Mussel Deaths Tied to Climate Change.  Audio segment from National Public Radio's All Things Considered (originally broadcast 1 Nov 2002).  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park: A Resource Assessment.   Report (dtd Nov 2002) from the National Parks Conservation Association.  The document discusses a range of threats to the park, including climate change.  According to the report, "[c]omputer modeling of temperature and moisture changes, based on predictions for global climate change in the region, indicate that the glaciers could be gone in 30 years."

Mountain Summit Opens in Kyrgyzstan.  In his opening address to the Global Mountain Summit in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), UNESCO's Director-General Ko�chiro Matsuura announced a new UNESCO initiative to use its unique network of biosphere reserves to monitor global climate change. Press release (dtd 29 Oct 2002) from UNESCO.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

David Meyer's Studies of Coral Reefs Help Reconstruct Climate Patterns.  Press release (29 Oct 2002) from University of Cincinnati.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Asian dust storm causes plankton to bloom in the North Pacific.  Press release (dtd 24 Oct 2002) from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Amazon Deforestation Could Affect U.S. Climate.  Press release (dtd 24 Oct 2002) from Duke University.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Pennsylvania's West Nile Virus surveillance system gets an assist from NASA data.  Press release (dtd 15 Oct 2002) from NASA/Goddard.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Dried rice makes less gas.  "Science Update" (dtd 12 Nov 2002) from Nature.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

International researchers propose advanced energy technologies to help quell global warming.  Press release (dtd 31 Oct 2002) from DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Lab.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

2002: Natural Disasters Set to Cost Over $70 Billion.  Press release (dtd 29 October 2002) from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).  (link posted 17 November 2002)

London's Warming: The impacts of climate change on London.  (PDF, 2 MB).  Also available as RTF file (75kb).  "This study, commissioned by the London Climate Change Partnership, examines the potential impacts on London of climate change over the next 80 years. London faces a number of particular problems: as the UK's economic powerhouse, the financial risks associated with climate change-related disruption are serious; a significant proportion of the city is on floodplains; and temperatures increases are exacerbated by the dense urban environment, which means the inner city is always hotter than the outskirts." (link posted 17 November 2002)

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: A Canadian Perspective on Agriculture.  (PDF)  Report (dtd October 2002)  prepared by the Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Directorate, Natural Resources Canada.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Ancient Chile Migration Mystery Tied to Drought.  Article (dtd 24 October 2002) from National Geographic.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Mediterranean Basin at Crossroads of Global Pollution Patterns.  Article (dtd 28 Oct 2002) from Scientific American.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Computer Model Suggests Future Crop Loss due to Potential Increase in Extreme Rain Events over Next Century.  Press release (28 Oct 2002) from Goddard Space Flight Center.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Ancient Lure of the Lakes: Early Americans followed the water.  Article (dtd 26 October 2002) from Science News Online.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

African Ice Core Analysis Reveals Catastrophic Droughts, Shrinking Ice Fields and Civilization Shifts.  Press release (dtd 17 October 2002) from NASA's Earth Observatory.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

When will the flood hit?  Press release (dtd 16 Oct 2002) from from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Pennsylvania's West Nile Virus surveillance system gets an assist from NASA data.  Press release (dtd 15 Oct 2002) from NASA/Goddard.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Control of methane emissions would reduce both global warming and air pollution, researchers find.  Press release (dtd 9 Oct 2002) from AGU.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Climate Change & Winter Tourism in the Great Lakes Region.  Papers from conference held 8 November 2002 in Thompsonville, Michigan.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

NASA researchers developing tools to help track and predict West Nile Virus.  Press release (dtd 8 Oct 2002) from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Carbon Loss.  "Correspondent Curt Nickisch explains how croplands contribute greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and how scientists are working with farmers to reverse the process."  Transcript & audio segment (originally broadcast 8 October 2002) from The Weather Notebook, a nationally syndicated radio series on global climate change produced by New Hampshire's Mount Washington Observatory.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Increased CO2 Levels Are Mixed Blessing for Agriculture.  Press release (dtd 2 Oct 2002) from NASA's Earth Observatory.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Landcover Changes may rival Greenhouse Gases as Cause of Climate Change.  Press release (dtd 1 Oct 2002) from Goddard Space Flight Center.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

New evidence that El Niño influences global climate conditions on a 2,000-year cycle.  Press release (dtd 13 Nov 2002) from Nature.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

David Meyer's Studies of Coral Reefs Help Reconstruct Climate Patterns.  Press release (29 Oct 2002) from University of Cincinnati.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Ancient Lure of the Lakes: Early Americans followed the water.  Article (dtd 26 October 2002) from Science News Online.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Ancient Chile Migration Mystery Tied to Drought.  Article (dtd 24 October 2002) from National Geographic.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

New England lakes hold clues to lurking storms and floods.  Press release (dtd 23 Oct 2002) from University of Vermont.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

"New evidence for abrupt climate change in the Cretaceous and Paleogene: An Ocean Drilling Program expedition to Shatsky Rise, northwest Pacific."  Summarized in November Geology and GSA Today media highlights.  Press release (dtd 21 Oct 2002) from Geological Society of America.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Shifting Sands.  "Dunes hold heaps of material -- and climate clues, too." Article (dtd 19 Oct 2002) from Science News Online.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Ice Core Research.  Audio segment from National Public Radio's Talks of the Nation, broadcast on 18 October 2002.  Guest:  Lonnie Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, Byrd Polar Research Center, Professor of Geological Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

African Ice Core Analysis Reveals Catastrophic Droughts, Shrinking Ice Fields and Civilization Shifts.  Press release (dtd 17 October 2002) from NASA's Earth Observatory.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

