In spite of the significant trophic mismatches that Burthe et al. discovered over the course of their research – and rather surprisingly, it might be added – they report that “to date, there is no evidence that these changes are impacting on the breeding success of any of the seabird species,” suggesting that trophic mismatches need not be as deadly as sometimes presumed... Read More [2]
Increasing Greenhouse Gas Concentrations and Climatic Extremes (13 November 2012)
Greenhouse-gas-induced warming has not led to more frequent and/or greater extremes of either precipitation or temperature in the Greater Alpine Region, in clear refutation of the climate-alarmist claim as to what, in their view of the subject, should have been occurring... Read More [3]
Holocene Floods of China’s Jinghe River (13 November 2012)
Yet another study reveals the fact that it is global cooling that leads to more frequent and extreme flooding, rather than the global warming climate alarmists claim is the culprit... Read More [4]
Red Squirrel Responses to Regional Warming: Plastic or Genetic? (13 November 2012)
As written in the concluding sentence of the authors’ paper, “the combination of phenotypic changes within generations and microevolutionary changes among generations resulted in large phenotypic responses to rapid changes in environmental conditions experienced by this population of squirrels over the past ten years [italics added]”... Read More [5]
Will Rising Seas Swamp Sydney, Australia by Century’s End? (14 November 2012)
The Australian government is promoting the idea that they will, but a new analysis concludes that the “rise of sea level in the bay of Sydney by 2100 is therefore more likely less than the 50 mm measured so far over the last 100 years, rather than the meter [1000 mm] predicted by some models,” the latter of which would appear to be the source of “inspiration” for the Australian government’s concerns... Read More [6]
Mussels Living in Extremely Acidic Water on a Submarine Volcano (14 November 2012)
It may sound like fantasy, but its reality -- life appears to have the capacity to eke out a living in places where even scientists believe that such would not be possible... Read More [7]
Coccolithophores in the Bay of Biscay (14 November 2012)
An exemplary example of how they are confounding ocean-acidification alarmists... Read More [8]
CO2 Effects on Micronutrients in Plants (14 November 2012)
Based on the findings of this study, it could be said that elevated CO2 tends to increase the availability of helpful trace elements in plants, while it tends to decrease the availability of harmful ones... Read More [9]
Elevated CO2 Enhances Health-Promoting Properties of Oil Palms (20 November 2012)
Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations do a whole lot more than merely increase plant growth rates; they dramatically increase their concentrations of human-health-promoting substances... Read More [10]
Effects of Declining Arctic Sea Ice on Biogenic Sulfate Aerosols (20 November 2012)
An important self-regulating aspect of Earth’s climate system may well be helping to reduce the rate at which global warming had been proceeding prior to the advent of the 21st century and the enhanced northward migration of the Arctic Ocean’s marginal ice edge zone... Read More [11]
Effects of Ocean Warming and Acidification on an Antarctic Echinoid (20 November 2012)
The sea urchins examined in this study appear well equipped to successfully deal with IPCC-predicted near-future increases in seawater temperature and acidification...