Monday, December 31, 2012

Researcher: Unprecedented global warming killed off 95 percent of the

Source: Earth's ...
Details: Science Recorder Extreme global warming seems to have been the cause of the largest mass extinction the planet has ever seen, according to LiveScience.com. After examining a variety of fossil evidence, researcher Paul Wignall, a geologist at the University of Leeds in ...

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Global warming should rule out the expansion of coal

Source: The Seattle Times
Details: Global warming should rule out the expansion of coal. Seattle scientist and author Peter Ward argues that global warming should rule out the expansion of coal, including its shipment to China. By Bruce Ramsey. Times editorial columnist. PREV of NEXT ...

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It's too late to stop global warming, according to top climate scientists

Source: Science Recorder
Details: Any possibility of halting the effects of global warming will likely fail, according to a newly released report. A published report by Johannesburg-based Wits University geoscientist Dr. Jasper Knight and Dr. Stephan Harrison of the University of ...

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In their own words, farmers talk about global warming

Source: The Courier-Journal (blog)
Details: Don Halcomb shows a winter cover crop that includes daikon radishes on a field near his farm outside Russellville in south central Kentucky. "There is no doubt we are having warmer winters and hotter summers around here. But, we are just trying to ...

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Global Warming? 2012 Was Hottest Year Ever in Jersey

Source: newjerseynewsroom.com
Details: Restaurant · Recreation. Global Warming? 2012 Was Hottest Year Ever in Jersey. Monday, 31 December 2012 10:14. Share this. Twitter; Myspace; Digg; Del.icio.us; Reddit; Slashdot; Furl; Yahoo; Technorati; Newsvine; Facebook · Export PDF · Print · E-mail ...

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Views of Global Warming in 1992 and Now

Source: New York Times (blog)
Details: So I thought it worth reflecting on my most thorough treatment of human-driven climate change, "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast." I wrote this book to accompany the 1992 exhibition of the same name by the American Museum of Natural History.* ...

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Frigid swim sends message about global warming

Source: WCSH-TV
Details: PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Maine's largest environmental advocacy organization is holding its fifth annual cold-water ocean plunge to raise money in the name of global warming. The Natural Resources Council of Maine is expecting about 200 people for its ...

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Global warming research eyes 'runaway' ice melt

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: Featured Stories. Colorado Avalanche info center up and running for the season · Local officials eye new reality of legal cannabis. Climate NOAA drops El Niño watch · Shifting winds drive Antarctic sea ice growt · Global warming threatens wild Arabica ...

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Realistic Hope and Paradoxical News in Global Warming

Source: ABC News (blog)
Details: The first four Nature's Edge Notebooks in this year-long series reported some new realistic hope in the global warming crisis, this "story too big to cover — almost", and explored its basic and sometimes paradoxical nature as a news story. At year's ...

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Boulder researcher: Planet offers independent record of global warming

Source: The Daily Camera
Details: The thermometers aren't going haywire. The planet, itself, is recording the same reality. The Earth is warming, and doing so at a quickening pace. A new compilation of temperature records derived from geological samples such as ice cores, lake sediment ...

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Hundreds Die in Cold Waves — Media Keep Flogging Global Warming

Source: The New American
Details: But most of the so-called mainstream media (MSM) are stuck in their global warming groove and are determined to stay there, obstinately ignoring the scientific evidence that shows their alarmist predictions to be spectacularly wrong. They also have ...

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Global warming: It's real

Source: phillyBurbs.com (blog)
Details: The Laramie River Station coal-fired power plant, about 70 miles north of Cheyenne, Wyo., produces about 15 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. But are CO2 emissions really to blame for global warming? Some argue there are other possible reasons for ...

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Friday, December 28, 2012

Chicago passes 500 homicides for the year, could global warming be to blame?

Source: Catholic Online
Details: Chicago passes 500 homicides for the year, could global warming be to blame? By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM); 12/28/2012; Catholic Online (www.catholic.org). Seriously? Chicago has reached a grim milestone, 500 murders in the city within one ...

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New Year's resolution for global-warming deniers: Wake up!

Source: Pittsburg Morning Sun (blog)
Details: Our own National Academy of Sciences, founded by Abraham Lincolnto inform policymakers about science, concluded that climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for human and natural systems.

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Global Warming: 10 Myths and Facts Everyone Should Know

Source: Guardian Express
Details: Climate change on the Planet Earth is a big topic of discussion lately, with scientific evidence being presented as fact, with detractors then denying these facts, and presenting their own facts, in what has become "The Global Warming Debate: Fact Or ...

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Global warming affects Latin American, Caribbean economies

Source: Inside Costa Rica
Details: Extreme rains in Colombia and in the basin of the Grijalva and Usumacinta rivers, shared by Guatemala and Mexico. They are all evidence of the impact climate change is having on Latin America and the Caribbean. A group of researchers from the ...

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Global Warming Causes Volcanic Eruptions

Source: OilPrice.com
Details: ... Silver · Platinum · Commodities · Foodstuffs · Copper · Alternative Energy · Nuclear Power · Solar Energy · Hydroelectric · Renewable Energy · Geothermal Energy · Wind Power · Fuel Cells · Tidal Energy · Biofuels · Environment · Global Warming ...

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Global warming threatens US ski industry but Oregon unscathed

Source: OregonLive.com
Details: hood1_1A58_9.JPG View full size Global warming? What global warming? Oregon ski areas such as Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort have yet to experience the low snowpack conditions forecast in a Natural Resources Defense Council report. Thomas Boyd ...

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The Real Hockey Stick

Source: Global Warming (blog)
Details: Global average life expectancy (the best single indicator of health) hardly changed through most of human history, averaging 20-25 years during 1 A.D. to 1750. Similarly, global per capita output (the best indicator of material welfare) was equivalent ...

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AUSTRIAN GREEN MOVEMENT PROFESSOR WANTS DEATH PENALTY FOR ...

Source: Liberty News On Line
Details: He actually thinks global warming "deniers" deserve more harsh treatment than Behring Brevik, the Norwegian mass murderer who killed 77 people in 2011 (in a country with tough gun control, incidentally). Here's some relevant excerpts: In this article I ...

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Global Warming Triggers Volcanic Eruptions, Scientists Say

Source: Popular Science
Details: But new evidence suggests that the volcano-climate relationship can go the other way, too: Periods of warming after ice ages can lead to volcanic eruptions. In a recent study, a team of geologists examined samples of sea-floor mud from around the Ring ...

