Compared to winters since 1864 this winter ist still warmest in Switzerland. Basel reports a mean temperature of 5°C over last record from 1916 - diference of 0°C. Zurich had only 2 Days with snow (12cm in total).
Despite latest 2 cold and snowy winters the trend is clear: since 1970 the row of unusually warm winters continues and matches results of global climate models.
meteoschweiz.ch: more info and graphics (german) or french: Hiver extr
Davis Guggenheim (left center) wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature during the 79th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA, on Sunday, February 25, 2007.
‘I Need to Wake Up’ written and performed by Melissa Etheridge got the Oscar for the best original song written for motion pictures.
Pictured from left to right: former Vice President Al Gore, Producer Laurie David, Davis Guggenheim, Executive Producer Jeff Skoll, Producer Lawrence Bender, and Co-Producer Lesley Chilcott.
More: nominees and winners of 79th Annual Academy Award
Picture credit: idealterna at flickr using CC
The Black Sea forms an enclosed basin, located between south-eastern Europe and Asia Minor. In this satellite picture, captured by Daily Terra , 2007-02-24, cold wind from North-East condensates water vapour in warmer air over the sea and forms clouds.
The Rosetta mission is one of the most challenging ever attempted. Started 2nd March 2004 Rosetta will use fly-bys of Mars and Earth to accelerate and then rendezvous with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will land, take probes - some 4.6 billion years old - to find out if life on Earth was initiated by comet seeding. (more…)
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Inspired by Lydia Dotto’s work: ‘Storm Warnings: ‘Gambling with Climate of Our Planet’.
With contributions of Paul Malewski, Thom Hartman, Klaus Lackner, Zhou Dadi, Larence Kalkstein, Dr. John Breen. Responsible for the Content is Carolina ETV. Produced by David Kennard.
Via: Overheating
Cyclone Favio made landfall Thursday in southern Mozambique with powerful winds over 200kph, heavy rains and new misery to tens of thousands of people already forced from their homes by flooding.
About 30 people were killed in Mozambique and nearly 90,000 forced from their homes by the floods. The government said 37,000 people were being housed in tented camps before Favio struck.
Mozambique’s worst disaster occurred recently in 2000-2001 when a series of cyclones caused flooding in southern and central parts of the country, killing 700 people and forcing close to half a million to leave their homes.
A second cyclone, called Gamede, is also expected to make landfall today. Depression 16s is still unnamed and may become tropical storm Humba.
Picture credit: Naval Research Labaratory Satellite view is updated daily.
Update: UNOSAT provides a map for the humanitarian community:
Zambezi Flood Monitoring Change Detection near Muturara [jpg, 3mb]
Imagine your home or your place of employment get flooded. Not only some days a year, but every day of the year. Will you sell your car and buy a boat to travel to work? What else will happen? Whole cities relocate from basement to attic, public transport regulated by maritime law, reinstallation of municipal waste water and electrical power supply. Will you adapt and pay for a living in water world? (more…)
Latest GEO Year Book 2007 reveals the imbalance of CO2 emissions per capita from different regions. An average person in North America produces nearly same amount of greenhouse gas as twenty people from Africa.
In comparison C02 emissions per capita have remained near the same level over the last years. The global average for 2003 was estimated at 4.1 tons up from 4.0 the year before.
The global environment outlook shows more geo indicators about energy, climate change, ozone depletion, forests, fisheries, biodiversity, water and sanitation.
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This will become biggest party ever on our planet. At 07.07.07 for 24 hours on all 7 continents hundreds of top performers address Climate Change. MSN, NBC, BBC Network, hundreds of radio stations broadcast the event via television, radio, internet and wireless to reach 2 billion people across the globe.
The line-up so far reads: Pharrell, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Snoop Dogg, Lenny Kravitz, Bon Jovi, Paolo Nutini, Sheryl Crow, AFI, Melissa Etheridge, John Mayer, Damien Rice, Corinne Bailey Rae, Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, John Legend, Black Eyed Peas, Akon, Enrique Iglesias, Fall Out Boy, Mana, Keane, Kelly Clarkson, Korn, Faith Hill w/ Tim McGraw, Bloc Party
The campaign’s identity is based on SOS, the international Morse code distress signal: three dots, followed by three dashes, followed by three dots. SOS is the most urgent, universal message we have, and SOS will use that signal as a continuous distress call to prompt individuals, corporations and governments around the world to respond to our climate crisis with action.
Press Release, Video of press meeting and more at LiveEarth.org
Nearly a year after its launch, 28 April 2006, the French - U.S.A. mission CALIPSO collected numerous measurements of the structure of Earth’s atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Equiped with a sort of optical radar, Calipso is designed to identify the impact of clouds and aerosols on climate change.
In latest IPCC Climate Change report (SPM) the level of scientific understanding regarding anthropogenic aerosols is between low and medium low. The radiative forcing of the cloud albedo effect ranges from -1.8 to -0.3 Wm-2. A better understanding would lead to more accurate models and projections.
Calipso data are available via NASA’s Langley Research Center or via the French ICARE data centre dedicated to the study of interactions between clouds, aerosols, radiation and the water cycle.
Picture above shows data captured 11 February 2007 at around 2:00 UTC over Europe and Arctic Sea.
cnes.fr: Climate - Calipso science data now available to scientists worldwide
