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TH!NK2 Climate Change is a 3 month blogging competition with a focus on UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) in December 2009. Some 90 bloggers from 43 countries, including all 27 EU Member states, India, China, Brazil and the USA, the world's biggest players in climate policy, will come together on the European Journalism Centre's thinkaboutit.eu platform, to exchange ideas and debate the issues of climate change. Benno Hansen writes from Copenhagen, Denmark. Besides local perspectives, Benno Hansen's column provides up to date scientific input and the experience of an environment blogosphere veteran.
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- February 11, 2010
- 04:58 PM
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Benno Hansen - Sieg heil, Homo sapiens: Eradicating lesser species with biodiversity loss and climate change
by Benno Hansen in Climate Change - TH!NK ABOUT IT - Benno Hansen
2009 was the year of COP15 and climate change. But 2010 is the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. These two subjects are inextricably linked, however.
And when promoting the biodiversity cause change makers can just build on their nice experiences from COP15 in communicating an abstract subject that calls for societal changes going against current economic dogma, right?
This article looks at the problems and what can be done about them. We have the know-how and some opportuniti........ Read more »
HELLER, N., & ZAVALETA, E. (2009) Biodiversity management in the face of climate change: A review of 22 years of recommendations. Biological Conservation, 142(1), 14-32. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.10.006
Hannah Reid. (2006) Climate Change and Biodiversity in Europe. Conservation and Society, 4(1), 84-101. info:other/
- February 3, 2010
- 04:21 PM
- 103 views
Benno Hansen - Arch denialist scores own goal
by Benno Hansen in Climate Change - TH!NK ABOUT IT - Benno Hansen
Turns out “bad thermometers” claimed to falsely detect global warming are actually delivering the coldest data.... Read more »
Matthew J. Menne, Claude N. Williams, Jr., and Michael A. Palecki. (2010) On the reliability of the U.S. surface temperature record. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. info:/
- November 23, 2009
- 04:35 PM
- 293 views
Benno Hansen - The South Pole is melting too
by Benno Hansen in Climate Change - TH!NK ABOUT IT - Benno Hansen
The ice masses on Antarctica are melting into the oceans a recent study confirms. That's yet another nail for the coffin of climate change scepticism.... Read more »
Chen, J., Wilson, C., Blankenship, D., & Tapley, B. (2009) Accelerated Antarctic ice loss from satellite gravity measurements. Nature Geoscience. DOI: 10.1038/NGEO694
- November 15, 2009
- 02:07 PM
- 273 views
Benno Hansen - More CO2 a mixed blessing for farming
by Benno Hansen in Climate Change - TH!NK ABOUT IT - Benno Hansen
More carbon dioxide = more plant growth and larger agricultural yields, right? It's not that simple, unfortunately.... Read more »
Högy, P., Wieser, H., Köhler, P., Schwadorf, K., Breuer, J., Franzaring, J., Muntifering, R., & Fangmeier, A. (2009) Effects of elevated CO on grain yield and quality of wheat: results from a 3-year free-air CO enrichment experiment . Plant Biology, 60-69. DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2009.00230.x
- November 1, 2009
- 01:13 PM
- 309 views
Benno Hansen - Limiting warming to 2°C: How much more can we drill, baby?
by Benno Hansen in Climate Change - TH!NK ABOUT IT - Benno Hansen
This is a brief look a some of the key results of a 2009 study of the predicted temperature rises from given amounts of greenhouse gas emissions.... Read more »
Meinshausen, M., Meinshausen, N., Hare, W., Raper, S., Frieler, K., Knutti, R., Frame, D., & Allen, M. (2009) Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C. Nature, 458(7242), 1158-1162. DOI: 10.1038/nature08017
Rogelj, J., Hare, B., Nabel, J., Macey, K., Schaeffer, M., Markmann, K., & Meinshausen, M. (2009) Halfway to Copenhagen, no way to 2 °C. Nature Reports Climate Change, 81-83. DOI: 10.1038/climate.2009.57
- October 18, 2009
- 04:52 PM
- 366 views
Benno Hansen - Food and climate change - save or doom the world while eating
by Benno Hansen in Climate Change - TH!NK ABOUT IT - Benno Hansen
Are some of our meals accelerating global warming while others save the world? Perhaps. But why and how much?... Read more »
Carlsson-Kanyama, A., & Gonzalez, A. (2009) Potential contributions of food consumption patterns to climate change. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 89(5), 1704-1709. DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.26736AA
- October 14, 2009
- 01:35 PM
- 336 views
Benno Hansen - Predictions of irreversible, unavoidable climate changes
by Benno Hansen in Climate Change - TH!NK ABOUT IT - Benno Hansen
Scientists have summed up those climate changes that are both adverse, unavoidable, irreversible and pretty much certainly going to happen.... Read more »
Solomon, S., Plattner, G., Knutti, R., & Friedlingstein, P. (2009) Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(6), 1704-1709. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812721106
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