{"id":146,"date":"2007-07-06T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/07\/06\/news_6-jul-07\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T18:13:09","slug":"news_6-jul-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/07\/06\/news_6-jul-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate News: Solar Excuses, Stormy Reefs and Drying Ponds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The author of today&#8217;s post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentaldefense.org\/page.cfm?tagID=404\">Lisa Moore<\/a>, is a scientist in the Climate and Air Program.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s scientific journals brought three interesting stories about climate change. The first is a sneak peek at an upcoming paper about global warming and the Sun. The second talks about an unexpected environmental benefit of hurricanes, and the third reports that climate change is drying up important biodiversity hotspots in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Schiermeier. 2007. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2007\/070702\/full\/448008a.html\">No solar hiding place for greenhouse sceptics<\/a>. <i>Nature <\/i>448: 8.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This news story describes a soon-to-be-published analysis that &quot;is the final nail in the coffin for people who would like to make the Sun responsible for present global warming&quot;. [[Moderator&#8217;s Note: Study now published in the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk\/media\/proceedings_a\/rspa20071880.pdf\">Proceedings of the Royal Society A [PDF]<\/a><\/i>.]]<\/p>\n<p><b>Manzello et al. 2007. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/0701194104v1\">Hurricanes benefit bleached corals<\/a>. <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences <\/i>10.1073\/pnas.0701194104.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Too-warm ocean water can kill coral reefs through a process known as bleaching. It also can cause hurricanes, which in this case have a happy side effect. Hurricanes leave a wake of cooler water, which alleviates heat stress on coral reefs. In 2005, Atlantic hurricanes may have helped some Caribbean coral reefs recover from a widespread bleaching event, &quot;the only known scenario<sup> <\/sup>where the effects of a hurricane can benefit a stressed marine<sup> <\/sup>community.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><b>Smol &amp; Douglas. 2007. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/0702777104v1\">Crossing the final ecological threshold in high Arctic ponds<\/a>. <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences <\/i>10.1073\/pnas.0702777104. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Shallow ponds serve as hotspots for biodiversity in the Arctic. Unfortunately, many of these ponds are now drying up, probably because of global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of today&#8217;s post, Lisa Moore, is a scientist in the Climate and Air Program. This week&#8217;s scientific journals brought three interesting stories about climate change. The first is a sneak peek at an upcoming paper about global warming and the Sun. 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