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Prof. Tol from the VU Amsterdam published an article this month in Climatic Change on the economic impact of climate change in the 20^th and the 21^st centuries. He used FUND3.6 to calculate the impacts of climate change for the 20^th century and extrapolated it to the 21^st Century. According to the extrapolation for this century, the impact will be negative for energy demand, water resources, biodiversity and sea level rise, while it will stay…

Dear all, Springer is launching a new book format in Climate sciences: This is called SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies, and these are samll books, from 50 until 125 pages. So this is really between an article and a traditional book, but is treated as a book (ISBN etc). The big advantage is that, if you have a study you want to publish but is too long for an article and too small for a big book, you can now still explain your whole study in this new format. 

The books can be: a timely…

Dear all, Springer is launching a new book format in Climate sciences: This is called SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies, and these are samll books, from 50 until 125 pages. So this is really between an article and a traditional book, but is treated as a book (ISBN etc). The big advantage is that, if you have a study you want to publish but is too long for an article and too small for a big book, you can now still explain your whole study in this new format. 

The books can be: a timely…

The Aquarius mission was designed to better understand the water cycle, how the ocean circulation works (temperature, salinity...) and their influence on climate. It was launched in June 2011and is now in orbit, giving its first results. Last week, the Aquarius team already gave results on the effect of the tropical storm Lee in New Orleans (sept. 2-3 2011): the Aquarius instruments detected a low-salinity level between the Mississippi river delta and the Florida panhandle. This is likely to…

This is an open invitation to submit to Springer Briefs in Climate Science. There are no costs involved in disseminating your work through this Series.

You are a researcher working on/interested in climate? you are going to the AGU fall meeting 2011? then you can leave your contact details or business card in the Springer booth and we will email you with an invitation to join the ClimateSciNet mailing list. One business card will be randomly…

 The Green Screen: Climate Fix Flicks competition is a new initiative being launched by Climate Scientists from…

Prof. Richard Somerville will be giving a lecture on the history of global warming, focused on John Tyndall's work, on Thursday December 8th at AGU.  

There will be many presentations on carbon sequestrations at AGU this year (San Francisco, California USA): one of the key session will be held on Thursday 8th December: Carbon sequestration: (1) geophysical monitoring for geological carbon sequestration (2) upscalling issues related to predicting carbon dioxide leackage potential from geologic repositories (3) mineral carbonation under low temperature conditions (4) geophysical approaches to characterization of geologic carbon sequestration…

The AGU fall meeting will hold this session on Monday 5^th December 2011 in San Francisco. There will be presentations dealing with the inadequate use of water, drought, agricultural models, etc. This will be followed by a poster session in the afternoon. Some of the questions which will be addressed are for example: what is making water use unequal over the world, and what tools can be used to solve this? Or what is the potential future impacts of global warming on…

Rising Seas Will Affect Major US Coastal Cities by 2100, New Research Finds

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This is an open invitation to submit to Springer Briefs in Climate Science.

The are no costs involved in disseminating your work through this Series.

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PhD, Animal Nutrition (2006- 2010),National Dairy Research Institute (…

‘Weather determines whether you need to take an umbrella with you today; climate determines whether you need to own an umbrella.’ This quote is from the blog of the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change and highlights a rather colloquial distinction in response to certain public…