Global warming

By robertkyriakides Carbon dioxide         77% Methane                    14% Nitrous Oxide            08% Sources of Emissions Deforestation                        18.3% When we talk about greenhouse gas emissions we do not always understand which greenhouse gases are m

By netsave The answer to the global warming or global cooling question depends on who you ask.  We find that everyone has a different opinion.  Some scientists believe that global warming exists, but they have disagreements over the reason – is it man-made or is it a natural process the Earth is going t...

By Phineas Fahrquar October 2009 was the third-coldest in the US for the last 115 years. Now one month does not a trend make, but the evidence against the cult of anthropogenic global warming keeps piling up. Visit Watt’s Up With That for the full story.

By F. Swemson Another of Mr. Gore’s favorite subjects is the growing incidence of dangerous weather, in fact he blames Katrina on global warming. That too is a lie, and as for his claim about the growing number of hurricanes caused by global warming………… you guessed it. It’s a lie as well. In fact the frequenc...

By grizzleo 1) Some of the strongest supporters I have seen supporting alternative forms of energy are birders. I also know that at least two of the smartest skeptics I have seen opposing mitigations of global warming are birders. In both cases I see these birders as being very close to accepting the neg...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Here the answer will depend on what is meant by 'significant' -- and whether 'human activity' should include urbanization, land changes, agriculture, irrigation, deforestation, etc. Many might answer 'Yes' – even if they don't think that GH gases are a significant factor in climate ch...

By papundits The premise behind cap and trade is that the United States must impose a complex energy tax scheme to penalize businesses and other outfits (like, say, schools and nonprofit hospitals) that emit “greenhouse gases” such as carbon dioxide. Proponents argue that this highly expensive app...

The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which appears to show that the current warming and widespread loss of glacial ice ar...

An Investor's Business Daily editorial falsely claimed that Al Gore "still claims" hurricanes "are increasing in frequency and intensity" as a result of global warming and that "[w]hat has happened in the past three years is that such claims have been thoroughly debunked as the earth h...

By F. Swemson From that point, a brief explanation of the 3rd point above is necessary, before going off into such arguments as the economic costs versus the insignificant benefits to which huge reductions in hydrocarbon emissions can possibly lead. It’s necessary to do this for the simple reason tha...

By David Adam The study showed previous assessments exaggerated the rate of tropical deforestation. It also took into account soaring emissions from fossil fuel burning since 2000, which reduces the relative role of deforestation. The scientists say 12% is an estimate, and the figure could be betwe...

By Leo Hickman We now await the employment tribunal's final judgement on whether Nicholson – who claims he was shown "contempt" by some of the company's executives for his environmental concerns - was, indeed, discriminated against by Grainger for his beliefs.

By Jaren The project is expected to reduce carbon emissions by a fifth. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called on China to set a tougher target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions after 2020 as its part of a U.N. climate change agreement to be negotiated in Copenhagen.

By Joseph Romm Future historians will inevitably judge all 21st-century presidents on just two issues: global warming and the clean energy transition. If the world doesn't stop catastrophic climate change -- Hell and High Water -- then all Presidents, indeed, all of us, will be seen as failures and ri...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land-use change, we found that corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years," the Princeton authors say. "Bio...

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Andrew Stuttaford) Dietary rules and restrictions are a part of many religions, so it's at least consistent that Lord Stern, one of Britain's most prominent climate alarmists, is making sure that his particular millennial cult is not left out: People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conqu...

By omnologos So how might we solve global warming and make the world in five hundred years look attractive to our future selves? [...] New wind, rain, and solar technologies will be solving the problem for us. Climate change due to global warming will add to our supply of rain, wind and fire, and if it raises t...

By Sen. Barbara Boxer The CBO Director said it himself: "These measures of potential costs do not include any benefits from averting climate change." Global warming is happening now. Ignoring the long-term costs of doing nothing to avert the most dangerous impacts of a changing climate results in a profoundl...

By Ian Traynor Europe attempted to reassert its international leadership in the fight against global warming today, offering to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 95% by 2050 and by 30% by 2020 if a climate change pact is sealed in Copenhagen in six weeks' time.

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (NRO Staff) Next time you hear company announcing with pride that it wants to help fight global warming by supporting a cap-and-trade bill, it is at least worth asking who they expect to pick up the tab. — Ben Lieberman is senior policy analyst for Energy and Environment in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) He notes that Britain has been much warmer in the relatively recent but pre-industrial past If you hate energy, join an environmental organization. If you hate science, join an environmental organization. If you hate jobs in America, join an environmental organization.

By citizensarah Texas law gave the TCEQ the authority to regulate climate change emissions in 1991. In May 2009, the Texas Legislature passed a series of laws that would give incentives for new power plants that capture carbon dioxide, allow the TCEQ to regulate the disposal of CO2 emissions, set up a volu...

By Jon Dennis, Michael White, Phil Maynard, Andy Duckworth, Tim Maby From climate talks in Bangkok, environment editor John Vidal explains why developing countries - and China - have accused the world's wealthiest nations of "sabotaging" a global warming treaty.

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Among all environmental issues, global warming was the one people cared about least 1. Is the earth getting warmer? 2. Is the cause of global warming human activity? 3. How much warmer is it going to get? 4. What are the consequences of a warmer climate?

