Live Science dishes it up fierce.

Here's a good one from Live Science, where they have a vast collection of hair-igniting reportage.  Also strange trivia, like - did you know that your allergies might be getting worse because of climate change?

I wouldn't whip that one out during my next argument with a climate-change-denier - it does seem awfully trivial - but I can see myself talking about permafrost and disappearing lakes.  Oh, and ruins getting ruined-er.

Thanks, NOAA. I wasn't having bad enough dreams.

Arctic continues to break records in 2012: Becoming warmer, greener region with record losses of summer sea ice and late spring snow.

NOAA sez..

and I quote:

Sea level is rising at an increasing rate

There is strong evidence that global sea level is now rising at an increased rate and will continue to rise during this century.

While studies show that sea levels changed little from AD 0 until 1900, sea levels began to climb in the 20th century.

The two major causes of global sea-level rise are thermal expansion caused by the warming of the oceans (since water expands as it warms) and the loss of land-based ice (such as glaciers and polar ice caps) due to increased melting.

This image is NOT from the (excellent! informative!) NOAA site, where I found the foregoing.

But it makes you think, eh?

Meanwhile, down the shore...

it turns out that unregulated development made things MIGHTILY worse when Hurricane Sandy hit.  So, not only are we contributing to climate change, which is contributing to massive, destructive storms - but we are doing ourselves no favors by not building even to the current (probably minimal, considering what is coming) standards.

Yes, that would make me sad, too.

WOW. Gobsmackingly stupid piece on Mother Jones today.

Seriously folks - a random "eco doom" headline generator?  How very droll.  Just what we DON'T need, methinks.

A Shakespearean insult generator?  That's funny.  And (usually) appropriate. And to quote it, the impertinent beef-witted pigeon-eggs over at MoJo certainly do not need to be laughing up their collective sleeve at the high hilarity of impending climate change.

I suppose it would be big of me to not take umbrage, and instead just be amused at "headlines" like "Is your baby dooming the Monarch butterfly?" (actually not that far-fetched, if your baby is a First World baby).  But I can't.  It isn't funny.  It's serious.  The end.

Yes, it is all connected.

In case you find it easy to forget, here's a sobering piece (again, thanks BBC Nature!) about how wildfires in the western US have been made worse by an invasive species of grass.  And back in June, Live Science reported on the link between "global warming" (here at HairOnFirePeople we call it "climate change") and the wildfires in Colorado this year.

So one bad influence - invasive species - makes another worse.  I guess that's a tad off topic, but it sure brought be up by the short hairs.

Guillemots aren't exactly "charismatic megafauna..."

but they're fighting for their lives, too.  BBC Nature has done a characteristically bang-up job of reportage, here.

And what's an Alaskan Black Guillemot when it's at home, anyway?  Turns out it's a lovely bird:

More in-depth analysis can be found here, from the Peregrine Fund.