Climate change

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...

Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph columnist and bete noir of climate campaigners, has here produced the definitive climate sceptics' manual. That's to say, he has rounded up just about every criticism ever made of the majority scientific view that global warming, most probably ca...

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 WorldChanging Team “Science is the only news,” Brand proclaims with relish, brandishing headlines from Nature, Science, and specialized journals. His footnotes and annotations (available here online) are a treasure trove, and most readers will discover “hidden in plain sight” surprises from new rese...

By The Huffington Post News Team Barbara Boxer is out in front on climate change in the Senate. As a result, she spent much of Tuesday sitting by herself. From the... Barbara Boxer is out in front on climate change in the Senate. As a result, she spent much of Tuesday sitting by herself.

By Suzanne Goldenberg, Damian Carrington, Ban Ki-moon The delay, which would push a Senate vote on a climate change bill into next year, frustrates a last-minute push by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to get America to commit itself at home to cut greenhouse gas emissions before the Copenhag...

By WorldChanging Team Posted by WorldChanging Team in Climate Change at 11:40 AM) WorldChanging TeamAn Interview with Deputy Director of Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability Micheal Armstrong by Alex Aylett Last week the City of Portland and Multnomah...

By Adam Corner From 10:10 to the government's Act On CO2 campaign, it is now widely accepted that tackling climate change will require tackling behaviour change too. But until now, a key piece has been missing from the puzzle – psychology. The study of human behaviour has been conspicuous by its absence f...

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 Fred Pearce And despite the "climate change" name, the huge ragbag of environmental criteria mean that companies do not even have to be better than average in fighting climate change. Yet Virgin is blithely putting its climate change ISA money into this company. Lighter footprint? Give me a break.

By Lynn Sloman The worry is that the government will focus on long-term technological solutions and do little to encourage short-term behaviour change. But trusting exclusively to future technology is the Superman solution. It's like ignoring the gently downward sloping footpath and hoping instea...

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 Elisabeth Mahoney Peter Kesterton's new play about the seeming orthodoxy of thought on climate change makes heavy weather of the issue. Its central question, buried deep in two hours that never ring true dramatically, is a reasonable, potentially interesting, one. "How do we know what we know?" asks gradu...

By Lori Pottinger Diversifying Africa's energy sector would help its climate-adaptation efforts in key ways: it would de-emphasize reliance on erratic rainfall for electricity, reduce conflict over water resources, and protect river-based ecosystems. Africa is the least electrified place in the w...

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...

By David Roberts Recent days have seen a flurry of blogospheric back-and-forth about the new CBO and EPA reports, and more generally about the costs and benefits of climate change legislation. As someone who believes the costs are overestimated and the benefits underrated, I thought I'd weigh in.

Our changing climate has a built in inertia of about 30 years. The increase in greenhouse gases brought about largely by our use of fossil fuels and by deforestation over the past 50 years will continue to cause global warming over the coming decades, even if we were to terminate all emissio...

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By Suzanne Goldenberg The bill in its current form would force polluting industries to reduce steadily their emissions of carbon and the other greenhouse gases that cause global warming. It would also require power companies to get 15% of their electricity from clean sources of energy like wind and sun.

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 Frances Wright The Climate Camp went to the European Climate Exchange in Bishopsgate on 1 April to highlight the failure of carbon trading as a solution to climate change. We were met by the same kind of heavy-handed policing as at previous Climate Camps – but for once, the outrageous behaviour of the poli...

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 Roger Pielke Sr. The Global Warming Hypothesis Temperature is not Heat!  ARGO Data ARGO Data References Willis, J.K., D. Roemmich, and B. Cornuelle, 2004: “Interannual variability in upper ocean heat content, temperature, and thermosteric expansion on global scales.”  J. Geophys. Res., 109, C12036.

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...

By John Vidal Oxfam called for a fundamental review of the humanitarian aid system, saying that in addition to the $25bn a year for disaster relief, much more would be needed to adapt to future climate change. "A commitment to rich countries spending $42bn a year to help them adapt to unavoidable climat...

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 Catherine Mitchell Yet Britain has visionary goals. The Committee on Climate Change says we should have an 80% cut in 1990 levels of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Moreover, through an EU deal, the UK has to provide 15% of its total energy use from renewable sources by 2020, and cut projected energy demand by...

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 Richard Stuebi By the way, many believers of climate change are often guilty of snidely commenting about a brutally hot summer day by saying something like "Enjoying the climate change?" while wearing a knowing grin. These are cheap shots that I wish would cease, because they too are inappropriate extr...

By From RealClimate, part of the Guardian Environment Network What determines how much coverage a climate study gets? Further contradictions abound: Morano, who clearly wants it to have been cooling, hedges his bets with a "Volcano, Not Global Warming Effects, May be Melting an Antarctic Glacier" Hail Mary pass. Good luck with that!

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.

By Megan Shank Filmmaker John D. Liu believes we have a solution to climate change, but it's not as simple as reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Here are excerpts from my recent telephone interview with him. Originally published at meganshank.com.

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...