Rachel Maddow: Global Warming Isn't the Opposite of Snow CrooksandLiars.com, by
Heather Thursday Feb 11, 2010 1:45pm
Rachel takes the clowns at ClusterFox to task for
pretending they don't know the difference between changes in the weather and
climate change. The science guy Bill Nye weighs in and explains why watching
these idiots conflate the two disturbs him so much.
Stewart and
Colbert both had a field day with Fox for this as well. ...
Global Warming: THE HOTTEST DECADE
DailyCensored.com, byslandau -
Feb 5, 2010
“The decade ending in 2009 was the
warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration show…. 2009 was the second warmest
year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was
2005. The other hottest recorded years have all occurred since 1998, NASA said.”
Global temperatures varied because of changes in
ocean heating and cooling cycles. `When we average temperature over 5 or 10
years to minimize that variability,’ said Dr. James E. Hansen, director of
NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one of the world’s leading
climatologists, `we find global warming is continuing unabated.’” John M. Broder
NY Times Jan. 21. ...
'Meaningful' deal reached at
Copenhagen climate summit BBC News -
121809 Key states have reached what they call a
"meaningful agreement" at the Copenhagen climate summit. The US,
China, India and South Africa had agreed the "historic step
forward", a US official reported. ...
Climate deal looks close, but may not halt warming(What a deal!) BBC News -
Richard Black - 121709
A deal at the UN climate summit looks more
likely following a frantic day of behind the scenes diplomacy.
China signaled concessions on monitoring of emission curbs, and
the US said it would commit money for developing countries.
...
Copenhagen climate protesters
rally guardian.co.uk -
Dec 12, 2009
Demonstrators took part in a global protest to
demand governments agree a binding new deal on climate change.
Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA Tens of thousands of people took
to the streets of Copenhagen today as part of a global protest
to demand ...
Climategate: Follow the Money Climate change researchers must believe in
the reality of global warming just as a priest must believe in
the existence of God
WallStreetJournal.com - 120109
Last year, ExxonMobil donated $7 million to a
grab-bag of public policy institutes, including the Aspen
Institute, the Asia Society and Transparency International. It
also gave a combined $125,000 to the Heritage Institute and the
National Center for Policy Analysis, two conservative think
tanks that have offered dissenting views on what until recently
was called—without irony—the climate change "consensus."
To read some of the
press accounts of these gifts—amounting to about 0.00027% of
Exxon's 2008 profits of $45 billion—you might think you'd hit
upon the scandal of the age. But thanks to what now goes by the
name of climategate, it turns out the real scandal lies
elsewhere. ...
NewsFocus:
It's hard to take a publication from Rupert Murdoch seriously.
Why would he rat out his fellow globalists? We will follow this
story more.
Climate-Gate: Is It Really What We
Are Told? Ex-MN Governor Jesse Ventura Investigates
NewsFocus: The carbon
credit fraud allegation is the one area this website would agree
needs to be looked into, however, the rest of the program
which framed global warming as nothing but a hoax for money is
not something NewsFocus will endorse. Big money will do
anything to keep from having to spend more money to clean-up
emissions, even going so far as to make up bullshit to mislead
the public.
Per Peter Farmpton:"Big business doesn't want
you to believe that there is global warming so they can keep polluting the
atmosphere and make a profit at the same time. Anyone who doesn't even entertain
the idea that it's a possibility is awful sure of themselves and gambling on the
future of mother earth."
For many areas of the U.S.
and other areas of the globe, this winter has brought some brutally cold
temperatures and plenty of snowfall. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has had
to endure the "So much for global warming" comments from our more gullible and
lesser educated friends and family.
Copenhagen Climate Conference This is Bigger than Climate Change. It is a Battle to
Redefine Humanity InformationClearinghouse.info, by George Monbiot
- Dec 2009 The meeting at Copenhagen confronts us with our
primal tragedy. We are the universal ape, equipped with the ingenuity and
aggression to bring down prey much larger than itself, break into new lands,
roar its defiance of natural constraints. Now we find ourselves hedged in by the
consequences of our nature, living meekly on this crowded planet for fear of
provoking or damaging others. We have the hearts of lions and live the lives of
clerks.
Continue
Global Warming, the Media, and the Impending Catastrophe
InformationClearinghouse.info, by Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer Why have protests around global warming been so
muted in the U.S. while so intense in Europe? In part, the explanation lies in
how the U.S. media has been covering global warming, which has sowed confusion,
complacency, and paralysis.
