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Australian Climate Madness (Free subscription) | yesterday
The climate nonsense comes thick and fast as we hurtle towards global oblivion at Copenhagen. And with headlines like the above, who would have possibly thought that somehow climate change has been hijacked by the global socialism movement? The politics of greed and envy laid bare: In Australia, the poor are more likely to only own [...] Related posts: Global warming to blame for everything on earth...
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Climate Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cost of extra year’s climate inaction $500 billion: IEA The world will have to spend an extra $500 billion to cut carbon emissions for each year it delays implementing a major assault on global warming, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday. At United Nations climate talks in Barcelona last week negotiators from developed countries said the [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scientists were outraged on Tuesday over comments made by India’s environment minister, in which he denied a link between climate change and the melting Himalayan glaciers.On Monday, India Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said he questioned the theories put forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and found no "conclusive scientific evidence" for a link between...
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Stoat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Says the Grauniad . Their not-very-useful article is about a Discussion Paper (as it calls itself) of Himalayan Glaciers, A State-of-Art Review of Glacial Studies, Glacial Retreat and Climate Change by V.K.Raina, Ex. Deputy Director General, Geological Survey of India. Maribo has a lot of sense about the report; go read that and come back here if you need any more. Back? OK then. 0) For the science,...
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ecopolitology (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week, a judge in the United Kingdom ruled that a "belief" in global warming constitutes a philosophical position that is, basically, equivalent to religion. Uh-oh.
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
Clouds hang over the global-warming alarmists | Paul Mulshine - NJ.com President Obama’s headed to Copenhagen next month to talk climate change. Al Gore’s headed toward profits that could make him the world’s first "carbon billionaire." But where’s global temperature headed? Nowhere, it seems. Namibia: Livestock perish in cold weather KEETMANSHOOP – More than...
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British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rising sea levels could submerge Mississippi Delta but leave other systems intact.
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Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The new polls also found that large majorities believe global warming is a serious or very serious threat. Polling from 3 key states — and 5 key districts — finds strong support for the climate and clean energy bill. Every major recent poll has come to the same conclusion (see Swing state poll finds 60% “would [...]
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
India 'arrogant' to deny global warming link to melting glaciers | Environment | guardian.co.uk IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri accuses Indian environment ministry of 'arrogance' for its report claiming there is no evidence that climate change has shrunk Himalayan glaciers
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Smog in Los Angeles, photo: Al Pavangkanan via flickr. We've written about the increasingly acknowledged impact of black carbon , soot and smog in global warming, but here's a sobering thought on all that: Dr Veerabhadra Ramanathan of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography says that even with a strong climate change agreement next month at COP15 we still co... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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CleanTechies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Al Gore, who barely lost (or won) the US Presidential election in November 2000, and vowed never to return to US political life, appears to have come out a winner for not doing so. The former Vice President for 8 years under the Clinton Administration decided to devote his time afterwards to teaching as well [...] Rating: 5.0/ 5 (2 votes cast)
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Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Is calling global warming a religion the same thing as denying global warming science? While the authors of Superfreakonomics, which is riddled with basic scientific errors, have started to issue some retractions, they continue to embrace self-contradictory denial of the basic science. In mid-October, economist Steven Levitt wrote a blog post titled, “The Rumors of Our Global-Warming [...]
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FuturePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Why worry about earthquakes when we can worry about massive droughts instead? California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor Isabel Montañez. The finding, which comes from analyzing stalagmites from Moaning Cavern in the...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/11/lugar_warns_democrats_i_dont_s.html Lugar said he welcomed the opportunity to discuss global warming, but he emphasized that his constituents are more focused on the economy and did not see the bill authored by Kerry and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) as politically viable. "I don't see any...
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Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | yesterday
Darwin has just experienced its warmest month on record, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Darwin has recorded the hottest ever month of daytime temperatures at the official observing site at Darwin Airport. Darwin Airport has been recording weather observations since 1941. “The average maximum temperature in October was 34.8°C” , Darwin climatologist Dr Shaik Hakeem said. “This...
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www.carbonfreeenergy | 06/19/2009
The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. And "clean coal," which involves capturing carbon emissions and sequestering...
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gamishev | 03/03/2009
The demand for the solar energy is on the rise these days. The increased concern about the Global Warming and various widespread forms of pollutions has resulted in growing concern about the alternative sources of energy. There has been observed a dire...
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vrickad | 01/26/2009
Indoor Climate Control: Optimal Temperature And Humidity The rising temperatures of the Earth, thanks to global warming, and the increased pollution in our atmosphere have sparked considerable concern and generated numerous discussions on how we can ma...