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* Vast global study finds impacts of climate change
* Says warming is turning polar bears into cannibals
* In-depth coverage of latest climate change news
HUMAN-generated climate change made flowers bloom sooner and autumn leaves fall later, turned some polar bears into cannibals and some birds into early breeders, a vast global study has found.
Hundreds of previous studies have noted these specific changes and most suggested a link to so-called anthropogenic (human-generated) global warming, but a new analysis published in the journal Nature has correlated earlier studies with changes in temperature, the study's lead author said.
The study found the early arrival of migratory birds in Australia, declining water levels in western Victoria and a 50 per cent decline in Antarctica's Emperor Penguin population were linked to rising temperatures.
There was also a close relationship between temperature shifts between 1970 and 2004 and changes in plants, animals and the physical world, such as the retreat of glaciers and the water level in desert lakes.
"When you look at all of the glaciers and all of the snowpack and all of the birds laying eggs earlier and all of the plants having spring earlier across a continent, then we see we can detect anthropogenic signals," said Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
They study's authors worked to rule out observed changes that could have been caused by other factors besides anthropogenic climate change.
Ms Rosenzweig and her co-authors brought together nearly 30,000 sets of data about biological and physical changes around the world, and then matched that up with a detailed database of global temperature change.
The link between human-caused global warming - generated by industrial and vehicle emissions of carbon dioxide to produce a temperature-boosting greenhouse effect - and observed biological and physical changes is very strong, she said.
On a global scale, the correlation is more than 99 percent between the two factors; on a continental scale, she said, the correlation if very likely between 90 and 99 percent.
Going continent by continent, here are some observed changes in the natural world attributable to climate change, according to the study:
Australia
Early arrival of migratory birds including flycatchers and fantails; declining water levels in western Victoria.
Antarctica
50 per cent decline in population of emperor penguins on Antarctic Peninsula; retreating glaciers.
North America
Cannibalism and declining population of polar bears; earlier breeding and arrival dates of birds including robins and Canada geese.
Europe
Glaciers melting in the Alps; changes in 19 countries of leaf-unfolding and flowering of such plants as hazel, lilac, apple, linden and birch.
Asia
Greater growth of Siberian pines in Mongolia; earlier break-up and thinning of river and lake ice in Mongolia; change in freeze depth of permafrost in Russia.
South America
Glacier wastage in Peru; melting Patagonia ice fields contributing to sea-level rise.
Africa
Decreasing aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika.
Global warming changing nature of world (Get this..)
Ive seen that episode of Pen and Teller. Theyre quite amusing. Slightly annoying sometimes but very smart. Big fan.
The spokeperson for the activists actually seemed on drugs to me. She was the fucking spokesperson and she literally didn't know what she was doing or saying. Fucking pathetic. Just makes me think what the next generation of kids will be like. The government is actually trying to get youth into green activism now. Sheer political movement covered with green ideologies. I see the direction. I've seen it for a long time now.
Global warming changing nature of world (Get this..)
My Comment, (Others below it)
It's a fraud! http://www.bottleweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=97&start=0
In a report titled
Google Books: Club of Rome; The First Global Revolution: http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&id=8RNKHGbzUuAC&dq=The+First+Global+Revolution+%2B+club+of+rome&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=FNokWSz26F&sig=VkJWnoiUSyQLxXzqIfJ1_uNbg7s#PPP9,M1
Richard Haass, the current president of the Council on Foreign Relations, stated in his article
Report:State sovereignty must be altered in globalized era http://base.google.com/base/a/1027933/6076611128683676989
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"Here we go. All the denialists come out of the wood work. None of them have anything to offer but "blah, blah, .....part of natural cycle", and don't forget the sun spots. And none of them have anywhere near the access to the raw data as those actually qualified to make an assessment of climate change. Like the SCIENTISTS who have been telling these deluded fools the truth for years. If only we'd listened to all those wacked-out, long haired hippies telling us about this back in the 60's and 70's when we could have done something to avoid it. Now all we can do is try to mitigate the damage and ride it out. Too all you idiots who are going to get on here and deny that it's happening. Pi$s off! You are part of the problem, not part of the solution."
"Temperatures have been faling since 1998. The last winter was the coldest in 40 years. The Arctic has refrozen. The scaremongers will grow more shrill as evidence mounts against them. It only takes one flaw to disprove a theory. The AGW theory is consigned to the dustbin. But be sure, the loon tune brigade will have another scare for us shortly."
"All of this story is a lie. Man made climate change is a socialist hoax. No serious scientist believes it anymore."
"Didn't we just have a few volcanic eruptions recently. Maybe we can put a emissions scheme on volcanoes. The biggest source of co2 are the oceans, maybe we can put a carbon trading scheme on the oceans as well. This whole climate change debate has become a farce. The reality there is no debate but it is a political/idealogical movement that is based on voodoo science. The more evidence comes out to debunk the climate change thesis the louder the shrill from proponents. Take this article for example it is very flimsy, it is incorrect and the original article it references has a big caveat regarding human influences. Basically it is rubbish."
"In 1000 AD it was the second coming of Christ and the end of the world as we know it. In 2000, it was the Y2K computer bug that will crash all the computers in the world and bring the end of the world as we know it; Now, it's climate change and the end of the world as we know it. As resonsible global citizens, we should minimise our impact. That does not mean buying into every so-called "green" arguement out there. There are too many opportunist that are purely out to make money, and too many people that jump on band-wagons without checking what that bandwagon they are really jumping on. Go to you tube and look for the Penn & Teller clip about how many people would sign up to ban "di-hydrogen monoxide" before realising they were signing a petition to ban water!"
"Paul of Melbourne Comment 32 The problem with this article is that it assumes that climate changes are due to human activity. This is not proven by this study. This is a very poor piece of journalism. " - I have to agree. This is a perfect example of how the medias adds its own interpretation and totally gives the wrong impression."
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