The Guardian, 2nd January 2008
One of the world’s top climate scientists has written a personal new year appeal to Barack and Michelle Obama, warning of the “profound disconnect” between public policy on climate change and the magnitude of the problem.
With less than three weeks to go until Obama’s inauguration, Professor James [...]
As if having Barack Obama win the US election wasn’t enough good news, we just learned that he has named Dr. Jane Lubchenco as the new head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration! This is really incredibly good news.
The fact that the new president, and as they say “world’s most [...]
The Australian Government has set a 2020 target of reducing direct national greenhouse gas emissions by between 5 to 15% and thereby aiming at a global scenario that would stabilise global atmospheric greenhouse gases at around 510 to 550 parts per million carbon dioxide equivalents (ppm CO2-e) by the end of the century.
[...]
The journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment have published an interesting guest editorial article titled “The oceans’ acid test: can our reefs be saved?” by Jacqueline Savitz and Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb:
The climate change dialogue has picked up steam in recent months, but it has largely ignored the oceans, in spite of the tremendous service [...]
Nature News, 27th November 2008
The United Nations Climate Change Conference that begins in Poznań, Poland, on 1 December will in some ways mark the end of an era. The United States’ long-standing opposition to climate regulation is vanishing, offering new opportunities for cooperation with its allies in Europe and beyond.
But to [...]
Now that he won the election, everyone has advice for Barack Obama on how he should govern and what policies he should support and focus on. Given the importance of ocean ecosystems and coral reefs, shouldn’t we get into the act? In fact, several individuals and organizations are drafting advice on environmental policy, [...]
One of the many big political surprises in the US yesterday was news that the Bush administration was considering implementing two or more massive marine reserves in US territories in the Pacific. The move would protect some of the regions most remote coral reefs. What isn’t so surprising is that, according to the Washington Post, [...]
Long Cao and Ken Caldeira from the Carnegie Institution at Stanford have a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters on atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) stabilization and ocean acidification, a critical topic for current marine science and public policy. Hoegh-Guldberg et al (2007) illustrated the essential chemistry at the heart of this problem as [...]
The Australian newspaper published an article this weekend entitled “Great Barrier Reef could adapt to climate change, scientists say”.
THE prediction of a prominent marine biologist that climate change could render the Great Barrier Reef extinct within 30 years has been labelled overly pessimistic for failing to account for the adaptive capabilities of [...]
ABC News, 29th October 2008
A climate change scientist says real estate agents have threatened to make his life difficult if he continues to publish research about how vulnerable particular properties are to rising sea levels and coastal erosion.
Professor Andrew Pitman works at the Climate Change Research Centre at the [...]
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