Climate change

By James Hoggan According to the study, only 47 percent of Americans think global warming is caused mostly by human activities, a 10 point drop.  Only 50 percent of Americans now say they are "somewhat" or "very worried" about global warming, a 13-point decrease. More on Climate Change

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By Rajendra Pachauri, James Randerson UN body rebutts Sunday Times allegation that it exaggerated link between costs of natural disasters and climate change The UN body that summarises climate science for governments has condemned as "misleading and baseless" claims that it overstated the effect of global warming on nat...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) China's most senior climate change official surprised a summit in India when he questioned whether global warming is caused by carbon gas emissions and said Beijing is keeping an "open mind". Xie Zhenhua was speaking at a summit between the developing world's most powerful countries, I...

By Robin McKie And then there were the sceptics, that regiment of angry lobbyists who say our planet cannot possibly be affected by mankind's profligate burning of fossil fuel. For years, they have waited for an admission of an error by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN body that has...

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By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Have the voters of a small and rather gullible American State just knocked global warming on the head? IS it too much to ask for a measured climate change debate in 2010? Looking back at 2009, it's hard to think of a more frustrating debate than the one about anthropogenic global warming.

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) A top scientist said Monday he had warned in 2006 that a prediction of catastrophic loss of Himalayan glaciers, published months later by the UN's Nobel-winning climate panel, was badly wrong. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report said in 2007 it was "very likely"...

By Sarah.chappel The chief of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said today that it would investigate claims that the group's 2007 report made an erroneous claim that the Himalayan glaciers were receding faster than in any other part of the world and could "disappear altogether b...

By Paula Crossfield The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), Bob Stallman, threw down the gauntlet on Sunday in his annual speech to his industrial cronies.... The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), Bob Stallman, threw down the gauntlet on Sunday in his annual speech...

By Jeff Schweitzer The distinction between weather and climate becomes critical in understanding global warming. Let's look at what is happening right now. A persistent high pressure over the Arctic is acting like a big boulder in a fast moving river, causing the jet stream to flow south deep into the United...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Over at Real Climate there is a misleading post up about IPCC global temperature projections as compared with actual temperature observations, suggesting success where caution and uncertainty is a more warranted conclusion. SOURCE

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Yet Another Human Climate Warming Effect In The Arctic – Aircraft Contrails Clearly, as we summarized in our EOS article: "the human role in the climate system is much more than the human emissions of CO2 and a few other greenhouse gases."

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) My findings do not agree with the climate models that conventionally thought that greenhouse gases, mainly CO2, are the major culprits for the global warming seen in the late 20th century," Lu said. "Instead, the observed data show that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays most likely cause...

By Sam Black Now that the Copenhagen climate change conference is over, the post-mortems are flooding print and online media outlets. The consensus among those who didn't participate... Now that the Copenhagen climate change conference is over, the post-mortems are flooding print and online media o...

By Lori Pottinger “The scarcity of water is becoming a nightmare. Rivers are drying up, and the way temperatures are changing we are likely to get into more problems. Climate change is here,” said Professor Richard Odingo, the Kenyan vice-chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

By Raymond J. Learsy At this moment with emissaries from all over the world gathering in Copenhagen, and on the heels of the Environmental Protection Agency's dire ruling that greenhouse gases posed a danger to human health and the environment, given the ominous issues of energy, both strategic and enviro...

By Sam Wollaston One of the problems with climate change is getting people to engage, and then keeping them engaged. I mean, we all know it's happening, and why it's happening – and that we're all buggered unless we do something PDQ. It may even be too late already. But how do you keep it interesting?

By George Monbiot Broadly speaking, the other side argued that our money would be better spent by other means. Lawson was relatively easy to handle, not least because he said some pretty daft things, such as: "There has been no further global warming this century." When I pressed him on this, he said his conte...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Carbon markets simply don't address the underlying and root causes of climate change, which is an over-consumption of finite fossil fuels,' added Dr Böhm and Mr Dabhi. 'We are addicted to oil, gas, coal and a whole range of other fossil fuels, which, when burned for heating, electricity g...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Just recently, as scientists who specialize in environmental science, climatology, and solar variability, we welcomed the acceptance of our scientific session, Diverse Views from Galileo’s Window: Researching Factors and Processes of Climate Change in the Age of Anthropogenic C...

By Brendan Smith The CBO testimony ignores the June 16, 2009 government report Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S. issued by the U.S. Global Change Research Program which described economically devastating results of global warming already under way: More on Climate Change

By James Hoggan That campaign is a central -- unavoidable -- theme in Climate Cover-up, the book that I have recently written with Richard Littlemore. It details four years of research on climate change misinformation and especially on the work of a powerful alliance of lobbyists and industry front gro...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) The last few years have been cooler, so global warming can’t be real; 2. Is the cause of global warming human activity? 4. What are the consequences of a warmer climate? 5. How much should we invest in altering the climate? Here are my answers.

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) The current Lancet and BMJ editorial that accompanies the letter from doctors' organisations argues that climate change strengthens the cases that health and development charities are already championing. "Even without climate change, the case for clean power, electric cars, savi...

By Roger Pielke Sr. National Research Council, 2005: Radiative forcing of climate change: Expanding the concept and addressing uncertainties. Committee on Radiative Forcing Effects on Climate Change, Climate Research Committee, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Earth and Life...