Continue
In Case You Missed It:
Global Dimming This is a must watch - BBC
- Video Documentary
This is a film that demands action. It reveals that we may have grossly
underestimated the speed at which our climate is changing. At its heart is a
deadly new phenomenon. One that until very recently scientists refused to
believe even existed. But it may already have led to the starvation of millions.
Continue
Earth Could Plunge Into Sudden Ice Age Experts: ‘Big Freeze’ about 12,800 years ago happened within
months
MSNBC News, by Charles Q. Choi - 120209
In the film, "The Day After Tomorrow," the world gets gripped in
ice within the span of just a few weeks. Now research now
suggests an eerily similar event might indeed have occurred in
the past.
Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a
freeze shouldn't happen again — and in ironic fashion it could
be precipitated if
ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to
suddenly melt, scientists say.
Starting roughly 12,800 years ago, the Northern Hemisphere
was gripped by a chill that lasted some 1,300 years. Known by
scientists as the Younger Dryas and nicknamed the"Big
Freeze," geological evidence suggests it was brought on when
a vast pulse of fresh water — a greater volume than all of North
America's Great Lakes combined — poured into the Atlantic and
Arctic Oceans. ...
Copenhagen climate conference: Money talks
The Guardian, Editorial - Saturday 12 December 2009
Cash is the key to unlocking the grand climate bargain between
the rich and poor world, as was apparent even before the brokering had got under
way in Copenhagen. At the end of the first week of talking, this reality has
become even starker, for a whole host of reasons.
EPA: Greenhouse gases a threat to human health Obama's hand in Copenhagen strengthened by
Environmental Protection Agency ruling that could regulate
emissions even without legislation from Congress
...
GlobeandMail.com, by Eric
Reguly 120709 The
Obama administration delivered a much-needed jolt of optimism on
the opening day of the Copenhagen climate change summit by
declaring greenhouse gases a health hazard, strengthening the
President's hand to push for deal at the make-or-break meeting.
...
Leaders of the rich world are enacting a giant fraud Corporate lobbyists can pressure or bribe governments to
rig the system in their favour TheIndependent.co.uk, by Johann Hari 121109
Every delegate to the Copenhagen summit is being greeted
by the sight of a vast fake planet dominating the city's central square. This
swirling globe is covered with corporate logos – the Coke brand is stamped over
Africa, while Carlsberg appears to own Asia, and McDonald's announces "I'm
loving it!" in great red letters above. "Welcome to Hopenhagen!" it cries. It is
kept in the sky by endless blasts of hot air.
This plastic planet is the perfect symbol for this summit. The
world is being told that this is an emergency meeting to solve the climate
crisis – but here inside the Bela Centre where our leaders are gathering, you
can find only a corrupt shuffling of words, designed to allow countries to
wriggle out of the bare minimum necessary to prevent the unravelling of the
biosphere.
Bush
covered up climate report Bush Administration covered up
global warming finding, then deliberately kept from Democrats
RawStory.com, By
The Associated Press - Tuesday,
October 13th, 2009
An e-mail message buried by the Bush
administration because of its conclusions on global warming
surfaced Tuesday, nearly two years after it was first sent to
the White House and never opened.
The Bush
administration, and then EPA administrator Stephen Johnson,
refused to release the document when it was written in 2007, and
labeled it "deliberative, do not distribute" to Democratic
lawmakers. The White House instead allowed three senators to
review it in July 2008, when excerpts were released. ... (Read
More)
Global warming is speeding up, scientists reveal RawStory.com, by
Associated PressFriday,
September 25th, 2009 -- 8:05 am
Earth’s temperature is likely to jump nearly 6 degrees
between now and the end of the century even if every country cuts greenhouse gas
emissions as proposed, according to a United Nations update. Scientists looked
at emission plans from 192 nations and calculated what would happen to global
warming. The projections take into account 80 percent pollution cuts from the
U.S. and Europe by 2050, which are not sure things. ...
Oops! Arctic Ice Isn't Expanding, As Wingnuts Claimed. It's Thinning
CrooksandLiars.com, by Susie Madrak Monday Nov 30, 2009 3:00pm This video shows
how scientists were misled. They thought the healthy ice was expanding, when
it was actually thinning and spreading out over a wider area. I can't wait until
all the right wingers who've been triumphantly pushing this as proof there's no
climate change acknowledge they were wrong. I'll just sit here and hold my
breath:
WINNIPEG–One of Canada's top northern researchers says the permanent Arctic
sea ice that is home to the world's polar bears and usually survives the summer
has all but disappeared.
