Detecting where and when stress from rising sea temperatures is likely to impact coral reefs is an incredibly important piece of information.  Potentially, it can be used to anticipate mass coral bleaching and mortality events, as well as monitor ongoing sub-chronic stress.  NOAA has just launched its new look Coral Reef Watch website, which [...]

By Peter C. Frumhoff and Naomi Oreskes

The Hill’s Congress Blog - 02/23/11 10:22 AM ET

Since Congress re-convened, it seems especially fashionable among the new leadership to voice doubt about the scientific evidence that heat-trapping gases are dangerously warming the planet. And at least one congressman says he will hold hearings into climate science, [...]

You may remember that we posted material on the Koch Brothers.  These two billionaires have supported misinformation about the veracity of climate change on a grand scale .  Now we see their rising influence in Washington as a result of the changing political climate.  Here, the Los Angeles Times explores these changing circumstances.

The billionaire [...]

Warmer than average seas continue to dominate Australian tropical waters. Here are two important datasets we need to keep our eye on as we go into summer.  The first shows positive anomalies (“HotSpot“) in sea surface temperature (SST) measured by NOAA satellites.  Basically anything over + 1°C to more than four weeks is likely [...]

BBC World News – 5 January 2011 Last updated at 19:42

Global food prices rose to a fresh high in December, according to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).

Its Food Price Index went above the previous record of 2008 that saw prices spark riots in several countries.

Soaring sugar, cereal and oil prices had [...]

By Graham Readfearn (original title modified)

SO you’re the news producer on a prime time Australian television breakfast show that’s been breathlessly covering the devastating affects of the Queensland floods and you’re looking for a new angle. How about a crack at climate change?

For television, the floods are the epitome of the story [...]