Climate Report Shows Australia Getting Warmer

Australia’s top scientists have released a “State of the Climate” report at a time of growing skepticism over climate change as a result of revelations of errors in some global scientific reports. The scientists said their monitoring and research of the world’s driest inhabited continent for 100 years “clearly demonstrate that climate change is real.”

Arctic Melt To Cost Up To $24 Trillion By 2050

Arctic ice melting could cost global agriculture, real estate and insurance anywhere from $2.4 trillion to $24 trillion by 2050 in damage from rising sea levels, floods and heat waves, according to a report released Feb. 5. “Everybody around the world is going to bear these costs,” said Eban Goodstein, a resource economist at Bard


Four Degrees Either Way Is A Big Deal, Says Expert

Climate change skeptics like to point out that if the weatherman can’t predict the weather with much accuracy, how can scientists be sure that global warming is actually happening? The answer is that putting together a weather forecast involves many often conflicting short-term variables. Analyzing climate trends over the long term is much easier, because