Global Warming News : Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 Begins Mapping Oceans
Less than a month after launch, the NASA-French space agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason 2 oceanography satellite has produced its first complete maps of global ocean surface topography, surface wave height and wind speed.
The new data will help scientists monitor changes in global sea level and the distribution of heat in the ocean. This information is used to monitor climate change and ocean circulation, and to enable more accurate weather, ocean and climate forecasts. The data reveal patterns of sea level anomalies, which are used by scientists to calculate the speed and direction of ocean surface currents.
The new mission extends a 16-year continuous record of global sea level measurements begun in 1992 by the NASA/Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Topex/Poseidon mission and continued by the two agencies on Jason 1, launched in 2001. Data from Topex/...
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Save Species From Climate ChangeFrom: globalwarming2020.com
Post Date: 2008-07-18 03:19:28
Global Warming News : Should We Move Species To Save Them From Climate Change?
Many species must move to new areas to survive climate change. Often, this seems impossible. Species stranded on mountain tops in southern Europe that are becoming too hot for them, for instance, are unlikely to be able to reach northern Europe unaided. So should humans step in to help?
An international team of conservation scientists from Australia, the United Kingdom and United States, including University of Tex...
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Post Date: 2008-07-18 03:17:18
Global Warming News : Could Climate Change Impact Costa Rica? New Study Says Yes
Climate change could have a major impact on the environment of Costa Rica, upsetting delicate mountain cloud forests, and causing a decrease in plant and animal species in a region famous for its biodiversity. Regional climate models predict that the area will become warmer and drier as climate change accelerates.
While melting Arctic sea ice and glaciers have become a symbol of climate change, new research from ...
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Post Date: 2008-07-20 22:21:28
Global Warming News : Massive Greenhouse Gases May Be Released As Destruction, Drying Of World Wetlands Worsen
Leading world scientists convene in Brazil July 21-25 amid growing concern that evaporation and ongoing destruction of world wetlands, which hold a volume of carbon similar to that in the atmosphere today, could cause them to exhale billows of greenhouse gases.
Meeting in the city of Cuiaba on the edge of South America’s vast Pantanal, the largest wetland of its kind, some 700 ...
more Greatest Value Of Forests Is Sustainable Water SupplyFrom: globalwarming2020.com
Post Date: 2008-07-20 22:19:13
Global Warming News : Greatest Value Of Forests Is Sustainable Water Supply
The forests of the future may need to be managed as much for a sustainable supply of clean water as any other goal, researchers say in a new federal report — but even so, forest resources will offer no “quick fix” to the insatiable, often conflicting demands for this precious resource.
This new view of forests is evolving, scientists say, as both urban and agricultural demands for water continue to i...
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