WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT

VIDEO OF ALGOR ABOUT THE GLOBAL WARMING

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION

FLOOD IN ASIA

Houses have sink into the ground due to floods devastation.

FLOOD IN MALAYSIA

Gombak river merges with the Klang river. Heavy development has narrowed certain stretches of the river: this contributes to flash floods in Kuala Lumpur, especially after heavy rain.

WATA RISE DUE TO MELTING ICE

Resolving the Paradox of the Antarctic Sea Ice (Aug. 16, 2010) — While Arctic sea ice has been diminishing in recent decades, the Antarctic sea ice extent has been increasing slightly. Researchers provide an explanation for the seeming paradox of increasing.

EMISSION GREENHOUSE CARBON

Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms, or cause damage to the natural environment or built environment, into the atmosphere.
The atmosphere is a complex dynamic natural gaseous system that is essential to support life on planet Earth. Stratospheric ozone depletion due to air pollution has long been recognized as a threat to human health as well as to the Earth's ecosystems.
Indoor air pollution and urban air quality are listed as two of the world's worst pollution problems in the 2008 Blacksmith Institute World's Worst Polluted Places report.^[1]

HOT VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN BRIMSTONE PIT

This underwater volcano, Brimstone Pit, was caught erupting by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Submarine Ring of Fire program. You can see the same volcano erupting in the video below. "If we were observing this type of eruptive activity on land we would have to run for our lives!" the researchers note. "At Brimstone Pit the pressure of [1837 feet] of water over the site reduces the power of the explosive bursts."

HOT VOLCANIC ERUPTION FROM OKMOK VOLCANO

Here we see an aerial photograph of the August 3, 2008 eruption plume from Okmok Volcano.
Credit: Alaska Volcano Observatory/UAF-GI.

HOT VOLCANIC ERUPTION OF PORTLAND

Mt. St. Helens, located about 50 miles north of Portland, Oregon in southern Washington state, experienced the most catastrophic eruption of recent memory. In 1980, the mountain literally blew its top. In one day, Mt. St. Helens lost more than 1,000 feet of elevation. Photo: USGS.

HOT VOLCANIC ERUPTION

An underwater volcano exploded near Tonga in the South Pacific to stunning effect this week. The pictures of gas and steam erupting out of the surface of the water captivated the world.

Here at Wired Science, we love volcanoes — so we decided to use the Tongan eruption to round up some of our favorite volcano eruption pics and present them as big. Above, you can see Mt. Cleveland in Alaska erupting on May 23, 2006 as photographed by NASA's Earth Observatory .

Next up is the glorious explosion, below, of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines back in 1991. Credit: USGS

GALAGXY AND THE GREEN HOUSE EFFECT

Seen from space, our atmosphere is but a tiny layer of gas around a huge bulky planet. But it is this gaseous outer ring and its misleadingly called greenhouse effect that makes life on Earth possible – and that could destroy life as we know it.

CLIMATE CHANGE

The 2010 ice amount at the end of the summer season was the third-lowest in the modern record, after 2007 and 2008, showing that there is no recovery in the sharp loss of Arctic ice. The past four years were the lowest in summer area of sea ice, which has been measured since satellite views of the Arctic began in 1979. The trend has been an average loss of summer sea ice of about nine percent per decade.
The ice cover reflects sunlight, keeping the Arctic waters cold; it is habitat to polar bears, birds, walruses and smaller sea life; it protects shorelines where humans and other animals live; and is the ancient landscape and home of natives of the North.
Satellite data indicate that Arctic sea ice is continuing a long-term decline, and remains younger and thinner than it was in previous decades. "All indications are that sea ice will continue to decline over the next several decades," said NSIDC Director Mark Serreze. "We are still looking at a seasonally ice-free Arctic in twenty to thirty years."
Heat wave in summer 2010 was not only in United States, but worldwide
NOAA tracks world temperatures as well as those in the States, and their current mapping shows many areas of the world far above the normal -- the larger the red dot, the farther above normal. Killing heat waves hit China and Eastern Europe, especially Russia.

PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Some scientists are of opinion that global climatic changesand increased average temperature of the earth is not caused by human activities, but by natural causes like sunspot cycle and change in the axis or tilt of the earth.more than that, asteroid collisions spews out more dust particles in to the atmosphere than one can imagine. The amount of sulfur oxides, which is belched out of massive volcanic eruptions, comes more than that produced by any human activity. The explosions on the sun’s surface produces intense heat energy, when this heat radiation reach the earth’s surface it can cause increased temperature within the earth’s atmosphere.

