Confronting Climate Contrarianism looks into the claims made climate contrarians and how they (mis)use the scientific literature. —————————————————————– In a textbook example of climate contrarians misusing the primary literature for an anti-scientific agenda, Robinson et al. (2007) are seemingly flippant about decades of research showing how humans have affected the climate since the onset of . . . → Read More: Confronting Climate Contrarianism II: Methane Accumulation in the Atmosphere
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  November 10th, 2010  7 comments  Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Weather  atmosphere, CH4, Clean Air Act, climate change, Climate Contrarianism, graphs, methane, trends By Kevin Zelnio, on November 8th, 2010 5 comments Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Education, Environmental Sciences Best of Zelnio, carbon dioxide, climate change, Climate Contrarianism, CO2, communication, From the Editor's Desk, global warming, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication In 2007, there was a peer-reviewed article published by Arthur Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon titles “Environmental Effects of Increased Carbon Dioxide.” Just focusing on the title, what is the first that comes to your mind? Do you think this is an article describing the latest research on how human-generated carbon dioxide emissions . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Confronting Climate Contrarianism
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 5th, 2010 Leave a comment Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment Best of Zelnio, Biocalcification, climate change, CO2, Pteropod, Scientific American I wrote a piece on the plight of our favorite “winged” mollusc, the pteropod, in arctic seas over at Scientific American’s guest blog. [...] To grasp how our input of CO2 feeds back upon polar foods webs we can use the unassuming pteropod mollusk, commonly called the sea angel because of its modified wing-like (ptero-) . . . → Read More: To Catch a Fallen Sea Angel: How a Mighty Mollusc Detects Ocean Acidification
By Dr. M, on October 20th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Coral bleaching, climate change, Coral, global warming If the impending coral death in the Caribbean didn’t make you nauseous… International marine scientists say that a huge coral death which has struck Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean reefs over recent months has highlighted the urgency of controlling global carbon emissions. Many reefs are dead or dying across the Indian Ocean and into . . . → Read More: Worst coral death strikes at Southeast Asia
By Dr. M, on October 18th, 2010 One comment Conservation & Environment, Coral, Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster, Weather climate change, Coral, coral bleaching, global warming, reef, Temperature, warm water And to end you day on a uber-depressing note, sure to give you at least some nightmares Scientists studying Caribbean reefs say that 2010 may be the worst year ever for coral death there. Abnormally warm water since June appears to have dealt a blow to shallow and deep-sea corals that is likely to . . . → Read More: Caribbean Coral Die-Off Could Be Worst Ever
By RickMac, on October 5th, 2010 8 comments Conservation & Environment, Reviews climate change, communication, fail, PSAs, wtf On Sunday October 10, 2010, people across the world are planning to stage local community action in order to reduce global CO2 and other greenouse gas emissions. On the morning of September 30th, 2010, 10:10 UK–the British organization responsible for the project–debuted a promotional video titled “No Pressure” on the 10:10 website. In less than . . . → Read More: Under Pressure
By RickMac, on September 28th, 2010 11 comments Conservation & Environment acidification, climate change, CO2, conservation, Coral, coral bleaching, coral reef, ocean acidification, RB Editor's Selection, research blogging The left image represents an intact system at current CO2 levels; the center image shows coral decay with increased CO2; and the right image shows a devastated system with even higher CO2 emissions. O. Hoegh-Guldberg, et al (2007) Coral reefs under rapid climate change and ocean acidification, Science, 318(5857), p. 1741 When you’re in . . . → Read More: Not Good Enough: Copenhagen Accord May Doom Coral Reefs
By RickMac, on September 15th, 2010 5 comments Coral, Ecology, Open Access, Organisms, Uncategorized climate change, Zooxanthellae D’Angelo et al. (2009): Blue light regulation of pigment expression in corals A post on NOAA’s Coral-List (an automatic mailing list forum for online discussions and announcements pertaining to coral reef ecosystem research, conservation, and education) caught my eye as it featured an interesting field observation that was made following a recent series of severe . . . → Read More: Color Me Stressed
By Dr. M, on August 1st, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Coral, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Organisms, Social Sciences 'Oro, ahu, architecture, Biomass, Carbon, chlorophyll, climate change, Coral, flux, global warming, Gulf of Mexico, marae, Mo'orea, phytoplankton, POC, Polynesia, SST, The Tide Pool, Thorium An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! A new paper by Boyce, Lewis, and Worm from Dalhousie University, provides clear evidence of decreasing phytoplankton biomass over the last century. The researchers used a blended dataset of ~450,000 measurements of chlorophyll consisting of field measurements of . . . → Read More: The Tide Pool: Loss of Phytoplankton, War Gods and Corals, and Gulf of Mexico Biodiversity
By Dr. M, on July 7th, 2010 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Microbes, New Research Arctic, carbon cycle, climate change, global warming, methane, methane hydrates, Microbes, Sediment That’s pretty much the message of new study in Geophysical Research Letters. Large deposits of methane hydrates, i.e. methane ice, occur naturally in the seafloor sediments of the Arctic continental shelf between 300-600 meters. This is dominate reservoir for methane due to the large area and extremely low temperatures. The continued and predicted warming of . . . → Read More: Ocean Warming Melts Methane Hydrates Which Screws Us All
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