10 Degrees Hotter by 2100? Odds Are Good, Unless We Act May 22, 2009

by Emily Gertz,

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The future impacts of global warming may be twice as worse as we thought just a few years ago.

If current emissions trends continue, there’s a very high probability that by century’s end, the Earth’s median surface temperature may increase 9.3 degrees F (5.2 degrees C) over average temperatures between 1981-2000, according to a team of MIT researchers .

In the Arctic, where climate changes are amplified, temperatures could rise as much as a median 20° F — at which point the death knell for the Arctic ice cap and the Greenland ice sheet will have long sounded.

This is an update to a 2003 study made using the MIT Integrated Global System Model, which predicted an increase of 4.3 degrees F (2.4 degrees C). Initially released in February, yesterday the new research was published in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate.

for detail read the article, by Emily Gertz.

G8 Agriculture Ministers admit failure on hunger May 5, 2009

Political leaders have admitted that they will probably fail to deliver on promises to halve world hunger by 2015, said international agency Oxfam at the close of a G8 Meeting on Agriculture in Italy today.

“G8 Ministers have made an extraordinary admission of collective failure. This would be a sack-able offence in any other arena,” said Chris Leather, Oxfam International’s Senior Food Advisor. “The G8 has failed the world’s one billion hungry people.”

Click here to read full article by Chris Leather, Senior Food Advisor, Oxfam International