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Author of 'final solution' in global warming 'honored'

Source: WND.com
Details: "He actually thinks global warming 'deniers' deserve more harsh treatment than Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer who killed 77 people in 2011 (in a country with tough gun control, incidentally)," wrote Steven Hayward. He's the Thomas Smith ...

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Global warming affects Latin American, Caribbean economies

Source: Infosurhoy
Details: "If nothing is done, the production of oilseeds, cereals in Brazil will be seriously affected by the rising temperatures," says Walter Vergara, head of the Climate Change and Sustainability Division at the Inter-American Development Bank. (Yasuyoshi ...

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What Do People In Iran Think About Global Warming? [Infographic]

Source: Popular Science
Details: It's also significantly lower than in Iran, where 80% of the population is worried about global warming, according to today's infographic. The data here are based on a small sample size, so we can't be sure they perfectly represent Iranians' views on ...

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Addressing global warming: Earth's New Year's resolution

Source: Salon
Details: I've started working directly on various projects with 350.org, whose global impact and reinvention of activist tactics I've long admired. Its creator Bill McKibben has evolved from a merely great writer to a pivotal climate organizer and a gift to all ...

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2012: Global warming became reality

Source: Salon
Details: In 2012 many of the warnings scientists have made about global warming went from dry studies in scientific journals to real-life video played before our eyes: Record melting of the ice in the Arctic Ocean. U.S. cities baking at 95 degrees or hotter ...

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Letter: Global warming hypothesis is false

Source: Knoxville News Sentinel
Details: Modern priests ("scientists" and politicians) tell gullible and ignorant people that man's carbon dioxide emissions can and are causing global warming. To correct this, they demand sacrificing jobs, prosperity and our economy. Proponents enjoy ...

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Man The Lifeboats! Global Warming Has Oceans Rising At Alarming Rate!

Source: (Or ...
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Progressive Professor Demands Death Penalty for Global Warming Skeptics

Source: and ...
Details: FrontPage Magazine Richard Parncutt is an Austrian professor of Music, which makes him an expert on global warming, who originally hails from Australia, but in true progressive style is ashamed of Australia. According to Dick, he is waiting for reconciliation with the ...

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time for global warming's just deserts

Source: The Age
Details: VICTORIA will be a hotter and drier place by mid-century, with more desert and fewer temperate regions because of the impacts of global warming, new scientific analysis has found. In a major report, Victoria's Commissioner for Environmental ...

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New forecast for global warming

Source: The Voice of Russia
Details: In its annual forecast for next year, the UK's Met Office predicts that global temperatures are forecast to be 0.57C above the long-term average next year, making 2013 one of the warmest years on record. This means that the next few decades may see a ...

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Indonesia to see more disasters as global warming continues

Source: China.org.cn
Details: Indonesia has experienced more frequent cyclones due to persisting impacts of global warming in the past few years, and the phenomenon is predicted to continue next year. The frequency of cyclones this year, according to data gathered by the country's ...

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Monday, December 24, 2012

No signs of global warming in 16 years

Source: YorkRegion.com
Details: Data from the last environmental conference in Bhutan shows no global warming in 16 years, yet Mr. Suzuki wants to amend the Canadian constitution to include environmental protection? Inequality has been reduced in Iceland is his justification of ...

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Cyclone risk in Indonesia said increasing

Source: UPI.com
Details: "Global warming has resulted in the formation of more cumulonimbus clouds that could incite cyclones," Sutopo Purwo Yuwono, spokesperson with the Indonesian BNPB agency, said. Sutopo predicted more cyclones would hit in Indonesia in March to April ...

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Global Warming on West Antarctic Ice Sheet three times the global average

Source: Bay Area Indymedia
Details: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming at three times the global average, according to temperature measurements at Byrd Polar Station. This has implications for the melting of the West Antarctic Ice sheet (WAIS) and sea level rise.

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West Antarctica warming fast, may quicken global sea level rise

Source: The National
Details: OSLO // West Antarctica is warming almost twice as fast as previously believed, adding to worries of a thaw that would add to sea level rise from San Francisco to Shanghai, a study showed on Sunday. Annual average temperatures at the Byrd research ...

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Kerry as Secretary of State: Global warming first, world hunger, disease ...

Source: Washington Times
Details: Mr. Kerry is the senior Senator from Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and was the 2004 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Kerry has also been a long-time crusader in the effort to try to stop global warming.

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Forget global warming, Alaska is headed for an ice age

Source: Alaska Dispatch
Details: Defiant as ever, the state that gave rise to Sarah Palin is bucking the mainstream yet again: While global temperatures surge hotter and the ice-cap crumbles, the nation's icebox is getting even icier. That may not be news to Alaskans coping with ...

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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Global warming: Citing shrinking sea ice, feds list several Arctic seal ...

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: Global warming is reducing the amount of snowpack on the ice, causing snow caves to collapse and leaving pups vulnerable to death from freezing temperatures and predators. Bearded seals, named for their distinctively thick whiskers, give birth and ...

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Kerry to make global warming priority as secretary of state

Source: Current TV
Details: Kerry to make global warming priority as secretary of state. source: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2012/12/23/kerry-to-make-global-warming-priorit y-as-secretary-of... Image. An error occurred while setting up video display. Vierotchka; added this ...

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Global warming: Study suggests temperatures in West Antarctic rising

Source: much ...
Details: Summit County Citizens Voice The temperature data place West Antarctica among the fastest-warming regions on Earth, warming three times faster than the average temperature rise around the globe and at double the rate suggested by previous research. The study also shows — for the ...

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Planetary Change: Will Global Warming Create “The End Of The World”

Source: Guardian Express
Details: Scientists have determined that greenhouse gases are responsible for the majority of these global warming issues. Carbon dioxide is the culprit, and the burning of fossil fuels has created this carbon dioxide laced witch's brew that floats around in ...

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Kerry to make global warming priority as secretary of state

Source: BizPac Review
Details: John-Kerry-climate-bill On Friday afternoon, President Obama nominated Senate Foreign Relations chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State to serve during the president's second term. Although his confirmation is ...

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Out There: Film offers stark look at global warming

Source: Poughkeepsie Journal
Details: Extreme Ice Survey field assistant Adam LeWinter stands on the northeast rim of Birthday Canyon, atopa feature called 'Moab' on the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2009. The black deposit in bottom of channel is cryoconite. Birthday Canyon is approximately ...

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Global warming and the race relations catastrophe

Source: Though Cowards Flinch
Details: Global warming and the race relations catastrophe. December 23, 2012 paulinlancs Leave a comment Go to comments. In 1968, in a slim Penguin book called Labour's Last Chance, socialist sociologist John Rex wrote a chapter called The Race Relations ...

