The Arctic Ocean is rapidly accumulating carbon dioxide leading to increased ocean acidification – a long-term decline in seawater pH. This ongoing change impacts Arctic marine ecosystems already affected by rising temperatures and melting sea ice.
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Take a female shrimp carrying eggs and put her in water that’s a little too warm for comfort. Add CO2 and oil. No, it’s not the recipe for an unconventional prawn cocktail, but climate change research. Scientists in Stavanger are trying to find out what is in store for shrimps and corals in our seas. (06/05/13)
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As one of 19 distinguished Norwegian academics, CICERO-director Cecilie Mauritzen has been elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2013. (02/05/13)
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The Arctic ocean is rapidly accumulating carbon dioxide, leading to increased ocean acidification. This will influence a fragile Arctic ecosystem already weakened by higher temperatures and melting sea ice. (22/04/13)
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They want to create and implement strategies for shifting human cultures and institutions towards sustainable practices and an equitable and satisfying future. They are The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere. (12/04/13)
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Plants play a key role in the carbon cycle - during photosynthesis they bind carbon from the atmosphere and make it available to the rest of the ecosystem. But how do plants prioritize the use of this vital resource? Are their priorities affected by the climate and climate change? And what are the implications of the plants’ choices for carbon storage and biodiversity? (02/04/13)
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A group of the world's emerging economies are refusing to act as international locomotives of green growth. Their reluctance is easy to understand. (02/04/13)
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The EU has set ambitious goals for its climate and energy policy, and it wants to use Norwegian hydropower to pave the way towards a renewable society. Norway, however, hopes that the road to a renewable society runs through Norwegian natural gas fields. (14/03/13)
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Constant energy use does not mean constant emissions, says Taoyuan Wei, Senior Research Fellow at CICERO.
(27/02/13)
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A news story published by the Research Council of Norway has recently attracted attention by international news media and blogs. (28/01/13)
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Lunch seminar and Book Launch 21 February 2013 - Norway House, Brussels. (29/01/13)
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Black carbon is the second largest man-made contributor to global warming and its influence on climate has been greatly underestimated, according to the first quantitative and comprehensive analysis of this issue. (16/01/13)
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Poor people in many parts of the world suffer from serious respiratory diseases because they use inefficient cookstoves and are exposed to air pollution inside their homes. In China, more than 500 000 people die every year from diseases related to high levels of particulate matter from polluting stoves. New research confirms high pollution levels and the effects of particulates on women’s health. (29/10/12)
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We can think for ourselves. Still, our attitudes and beliefs are shaped by those around us more than by science-communication.
(18/10/12)
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REVIEW: 2052 is exactly the form of forward-thinking and provocative analysis that is needed for achieving sustainability. (18/10/12)
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Rio+20 was more of a fiasco than a new landmark for sustainable development.
(02/10/12)
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Village women in Senegal are responsible for their families, food, fuel and water, while the men control the telephones, crops and money. This makes climate adaptation difficult. (14/05/12)
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Development has more to do with a better quality of life than with greater wealth. Cooperation between various scientific fields can expand the concept of development. (23/04/12)
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According to the IPCC, a doubling of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere will likely cause a global temperature increase of 2 to 4.5 degrees. New research results do little to change this scenario.
(02/04/12)
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New research provides little support for ideas about climate conflicts.
(19/03/12)
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The EU Renewable Energy Directive will have an enormous impact on Norway. Not only will Norwegians have to increase their already high consumption of renewable energy, but several European countries want to use Norwegian reservoirs for power storage.
(11/07/11)
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Ilan Kelman has studied disasters in recent history to figure out if any of them had a peace making function. (05/03/12)
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Less ice in the Arctic will open up for increased activity, but most likely there won’t be any large increase in the extraction of Arctic oil and gas towards 2050, according to a new study.
(29/06/11)
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Making the world’s energy supply more climate-friendly is a formidable challenge, not only technically but politically as well. The CICEP research centre will investigate which policy instruments can effectively stimulate such change.
(04/06/11)
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Even if the Greenland Ice Sheet melts sufficiently to raise the average global sea level by one metre, Norway will barely be affected. It is poor countries that will be hardest hit by rising sea levels. (01/06/11)
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The formation of deep water affects the stability of the ice cover in the Antarctic, and is an important piece of the climate puzzle.
(15/02/12)
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John Ritch, director general with World Nuclear Association, believes that as world electricity consumption triples in the first half of the 21st Century, there is simply no other technology than nuclear power that offers the same combination of affordability and (20/06/11)
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What will happen to the Arctic if the region is opened up to more industry and shipping? The NORKLIMA project “ArcAct” will investigate just how sensitive this region is to changes in human activity. (11/05/11)
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We would like to believe that if we just give people the right information, they will grasp the scope of the climate problem. That’s naive thinking. (27/09/10)
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Rising ocean levels brought about by climate change have created a flood of unprecedented legal questions for small island nations and their neighbors. (24/08/10)
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During the last Ice Age, steep rises in temperature occurred in the North Atlantic area at least 20 times, with increases of up to 15 degrees Celsius. But each time the cold temperatures returned. The explanation for the increases in temperature seems to be that as the air and ocean surface became colder and colder, the deep ocean became warmer and warmer. (01/02/12)
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The Earth’s climate and weather would vary even if the Sun did not. But this does not mean that the climate is unaffected by solar variability. (17/08/11)
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An increasing share of global emissions is from the production of internationally traded goods and services, according to a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Due to current reporting practices, this has allowed some countries to increase their carbon footprints while reporting stabilized emissions. (25/04/11)
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President Obama could invoke strong climate policies, like gasoline carbon limits, without congressional input before world leaders convene this fall to negotiate an international global warming treaty, a research group says in a plan provided to the administration. (06/08/10)
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Major climate changes are occurring in the Arctic. The air temperature is increasing two to four times faster than the global average, and this is why the Arctic is where we can expect the first and greatest changes in the ecosystem. The question is whether this will occur gradually or if we will see an abrupt regime shift. (03/01/12)
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Please, let us know what kind of content you miss on our English web - and we'll try to make more CICERO research available to you. (17/08/11)
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Following the dampening effect of the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis, global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion have reached a record high of 9.1GtC1 in 2010. When including emissions from land-use change, the total emissions reached
10.0GtC. (05/12/11)
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Fishermen in Belize say they are seeing changes in climate and weather patterns. But their future is uncertain mainly due to environmental and ecological change as well as a lack of jobs in the coastal communities.
(17/11/11)
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Why is it so difficult to estimate the price of carbon capture and storage?
(07/11/11)
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When it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, the production of electric equipment has taken on greater importance in very recent years, in part because we replace perfectly good equipment with newer models. (27/10/11)
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A fully rational species might react with alarm and redoubled efforts to negotiate a climate change-mitigation treaty as a response to disappearing sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. When we avoid to respond this way it is because we are unsustainable by nature. Evolution - both genetic and cultural has made us this way. (18/10/11)
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In the short term, increasing the harvest from Norwegian boreal forests for production of transport biofuels would have a positive impact on the climate. (14/10/11)
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When temperatures rise, enormous amounts of organic material in the soil can break down and release CO2. Studies show that peat soils in the Arctic contains especially large amounts of degradable organic material.
(11/10/11)
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