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Abrupt Climate Change Scenario: Implications for U.S. National Security
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Climate Change Upped Earth's Vegetation, Study Finds, John Roach for National Geographic News June 5, 2003
'Death by global warming', BBC News, Saturday, 19 February, 2000
Ecology: Clouded futures, J. Alan Pounds and Robert Puschendorf, Nature 427, 107-109 (8 January 2004)
Global Warming, Articles on Global Warming by Ashley Edwards
Global warming past the 'tipping point', The Independent February 11, 2006.
Potential Impacts of Climate Change, UNEP/GRID-Arendal Year of publication: 2001 Hardback 65 pages ISBN: 8277010095
Vital Climate Graphics, UNEP/GRID-Arendal Year of publication: 2001 Hardback 65 pages ISBN: 8277010095
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The Inconstant Sun — An experiment onboard shuttle mission STS-107 is monitoring the Sun's variable brightness. Scientists say it's crucial data for understanding climate change, Science@NASA, January 17, 2003
Lamb (1995) describes a passage from Landnámabók, a book written in Iceland in the year 1125, that catalogs the settlement of Iceland. It was recorded that Thorkel Farserk, a cousin of Erik the Red who founded the colony, having no boat at hand, swam out across a fiord to fetch a sheep from the island of Hvalsey. The distance was over two miles. Lamb (1995) cites a medical endurance expert who established 10°C as the coolest possible water temperature for a very strong man to survive swimming that distance. Given that the normal water temperature at present for that fiord in August is 6°C, the story suggests a much warmer climate than present. Lamb (1995) and Tkachuck (1983) both refer to old Norse burial depths being much greater in the past than today which suggests the permafrost was deeper (warmer climate) than at present.— Determining the Climate Record - Influence of Dramatic Climate Shifts ...Civilizations: The Rise and Fall of the Vikings and the Little Ice Age, Scott A. Mandia
Impact on Wine Production:People keep records of their most important crops, grapes for wine-making being no exception.Ladurie (1971) notes that there were many "bad years" for wine during the LIA in France and surrounding countries due to very late harvests and very wet summers.The cultivation of grapes was extensive throughout the southern portion of England from about 1100-1300.This area is about 300 miles farther north than the areas in France and Germany that grow grapes today.Grapes were also grown in northern France and Germany at that time, areas which even today do not sustain commercial vineyards.In fact, Lamb (1995) suggests that during that period the amount of wine produced in England was substantial enough to provide significant economic competition with the producers in France. With the coming cooler climate in the 1400's, temperatures became too cold for grape production and the vineyards in southern England ceased to exist and do not exist even today. — Determining the Climate Record - Influence of Dramatic Climate Shifts ...Civilizations: The Rise and Fall of the Vikings and the Little Ice Age, Scott A. Mandia
Global Warming — A Guide to the Science, by Willie Soon, Sallie L. Baliunas, Arthur B. Robinson and Zachary W. Robinson, The Fraser Institute, Centre for Studies in Risk and Regulation, Vancouver British Columbia Canada 2001, Risk Controversy Series 1.
Impacts of Future Climate Change on the Southern Canadian
Prairies:
A Paleoenvironmental Perspective,by D.S. Lemmen, Terrain Sciences
Division, Geological Survey of Canada, R.E. Vance, S.A. Wolfe, Terrain Sciences
Division, Geological Survey of Canada, and W.M. Last, Dept of Geological Sciences,University
of Manitoba, Geoscience Canada, September 1997, Volume 24, Number 3, pp. 121-133