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Two-thirds of Iranians believe in Global Warming

Source: AME Info
Details: The majority of respondents (76%) think that Global Warming is caused by human activities, compared to the 42% of Americans polled by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press in October 2012. Nearly two-thirds (60%) believe in the phenomenon ...

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Saturday, December 22, 2012

World on brink of losing battle vs. global warming

Source: Saudi Gazette
Details: "COAL did not end, coal era came to an end," Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani has been underlining for years now – though rather in a different perspective. Indeed coal did not end. Coal has been around, and in abundance, all around. Yet it got sidelined, once ...

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Pushing the pedal against global warming

Source: Times of India
Details: CHENNAI: A lot of people know about the evils of global warming, but only very few are willing to do something about it. J Umanath is among those who are willing to walk — in his case cycle — the extra mile to encourage people to plant trees and ...

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Harvard Scientist Proposes Refreezing Arctic to Prevent Global-Warming

Source: Disaster
Details: Mashable Harvard University geoengineer and environmental scientist David Keith has a "plan B" in case of an environmental emergency. Keith's unusual proposal is this: Force reflective particles into the Earth's upper atmosphere -- the stratosphere -- to ...

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Despite What You Hear, Global Warming Is Still Benefiting Africa

Source: Health Care News (blog)
Details: LakeChad Michel Nasibu, an advisor in the International Development Advisory Section of KPMG East Africa, attempted this week to salvage his claims that global warming is devastating the African continent after I debunked his initial claims in an ...

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Despite What You Hear, Global Warming Is Still Benefiting Africa

Source: Forbes
Details: In his October column, Nasibu asserted that global warming is drying up the African continent, causing expanding deserts and reduced crop production. In response, I presented powerful evidence that African deserts are actually shrinking, soil moisture ...

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Friday, December 21, 2012

An apps-eye view of global warming and climate change

Source: San Jose Mercury News
Details: If you're wondering what to make of the crazy weather of the past few years, maybe it's time to check out some of the iPhone and Android apps you can use to study climate change and global warming. Quite a few are devoted to the still-contentious issue.

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Mealworms As Human Food Could Help With Global Warming

Source: Cinema Blend
Details: Each of these could help in the battle against global warming. Of course, getting people to eat mealworms for their protein might get a bit tricky, even for people who might indulge in random bug-eating on occasion. I, for one, have tried one of those ...

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A New Study Suggests That Global Warming Won't Kill Off The Polar Bears

Source: Business Insider
Details: A new study indicates that global warming may actually benefit Arctic animals and ecosystem, by expanding their ranges and increasing biodiversity in the area as warmer-climate species move north. The research was published yesterday, Dec. 20, in the ...

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The Pew Year In Review: Belief In Global Warming Rising, Belief In God

Source: Falling
Details: Fast Company Fast Feed. The Pew Year In Review: Belief In Global Warming Rising, Belief In God Falling. By Nina Mandell. |. December 21, 2012. The Pew Center broke down all of the important trends of 2012. About This Series. Welcome to Fast Feed, the Fast Company ...

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Major Pharmaceutical Company Cuts Ties With Global Warming Denialist

Source: Think ...
Details: Christian Post A major pharmaceutical company has opted to sever ties with a libertarian think tank that provides arguments critical of global warming and the effects of tobacco smoking. Pfizer Inc., a New York City-based business that boasts of being the world's ...

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Global warming fight targets five tasks

Source: China Daily
Details: A campaign against global warming has been launched in Beijing, calling for people to carry out five tasks every day to reduce energy use and resource consumption. WildAid, an international non-governmental organisation and initiator of the campaign, ...

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Poland Wages War on Efforts to Save the Climate

Source: Spiegel Online
Details: Poland is addicted to coal. That is the message the country has been sending both domestically and internationally as Warsaw prepares to host the global climate summit next year. In Europe, the Poles are isolated in their fight for looser emissions ...

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Global Warming, Peak Oil, Economic Chaos

Source: The Ecologist
Details: The chief villain contributing to global warming through increased concentrations of anthropogenic greenhouse gases is carbon-dioxide, originating from the burning of fossil fuels such as oil. Despite a minority's pedagogic insistence to the contrary ...

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2012 in Science: Global Warming

Source: allvoices
Details: Both Barack ObamaBarack Obama and Mitt RomneyMitt Romney shied away from the issue—if anything, Romney expressed doubt global warming was even happening and Obama opted to conveniently ignore the topic. Instead, the elections were focused ...

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Lafayette: A lesson on the basics of global warming

Source: Contra Costa Times
Details: Instead, Alivisatos ditched his original plan to reveal the lab's coolest new research and offered a "101" course on global warming. "I'd like to explain how it is that the scientific community has come to understand that global warming is occurring ...

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PTC: Costly Climate Policy Dud

Source: Global Warming (blog)
Details: PTC advocates talk as if Hurricane Sandy and the Midwest drought were obvious consequences of anthropogenic global warming, and that subsidizing wind energy is a cost-effective way to mitigate climate change. They are wrong on both counts.

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Doha Hoha - Global Warming Hits A Scientific Iceberg

Source: The Market Oracle
Details: Carbon inventories, stocks and flows concern the extreme, vast amounts of carbon on the planet, how the carbon got there, and what this could mean for global warming. The importance of these two subjects to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

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Belief and certainty in global warming on the rise

Source: Ars Technica
Details: Support for government action on global warming is also up, with 57 percent of respondents believing the US government should do "a great deal" or "quite a bit," compared to 52 percent in 2009. Though the number of Americans who think the globe is ...

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Global Warming Experts Should Think More About the Cold War

Source: Bloomberg
Details: UN Leak Shows Stronger Evidence That Humans Cause Global Warming · U.S. Intelligence Agencies See a Transformed World by 2030 · Tree-Saving Climate Negotiators Save Two Million Pages. Weapons negotiations proceeded under the vast, idealistic ...

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Chuck Hagel's Real Problem is Global Warming

Source: National Journal
Details: Cartoon. How to Talk Cliff. ENVIRONMENT. Chuck Hagel's Real Problem is Global Warming. Forget about Israel. Hagel made his name opposing a global warming accord. By Matthew Cooper. December 20, 2012 | 11:47 a.m.. AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke ...

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Posted on December 20, 2012

Source: Yakima Herald-Republic
Details: We've recently seen compelling pieces in the Yakima Herald-Republic that demonstrate that global warming is advancing faster than previously anticipated and likely to lead to dramatic, possibly devastating consequences in our lifetime. It is time for ...

