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This SIX-part series is based on audio recordings of the Hadley Centre/MET Office/Exeter/England
In early February of 2005 a headline appeared in the London Independent. It said: “How Mankind Is Sleepwalking to The End Of The Earth; floods, storms and droughts, melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. The world’s top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow.” The award winning environmental writer Geoffrey Lean wrote these words.
The conference was called: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change and it was held by request of the British Government. In order to counter the refusal of the United States to acknowledge the urgency of the issue of climate change they brought together 200 respected scientist from the fields of ecology, glaciology, meteorology, and oceanography.
Find the notes by the Hadley Centre at <http://www.stabilisation2005.com/programme.html>
Find the IPCC at <http://www.ipcc.ch/>
Find out about the expose in Mother Jones
Think tanks and journalists funded by ExxonMobil are out to convince you global warming is a hoax
http://www.motherjones.com/toc/2005/05/index.html
Douglas Quin recorded the sounds of breaking ice in the Antarctic
http://www.antarctica2000.net/frameset.html
PROGRAM ONE
Opening Address: Professor Stephen Schneider (Part 1 of 6)
Interview with the Director of the British Antarctic Survey (Part 2 of 6)
Professor Stephen Schneider gave the opening address at the Hadley Centre conference on Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change on February 1, 2005. Stephen Schneider is professor of biological sciences at Stanford University. He co-directs Stanford’s Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. He is doing research on ecological and economic implications of climate change; climatic modeling, the carbon dioxide “greenhouse effect”, and environmental consequences of nuclear war.
You can see Stephen Schneider’s slide show (2.1 Mb) on the web site of the Hadley Centre
http://www.stabilisation2005.com/day1/Schneider.pdf
Prof. Chris Rapley, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, <http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/> addresses the accelerated warming on the Antarctic Peninsula and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. That includes news from the breaking ice sheets (Larsen A and B and other) and the melting of the coastal glaciers.
You can see Chris Rapley’s slide show (2.0 Mb) on the web site of the Hadley Centre
http://www.stabilisation2005.com/day1/Chris_Rapley.pdf
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For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part TWO with Chris Rapley click HERE
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PROGRAM TWO
Global Warming on Greenland (Part 3 of 6)
Possible Collapse of the Gulf Stream (Part 4 of 6)
Is the melting we are seeing today the precursor of a major deglaciation of Greenland or a momentary anomaly. How fast will this process unfold and can deglaciation be stopped if it begins accelerating due to internal feedback mechanisms. Also, according to the Hadley Centre models: Even after CO2 levels are brought under control the oceans will keep expanding – raising the sea levels around the world – the question is for how long.
With Jason Lowe, Hadley Centre and Jay Zwally, NASA.
You can see Jason Lowe’s slide show (1.2 Mb) on the web site of the Hadley Centre
http://www.stabilisation2005.com/day1/Jason_Lowe.pdf
The possible collapse of the Gulf Stream, leading to a dramatic cooling of Europe, was considered a “high impact – low probability” event. Recent data show that there is now a 70% chance of collapse due to global warming. Michael Schlesinger is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He directs the UIUC Climate Research Group within the Department of Atmospheric Sciences.
You can see Michael Schlesinger’s slide show (1.8 Mb) on the web site of the Hadley Centre
http://www.stabilisation2005.com/day1/schlesinger.pdf
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For a broadcast quality mp3 version of Part FOUR with Schlesinger GULF STREAM click HERE
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PROGRAM THREE
The Impacts on Oceans and Land (Part 5 of 6)
The Bush Wars on Climate Science (Part 6 of 6)
Scientist have recently discovered that about half of the man-made carbon dioxide produced by fossil-fuel burning has been absorbed by the oceans. CO2 reacts with sea water to form carbonic acid and that lowers the ph level of the water and makes the oceans more acidic. Today the ph level of the oceans is already 0.1 unit lower than before the industrial revolution. These changes are accelerating the extinction of marine life from plankton to cod to coral reefs.
Dr. Carol Turley, head of science of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, talks about the impact of the increasing acidification of the world’s oceans. She said that the ph level of the oceans had remained incredibly constant for thousands, if not millions of years. Now about 400 billion tons of fossil fuel CO2 have been absorbed by the oceans
You can see Carol Turley’s slide show (1.6 Mb) on the web site of the Hadley Centre
http://www.stabilisation2005.com/day1/Turley.pdf
Professor Rik Leemans from the Environmental Sciences Department of Wageningen University in Holland directs projects on global biodiversity. He presents studies of birds, fish, insects, lichen and plants and their struggle for survival under global changes in growing seasons and distribution.
Animals and plants are on the move everywhere. They try to move north or up mountains to avoid warming or they follow the warming trends if they benefit from warm weather. Changes in the oceans are especially fast. Some plankton species have already moved north by up to 1000 kilometers. Some warm-water fish are moving into the warming seas at a rate of 250 kilometers every 10 years. Extinction rates are high among those unable to move and among those who no longer find the other species they depend on in the new environment.
You can see Rik Leemans slide show (3.1 Mb) on the web site of the Hadley Centre
http://www.stabilisation2005.com/day1/leemans.pdf
The Bush Wars on Climate Science
Speakers: Myron Ebell, Senator Inhofe, Prof. Chris Rapley
How the Bush Administration undermined climate science and even prevented an agreement on limits of CO2 emissions at the G8 meeting in Scotland. (Myron Ebell and Sen. Inhofe) Also: How science tells us more about the accelerated collapse of earth systems than ever before (Chris Rapley)
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