Daily News. Pergamon home page. [LEAKED DRAFT*] IPCC: Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. FINAL DRAFT (FGD) IPCC WGII AR5 Summary for Policymakers Do Not Cite, Quote, or Distribute 3 28 October 2013 In response to ongoing climate change, terrestrial and marine species have shifted their ranges, seasonal activities, migration patterns, and abundance, and have demonstrated altered species interactions ( high confidence Increased tree mortality, observed in many places worldwide, has been attributed to climate change in 3 some regions. While recent warming contributed to the extinction of many species of Central American amphibians 4 ( medium confidence ), most recent observed terrestrial-species extinctions have not been attributed to recent climate 5 change, despite some speculative efforts ( high confidence ). In many regions, changing precipitation or melting snow and ice are altering hydrological systems, affecting water resources and quality ( Glaciers continue to shrink in many regions due to climate 11 change ( ).
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November 2o13. October 2o13. Sept. 2o13. August 2o13. July 2o13. June 2o13. May 2o13. April 2o13. Janv-Feb-March 2o13. UN: 2001-2010 decade shows faster warming trend. GENEVA (AP) — Global warming accelerated since the 1970s and broke more countries' temperature records than ever before in the first decade of the new millennium, U.N. climate experts said Wednesday.
A new analysis from the World Meteorological Organization says average land and ocean surface temperatures from 2001 to 2010 rose above the previous decade, and were almost a half-degree Celsius above the 1961-1990 global average. The decade ending in 2010 was an unprecedented era of climate extremes, the agency said, evidenced by heat waves in Europe and Russia, droughts in the Amazon Basin, Australia and East Africa, and huge storms like Tropical Cyclone Nargis and Hurricane Katrina. Data from 139 nations show that droughts like those in Australia, East Africa and the Amazon Basin affected the most people worldwide. But it was the hugely destructive and deadly floods such as those in Pakistan, Australia, Africa, India and Eastern Europe that were the most frequent extreme weather events. Runaway Global Warming May Have Started. Has Arctic Methane 'Bomb' Just Gone Off?
2012 Measurements show dramatic rise in methane emissions from the Arctic Fig 1: Methane emissions from Arctic Sea Floor and Arctic Albedo All the worry about Global Warming has tended to focus on carbon dioxide emissions but the real threat may be methane emissions.... In the past 5 years there have been major changes happening up in the Arctic. The annual summer melt of the sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean has greatly increased, exposing a much larger area to heating during the summer months which in turn has warmed the ocean enough that the frozen methane hydrates on and below the seabed are beginning to melt, causing methane gas to bubble to the surface. Related Indy Links: Study: Arctic sea ice decline may be driving snowy winters seen in recent years | Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking At 'Unprecedented' Levels | Special issue on the Arctic: After the ice | Arctic sea routes open as ice melts | Arctic Turning into a Sea of Foaming Methane.
Fig 3: Arctic PermaFrost Areas ....... Changement Climatique. Climate Deniers in Congress. The Keeling Curve | A daily record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Time history of atmospheric CO2 (2011 update)