A study funded and run to some degree by scientists and organisations that have been sceptical about global warming in the past, has ended up by concluding that their skepticism is misplaced. The comprehensive review of long term weather records from 1800 to 2009 concludes that global temperatures records of land surface areas have risen by about 1°C in the last 50 years, and that the trend is upwards.
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Lake Ellsworth in the Antarctic, which has been frozen under 3.2 km of ice and which has been untouched for for hundreds of thousands of years, is to be investigated by a pioneering British scientific and engineering team which is setting off on the adventure later this week. The search is for new forms of life. The team, which aims to be the first team to collect biological samples from one of Antarctica’s 387 sub-glacial lakes, hopes to discover a “lost world” of microbial lifeforms of viruses, bacteria and fungi that have lived in complete isolation from the rest of the world.
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An enormous ozone hole “five times the size of California” opened over the Arctic this spring, similar to the one over Antarctica, say scientists in a report published in Nature. It is the first time on record that such a large ozone loss has happened in the Northern hemisphere. “For the first time, sufficient loss occurred to reasonably be described as an Arctic ozone hole,” says the study.
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It is one of the issues that most upsets taxpayers. Weekly rubbish collections were scrapped by the Labour government in 1997 and people want them back. Now the local government secretary, Eric Pickles, has set aside £250 million to bring weekly bin collections back Councils will no longer have an excuse he said. Many councils now only run fortnightly rubbish collections.
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