Posted on Wired Science: 2 March 2012 — By Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica — Some like to point to cycles when dismissing climate change, brushing off warming as simply being the thing that happens right before cooling. In this view, concern about climate change is akin to the naïve
Month: March 2012
A CO2 warning etched in stone and sediment
Posted on EPOCA: 02 Mar 2012 A comprehensive new review of research on episodes of carbon-driven disruption of ocean and climate conditions over the last 300 million years shows the power of a big pulse of carbon dioxide to profoundly affect the environment. The review, which is being published in the journal
Marine research focuses on Sound’s acidification
Posted on EPOCA: 02 Mar 2012 — When scientists in a Friday Harbor laboratory exposed mussels to slightly acidic marine water, they found the tiny fibers the shellfish use to cling to rocks stayed as strong as ever. But when the water warmed, those fibers, called byssal threads, became less
Ocean Acidification Rapid Compared To Ancient Times
Source: redOrbit The world’s oceans may be acidifying more rapidly than they have at any time in the past 300 million years due to high levels of pollution, according to research published this week in the journal Science. Researchers, led by Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the University of
A CO2 Warning Etched in Stone and Sediment (video interview)
March 1, 2012 — By ANDREW C. REVKIN, New York Times — Bryan Lovell, president of the Geological Society of London, said the analysis strongly supports the society’s 2010 statement on the the significance of human-driven climate change — a statement drawing almost entirely on evidence etched in stone. (video