Ok, let me apologize for the sound of my questions – I’m getting a second lavalier so that won’t happen again. That plus altitude induced hoarseness.
I was interviewing Richard Alley at a conference in Colorado last week. This is part of what he said. More later.
Sciam.com on warmer weather and species extinction:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=warming-proves-bad-for-life-in-freshwater-lakes-and-rivers
“The scientists looked at 121 native species and found that four fifths of them were likely to be driven to extinction or at least to very low numbers. These include prized sporting fish such as the Klamath River summer steelhead and other trout, the Central Valley Chinook salmon, the Central Coast coho salmon and many others that depend on cold water.”
Tilapia, anyone?
Al Gore on Keystone XL: “An Atrocity”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/15/al-gore-obama-keystone-pipeline
Gore counsels Obama to deny permit.
[And I’ll bet Obama uses this as a tool to shake down his oil patch buddies for more cash.]
The stress is evident on the GIS. A look at a Landsat from yesterday of Zachariae Ice Stream NE Greenland indicates this.
Zachariae 79 Glacier
Secrets of Abrupt Climate Shifts revisited
The latest science suggests that past abrupt Greenland warming (so called DO events) may be triggered by the Jet Stream – induced from what we call arctic amplification.
http://climatestate.com/magazine/2013/06/secrets-of-abrupt-climate-shifts-revisited/