Experts around the world believed the ice was recovering because satellite
images showed it expanding. But David Barber says
the thick, multi-year frozen sheets crucial to
the northern ecosystem have been replaced by thin "rotten" ice that can't
support weight of the bears. "It caught us all by surprise because we
were expecting there to be multi-year sea ice. The whole world thought it was
multi-year sea ice," said Barber, who just returned from an expedition to the
Beaufort Sea.
"Unfortunately, what we found was that the
multi-year (ice) has all but disappeared. What's left is this remnant, rotten
ice."
Ocean Temps Reach Record High In hot water: World sets ocean temperature record
AP News, by Seth Borenstein 082009
Swimming in warm waters of ... Maine? Summer seas seem on
boil as oceans smash heat records...
This is what I hate having to explain to my relatives and
friends abroad in Europe about politics in the US. We know that
global warming is a fact. We know that our actions, if they
didn't cause global warming, definitely exacerbate it. We know
that we must reduce our dependency on oil, for both ecological
and political/strategic reasons. And yet, what we are able to do
is hampered so predictably by the Republican party:
Gobi Desert's Growth Threatens Villages Sky News -
Holly Williams -
120709
"As long as there's enough water and the drought is short
enough the vegetation will prevent desertification. But climate change is
making rainfall more ...
Photos from US spy satellites declassified by the
Obama White House provide the first graphic images of how the polar ice
sheets are retreating in the summer. The effects on the world's weather,
environments and wildlife could be devastating
Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of
global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The
photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in
recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in
summer months. ...
Vast expanses of Arctic melting fast
AP News, by Charles J. Hanley 080909
The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square
miles (square kilometers) of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt,
with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low
polar ice cap. ... (Read
More)
Antarctic ice shelf about to break loose
Wilkins Ice Shelf, held only by deteriorating
ice bridge, about to collapse
Associated Press -
Friday April 3, 2009
PARIS (AP) — A massive ice
shelf anchored to the Antarctic coast by a narrow and quickly
deteriorating ice bridge could break away soon, the European
Space Agency warned Friday.
The
Paris-based agency said satellite images show the bridge that
connects the Wilkins Ice Shelf to Charcot and Latady Islands
"looks set to collapse."
"The beginning of what appears to be the
demise of the ice bridge began this week when new rifts"
appeared and a large block of ice broke away, it said.
The Wilkins Ice Shelf — which like the rest of
Antarctic's ice sheet "was formed by thousands of years of
accumulated and compacted snow" — had been stable for most of
the last century before it began retreating in the 1990s, the
statement said.
Al Gore Speaks Out On Global
Warming And Dependence On Oil
This guy understands a threat that many myopically scoff at.
Movie: An Inconvenient Truth
This is the full version, with foreign subtitles.
Micronesia: Forgotten By The World? Island Nations Slowly Drowning; Ambassador
Says World Has 'Written Us Off'
ABC News, By
BILL BLAKEMORE - Dec. 9, 2009
Take the vast island nation of
Micronesia, with an ancient culture that includes 607
islands, scattered across a million square miles of the western
Pacific.
These islands are already being eroded away by
fast-rising sea level -- so fast that graveyards are
disappearing. ...
Scientists: Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates
Washington Post,
By Kari Lydersen
- 18
hours ago 021509
CHICAGO, Feb. 14 -- The pace of global warming
is likely to be much faster than recent predictions, because
industrial greenhouse gas emissions have increased more quickly
than expected and higher temperatures are triggering ...
Expert: Planet warming faster than thoughtUnited Press International
Long Droughts, Rising Seas Predicted Despite Future CO2 Curbs
Washington
Post, United States - Jan 27, 2009 By Juliet
Eilperin
Greenhouse gas levels currently expected by mid-century will
produce devastating long-term droughts and a sea-level rise that
will ...
Global warming is 'irreversible'
BBC News, UK -
Jan 26, 2009
A team of environmental researchers in
the US has warned many effects of climate change are
irreversible. The scientists concluded global temperatures could
...
Study: Global warming effects to last 1000 years
Houston
Chronicle, United States - Jan 26, 2009 By
JIM EFSTATHIOU JR.
Carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere today from power
plants and cars will affect surface temperatures and sea levels
for more ...
Alaskan volcano erupts in ash clouds BBC News - 15 hours ago
032309
Mount Redoubt volcano in the US state of Alaska is continuing to erupt,
sending ash clouds 15km (50000ft) into the air. The volcano, 166km (103
miles) from ...