CLIMATE NEWS AND VIEWS

Our climate News and Views page is dedicated to Dr. Steve Schneider, who died this year in the midst of a celebrated career at Stanford as climatologist and public spokesman for science and the truth of global warming. In addition to his 40 years of leadership in researching, interpreting and acting with the science, he was a friend and mentor to World View of Global Warming from the very beginning. Here are the final words of a caption Steve wrote for my exhibit in 2009-10 at the American Assn for the Advancement of Science:

"Now, because of our population, how we get and use energy, conduct our agriculture and make use of the land, the human effect on climate is measurable and strong. Human activities have driven CO2 in the atmosphere to the highest level in at least 800,000 years, and global temperature is climbing out of the range in which human civilization evolved over the past several thousand years. Sea level rise, water availability, ecosystems, weather extremes and other systems are also moving out of the range of variability that we and many other species are used to. That process could be reversed before exceeding temperature levels of the past 10,000 years if prompt actions to curtail the emissions that create this warming were to become a global political priority." -- Stephen H. Schneider, November 2, 2009

MOON IN ECLIPS OVER MOUNT HOOD OREGON

True live story from Gary and phtography of global warming:
Solstice greetings and our very best wishes for the Season and the New Year. This year a full lunar eclipse occurs early on Solstice morning. In honor of these Earth and Moon orbital events, we are reprising an image of a previous eclipse rising over Mount Hood.
Outdoor Photography magazine in the UK has named Gary Braasch one the 40 most influential nature photographers -- "those who are prepared to go that extra mile to make an impact in the world of conservation." The honor is in recognition Gary's work to document climate science and educate on the implications and solutions to climate change. The citation also mentions his conservation work, such as ecosystem photography for the Conservation Land Trust in South America. Click for larger version.
Previously Gary was in Cancun for the international climate negotiations, and covered the Gulf BP oil gusher with 31 days on location from the Delta to Florida. He completed an assignment for Vanity Fair, illustrating a letter from the oil spill by famed environmental reporter Alex Shoumatoff. An extensive portfolio of images from the assignment and other work in the Gulf is on view at World View of Global Warming. The BP Gulf oil disaster's ripples include effects on community jobs, income and health; and damaged ecosystem functions on which millions of lives depend. It is another reason to be concerned about our overuse and dependency on oil and other fossil fuels.

Gary Braasch is a world caliber environmental photojournalist who creates remarkable images and important documentation about nature, environment, biodiversity and global warming. He is an experienced and internationally published assignment photographer. His book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, was lauded by Al Gore as "essential reading for every citizen." An exhibit of giant prints and educational images, "Climate Change in Our World," premiered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC, in November 2009, and his photographs have been published as United Nations postage stamps. More...

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CILMATE CHANGE OVER PLANTS

This is one of the effect of global warming, it destroys plants and forest and course homeless animal to wonder about from one point to another looking for shelter, example of one of such animal are monkeys; one that dwells in the trees.

MELTING OF ICE

“The entire polar ice cap … could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years.” So claimed global-warming magnate Al Gore at last December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The scientist he referenced, Dr. Wieslav Maslowski, is a Department of Oceanography professor with the U.S. Naval Post-Graduate School. Maslowski denied making the prediction in an interview with the U.K. Times Online. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.” A shamefaced Gore admitted gleaning the “ballpark figure” from a conversation he had with Maslowski several years ago. Yet only days before Gore’s Copenhagen speech, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) published a report of Maslowski’s research. It read, “Should the present trend of sea ice melt continue, some models suggest that the Arctic Ocean could become near ice free in the summer time within one decade.”

To further confuse things, DMI records show practically identical total sea ice area measurements in the Arctic for the past five years. However, DMI qualifies its data, noting that the age and thickness of Arctic ice is changing dramatically and citing research from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado that Arctic sea ice is melting at a rate of 11.2 percent per decade. The NSIDC explains that more ice than usual has been melting in summer months during recent years. New ice cover is relatively thin, weak, and more vulnerable to melting. Remarking on the data, NSIDC Director Mark Serreze said, “We still expect to see ice-free summers sometime in the next few decades.”