Weather Disasters Keep Costing U.S. Billions This Year
Mary Wisniewski
Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires.
The first eight months of 2011 have brought strange and destructive weather to the United States.
Weather Disasters Costing U.S. Billions This Year
Mary Wisniewski
Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires.
The first eight months of 2011 have brought strange and destructive weather to the United States.
Time to Start Work on a Panic Button?
08-25-2011
JUSTIN GILLIS
For two decades, the world’s governments have failed to meet their own commitment to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas.
Map tracks Antarctica on the move
Jonathan Amos
Scientists have produced what they say is the first complete map of how the ice moves across Antarctica.
UN Establishes a Committee on Global Geospatial Information
Matt Ball
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted to establish a committee on global geospatial information management in order to enhance international dialogue and cooperation on spatial data infrastructures.
Weather disasters seen costly sign of things to come
07-28-2011
Reuter
Molly O'Toole
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and the trend is expected to worsen as climate change continues, officials and scientists said on Thursday.
Wally's World
08-03-2010
BRAD JOHNSON
Thirty-five years ago this week, Wallace Broecker predicted decades of dangerous climate change caused by humans. Unfortunately, he was all too prescient.
Melting Arctic ice releasing banned toxins, warn scientists
Damian Carrington
Unknown amount of trapped persistent organic pollutants poses threat to marine life and humans as temperatures rise
UN official warns climate change could lead to conflicts over resources -- 'There can be little doubt today that climate change has potentially far-reaching implications for global stability and security,' he says
Climate change could result in "sudden and abrupt" shocks to countries around the world and have "far-reaching implications for global stability and security," a senior United Nations' official has warned.
Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the race to cool the planet
John Vidal
Critics fear that manipulating weather patterns could have a calamitous effect on poorer countries