By Joe No, I’m not taking about a simple analysis of what happens if the nation and the world just keep on our current emissions path.  We’ve known that end-of-century catastrophe for a while (see “M.I.T. doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F — with 866 ppm and Arctic warming of 20°F“).  I’m talk...

By Michael Shermer If global warming continues unchecked through the end of the century there will be 400,000 more heat-related deaths annually; there will also be 1.8 million fewer cold-related deaths, for a net gain of 1.4 million lives. Are you a global warming skeptic, or are you skeptical of the global wa...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) The current hiatus in warming portends a reduction in potential heating for the entire century. Most computer models produce significant warming as a result of an increase in atmospheric water vapor (a "greenhouse" gas), which comes from an ocean initially warmed by carbon dioxide. Whe...

By Jon Dennis, Andy Duckworth, Tim Maby Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, and Douglas Alexander, the international development secretary, tell our correspondent in Delhi, Randeep Ramesh, of their hopes of India's role in securing an agreement on global warming at the crucial summit in Copenhagen in December.

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) In 2004 the UN climate panel that carbon dioxide accounted for 76 percent of the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Newly released UNEP report which showed that emissions other than carbon dioxide plant accounted for half of emissions, this is not an example of scientific unc...

By Joe We’re starting to see more and more work on the health impacts of global warming (see “The Lancet’s landmark Health Commission: “Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century” and “Climate change helps spread dengue fever in 28 states“).

By Robin McKie It was rated one of the most damaging setbacks to hit the study of global warming: on 8 October, 2005, a £100m probe designed to measure ice thickness at the poles plunged into the Arctic ocean minutes after launch on an old Soviet SS-19 missile from Plesetsk, northern Russia.

By NP Editor I knew I was poking the bear when I sent my most recent column (Climate skeptic arguments don't hold ice, July 14) to my editor here at the National Post. The [Financial] Post publishes almost weekly columns about the fiction of climate change so understandably some readers are well persua...

By Jon Dennis, Iain Chambers Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, has set out the government's plans to move Britain towards a low-carbon economy and meet the UK's ambitious climate change targets. The environment editor, John Vidal, says it is a historic shift away from fossil fuels, but may not be enough to avert the...

By Alok Jha, Pascal Wyse What will our world look like in 2050? Astronomer Royal and president of the Royal Society Martin Rees predicts crises in water and energy supplies as a result of increased population pressure, exacerbated by climate change. Speaking to Alok Jha earlier this month, he also discussed the...

By Max and Carlin Global emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will jump more than 39 percent by 2030 without new policies and binding pacts to cut global warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on Wednesday. Climate health costs: bug-borne ills, killer heat

By Alok Jha, Scott Cawley What is it about the science and politics of climate change that so raises some people's hackles? Mike Hulme, a climate scientist and author at the University of East Anglia and a founding director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, is proposing a radical change in the way...

By Joseph Romm Pooley is one of the few major journalists in the country who understands that global warming is the story of the century -- and if we don't reverse our emissions path soon, it will tragically be the story of the millennium, with irreversible impacts lasting for many, many centuries (see "...

By lichanos The reliability of data used to document temperature trends is of great importance in this debate. We can’t know for sure if global warming is a problem if we can’t trust the data. The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. temperature record is unreliable.

Senator Bernie Sanders joins Greenpeace to launch their Energy Revolution report which shows how to tackle climate change without using nuclear ... www.strimoo.com

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By Jim Manzi Jerry -- Thanks for the clear and respectful reply. Let me respond to your two points.   In regard to your first point: Yes, you understand me exactly when you say: Even if we accept the absolute worse case scenarios of future warming offered by the IPCC and the Stern Review on the economics of c...

By rss@youtube.com (vishnu89sb) This video shows some ways through which the youth can minimize the climate change and problems.This shows how to act against global warming.. Author: vishnu89sb Keywords: get moving on climate change Added: February 21, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (JonThm) In 2003 I told Sheffeild University how to do nuclear fusion. Why have they not told teh world? Author: JonThm Keywords: nuclear fusion global warming climate change Added: February 3, 2009

By dandelionsalad Moreover, additional warming of at least 0.5°C, the result of greenhouse gases already emitted, is built into the climate system. see Download the Socialist Alliance Climate Change Charter here (pdf) Global Warming on Dandelion Salad

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By Jon Dennis, Francesca Panetta Legal affairs correspondent Afua Hirsch explains why the attorney general, Baroness Scotland, is considering asking the courts to get tough with high-profile direct-action protests. The move follows the decision in September by a jury at Maidstone crown court to clear six Greenpeac...

By Sarah Kuck New research from Stanford University ranks wind power as the most promising alternative source of energy. Titled Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security, the report from civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson ranks the world...

By Jon Dennis, Andy Duckworth, Tim Maby The UN summit on climate change is under way in Poznan, Poland. Stavros Dimas, the European commissioner for the environment, says Europe would be prepared to become virtually carbon-free in order to secure a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Environment correspondent David Adam t...

These positions reflect the two key tests that environmental groups have set for the climate and energy package: whether the EU’s 2020 domestic reduction target is consistent with the challenge to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, and whe...

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