Category: Warming Effects

ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2008) — Climate change is rapidly transforming the world’s oceans by increasing the temperature and acidity of seawater, and altering atmospheric and oceanic circulation, reported a panel of scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Boston.

“The vastness of our oceans may have engendered a sense of complacency about potential impacts from global climate change,” said Jane Lubchenco, the Wayne and Gladys Valley Chair of Marine Biology at Oregon State University, who moderated the panel. “The world’s oceans are undergoing profound physical, chemical and biological changes whose impacts are just beginning to be felt.”

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 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080217102140.htm

Thanks to a changing climate, not only may Glacier National Park need a new name, but eventually a new mascot. The park’s iconic mountain goats are already feeling the impacts of climate change, said Dan Fagre, a research ecologist for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center in Glacier National Park.

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http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/climate_change_impacts_more_than_glaciers_glaciers/C38/L38/

This latest work “not only shows that climate change is a real problem. It also shows it has direct implications for humans – and not just in the third world,” says Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, Calif. The institute focuses on links between sustainable development and global security issues. “Even without climate change, we’re taking too much water from the Colorado. So it’s no surprise that if we continue to take too much, the reservoirs will go dry.”

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0213/p25s05-usgn.html