"Climate change is happening more rapidly than anyone though possible", the German government's expert, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, warned in an interview.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3907790,00.html
U.S. Geological Survey Report Forecasts Sea Level Rise to 4 feet by 2100
The new report uses studies not available to the UN's IPCC 2007 report.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/17384
The most interesting scientific paper of the holiday season:
The world needs a significant investment now to kick-start climate change mitigation, according to a new study from European researchers.
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences called "Near-linear cost increase to reduce climate-change risk", European researchers found a carbon dioxide “sweet spot”, where limiting the density of carbon in the atmosphere by a relatively small amount gave us a significantly higher probability of meeting climate change targets.
However, subsequent investments will have a more pronounced effect. And if we invest 2 per cent of global GDP in averting climate change, we have a 90 per cent chance of keeping global temperatures at 2 per cent above 19th century levels.
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2233104/climate-change-investment
and
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/12/22/0802416106.abstract
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