NASA Satellite Flies High to Monitor Sun's Influence on Ozone.  Press release (dtd 14 November 2002) from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Pacific Ocean temperature changes point to natural climate variability.  Press release (dtd 12 Nov 2002) from Texas A & M.   (link posted 17 November 2002)

The rain in Spain falls mainly at the coast.   "Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have discovered that the number of wet days in Spain is on the increase."  Press release (dtd 11 Nov 2002) from University of East Anglia.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Soot Seen as Major Element in Global Warming.  Audio segment from National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (originally broadcast 9 Nov 2002).  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Ocean temperatures affect intensity of the South Asian monsoon and rainfall.  Press release (dtd 6 Nov 2002) from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Increasingly salty Mediterranean favors ice sheet growth.  Press release (dtd 25 Oct 2002) from the University of Minnesota.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Climate change: Stormy weather, naturally.  "New data on the climate evolution of the heavily populated northeastern United States over the past 13,000 years suggest that natural variation could be an important factor in the increased incidence of severe weather in recent centuries." Summary (dtd 24 Oct 2002) from Nature.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Amazon Deforestation Could Affect U.S. Climate.  Press release (dtd 24 Oct 2002) from Duke University.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Despite Lower Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Diesel Cars May Promote More Global Warming than Gasoline Cars.  Press release (dtd 21 Oct 2002) from American Geophysical Union, Stanford University, and the National Science Foundation.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

New Thinking Needed on Atmospheric Physics. "An atmospheric phenomenon called "sprites" could be pumping 50 times more energy into the upper atmosphere than was previously thought, suggesting our understanding of the global atmosphere is incomplete, according to University of Houston space physicists."  Press release (dtd October 16, 2002) from NASA's Earth Observatory.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Earth & Sky.  Daily science radio series, currently funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Both transcripts & audio files are provided.  (links posted 17 November 2002)

• Abrupt Climate Change. "Earth's climate has never not changed. Some warmings and coolings happen gradually. Others happen quite suddenly. Learn how predicting these abrupt climate changes is difficult. " Broadcast date: 24 October 2002
• Gulf Stream. "How can an ocean current affect temperatures over the coasts? It happens because of prevailing winds. Learn how an ocean current from the Gulf of Mexico makes parts of Europe warmer."  Broadcast date:  22 October 2002
• Earthshine. "Scientists are learning more about how much of the sun's energy the Earth absorbs -- and how much it reflects. Learn more about the planet's reflectivity -- and how it affects scientists' predictions."  Broadcast date:11 October 2002
• The Goldilocks Problem. "Why is Venus too hot, Mars too cold -- but Earth just right? Learn more about what's long been called the Goldilocks problem of the climates of the planets."  Broadcast date: 4 October 2002

The Hadley Centre regional climate modelling system:  PRECIS update 2002. (PDF) "The Hadley Centre has developed a regional climate model that can be run on a PC and can be applied easily to any area of the globe to generate detailed climate-change predictions. The intention is to make this modelling system, PRECIS (Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies), freely available to groups of developing countries so that they can develop climate-change scenarios at national centres of expertise. This new brochure contains an updated description of PRECIS, together with additional examples of its use." (link posted 17 November 2002)

Recent Atmospheric Conditions & Impacts:

• Up-to-Date Weather, Climate & Wildfire Summaries

• Climate of 2002 - October.   Document (updated 14 November 2002) from the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).  (link posted 17 November 2002)

• Climate of 2002 - September.  Document (updated 11 October 2002) from the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).  (link posted 17 November 2002)

On Thin Ice?  Summary of feature article in the December 2002 issue of Scientific American. "How soon humanity will have to move inland to escape rising seas depends in great part on how quickly West Antarctica's massive ice sheet shrinks. Scientists are finally beginning to agree on what controls the size of the sheet and its rate of disintegration."  (link posted 17 November 2002)

The rain in Spain falls mainly at the coast.   "Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have discovered that the number of wet days in Spain is on the increase."  Press release (dtd 11 Nov 2002) from University of East Anglia.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Computer Model Suggests Future Crop Loss due to Potential Increase in Extreme Rain Events over Next Century.  Press release (28 Oct 2002) from Goddard Space Flight Center.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Ancient Lure of the Lakes: Early Americans followed the water.  Article (dtd 26 October 2002) from Science News Online.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Greenland Melting? Satellite to Help Find Answer.  Article (dtd 24 October 2002) from National Geographic.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Kilimanjaro's Giant Glaciers in Peril.  Article (dtd 18 Oct 2002) from Scientific American.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Tracking Clouds.  Feature (dtd 9 Oct 2002) from NASA's Earth Observatory.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Water - The Essential Resource poster.  Press release (dtd 8 Oct 2002) from the American Geological Institute.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Antarctic ice: quick change.  Summary (dtd 3 October 2002) from Nature.  (link posted 17 November 2002)

Earth & Sky.  Daily science radio series, currently funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Both transcripts & audio files are provided.  (links posted 17 November 2002) 

• Greenland Ice Melting. "Climate models have predicted that global warming won't affect Greeland's ice sheet much over this century. But a newly found feedback loop might increase melting -- and raise sea level." Broadcast date: 20 October 2002
• Melting Ice. "One of the main reasons a warming climate makes sea level rise is thermal expansion -- warmer water occupies more space. But another reason for elevated sea level is melting ice." Broadcast date: 19 October 2002

North Atlantic Ocean: Latest circulation figures.  Summary (dtd 10 October 2002) from Nature.  (link posted 17 November 2002)