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Manmade global warming is a hoax

Source: NorthJersey.com
Details: Global warming believers claim that this year has been the warmest on record and that if this warming continues the ice caps on the North and South Poles will melt. Ocean water would rise as much as 6 feet! If this is true we should begin relocation of ...

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Link found between global warming and increased volcanic activity

Source: Gizmag
Details: "In times of global warming, the glaciers are melting on the continents relatively quickly," says Dr. Marion Jegen, a geophysicist from GEOMAR. "At the same time the sea level rises. The weight on the continents decreases, while the weight on the ...

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

A 10-year-old's reflections on global warming

Source: Mother Nature Network (blog)
Details: A few weeks ago, my daughter was assigned to write an essay for her fourth-grade class about an issue that she felt was worth speaking up about. The topic she chose was global warming. As the daughter of a greenie, this was not surprising to me. She ...

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The Laws of Global Warming: How to Regulate Geo-Engineering Efforts to

Source: Fight ...
Details: Science Daily (press release) Today, scientists have a long list of geo-engineering ideas that could be used to slow the impact of global warming while other methods are developed to actually mitigate the damage. Some ideas are simple and locally focused, such as planting new ...

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Outlook for telehealth market: Global warming

Source: Nextgov
Details: Revenue for the global telehealth market is expected to grow by 55 percent in 2013 as hospitals work to reduce readmissions and to cost-effectively manage the care of newly insured patients, according to a new report by the market analysis firm InMedica.

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Global Warming: No Harm No Foul?

Source: National Review Online (blog)
Details: Matt Ridley, writing in the Wall Street Journal, states that it appears temperatures are not nearly as sensitive to CO2 as originally thought, and moreover, that even if the amount of gas doubles in the atmosphere, the minor warming we will experience ...

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Global Warming? Not a snowball's chance in hell

Source: Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Details: By "global warming", I mean, of course the kind of runaway, unprecedented, catastrophic warming which George Monbiot et al have been bleating on about for the last two or three decades. And by "not a snowball's chance in hell", I mean, that the ...

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UU hosts talk on response to global warming

Source: Door County Advocate
Details: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County is holding a discussion and planning session at 4 p.m. Dec. 27 to start a conversation about what local residents can do now about global warning. The public is invited to attend. Taking part in the ...

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The laws of global warming

Source: Iowa Now
Details: With policymakers and political leaders increasingly unable to combat global climate change, more scientists are considering the use of manual manipulation of the environment to slow warming's damage to the planet. But a University of Iowa law ...

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Email's Global Warming

Source: MediaPost Communications
Details: Email's Global Warming. by George Bilbrey, 10 minutes ago. Comment; Recommend. Tweet. Subscribe to Email Insider. RSS · Email · Print. Tags. email. Last month I called out some of my deliverability friends for focusing too much on inbox placement and ...

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Skeptic Leaks Latest IPCC Draft Claiming It Overturns Global Warming Theory

Source: Triple Pundit
Details: solar forcings ipcc global warming cosmic rays Climate Change Alex Rawls ALEC Over the past few weeks, we have seen Hurricane Sandy, initiate a new high water mark in the level of discussion and concern expressed about our society's role in the ...

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Finland study tracks global warming impacts on bird populations

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: FRISCO — Researchers in Finland say they've documented bird populations trends that are at least partly linked with global warming. Comparing data from extensive bird counts conducted between 1981 to 1999, and 2000 to 2009, the biologists said that, ...

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Global warming likely to result in net loss of biodiversity

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: FRISCO — A major new report suggests that climate change will probably result in a net loss in global biodiversity, as plants and animal species shift their geographic ranges and the timing of their life events — such as flowering, laying eggs or ...

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

2012: Top Ten Signs of a Warming World

Source: New Yorker (blog)
Details: A report by the global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers warned that the possibility of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit)—a goal agreed to by the U.S. and virtually every other nation on earth—was rapidly ...

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The UN's Global Warming Forecasts Are Performing Very, Very Badly

Source: Forbes
Details: For nearly a week, a leaked draft of next year's "Fifth Assessment Report" on climate change, by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has been burning up the blogosphere. Since it's everywhere, I'll take my liberties ...

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5 reasons global warming is more terrifying than you think

Source: Salon
Details: A comparison of past IPCC predictions against 22 years of weather data and the latest climate science find that the IPCC has consistently underplayed the intensity of global warming in each of its four major reports released since 1990. Here are some ...

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Global warming: Will the East Coast have hothouse climate?

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: SUMMIT COUNTY — As climate models become more sophisticated, researchers have started to fine-tune global warming impacts to the regional level, including more drought and water shortages expected in the Southwest, seasonal ice-free conditions in ...

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Global Warming And Africa's Future: Part 2

Source: Forbes
Details: My previous article analyzed the effects of global warming on the African continent from an economic perspective. Some would think that I may have exaggerated; some told me I should not worry too much because the situation is not as drastic as I ...

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The IPCC sees the pause in global warming!

Source: Fabius Maximus (blog)
Details: by Fabius Maximus. Summary: Today we look at one of the many interesting graphics from the leaked draft of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (AR5),

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Al Gore whines at LA fundraiser about global warming losing attention

Source: Red Alert Politics
Details: Former Vice President Al Gore is upset that he is global warming is losing Americans' attention. Is the Nobel Peace Prize winner finally discovering the real 'inconvenient truth'? Gore decided to grace LA with his presence earlier this month to discuss ...

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No Long-Term Trend in Frequency, Strength of Landfalling Hurricanes

Source: Global Warming (blog)
Details: We have identified considerable interannual variability in the frequency of global hurricane landfalls; but within the resolution of the available data, our evidence does not support the presence of significant long-period global or individual basin ...

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Extreme Climate Predicted in Eastern US: Storms, Heat Waves With Global ...

Source: Science Daily (press release)
Details: Extreme Climate Predicted in Eastern U.S.: Storms, Heat Waves With Global Warming. Dec. 17, 2012 — From extreme drought to super storms, many wonder what the future holds for the climate of the eastern United States. A study conducted by researchers ...

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Global warming: The longer we wait, the harder it gets

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: "We wanted to know what needs to be done by 2020 in order to be able to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius for the entire twenty-first century," said Joeri Rogelj, lead author of the paper and researcher at ETH Zurich. Projections based on ...

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Global warming won't wait for backers

Source: The News Journal
Details: Something rather cataclysmic has being happening among anti-global-warming enthusiasts. A growing number admit they've been wrong. An Associated Press poll found four of every five Americans said climate change will be a serious problem for the ...

