You'll still need lots of sun screen at the beach.
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The ozone hole over Antarctica has shrunk 30
percent as compared to last year's record size. According to
measurements made by ESA’s Envisat satellite, this year’s ozone loss
peaked at 27.7 million tonnes, compared to the 2006 record ozone loss
of 40 million tonnes. <... read more>
NASA Examines Arctic Sea Ice Changes Leading to Record Low in 2007
October 01, 2007
PASADENA, Calif. - A new NASA-led study found a
23-percent loss in the extent of the Arctic's thick, year-round sea ice
cover during the past two winters. This drastic reduction of perennial
winter sea ice is the primary cause of this summer's fastest-ever sea
ice retreat on record and subsequent smallest-ever extent of total
Arctic coverage. <...read more>
Antarctica's melting ice documented by NASA imagery. Also a graph of the loss of sea ice in the Arctic is here.
OK, lots of weird weather around the world, that is part of it. Some places get warmer, and some get colder. Overall, on average, things tick up on the global thermometer a bit. Ice in the Arctic is getting thinner, a LOT THINNER. Our President needs to read this.
Published online: 10 August 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070806-13
Plants suffering in the heat could make global warming worse.
Global
warming could cut the rate at which trees in tropical rainforests grow
by as much as half, according to more than two decades' worth of data
from forests in Panama and Malaysia. (read on... )
An interesting story in the Washington Post
Clues to Rising Seas Are Hidden in Polar Ice
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 16, 2007; Page A06
Few consequences of global warming pose as severe a threat to human society as sea-level rise. But scientists have yet to figure out how to predict it....
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