Climate Change

Short-Term Effects • Long-Term Effects

The divisions among these topics are somewhat subjective, and you may feel free to just ignore them if they don't suit you. The truth is that the ecosystem is all connected, and making any actual division among these items is difficult. It's not like the urgency is less on the long-term effects; it will just be longer until we see the long-term effects of what we do today.

Short Term Effects on Wildlife, Health and the Food Supply

• Dying Frogs Sign of a Biodiversity Crisis (Science Daily, 17 Aug 2008)
• Climate ‘altering UK bird habits’ (BBC News, 15 Aug 2008)
• Eat kangaroo to ‘save the planet’ (BBC News, 9 Aug 2008)
• Rising Energy, Food Prices Major Threats to Wetlands as
  Farmers Eye New Areas for Crops (Science Daily, 27 Jul 2008)
• Crop-production Cost Will Jump Dramatically In 2009, Study Predicts (Science Daily, 25 Jul 2008)
• Feds: Climate change to cause ‘irreversible’ health risks (USA Today, 17 Jul 2008)
• Forests to fall for food and fuel. (BBC News, 13 Jul 2008)
• ‘Alarming’ plight of coral reefs (BBC News, 10 Jul 2008)
• A biofuel food-price bombshell (Salon, 04 Jul 2008)
• Alaska salmon may bear scars of global warming (Los Angeles Times, 15 Jun 2008)
• Pesticides blamed for plummeting salmon stocks (New Scientist, 9 Jun 2008)
• Should all Arctic species be red-listed? (New Scientist, 30 May 2008)
• Long era of cheap food is over (BBC News, 29 May 2008)
• Biodiversity loss costs six percent of world income (Physorg.com, 17 May 2008)
• Wildlife populations ‘plummeting’ (BBC News, 16 May 2008)
• US ordered to act on polar bear (BBC, 29 Apr 2008)
• Editorial: The Trouble With Salmon (The New York Times, 15 Apr 2008)

Long Term Effects on the Ecosystem

• Climate Change Caused Widespread Tree Death in California Mountain Range,
  Study Confirms (Science Daily, 15 Aug 2008)
• Scientists solve riddle of toxic algae blooms (Times Colonist, 22 Jul 2008)
• ‘Serious concern’ over seabirds (BBC News, 11 Jul 2008)
• Acidifying Oceans Add Urgency to Carbon Dioxide Cuts (Science Daily, 6 Jul 2008)
• Global Limits of Biomass Energy (Carnegie Institution for Science, 3 Jun 2008)
• Acidic ‘champagne sea’ nothing to celebrate for corals (New Scientist, 8 Jun 2008)
• Climate Change Could Impact Vital Functions of Microbes (Science Daily, 8 Jun 2008)
• New Zealand seeks to curb livestock's gas emissions (Los Angeles Times, 7 Jun 2008)
• Ocean Life Under Threat From Climate Change (Science Daily, 6 Jun 2008)
• Unique biodiversity hotspot faces destruction (New Scientist, 2 Jun 2008)
• Editorial: Troubled Oceans (New York Times, 31 May 2008)
• Warming threat worse in tropics (LA Times, 5 May 2008)
• Marine Life Gasping for Breath (Science/AAAS, 1 May 2008)
• Indian vultures circling towards extinction (New Scientist, 30 Apr 2008)
• Poison ice (Salon, 30 Apr 2008)

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