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

=== News - 1 new result for [global warming] == World Bank Hypocrisy: Warn About global Warming And Then Finance Coal Plant CounterCurrents.org Last month, the World Bank put out a devastating new report on why 4 degrees Celsius of global warming "simply must not be allowed to occur." This month, the Bank is considering whether to provide financing for a new coal-fired power plant in Mongolia.

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Insurance industry tunes into global warming risks

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: FRISCO — In a sure sign that the global warming denial movement is losing ground quickly, some of the world's most calculating businesses, including the insurance industry, are paying more and more attention to climate change. In the long run, the ...

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

IPCC 5th report on global warming draft leaked online, evidence stronger

Source: Examiner.com
Details: Professor Sherwood and other leading scientists in the field of climate science are of the consensus that the body of data we have available today has effectively disproved the hypothesis that sunspots have a greater effect on global warming than does ...

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Letters: Global warming, new hotels - MontereyHerald.com :

Source: Monterey County Herald
Details: With all the talk of global warming, sea levels rising and shoreline erosion, why would anyone consider building hotels and condos on the sand dunes at Sand City? Doesn't anyone remember that due to shoreline erosion they had to tear down the old ...

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What you think about global warming? Are we doing enough to help?

Source: Mount Vernon News
Details: "There is global warming, and we're not doing enough. I've seen the glaciers which are melting. We may have a problem." Betty Hubbard, Mount Vernon. "With every other problem in the world, it's hard to say. I guess we're doing as much as we can." ...

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Even doubters are warming up to the idea of climate change

Source: msnNOW
Details: Nearly four out of five Americans now believe global warming is real and will get worse if nothing is done about it, according to a new poll by the Associated Press and a German research firm. What's more, even many people who say they don't trust ...

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What To Do about Global Warming: "Austerity," Not On A Global Government ...

Source: CounterCurrents.org
Details: What To Do about Global Warming: "Austerity," Not On A Global Government Scale But An Individual Private Scale? By Nicholas C. Arguimbau. 15 December, 2012. Countercurrents.org. No question, avoiding serious temperature increases from greenhouse ...

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How Citizens Can Mitigate Global Warming - Nimet Boss

Source: AllAfrica.com
Details: How do you think Nigerians can mitigate the global warming? The first step is to pay attention to weather information that is given, that is the very first step, don't take it lightly that ah, I have lived here since I was born 30 years ago, what you ...

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IPCC report on global warming leaked online

Source: Zee News
Details: London: The draft of a major global warming report by the UN has been leaked on the Internet, which says that scientist are sure that humans are responsible for causing the planet to warm. The fifth assessment report (AR5) by the Intergovernmental ...

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Amazon tree species may survive global warming fall-out

Source: Daily News & Analysis
Details: Many Amazon tree species may survive man-made warming, a new genetic analysis has revealed, overturning findings that a temperature rise may cause them to die. However, researchers warn that extreme drought and forest fires will impact the Amazon ...

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About Global Warming, United Nations Doubles Down On Ignorance

Source: Forbes
Details: Laframboise created a sensation in global warming circles last year when she documented rampant IPCC misbehavior in her book, "The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert." Laframboise showed IPCC officials ...

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Can Amazon trees survive global warming?

Source: Futurity: Research News
Details: Can Amazon trees survive global warming? Contrary to previous findings that temperature increases would cause Amazon tree species to die out, a new genetic analysis reveals that many are likely to survive climate warming caused by humans. (Credit: ...

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UN Leak Shows More Evidence Humans Cause Global Warming

Source: Bloomberg
Details: A leaked draft of the UN's most comprehensive study ever on climate change shows increasing evidence that links human activity to global warming. It is "extremely likely" mankind is responsible for more than half of the observed temperature rises since ...

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Pathetic Cherry pick by the Global Warming denialists – denialism blog

Source: ScienceBlogs (blog)
Details: So, surprise surprise, global warming denialists are behaving unethically by leaking a document that they agreed not to leak when applying as reviewers, then they double down by picking out a sentence to make it appear the report says something it doesn't.

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AP-GfK Poll: Belief in global warming rises with thermometers, even

Source: among ...
Details: Newser ... Press | 12 hours, 6 minutes ago. Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Article ...

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Steve Goreham: Global warming blamed entirely on the United States

Source: The Mercury
Details: At the 2010 Cancun Conference, delegates acknowledged that industrialized nations were responsible for global warming, stating "…the largest share of historical global emissions of greenhouse gases originated in developed countries…" The just ...

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Poll: Even Idiots Believe in Global Warming Now

Source: Gawker
Details: Poll: Even Idiots Believe in Global Warming Now Global warming (or "climate change"), the well-documented rise in our planet's temperatures due to the heat-trapping effects of carbon dioxide, is a completely accepted phenomenon among people who—due ...

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Global warming belief growing among U.S. science doubters - Technology ...

Source: CBC.ca
Details: Nearly four out of five Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. But only 45 per cent of those surveyed think ...

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AP-GfK Poll: Belief in global warming rises with thermometers, even

Source: among ...
Details: Newser A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that about 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it. Article continues below. Belief and worry about ...

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Halter: Global warming fatal to Earth's trees | www.statesman.com

Source: Austin American-Statesman
Details: Earth's forests are breathtaking. In fact, trees are effectively the greatest CO2 warehouses to have ever evolved on Earth. For every metric ton of wood created, 1.5 metric tons of CO2 is absorbed and 1 metric ton of oxygen is released. Frighteningly ...

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Amazon trees could survive global warming

Source: TG Daily
Details: Some good news, for a change: a new genetic analysis indicates that many Amazon tree species are likely to survive global warming in the coming century, contrary to previous findings. But things are never that easy, and University of Michigan ...

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Experts Call for End to Climate Mega Summits

Source: Spiegel Online
Details: Several leading experts at internationally renowned institutes in Germany are demanding an end to the climate summit charade. It is time to begin confronting the reality of a warmer future rather than meekly insisting that global warming can be slowed ...

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Global Warming Is Upon Us!

Source: Daily Beast
Details: In fact, new research shows that it cost the global economy a massive $1.2 trillion last year alone. We don't know how bad things might get down the line, but the predictions are dire. The question is not, "Is climate change happening?" Nor is the ...

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AP-GfK Poll: Belief in global warming rises with thermometers, even

Source: among ...
Details: Washington Post WASHINGTON — Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Belief and worry about climate ...

