2006-07-06

Increasing Wildfires

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Arizona
Lead author: Dan Cayan
The increase in the number of large western wildfires in recent years may be a result of global warming ... part of the increase may be attributed to natural fluctuations, evidence also links it to the effects of human-induced climate warming
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Seawater Chemistry Altered

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Lead authors: Richard Feely, Joan Kleypas
Human activities, chiefly the burning of fossil fuels, have upset a natural balance in ocean acidity ... We have very clear evidence, and there is no doubt this is occurring ... Ice core measurements show that oceans have not been as acidic as they now are for at least 650,000 years, and probably millions of years beyond
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