Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change: Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Stoat (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
In shocking news just in, record heavy rain in the Lakes and extensive flooding has not been linked to global warming . Dr Bogus, spokesman for the Made-Up Institute of Twaddle, said "This is completely unprecedented. Normally, any unusual - or even merely somewhat uncommon - weather event is immeadiately linked to global warming. All of the usual Pinko suspects have failed us in this case. The...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Image 1: NRL's Marine Biogeochemistry section organized and led an international research expedition aboard the USCG Polar Sea in the Beaufort Sea during Sept. 15-26, 2009. Credit: US Coast GuardImage 2: NRL Chief Scientist, Richard Coffin (Marine Biogeochemistry) and Co-Chief Scientists Warren Wood (NRL Geology and Geophysics) with Jens Greinert (The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) and...
CleanTechies Blog (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
“It is all too possible that we will fail to achieve sustainability, and that the blind watchmaker will once again…reset the balance of a severely diminished living Earth.” That’s the possibility that Tim Flannery hopes we can yet avoid. He makes the statement early in his essay Now or Never: [...] Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast)
Green Options (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oceans regulate our climate. They play a key role in keeping the world’s “homeostasis” in tact. However, their ability to absorb carbon & keep the climate in balance is dwindling, a new report shows. In a year-by-year study from 1765 to 2008, researchers found that the oceans are struggling to meet increasing emissions demands. They cannot take in as much carbon as they used...
Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition to initiate methane hydrate exploration in the Beaufort Sea and determine the spatial variation of sediment contribution to Arctic climate change.
Built on Facts (Free subscription) | yesterday
Around ScienceBlogs, people who don't accept global warming as a real phenomena tend to get called denialists. In the interests of full disclosure, I should admit that I'm not a denialist but rather a global warming defeatist . Doesn't matter how bad or not CO2 is, ain't nothin' gonna stop it. People will not give up electricity and transportation in the developed world (nor should they), and people...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
BRITAIN should brace itself for more tropical-style deluges of the kind that wreaked havoc on Cockermouth, according to climate experts.
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
Communicating Climate Change in the Media The way in which the media communicates climate change to the public has come under scrutiny in the past, with controversies over the media providing an equal platform for both climate scientists and climate sceptics. A free event next week at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre will explore this and other issues in asking, ‘How do the UK media report...
sustainable options (Free subscription) | yesterday
Africa is expected to bear the brunt of climatic changes (see earlier blogpost The IPCC on Climate Change in Africa ). Now there is a new regional Southern African programme to deal with the effects of climate change on the largely poor and malnourished populations in this often forgotten part of the world. With so much anxiety on the success of the Copenhagen talks , this rings at least as a step...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
by Grist For some people, climate change is a tough cause to rally ‘round—even those who understand that it’s happening and that it’s human-caused get distracted by things like eating, working, having sex, watching TV, or watching people on TV have sex. While social scientists ponder the best ways to get the message out and motivate the masses—and since we’re gearing...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A video explaining climate change by presenting it as a good versus evil battle of superheroes is being released ahead of the Copenhagen summit to try to educate people about the problem.
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Al Gore: Supercomputers can reverse climate change - Network World Supercomputing technology, according to Al Gore, will help the human race reverse climate change, both by aiding the expansion of renewable energy use and by creating models that help people understand the severity of global warming. ... At the SC09 conference, media members were told they were not allowed to view Gore's speech in person...
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The answer to the question “where the heck is global warming?” is “precisely where you would expect,” as we will see. Wired has done some excellent reporting on one of the supposed start-dumping-your-clean-energy-stocks e-mails — the one by Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in [...]
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
NOTE: This post will be continually updated to cover things like the NYT’s misdirected reporting. Please post relevant links in the comments. As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing [...]
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
FACTBOX-Climate negotiating positions of top emitters Russia toughened on Wednesday its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, saying it would target a 25 percent reduction from 1990 levels by 2020 compared with a 10-15 percent pledge previously. Following are the negotiating positions of the top greenhouse gas emitters before a U.N. meeting in Copenhagen in December due [...]
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thewebseye | 01/07/2009
Something must be done about climate change soon! The challenge so far has been to get the biggest polluters on Earth to do something about it. Is this about to change? Increasing international pressure and domestic social pressure can cer...
thewebseye | 12/12/2008
Sustainable Development touches on all aspects of social, environmental and developmental needs to generate a solution that can help mitigate the disasters that climate change will create. Sustainable development in the 21st century must focus heavily...
thewebseye | 12/11/2008
One of the direct consequences of climate change is the rise in sea levels. Some coral atolls in the Pacific Island nations of Micronesia are already disappearing. Observations since the mid-19th century, though convouluted, show a global averag...
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