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Global warming is not due to the sun, confirms leaked IPCC report

Source: The Guardian
Details: If the IPCC were to report that the sun is a significant player in the current rapid global warming, that would indeed be major news, because the body of peer-reviewed scientific literature and data clearly show that the sun has made little if any ...

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Amazon rainforest can survive global warming: Study

Source: Hindu Business Line
Details: Man-made global warming may have little effect on some common species of trees in the Amazon rainforest as they date back more than 8 million years and have survived through massive temperature fluctuations, scientists claim. Some of the Amazonian ...

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

It's a gas - Yale Peabody Museum's 'Seasons of Change: Global Warming in ...

Source: New Haven Register
Details: The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History would like to get to the bottom of this. Come take part in "Seasons of Change: Global Warming in Your Backyard," beginning Saturday and running until Feb. 24, 2013. You'll get a chance to play with interactive ...

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Global warming "plateau?"

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Details: Christy says that the warming in the last 34 years "is consistent with the low-end of global climate change predictions made by some climate models." In an addendum almost sure to draw fire, he added, "It is also within the potential range of natural ...

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Ski seasons ready to commence despite global warming report

Source: Allentown Morning Call
Details: Barbara Green, owner of Blue Mountain Ski Area near Palmerton, wasn't alarmed last week with the release of a study that predicts disastrous consequences for the winter tourism industry in the United States because of climate change and global warning.

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Man-made global warming: even the IPCC admits the jig is up

Source: Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Details: Breaking news from the US – h/t Watts Up With That? – where a leaked draft of the IPCC's latest report AR5 admits what some of us have suspected for a very long time: that the case for man-made global warming is looking weaker by the day and that the ...

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The Amazon 'could survive global warming': Study claims its tree species

Source: have ...
Details: Daily Mail The findings suggest that man-made global warming may have little effect on the robust species, which have already weathered some of the worst nature can throw at them. A new study claims that some of the Amazonian species are more than 5million years ...

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'Chasing Ice' Creators Talk Global Warming

Source: Santa Monica Mirror
Details: His documentation is now presented in a riveting, feature-length documentary called "Chasing Ice," which is an unbiased visual accounting of the reality of global warming. Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski founded Exposure, a film production company dedicated to ...

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New Report: Man-made Global Warming Is a Farce

Source: The New American
Details: Together they indicate claims of "global warming," "climate change" and "climate disruption" are nothing but a ruse to usher in massive carbon taxes and crippling regulations. Like Pavlov's dog, politicians are conditioned to react to any harsh weather ...

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Global warming could hurt pasta industry

Source: MSN Money
Details: Here's how it would play out, writes Mark Hertsgaard: Pasta is mainly made from wheat, and scientists say the world's wheat crop will suffer tremendously with rising temperatures and droughts brought on by global warming. Of the three grains that make ...

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Can “Global Warming's Six Americas” become a melting pot for meaningful

Source: action?
Details: Climate Science Watch Understanding each group's "beliefs on reality, causes and dangers of global warming, in the political ideology, and in their underlying worldviews," is vital to effective communication on the issue. Communicating to a wide base on climate change is ...

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Can smoking cause global warming?

Source: Health24.com
Details: Can smoking cause global warming? Is smoking in any way connected to global warming? 'He cheated in our bed'. Her husband and his mistress in this user's bed - what now? A GPS sports watch R1000 in cash! YOU ARE IN > > Medical > Condition centres ...

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

International Action to Stem Global Warming Stalls

Source: Afro American
Details: Twelve years after the industrialized nations agreed, under the United Nation-sanctioned Kyoto Protocol, to reduce man-made emissions that threatened to destabilize the planet's climate, greenhouse gas emissions and global warming continue to grow ...

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'Global Warming' Is Now Officially Down the Memory Hole

Source: NewsBusters (blog)
Details: The man-made global warming movement has officially shifted from runaway global warming fears over to extreme weather fears. This strategic shift has been in the works for years as global average temperatures have stalled by up to 16 years. First there ...

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Environmental Dissonance: Global Warming and Bolivia's Kallawaya Healers

Source: Upside Down World
Details: In Bolivia, a country unfortunately well acquainted with the effects of global warming, the COP discourse is more relevant now than ever. Villages nested in the craggy peaks of the Cordillera Apolobamba of Northern Bolivia house the centuries-old ...

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Baltimore TV meteorologists weigh in against global warming

Source: Baltimore Sun (blog)
Details: In a post to a City Paper blog on the debate, Serpick highlights statistics from the National Academy of Sciences showing that 97-98 percent of active climate researchers are on board with global warming theory. In an interview, Serpick said he ...

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Man, 100, warns Southampton Town about global warming

Source: Newsday
Details: Richard Hendrickson, a Bridgehampton resident who turned 100 in September, warned the Southampton Town board Tuesday that global warming was real, and that "the Atlantic in time will creep up and take a majority of what we enjoy." And when Richard ...

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Scientist suggests refreezing the Arctic to stop global warming

Source: Economic Times
Details: LONDON: A US scientist has offered a radical solution to global warming by suggesting that we could refreeze the Arctic using a few modified jets. David Keith, professor of applied physics at Harvard University, used climate models to suggest that ...

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Action call on warming is rejected

Source: Cambridge News
Details: Tories in charge at Shire Hall have rebuffed calls for them to commit to tackling global warming – claiming the science is "contested". Cambridgeshire County Council yesterday voted to reject a motion which expressed concern over comments made by Cllr ...

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'Refreezing Arctic' can help stop global warming, say scientists

Source: Newstrack India
Details: London, Dec 12 (ANI): Scientists have offered a new low cost solution to global warming- refreeze the Arctic. Two recently published studies explored the possibility that a technological solution could be found to the problem of global warming melting ...

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Do record highs indicate global warming - or US warming?

Source: OneNewsNow
Details: 2012 may end up being the warmest year on record in the U.S, but that may not be much of a record to begin with. The Ashville, North Carolina-based National Climatic Data Center says the continental United States had a national average of just over 57 ...

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Heartland Institute has zero credibility on global warming

Source: The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
Details: 29, The Gazette devoted a portion of its Insight page to a column by James M. Taylor, a senior fellow for environmental policy at the Heartland Institute, that insisted global warming is not leading to more frequent and severe droughts. On the opposite ...

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Global Warming Responsible For Coral Shrinking Around Equator

Source: RedOrbit
Details: As the clamoring for a more comprehensive strategy to battle climate change continues, scientists are producing more and more research that suggests incremental changes in global temperature can have a massive effect on ecosystems. A new study from a ...

