Here are a select group of news stories that relate to my talk.  If you’re looking for lots of climate news, visit some of the news-oriented sites listed on the Links page.

1. 1. Global warming 'underestimated'. 15 February 2009 (BBC) -- The severity of global warming over the next century will be much worse than previously believed, a leading climate scientist has warned.  Professor Chris Field, an author of a 2007 landmark report on climate change, said future temperatures "will be beyond anything" predicted.  Prof Field said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report had underestimated the rate of change.  He said warming is likely to cause more environmental damage than forecast.
   

2. 2.Scientists: Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates.  Feb. 14, 2009 (Washington Post) -- The pace of global warming is likely to be much faster than recent predictions, because industrial greenhouse gas emissions have increased more quickly than expected and higher temperatures are triggering self-reinforcing feedback mechanisms in global ecosystems, scientists said Saturday.
   

3. 3.Climate scientists: it's time for 'Plan B'.   2 January 2009 (The Independent (UK)) -- An emergency "Plan B" using the latest technology is needed to save the world from dangerous climate change, according to a poll of leading scientists carried out by The Independent. The collective international failure to curb the growing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has meant that an alternative to merely curbing emissions may become necessary.
   

4. 4.Bubbles of warming, beneath the ice. February 20, 2009 (LA Times) -- As permafrost thaws in the Arctic, huge pockets of methane -- a potent greenhouse gas -- could be released into the atmosphere. Experts are only beginning to understand how disastrous that could be.
   

5. 5.Parched: Australia faces collapse as climate change kicks in.  1 February 2009 (The Independent (UK)) -- Leaves are falling off trees in the height of summer, railway tracks are buckling, and people are retiring to their beds with deep-frozen hot-water bottles, as much of Australia swelters in its worst-ever heatwave.  On Friday, Melbourne thermometers topped 43C (109.4F) on a third successive day for the first time on record, while even normally mild Tasmania suffered its second-hottest day in a row, as temperatures reached 42.2C. Two days before, Adelaide hit a staggering 45.6C. After a weekend respite, more records are expected to be broken this week.  Ministers are blaming the heat – which follows a record drought – on global warming. Experts worry that Australia, which emits more carbon dioxide per head than any nation on earth, may also be the first to implode under the impact of climate change.
   

6. 6.Climate change fears spiral as warmer seas 'absorbing less carbon dioxide'.  12 Jan 2009 (The Telegraph (UK)) -- Scientists have found evidence of a sudden and dramatic drop in the amount of carbon dioxide being absorbed by the sea, sparking fears that climate change is accelerating.  Warmer waters - themselves said to be the result of the changing climate - are believed to have caused the decline.  Samples taken from the Sea of Japan last year were compared with analysis of water collected in the past.  The findings suggest that it is absorbing only half as much carbon dioxide as during the 1990s.  It could mean that governments would have to increase targets for cutting carbon emissions more sharply than previously thought.
   

7. 7.Cornell Daily Sun article on my talk there in December 2008.