Climate change and challenges for the construction industry and real-estate is being discussed at our first Climate Forum meeting at September 21st.

In 2050 we will find a different climate everywhere. The Arctic will largely be snow- and icefree in the summer. We will experience more frequent heavy rains, heat waves and droughts. Lifestyles will change accordingly, says Susan Solomon, the leader of IPCC-working group 1.     

What will happen in the future? Will the weather become more extreme? Thursday May 10th researcher Erik Kolstad answers questions regarding future climate changes.

What is the Gulf Stream? Where does it come from? What is the importance of the Gulf Stream for the climate in our region? Researcher Anne Britt Sandø

What is an ice-age? When will the next ice age start?
Has the Greenland ice sheet always been as large as today?
What clues about past climate are hiding in the Greenland ice sheet which could be several hundred thousand years old?

In an article published in The Holocene a Norwegian research team has studied 8500 years old sediments in order to reconstruct Holocene snow-avalanche activity. 

Atle Nesje 1,2*, Jostein Bakke 2,3, Svein Olaf Dahl2,3, Øyvind Lie2 and Anne-Grete Bøe2

How does sea-ice grow? Will all sea-ice in the Arctic disappear now that the globe is warming? Why is the sea-ice thick in places, and in other places so thin that it cannot carry a person? How thick is it really? What kind of data supports that the ice-cover is changing?

Never before has the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) been more confident that climate change is mostly caused by human activity. Observations of a warmer planet, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising sea level is just the beginning.

A group of scientist led by Are Olsen of the Bjerknes Centre of Climate Research have shown that the uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere is decreasing in the eastern parts of the Nordic Seas. The decreasing uptake appears to be the consequence of lateral transport of anthropogenic carbon with ocean currents from farther south.

Richard J. Telford, Vigdis Vandvik, H. J. B. Birks, (2006), Science 312: p. 1015

In this SCIENCE EXPRESS paper Bjerknes researcher Kerim H. Nisancioglu and colleagues from Bosten University present a new model of ice volume change to explore the origins of the mysterious 41 thousand year glacial cycles.

PRESS RELEASE
At the same time as there have been recent news releases about increased global warming, leading climatologists meet in Bergen to work on the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

New publication in Science by Bjerknes researchers Jan Mangerud og Hilary Birks,in cooperation with seveal other researchers.

From now on it will be easier for doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows to get an overview over the different courses offered by the University of Bergen.

Stormy weather, flooding, and erosion can be the result of the increase of open water due to retreating sea ice, which allows for the build-up of higher waves.

Fortunately for penguins, there are no polar bears in Antarctica. Such geographic range restrictions are typical among macroscopic organisms; in contrast, most micro-organisms appear to have cosmopolitan distributions. Or do they?

Over 170 internationally acknowledged climate scientists will gather in Bergen to work on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report. The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research will host the meeting.

18.01.06: Thomas Stocker recently gave a guest lecture at the University of Bergen (UiB) where he presented findings from his most recent Antarctica ice-core research. The findings reveal that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are increasing 200 times faster than they have ever increased before in 650 000 years of climate data records.

Observed record-high ocean temperatures and salinities are ascribed to changes in the circulation of the North Atlantic. They have important implications for the climate in northern Europe. On the one hand, the high salinity of the water masses will secure that the strength of the Gulf Stream system is maintained the upcoming decades. On the other hand, the high temperatures will enhance the impacts of global warming on the climate of the Northern Hemisphere

Greenland's ice cap has thickened slightly in recent years despite wide predictions of a thaw triggered by global warming,