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Without intervention, global warming will impact ski industry

Source: Park Record
Details: According to a recent Natural Resources Defense Council study on global warming, whether you are a backcountry skier, a terrain-park freestyler or ski-town business owner, you should be concerned about climate change. According to the study's findings, ...

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Intl' cooperation required to check global warming: Abdullah

Source: Economic Times
Details: NEW DELHI: Union minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah today said international cooperation was required to bring down carbon emissions while holding the West responsible for global warming. "Today, the west is responsible if there is ...

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Kerosene lamps aid global warming

Source: Zee News
Details: Washington: The small kerosene lamps that light millions of homes in developing countries also contribute to global warming, say researchers. New measurements showed that kerosene wick lamps release 20 times more black carbon than previously thought ...

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Global Warming, Politics, Control

Source: Blogcritics.org (blog)
Details: Has global warming (or AGW, or global climate change, or whatever name is popular this week) occurred in the past? Yes, without a doubt. Has global cooling occurred in the past? Yes, again, without a doubt. Are humans responsible for what has happened ...

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Imperium Watch: Bankrolling Global Warming

Source: Valley Advocate
Details: If we can reach the 2 percent goal, or, even better, a target of 1.5 percent, we can use proven, safe technologies to keep global warming from going out of control, and the cost will only amount to about 1 percent of global GDP distributed over many ...

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Warming May Bring More 'Black Swan' Storm Surges

Source: Climate Central
Details: Hurricane Sandy offered a grim reminder of how vulnerable coastal cities, such as New York, are in the face of rare, powerful storms. As sea levels rise in response to global warming, this vulnerability is likely to increase, leaving officials across ...

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Study says global warming not hurting plant growth

Source: agprofessional.com
Details: A new study by the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change—The State of Earth's Terrestrial Biosphere: How is it Responding to Rising Atmospheric CO2 and Warmer Temperatures?—refutes claims by the United Nations' ...

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Could we refreeze the Arctic? Scientists suggest radical solution to

Source: global ...
Details: Daily Mail Two recently published studies explore the possibility that a technological solution could be found to the problem of global warming melting the ice caps on the North Pole. The scientist who is lead author on both claims that 'any significant nation ...

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Is global warming indeed a reality?

Source: Daily Pioneer
Details: We had better hope that neutral observers like the fossil fuel industries are right in insisting that global warming is a fraud. Maybe all those scientists really are making it up just to get more money in research grants. That would be a happy ending ...

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Advisors to Obama: 'Accommodate' China, embrace global warming

Source: Washington Examiner
Details: The 59-page report also nudged Obama to take a firm stand on global warming and revive his effort to level a carbon tax on polluters. "While there may be debate over the degree to which human activity is responsible and over the most effective means of ...

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EDITORIAL: Global warming conference accomplishes nothing, but that's

Source: not ...
Details: Lufkin Daily News Despite warm temperatures, nothing hatched from the conference's global warming/climate change incubator. In fact, the movement may have been set back as Canada, Japan, Russia and New Zealand decided not to extend their countries' participation in ...

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Global Warming Is A Serious Issue

Source: Talon Marks (subscription)
Details: We have all heard the term "global warming", and may have only given it a passing thought. Some are skeptical of its existence, and others may feel apathetic because they don't see how our daily living contributes to this phenomena. Even though you may ...

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Fingers crossed that global warming is all just a fraud

Source: Cape Breton Post
Details: They made some progress at the annual December round of the international negotiations on controlling climate change, held this year in Qatar. They agreed that the countries that cause the warming should compensate the ones that suffer the most from it.

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Never Mind Global Warming

Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Details: We have huge amounts of dirty coal — if it is all burned (here or in China), enough to produce a significant increase in greenhouse CO2 and thereby more global warming. Do we want to be responsible? If, as looks like, it will contribute to changed ...

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Monday, December 10, 2012

Why latest failure of global warming talks may be a success

Source: Christian Science Monitor
Details: It is reinforcing attention on the ways that individuals are banding together to combat global warming. In fact, many activists now argue that local efforts – in which people with similar values toward managing Earth's resources join in collective ...

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Global warming a culprit in growth of water-damage insurance claims

Source: Vancouver Sun
Details: Third of a three-part series. VANCOUVER — Water, water everywhere. Water damage has overtaken fire damage for insurance claims, and that trend looks to continue as king tides, warming oceans and more intense storms multiply the effects of sea level ...

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Global Warming Causing Nasty Weather? Go Inside And Turn On The Air ...

Source: Care2.com (blog)
Details: A definitive scientific report warns that extreme weather events linked to climate change will continue around the world in coming decades. Another study warns that even if the current rate of global decarbonisation were to double, the world would ...

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Sceptics cool on climate studies

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: THE most prominent political climate sceptics see no reason to change their minds, despite the welter of studies over the past fortnight showing forecasts of global warming were correct or underestimates. Many of the climate sceptics, influential in ...

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'Polar bears could be extinct in 25 years'

Source: The Hindu
Details: But if two Russian experts are to be believed, the enigmatic "monarch of the ice" could be extinct in 25 years due to global warming and human incursions into their traditional habitat. "If current policies are not changed, we can lose polar bears ...

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The Doha climate talks were a start, but 2015 will be the moment of truth

Source: The Guardian (blog)
Details: Doha reaffirms that such an agreement must aim to achieve the UN goal of limiting global warming to 2C. And it sets in train a process to review countries' emissions targets, with the aim of closing the "emissions gap" between current pledges and the ...

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Local Weathermen Say Global Warming is a Conspiracy, “Scam”

Source: Baltimore City Paper (blog)
Details: WMAR's Mike Masco, who has a bachelor's degree in Communications and a certificate in "Broadcast Meteorology," joined in the Facebook debate, calling global warming "the biggest scam in modern time," and insisting "I don't drink the liberal coolaid ...

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Fighting global warming

Source: China Daily
Details: The limited and minor progress the Doha talks have made suggests how hard it is for developed and developing countries to come up with a deal to jointly and earnestly deal with global warming. Nonetheless, however minor the political progress, it has ...

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22-year-old report accurately predicted global warming

Source: Mother Nature Network
Details: Time has proven that even 22 years ago climate scientists understood the dynamics behind global warming well enough to accurately predict warming, says an analysis that compares predictions in 1990 with 20 years of temperature records. After an ...

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Global Warming Negotiations in Doha End, Focus Is Now on Action at Home

Source: Kansas City infoZine
Details: ... infoZine - Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), made the following statement from Doha: "This year has been filled with devastating wake-up calls that global warming is already ...

