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Rising Greenhouse Gases Amplify Sea Level Rise in Indian Ocean

photo: Rameez Sadikot via flickr An new study led by scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder shows that rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean appear to be, at least in part, amplified by rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. That is, they’re creating more sea level rise there than the global average…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sea Level Rise Forces Panama Islanders to Relocate

“You’re looking for the cafe? Yeah, turn left at the sunken car, and right at the seaweed grove. If you’ve hit fresh air, you’ve gone too far.” We jest, but the issue of climate change refugees is indeed a worrying and immediate subject. Photo via elbragon Some of the earliest climate change refugees are those that must relocate due to rising sea levels . A threat to people living around the world, from northern Canada to the

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More Frequent Extreme Heatwaves Commonplace Across the US by 2040

image: Noah Diffenbaugh/Stanford Univ. Just as one extreme snowstorm in winter not meaning the world isn’t continuing to warm, one summer heatwave doesn’t prove it. That said, the trend is definitely towards more extreme heatwaves , as new research from Stanford University confirms. Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , the scientists say that exceptionally long heatwav… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scientists Predict Continued Rapid Summer Arctic Sea Ice Decline – But No New Record

image: Klimacampus Though currently the extent of Arctic sea ice in lower than it was back in 2007, when the current record minimum was set, two different groups of German scientists’ forecasts show continued rapid decline but no new record to be set by this September. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Good-bye, Polar Bears, Hello, Oil-drenched Pelicans: How the Gulf Spill is Changing the Environmental Movement

illustrations from New York Magazine Climate change was always a tough sell. But as an important article by Jason Zengerie in New York Magazine points out, it mostly seems to happen in another place, and another time. He quotes a pollster: “People overwhelmingly say melting ice is a very bad thing. The problem is that hardly any Americans live next to a melting glacier.” As can be seen by Brian’s post yesterday on the consensus among scientists on climate change , nothing will convince the sc… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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United Kingdom Launches Projects to Study Ocean Acidification

Image: NOAA Ocean Explorer, Flickr The Evil Twin of Global Warming Ocean acidification naturally results from elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere. The oceans absorb CO2, which becomes carbonic acid as it dissolves into the sea water. Ocean acidification picked up the moniker

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Climate Change Already Pushing Vegetation Towards Poles & Equator

Vegetation around the globe has already been moving in response to global climate change , a new report in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography shows. In fact the report authors say that since the 18th century they have found fifteen cases where biomes have shifted because of temperature and precipitation changes (see map below)–vegetation has moved up mountainsides towards cooler temperatures and to the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Record High May Temperatures in US Continue to Outpace Record Lows by 2:1

images via Climate Capital April turned out to be the hottest on record globally, and South Asia is in the midst of a heatwave that is the hottest since modern records began two hundred years ago. Closer to home, as Capital Climate points out, the National Climatic Data Center reports for the past three months in the US new record highs are outpacing record lows by about two-to-one. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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