Analysis of scientific data on solar variations over the last 25 years shows no evidence of it causing global warming, a report states.
“The temperature record is simply not consistent with any of the solar forcings that people are talking about,” said lead author Mike Lockwood at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia released a report stating that oceans are less effective at storing CO2 today compared to during the ice age.
Richard Peltier, a professor of atmospheric physics at the University of Toronto says that the greenhouse effect 700 million years ago probably prevented the earth to be covered by massive ice sheets and saved primitive life from extinction.
A report collaborated with the government and the Hong Kong University states that most people in Hong Kong are “willing to pay for a tougher crackdown on chronic air pollution through road pricing and other measures.”
“Australian and US scientists will send an unmanned submersible 2.5 kms (1.5 miles) deep into the ocean off Australia next week to track climate change by studying coral at unprecedented depths.”
“The latest ocean research shows currents around Antarctica are responding to climate change. Scientists studying the freshness of seawater have found the ocean is becoming less salty in areas near the Antarctic continent.”
Scientists at the Charles Sturt University (CSU) warn of health effects climate change can bring upon to populations in rural Australia as the distribution of some diseases may be altered.
After warnings from the UN that climate change will have catastrophic impacts on poorer countries, Britain aims to increase its aid to developing countries to help research the effects of climate change.
International climate scientists have identified “tipping points” caused by climate change for nine scenarios. “A tipping point is defined as the point where a small increase in temperature or other change in the climate could trigger a disproportionately larger change in the future.” The nine scenarios include: Arctic sea ice, Greenland ice sheet, West Antarctic ice sheet, Gulf Stream, El Niño, Indian monsoon, West African monsoon, Amazon rainforest and the Boreal forests.
In an articled published in Science by researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Nature Conservancy, the carbon footprint of biofuels is assessed. The findings revealed that the emissions associated with land clearance and biofuels production released “17 to 420 times more carbon than the annual savings from replacing fossil fuels.”