Blowing smoke on Bobby Jindal Globe and Mail - 18 hours
ago 032309
With a report from AP A month after Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal chided
the Democrats for funding "something called volcano monitoring," the
eruption of ...
Alaska volcano erupts 15km into sky RTE.ie - Mar 23, 2009
The Mount Redoubt volcano in the US state of Alaska has erupted with bursts
of ash that rose more than 15km. The first blast occurred at 5.38am (Irish
time) ...
Fears over earthquake 'swarm' at Yellowstone
Times Online, UK -
10 hours ago
Hundreds of earthquakes have hit Yellowstone
National Park, raising fears of a more powerful volcanic
eruption. The earthquake swarm, the biggest in more ...
Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm: Updated
U.S. News & World
Report, DC - Jan 2, 2009
More on the Yellowstone earthquake swarm at the
supervolcano caldera. First, this piece of database analysis
from an IT guy at Splunk puts the swarm into ...
Climate scientists: it's time for 'Plan B'
Poll of international
experts by The Independent reveals consensus that CO2
cuts have failed – and their growing support for technological
intervention
By
Steve Connor, Science Editor and Chris Green,
Friday, 2 January 2009
An emergency "Plan B"
using the latest technology is needed to save the world from
dangerous climate change, according to a poll of leading
scientists carried out by The Independent. The collective
international failure to curb the growing emissions of carbon
dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has meant that an alternative to
merely curbing emissions may become necessary.
Climate change remains a top priority
San Francisco Chronicle, USA
His first big task will be to pick the next Environmental
Protection Agency administrator, who will face a series of key
decisions on climate change. ...
Global Warming Battle Heats Up
By
Matthew Blake 8/13/08
Four Democratic senators demanded late last month that the head
of the Environmental Protection Agency must go. Their call for
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson’s resignation — after eight
months of looking into his actions as agency chief — is largely
due to Jason K. Burnett, Johnson’s former deputy in developing
global warming policy.
UN climate summit seeks clarity
BBC News, UK -
1 hour ago
"But we cannot allow this to detract from the fight against
climate change. "The effects of climate change... are already
weighting heavily upon those most ...
Antarctic ice shelf shows new
rifts
United Press International -
Nov 29, 2008
BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- The Wilkins Ice Shelf is
showing new rifts and an ice bridge holding it to two Antarctic
islands is closer to collapsing, US and European scientists say. New rifts form on Antarctic ice
shelfCNN International
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Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists A revolutionary device that can harness energy from
slow-moving rivers and ocean currents could provide enough power
for the entire world, scientists claim.
By Jasper Copping Last Updated:
2:39PM GMT 29 Nov 2008
The technology can generate electricity in water flowing
at a rate of less than one knot - about one mile an hour -
meaning it could operate on most waterways and sea beds around
the globe.
Bush Aides Rush to Enact
a Safety Rule Obama Opposes
New York Times -
18 hours ago
By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON - The Labor Department is racing to
complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect
Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government
to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which
...
Save the Economy, and
the Planet
New York Times, United
States - Nov 26, 2008
Environment ministers
preparing for next week’s talks on global warming in Poznan,
Poland, have been sounding decidedly downbeat. From Paris to
Beijing, ...
Climate change
End of the party
guardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours
ago
In his new book on climate
change, Hot, Flat and Crowded, the American journalist Thomas
Friedman demolishes the notion that we are in the middle of a
green ... Climate advisors
take electric road
BBC News
Climate
talks open with call for cooperation Toronto
Star, Canada - 6 hours ago POZNAN, POLAND — Against a backdrop of global financial
crises, the UN Climate Change Conference opened today with a
call for a new climate deal by 2009. ...
Youth
Embarassed By US Delegation at Climate Conference
Environment News Service - 7
hours ago POZNAN, Poland, December 1, 2008 (ENS) - The US climate
delegation's "sidestepping and recalcitrance" in a news
conference on the opening morning of the ...
The free markets will never
tackle climate change effectively. We ...
guardian.co.uk, UK -
10 hours ago
Climate change is an awkward issue for our leaders. Both main
parties have wrestled with the challenge, both trying to make it
theirs, but neither able to
...
Green groups condemn
climate plan delay
Sydney Morning Herald,
Australia - 45 minutes ago
The Minister for Climate Change and the Environment,
Carmel Tebbutt, said some businesses were having trouble
preparing to make the switch, so the scheme
...
November World
Temperature Trends
AccuWeather.com -
9 hours ago
And this is useful and timely given the debate over Climate
Change (or Global Warming). So let us take a peek at the shape
of temperature patten over land ...
