters and would serve as a catalyst for the larger effort.

[Green Car Congress] Green Car Congress: Marine Scientists Issue Monaco Declaration ...: The Monaco Declaration is based on the Research Priorities Report developed by participants at last October’s 2nd international symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World, organized by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP), with the support of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and several other partners.

[The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog] The Spectator: Sea levels are predicted to rise twice as fast as was forecast by the United Nations only two years ago, threatening hundreds of millions of people with catastrophe, scientists said yesterday in a dramatic new warning about climate change. Rapidly melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are likely to push up sea levels by a metre or more by 2100, swamping coastal cities and obliterating the living space of 600 million people who live in deltas, low-lying areas and small island states....

[Charlie's Diary] Charlie's Diary: Chrome Plated Jackboots: As far as immortality or significant life extension is concerned, I do not belive it will ever become very controversial let alone basis for social classes because I do not believe that there will ever be a single "treatment" (or even a discrete collection of treatments) which makes one young and without which one is old. Such "either you got it or you don't" scenario is common in SF, but completely unrealistic.

[Comments for Climate Audit] Sea Ice - End of Game Analysis « Climate Audit: During the last three months -from blog comments and my own research- I have been struck by the apparent fragility of arctic ice but the fact that many of the adjacent seas are cooling (page 3 of the executive summary) ....

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum: Europe | Climate Change - an alternative approach: Assuming AGW is true, and irreversable, then the buffering effects of the earth may indeed be 100 years or more to recover from our mess. I suspect that other messes we have created will take far far longer (such as replacing all the farm land with normal ecosystems).

[Jennifer Marohasy] Jennifer Marohasy: Australian Government's Green Paper Full of ...: "Personally, I am coming round to the view that this is the real paradigm which the human race needs to embrace in order to manage issues such as AGW (to the extent it actually exists and is significant) and (perhaps more importantly) the levels of dissolved CO2 and O2 in the surface layers of the ocean (i.e. pH, cyanobacterial, bacterial and zooplankton activity issues) and the sustainability and purposes of the continental multicellular plant biomass."

[GM FastLane] At Last: Behind the Wheel of Volt Test Mule | GM FastLane: They need to put the car out there, and if the buying public like it, and want more then GM itself would bring down the cost of the batteries by their huge economy of scale. As future models are introduced, the next Cobalt, the next HHR, the next G6 (G7?) the next LaCrosse, the next CTS and even the pickups and SUV’s could all be equipped with this technology.

[GlobalResearch.ca] The World Food Crisis in Historical Perspective: Through this device, India was "force-marched into the world market," and between 1875 and 1900, the worst years of Indian famine, grain exports rose from three to ten million tons annually, an amount equivalent to the annual nutrition of twenty-five million people, coinciding with the rough estimate of twelve to twenty-nine million deaths during this period. As Davis remarks, "Londoners were in effect eating India's bread" and quotes an observer, who wrote: "It seems an anomaly, that, with her famines on hand, India is able to supply food for other parts of the world."(14) Hardly an anomaly, such market perversity is commonplace, occurring for example during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, a century later in the 1943 Bengal famine, and in recent famines, when food has been diverted for commercial purposes.

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