CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY
UPDATED REFERENCES
The latest relevant scientific reports are cited here chronologically.
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2009
Sherwood, S. & Huber, M. (2009). An adaptability limit for large warmings — are we accounting for it? IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6 (9 March 2009). | doi:10.1088/1755-1307/6/2/522006
www.iop.org/EJ/article/1755-1315/6/52/522006/ees9_6_522006.pdfSolomon, S., Plattner, G-K., Knutti, R., & Friedlingstein, P. (2009). Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions. PNAS 106(6) (10 February 2009). | doi:10.1073/pnas.0812721106
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/1704.full
2008
Associated Press (2008). The big melt: Two trillion tons of ice have melted since 2003. The Globe and Mail (16 December 2008).
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081216.wbigmelt1216/BNStory/Science/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20081216.wbigmelt1216Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (2008). Time running out on coral reefs as climate change becomes increasing threat. ScienceDaily (15 December 2008).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210112808.htm University of Copenhagen (2008). Methane, potent greenhouse gas, flowing into the atmosphere from tundra much faster than expected. ScienceDaily (11 December 2008).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081210133814.htm University of Chicago (2008). Ocean growing more acidic faster than once thought; Increasing acidity threatens sea life. ScienceDaily (26 November 2008).
http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2008/11/081124141053.htm Giles, K. A. et al (2008). Circumpolar thinning of Arctic seaice following the 2007 record ice extent minimum. Geophysical Research Letters 35, L22502 (20 November 2008). | doi:10.1029/2008GL035710
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008GL035710.shtml Rigby, M. et al (2008). Renewed growth of atmospheric methane. Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, L22805 (20 November 2008). | doi:10.1029/2008GL036037
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008GL036037.shtml Greene, C. H. et al (2008). Arctic climate change and its impacts on the ecology of the North Atlantic. Ecology Volume 89, Special Issue 11, pp. S24-S38. (November 2008). | doi: 10.1890/07-0550.1
http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/07-0550.1 Beeby, R. (2008). Fears methane spike will fuel warming. The Canberra Times (30 October 2008).
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/environment/fears-methane-spike-will-fuel-warming/1347255.aspx Wittig V. E. et al (2008). Quantifying the impact of current and future tropospheric ozone on tree biomass, growth, physiology and biochemistry: A quantitative meta-analysis. Global Change Biology (24 October 2008). | doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01774.x
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121482655/abstract Wouters, B. et al (2008), GRACE observes small-scale mass loss in Greenland. Geophysical Research Letters 35, L20501 (16 October 2008). | doi:10.1029/2008GL034816
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008GL034816.shtml Pope, V. (2008). The scientific evidence for early action on climate change. UK Met Office Hadley Centre (October 2008).
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/policymakers/action/evidence.html NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (2008). NASA data show Arctic saw fastest August sea ice retreat on record (26 September 2008).
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/sea_ice_min.html Prinn, R. et al (2008). The influence on climate change of differing scenarios for future development analyzed ssing the MIT integrated global system model. The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Joint Program Report Series, Report 163 (September 2008).
http://globalchange.mit.edu/pubs/abstract.php?publication_id=938 Schuur, A. G. et al (2008). Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change: Implications for the global carbon cycle. BioScience, Volume 58, Number 8, pp. 701-714 (September 2008). | doi: 10.1641/B580807
http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1641%2FB580807 Steffensen, J. P. et al (2008). High-resolution Greenland ece core data show abrupt climate change happens in few years. Science, Volume 321, Number 5889, pp. 680-684 (1 August 2008). | doi:10.1126/science.1157707
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1157707 International Society for Reef Studies (July 2008). 11th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
http://www.nova.edu/ncri/11icrs/ Lawrence, D. M. et al (2008). Accelerated Arctic land warming and permafrost degradation during rapid sea ice loss. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L11506 (13 June 2008). | doi:10.1029/2008GL033985
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008GL033985.shtml American Geophysical Union (2008). Global warming could release trillions of pounds of carbon annually from East Siberia's vast frozen soils. ScienceDaily (12 June 2008).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080611154839.htm European Science Foundation (2008). Ocean acidification: Another undesired side effect of fossil fuel-burning. ScienceDaily (24 May 2008).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080521105251.htm Khvorostyanov, D. V. et al (2008). Vulnerability of east Siberia's frozen carbon stores to future warming. Geophysical Research Letters 35, L10703 (20 May 2008). | doi:10.1029/2008GL033639
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008GL033639.shtml Lüthi, D. et al (2008). High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present (Letter). Nature 453, 379-382 (15 May 2008). | doi:10.1038/nature06949
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7193/abs/nature06949.html Stramma, L. et al (2008). Expanding oxygen-minimum zones in the tropical oceans. Science,Volume 320, Number 5876, pp. 655-658 (2 May 2008). | doi:10.1126/science.1153847
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/320/5876/655 Carnegie Institution for Science (2008). Before fossil fuels, Earth's minerals kept carbon dioxide in check. ScienceDaily (30 April 2008).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080429095100.htm European Environment Agency (2008). Global and European temperature - Assessment CSI 012 (April 2008).
