A new study from the University of Montreal projects a substantial reduction in the Quebec ski season. By 2040, the authors write, the season may be as short as two months or less.
- http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/301963

Private sector on the job. Discovery Channel launches Web app aimed at tackling climate change.
- http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?
command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9062040

Climate change has made obsolete a key assumption of water management called stationarity, according to a report in the 1 February issue of Science. The term refers to the idea that natural systems fluctuate within a constant range of values.
- http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/319/5863/573.pdf (PDF)

Increasing temperatures and declining precipitation over the next two decades will signficantly threaten global food security, researchers report in the 1 February issue of Science.
- http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/sci;319/5863/607.pdf (PDF)
- http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/319/5863/580.pdf (PDF)

Urban areas "are hot spots that drive environmental change at multiple scales," an international team reports in the 8 February issue of Science.
- http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/319/5864/756.pdf (PDF)

"China will be one of the worst impacted regions in the world if climate changes as predicted," researchers argue in the 8 February issue of Science.
- http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/319/5864/730.pdf (PDF)

A new report from the UK, Marine Climate Change Impacts: Annual Report Card 2007-2008, shows ecological and geographic effects on coastal areas and marine biota.
- Report: http://www.mccip.org.uk/arc/2007/default.htm

An analysis commissioned by the Coastal States Organization looks at anticipated impacts of climate change.
- http://www.coastalstates.org/documents/ CSO%20Climate%20Change%20Final%20Report.pdf (PDF)

A paper in American Naturalist proposes a model for the effects of climate change on lizard populations.
- http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/523949

The decadal survey titled Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond by the National Research Council (2007) calls for improved climate-change research.
- http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11820.html

A National Research Council report, Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results, finds that "progress in synthesizing research results or supporting decision making and risk management has been inadequate," and that "Our understanding of the impact of climate changes on human well-being and vulnerabilities is much less developed than our understanding of the natural climate system. Progress in human dimensions research has lagged progress in natural climate science ..."
- http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11934

A news report in Science (December 2007), titled "Climate Change Coming Home to Roost in the American West," examines land and water issues.
- http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/318/5858/1859.pdf (PDF)

A report from Lehman Bros., The Business of Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities, analyses how climate change "gradually but powerfully changes the economic landscape."
- http://www.lehman.com/press/ pdf_2007/TheBusinessOfClimateChange.pdf (PDF)

A news item in Nature describes how gardeners are adapting to climate change.
- http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071212/pdf/450937a.pdf (PDF)

A GAO report (April 2007) indicates that many federal insurance programs do not adequately factor effects of climate change into risk management.
- http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-07-760T

Two reports from the government of Washington State describe anticipated changes.
- http://www.ecy.wa.gov/pubs/0701023.pdf (PDF)
- http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/index.htm

A GAO report (September 2007) finds that federal agencies need climate-change information to manage government land and water resources responsibly.
- http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07863.pdf (PDF)

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, acknowledging the threat posed by climate change, is calling for $300 million to aid at-risk populations over the next two years.
- http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-21-voa48.cfm

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