Thursday, September 11, 2014

It is not just anthropogenic emissions now; Earth is in a negative feedback loop.

September 9, 2014
Carbon dioxide accumulation (click here) in the atmosphere reached a record high last year and grew at the fastest rate in 30 years, the United Nations' climate agency reported Tuesday.
The World Meteorological Organization's latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin "injected even greater urgency into the need for concerted international action against accelerating and potentially devastating climate change," the U.N. agency said....

There are fires returning large quantities to CO2 to the troposphere. The droughts also remove green vegetation that would normally absorb CO2 in large measure and there are warmer oceans which are degrading coral reefs. 

September 9, 2014
All is not well with the nation's birds. (click here) The most comprehensive study ever of birds in America is out today, and it says many populations are in steep decline, even as others are doing well....

Habitat and food sources are disappearing. Many of these birds are common to our communities, including the nation's bird, The Bald Eagle. They is a growing threat to their loss and quite possibly extinction.