Climate Change Causes Tree 'Migration'

Earth Times - 04 Nov 2011

Global warming is causing a strange phenomenon in tree species. Details here.

(PLT photo)

Ain't This the Truth! (Cartoon)

Huge Chunk of Antarctic Ice Sheet Set to Break Free

Christian Science Monitor - Nov 5

A 300-square-mile portion of the Pine Island Glacier is expected to break off in the next few months, creating a massive Antarctic iceberg. The glacier is contributing to sea-level rise. Details here. 

A close-up view of the crack spreading across the ice shelf of Pine Island 

Glacier captured by the Digital Mapping System (DMS) aboard NASA's DC-8 

October 26, 2011. REUTERS/NASA/DMS/Handout

Jump In Greenhouse Gases Is Biggest Ever Seen - U.S. Department Of Energy

Huff  Post Green - SETH BORENSTEIN 

WASHINGTON — The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. Details here.

  (Above) Big trucks, motors running, wait 

for their Big Macs at a Macdonald's 

"drive-thru" in Winnipeg. (PLT photo.)

7 Billion and Counting: Welcome to a Planet With Population Overload and Resources in Crisis

Scott Thill / AlterNet
 The definition of overpopulation has less to do with raw numbers of people than their relationship with the planet's sustainable resources. Details here.

Skeptic's Own Study Finds Climate Change Real, but says Scientists Should be More Critical

By: Seth Borenstein, Winnipeg Free Press - 10/30/2011

WASHINGTON - A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Details here.