By Robert Stavins With the development of climate legislation proceeding in the U.S. Senate, a key question is whether the United States can cost-effectively reduce a significant share... With the development of climate legislation proceeding in the U.S. Senate, a key question is whether the United States ca...

By Damian Carrington Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told the Guardian: "The cost could undoubtedly be negative overall." This is because of the additional benefits that reducing greenhouse gas emissions could bring, beyond limiting temperature ris...

By Russ Walker Palin's thesis comes loaded with plenty of rhetoric, zero facts and fails to even take note of the underlying issue--catastrophic climate change. The cap-and-trade climate and energy bill passed by the House last month is not a perfect piece of legislation. Critics on the right and left h...

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By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) To read more of Dr Spencer’s analysis, check out his article “The Global Warming Climate Gamble.” A Layman’s Explanation of Why Global Warming Predictions by Climate Models are Wrong The Earth’s Climate System Compared to a Pot of Water on the Stove Global Warming

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) The oscillation between ice ages and interglacial periods is the dominant feature of Earth's climate for the last million years. But the computer models that predict significant global warming from carbon dioxide cannot reproduce these temperature changes. This failure to reproduce...

By Fred Pearce These three books cover the economic, political and corporate profiles of the single biggest threat to human society in the 21st century. Each author acknowledges the tragedy that it has taken so long for their worlds to take climate change seriously. A quarter century has been wasted. But...

By Joseph Romm One of the country's leading journalists has written a searing critique of the media's coverage of global warming, especially climate economics. One of the country's leading journalists has written a searing critique of the media's coverage of global warming, especially climate eco...

By Roger Pielke Sr. 2. A coordinated research effort is required to address the multidimensionality of climate change, including the role of LUCC and its dynamic interaction with increased concentrations of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. This requires evaluating: (i) the capacity of reforestation t...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Ethanol test for Obama on climate change, science The hypothesis tested in my book was that increased atmospheric CO2 creates global warming. This was shown to be invalid on all time scales and by a diversity of methods. SOURCE Climate backdown: Rudd should retreat on jobs legislation too

• Professor John Shepherd is deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Southampton, and Chair of the Royal Society study group on Geoengineering Climate, which will report in September

By James Randerson Nicholas Stern, the former chief economist of the World Bank, former head of the UK Government Economic Service and author of the hugely influential Stern Review on climate change in 2006 was speaking at the London School of Economics - where he now heads the Grantham Research Institute...

Amy Seidl's new book, Early Spring, describes the impacts of climate change on the world immediately around us. From RealClimate, part of the Guardian Environment Network Early Spring has the potential to be immensely influential, a real turning point in the popular appreciation of cl...

By Sanjay Khanna In times of real trouble like today." Scientists and economists are prone to conservatism. According to the March emergency summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2,500 climate experts agreed that climate change might surpass the worst-case scenarios outlined in the 2007 report issued by the...

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) The current rate of human-influenced Arctic warming is comparable to peak natural rates documented by reconstructions of past climates. However, some projections of future human-induced change exceed documented natural variability," the scientists conclude. "The past tells us th...

By Anthony Giddens The period of Thatcherite deregulation is over. The state is back. We will need active industrial policy and planning, in respect to economic institutions but for climate change and energy policy as well. LONDON -- Climate change and how to respond to it are everywhere in the news at the mome...

By John Kerry Don't get me wrong. I'm happy to see Will embracing the idea of recycling, but I'm very troubled that he is recycling errors of fact to challenge the science on global warming. Lets be very clear: Stephen Chu does not make predictions to further an agenda. He does so to inform the public. He is no C...

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) And if the world's climate were to resume its warming, aren't the oceans supposed to RELEASE more CO2 than they absorb? IS OBAMA FOLLOWING BUSH'S CLIMATE POLICY? UK CLIMATE POLICY: BETWEEN GREEN SPIN AND ECONOMIC REALPOLITIK SOURCE SOURCE Tasmanian health fear if climate heats up

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) And since less low cloud cover means more sunlight reaching the surface, the small amount of direct warming from extra CO2 in climate models gets amplified - greatly amplified in some models. And the greater the strength of this `positive cloud feedback', the worse manmade global warmin...

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) Remember too the Arctic has its own 70-year climate cycle. Polish climatologist Rajmund Przbylak says "the highest temperatures since the beginning of instrumental observation occurred clearly in the 1930s" based on more than 40 Arctic temperature stations.

When discussing climate change, we have frequently found it useful to bring up a 2005 paper by Richard Tol, one of the most frequently cited economists who writes in the peer reviewed literature on climate change. In that paper, Tol reviews 28 published studies on the marginal damage cost...

By DarkSyde There was never a scientific consensus in the 1970s that an Ice Age was imminent. There was certainly no 'panic' or 'frenzy' among climate scientists. The fact is the consensus of climate science now is that observed global warming is forced, in part, by human activity.

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) Lawson acknowledges up front that while he is not a scientist, neither "are the vast majority of those who pronounce on the matter" of global warming "with far greater certainty." And throughout, he deliberately uses the term "global warming" rather than the "attractively alliterativ...

By David Sassoon Although the plan's focus is on Florida, its release is timely and important to the national dialogue on the fate of climate change solutions during these economically troubled times. The authors state in no uncertain terms that they believe climate action is not a costly policy package...