http://themes.eea.europa.eu/IMS/ISpecs/ISpecification20041006175027/IAssessment1202733436537/view_content Shilong Piao et al (2008). Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming (Letter). Nature 451, 49-52 (3 January 2008). | doi:10.1038/nature06444
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7174/full/nature06444.html Le Quéré, C. et al (2008). Carbon budget and trends 2007. Global Carbon Project.
http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbontrends/index.htm United Nations Environment Program (2008). UNEP Year Book 2008: An overview of our changing environment. Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA), Nairobi, Kenya.
http://www.unep.org/geo/yearbook/yb2008/
2007
Archer, D. (2007). Methane hydrate stability and anthropogenic climate change. Biogeosciences 4, 521–544 (25 July 2007).
http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/reprints/archer.2007.hydrate_rev.pdfIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change/IPCC (2007). Climate change 2007: Synthesis report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, Pachauri, R.K and Reisinger, A. (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-syr.htm Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change/IPCC (2007). Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland.
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg1.htm Schuster, U., & Watson, A. J. (2007). A variable and decreasing sink for atmospheric CO2 in the North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, C11006 (8 November 2007). | doi:10.1029/2006JC003941
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2006JC003941.shtml Hansen, J. et al (2007). Climate change and trace gases. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Volume 365, Number 1856, pp. 1925–1954 (15 July 2007). | doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2052
http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/l3h462k7p4068780/ Le Quéré, C. et al (2007). Saturation of the southern ocean CO2 sink due to recent climate change. Science,Volume 316. Number 5832, pp. 1735-1738 (22 June 2007). | doi:10.1126/science.1136188
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1136188 Raupach, M. et al (2007). Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO2 emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS), Volume 104, Number 24 , pp. 10288-10293 (12 June 2007). | doi:10.1073/pnas.0700609104
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/24/10288.abstract Shakhova, N. et al (2007). Methane release on the Arctic East Siberian shelf. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Volume 9, 01071. | SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2007-A-01071
http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU2007/01071/EGU2007-J-01071.pdf Weaver, A. J. et al (2007). Long term climate implications of 2050 emission reduction targets. Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, L19703 (6 October 2007). | doi:10.1029/2007GL031018
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2007GL031018.shtml
2006
Behrenfeld, M. et al (2006). Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity (Letter). Nature 444, pp. 752-755 (7 December 2006). | doi: 10.1038/nature05317
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7120/full/nature05317.htmlKhor, M. (2006). Act now on climate, leaders told. In Global Trends, Third World Network (11 September 2006).
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/gtrends120.htm Walter, K. M. et al (2006). Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate warming (Letter). Nature 443, pp. 71-75 (7 September 2006). | doi:10.1038/nature05040
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7107/full/nature05040.html Zimov, S. A. et al (2006). Climate change: Permafrost and the global carbon budget (Perspectives). Science, Volume 312, Number 5780, pp. 1612-1613 (16 June 2006). | doi:10.1126/science.1128908
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.1128908 University of Alaska Fairbanks (2006). Thawing soil in permafrost a significant source of carbon. ScienceDaily (15 June 2006).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060615180432.htm
2005
Pearce, F. (2005). Climate warning as Siberia melts. New Scientist, Issue 2512 (11 August 2005).
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18725124.500
2004
European Climate Forum (2004). What is dangerous climate change? Initial results of a symposium on key vulnerable regions: Climate change and Article 2 of the UNFCCC. ECF Key Vulnerable Regions and Climate Change Symposium, Buenos Aires, 14 December 2004.
http://ecf.pik-potsdam.de/Downloads/papers/ECF_beijing_results.pdf Semiletov I. et al (2004). Methane climate forcing and methane observations in the Siberian Arctic land-shelf system. World Resource Review, 16(4), 503-542.
http://globalwarming.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=34
2000
Pearson, P. M. & Palmer, M. R. (2000). Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years. Nature 406, pp. 695-699 (17 August 2000). | doi:10.1038/35021000
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7193/abs/nature06949.html
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