Climate Change Already Reducing Crop Yields: Study

Scientists warn that climate change resulting from global warming could reduce the world’s ability to grow food just when an increasing population needs it most. Now, new research indicates it may already be happening. A recent paper published in Sciencemagazine says two of the world’s four major crops show declining yields over the last 30

2010 Ties For Warmest Year, Emissions To Blame

Last year tied for the warmest since data started in 1880, capping a decade of record high temperatures that shows mankind’s greenhouse gas emissions are heating the planet, a U.S. agency said. Global surface temperatures in 2010 were 1.12 F (0.62 C) above the 20th century average, tying the record set in 2005, the National


Letters – for Aug. 19, 2010

I happen to be one who believes climate change is not only real and affecting us now, but is caused by the way we live on this earth as humans. But don’t take my word for it. That is exactly what the world’s best scientific minds have been telling us for years. But nobody seems

When It Rains, It Pours — More Than Ever – for Jul. 29, 2010

Ihave received several emails the past few months regarding the number of heavy rainfall events and associated flooding that has occurred around the world lately. I started poking around a little bit to see what I could find on the subject, and as usual, I came across some good research. While these studies were done


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.”

World Warming Unhindered By Cold Spells — Scientists

The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said Feb. 25 despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards. The bitter cold, with more intense winter weather forecast for March in parts of the United States, have led some to question if global warming has


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

Australia Bush Fires Could Worsen

Australia faces a possible 300 per cent increase in extreme bushfires by 2050 unless world leaders can agree to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions, a new report said Jan. 28. The report, commissioned by Australia’s firefighters and environmental group Greenpeace, said the failure of UN climate talks in Copenhagen to agree on a treaty to


Whither The Prairie Climate?

“The evidence is pretty clear to my mind that global warming is underway, and greenhouse gas emissions are causing some changes in the climate.” – BRUCE BURNETT, CWB Adapting to climate change will be tough, that’s for sure. It might be easier if Prairie farmers knew exactly what to plan for, but one thing is

The Changing Arctic –Part 1

Ihinted at our next topic in the last article, and it is about the melting of the Arctic sea ice. I, along with a large number of weather scientists, agree that this is rapidly becoming the biggest weather story of our time. So I am going to take the next few articles to explore this