The current cold in mid latitudes might, counterintuitively, reverse that trend and reduce the ice cover further.Related items The future of the Arctic: The bleakest outlook in the worldDec 10th 2009 Is it worth it?Dec 3rd 2009 Climate change: Mail-stromNov 26th 2009 Science: On thin iceNov 13th 2009The atmosphere cannot make heat, or even hold that much of it.
Gary Kitchen Southport, England, Dec. 7, 2009 To the Editor: Re "That Climate Change E-Mail" (editorial, Dec. 6): What the e-mail messages hacked from British climate scientists show is that scientists, too, have human frailties and are capable of behaving in a partisan and even vindictive manner.
In the effort to reduce waste and halt climate change, direct-mail advertising is the lowest of low-hanging fruit — its costs are tremendous and it contributes nothing.
Daily Mail Climate change is on ice: UN scientists reveal the world's barely got any hotter in the last 15 years - but say they are now 95% certain man is to blame for global warming Except, if you were following our coverage of the press conference earlier or have looked at the report, you'll see that's not what the IPCC has "revealed" at all.
Equally important to the controversy over climate change prompted by e-mail messages that questioned the scientific validity of global warming are the security and privacy issues that challenge a society becoming dependent on text messages, tweets, Facebook and e-mail messages.
In the latest e-mail fracas, Nicholas Stern, who in 2006 led an influential review on the economics of climate change, apparently had his e-mail account hijacked into sending fake e-mails, along with a virus, to colleagues at the London School of Economic's Grantham Institute for Climate Change, which Stern heads.
University of Melbourne meteorology professor David Karoly, a contributing author to reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says that "abusive e-mails are nothing new".
Pounds writes in an e-mail that climate change has caused greater day-to-day variations in precipitation at Monteverde, something the isotope method isn't precise enough to measure.
"Forests, wetlands and other ecosystems are nature's infrastructure for controlling floods, supplying water, and doing other things we need to adapt to climate change," Tercek wrote in an e-mail.
"Severe mental health problems are likely to surge, in the U.S. and elsewhere, unless Congress exerts dramatic leadership to help slow climate change — and soon," began an e-mail message that found its way into my in-box last week.
Can we sue the Daily Mail for misleading the public over climate change?
