A new scientific study seems to indicate that the ability of forests to absorb carbon dioxide is decreasing, according to this report.

” “We are currently getting a 50 per cent discount on the climatic impact of our fossil fuel emissions,” the climate scientist John Miller, of the University of Colorado, wrote in the journal Nature [...]

Recent studies are inclined to suggest that global warming is happening at a faster rate than ever previously stipulated. According to an article in the Guardian, the polar caps are melting much faster than had been calculated. The carbon cycle, summarised by how CO2 is swapped between the air, land and seas has been proved [...]

Danish statistician and environmentalist-sceptic, Bjorn Lomborg, has just published a new book, “Cool It - The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming” (Knopf, 2007). From the book’s blurb:
“Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are [...]

Where previously scientists have predicted that there will be a rise of 6 degrees by 2100, they have failed to predict climate change over the next few years with very much confidence.
A team of British scientists have overcome some of the difficulties of accurately forecasting near-term global warming and have created some high-resolution models for [...]

Human activities now significantly influence global rainfall patterns, according to a brief story in The Economist, reporting work published in the journal Nature.
“MANKIND is influencing how much it rains, according to researchers led by Xuebin Zhang of Environment Canada. More rain and snow is falling in Canada, Britain and northern Europe, two-thirds of which is [...]