E continua ... diversas leituras feitas em Dezembro sobre as questões das alterações climáticas (II)

A segunda nota de leituras de Dezembro sobre as questões do clima (preocupem-se, mas se não estiveram virados para isso, uma segunda boa década do século XXI, são os meus votos sinceros):

• World Meteorological Organization and NOAA both report: 2000-2009 is the hottest decade on record « Climate Progress: "2009 among 5 warmest years: 'Only North America (United States and Canada) experienced conditions that were cooler than average.'"
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• Saudi Arabia endorses anti-science: “There is no relationship whatsoever between human activities and climate change” « Climate Progress. Quem o diria?!  
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• Al Gore talks about global warming, those e-mails, and his new book. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine: "If Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth raised awareness about global warming by frightening people, he hopes his latest book, Our Choice, will help people find solutions to the problem. He talked about those solutions with President Obama yesterday in advance of Obama's trip to the world climate-change meeting in Copenhagen. He was coy about their conversation but did talk about his book, the nature of the climate change debate, and the controversy surrounding those e-mails disclosed from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia."  
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• The consequences of global warming, from A To Z « Climate Progress: "As the nations of the world gather in Copenhagen, the Wonk Room has prepared this alphabetical journey of the impacts of climate change around the globe" 
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• Ocean acidification rates pose disaster for marine life, major study shows | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "Report launched from leading marine scientists at Copenhagen summit shows seas absorbing dangerous levels of CO2"   
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• NYRblog - The Disappearing Snows of Everest - The New York Review of Books.