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Research pair finds global warming matched predictions from 1990

Source: Phys.Org
Details: (Phys.org)—A pair of researchers has found that an estimate made in 1990 by a team of global scientists regarding how much temperatures would rise due to increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, is very close to what actually happened.

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Mother Jones sounds the alarm about global warming! This time about the

Source: north ...
Details: Fabius Maximus (blog) That global warming has paused for the past 15 years or so. Anthropogenic CO2 became the dominate cause of warming only for the past (roughly) 60 years. This relatively short-term history (as climate trends go) accounts for the difficulty scientists ...

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Gore On Sandy: 'This Storm Was Related To Global Warming'

Source: CBS Local
Details: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore said late last week that there is no doubt that Superstorm Sandy was related to global warming, and people need to stop and think about what is happening to the planet. As WCBS 880's Rich ...

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Report: Ski Industry Sees $1 Billion In Global Warming Losses

Source: ThinkProgress
Details: A new report on the economic costs of global warming to the ski industry will resonate especially loudly during Colorado's second consecutive early season snow drought. With the state's major ski resorts struggling to open just minimal amounts of ...

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UN Conference on Global Warming or Global Wealth Redistribution? And why ...

Source: Texas GOP Vote
Details: Lord Christopher Monckton, former Advisor to Margaret Thatcher, UK Independence Party activist and global warming theory skeptic, spoke briefly before being involuntarily escorted out of the meeting. Monckton was not a delegate to the U.N. meeting, but ...

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Global warming: Mixture of ice types kept Larsen C shelf intact

Source: Global Adventures, LLC
Details: Weddell Sea (global-adventures.us): A unique mixture of ice types did help the Larsen C Ice Shelf, the last of a series of ice shelves that once clung to the eastern edge of the Antarctica and stretched well into the Weddell Sea, to remain intact ...

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Global warming and global civics

Source: FT.com (blog)
Details: The climate change talks in Doha have come to a predictably acrimonious conclusion. As well as the baffling technical, economic and scientific challenges involved, the diplomatic deadlock throws up a fascinating question of political philosophy – do ...

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CSU Researchers Say Sandy Wasn't Influenced By Global Warming

Source: National Geographic
Details: Researchers at Colorado State University say the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in October was not caused by human-induced climate change. In a recently released paper discussing the unusual "super-storm" that devastated the New Jersey shore ...

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So you think man-made global warming is a hoax, eh?

Source: The Rolla Daily News (blog)
Details: ... 11:15 a.m.; So you think man-made global warming is a hoax, eh? The graphic above is intended for the edification of those commenters here at Applesauce who think there is lots of skepticism among climate scientists about anthropogenic global warming.

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Climate change deal struck by nearly 200 nations in Doha

Source: RTE.ie
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Handy-dandy global warming and the coming bad times!

Source: Daily Inter Lake
Details: I enjoyed reading Bob McClellan's nonsensical letter ("Hurricane Sandy was wake-up call," The Daily Inter Lake, Nov. 22). In his usual rambling, McClellan retreats to the man-made global warming mantra. No matter what the climate change is, the true ...

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Global Warming and Science in the Ivory Tower

Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Details: I have been rudely introduced to this chasm in culture with this blog, hearing "go back to your IT" and "don't bother us with your warnings of Global Warming". This is a perturbation on their usual; "If you don't like it here go back to where you came ...

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Global warming breaking records in the Arctic say scientists

Source: Bay Area Indymedia
Details: Certainly there is the potential for methane releases in the Arctic to cause runaway global warming, although we may not have quite reached a tipping point yet. The Arctic Methane Emergency Group released it's Strategic Plan for combating Arctic ...

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So you think man-made global warming is a hoax, eh?

Source: Pittsburg Morning Sun (blog)
Details: The graphic above is intended for the edification of those commenters here at Applesauce who think there is lots of skepticism among climate scientists about anthropogenic global warming. Take, for example, the guy who referred just the other day to ...

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UN Opens Final Meeting to Endorse Global Warming Package

Source: Bloomberg
Details: Envoys from more than 190 countries at United Nations global warming talks began their final meeting on whether to endorse a package of measures that would limit pollution and channel aid for climate projects. The diplomats were discussing a proposal ...

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Environmental leaders say global warming should be key issue in Obama's

Source: 2nd ...
Details: SaportaReport (blog) "We need leadership in the White House saying every day that we need to do something about global warming," Carter said during the sold-out event. "That hasn't happened yet. But I hope it will happen in his second term. He can be a leader of the world ...

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Global warming good news for Russian shipping

Source: Marketplace.org
Details: There's been a breakthrough in the shipping industry, and a milestone in the story of global warming. A large tanker named Ob River has just sailed eastwards from Northern Europe to Japan through the Arctic Ocean. This is the first time a ship of this ...

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Pollution Limits Extended in UN Global Warming Pact

Source: Bloomberg
Details: The international effort to curb global warming inched forward with an agreement that extends pollution limits under the Kyoto Protocol and calls for work on a mechanism that would pay aid for climate-related disasters. The deal endorsed by ministers ...

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UN climate talks go into overtime in Qatar

Source: Times of India
Details: DOHA, QATAR: The world's poorest countries, inundated by rising seas and worsening disasters, made a last ditch plea for financial help early on Saturday as negotiators at United Nations climate talks struggled to reach an ambitions deal to combat ...

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Global warming said to cost ski resorts $1 billion

Source: TheDay.com
Details: Declines in snowfall because of global warming are shortening the winter ski season in the United States and harming the economy, according to a report from two environmental groups. In poor snow seasons such as last winter, visits drop to ski areas in ...

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Another Global Warming Drive-By

Source: American Thinker
Details: Much ado has been made about the loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean by the Gang Green, those global warming hysterics who want us to fundamentally reorganize human civilization based on a statistically marginal temperature rise planetwide in the 20th ...

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Countries Acting At Home to Address Global Warming: The Key Fight Ahead

Source: Huffington Post
Details: Empty Plenary Hall Doha.jpg Last year global emissions of carbon pollution rose to record levels, with declines in some key countries but with rising emissions elsewhere offsetting those declines. These are depressing statistics, especially in light of ...

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Friday, December 7, 2012

pricing carbon is best policy

Source: The Australian (blog)
Details: If there was a time when the science of global warming was not settled, then that time has now passed. Scientists had hoped that through concerted action we might be able to limit the increase in the Earth's temperature to 2C above pre-industrial levels.

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Global warming denier Nick Griffin enjoying all-expenses paid trip to

Source: climate ...
Details: Mirror.co.uk BNP leader Nick Griffin is enjoying a taxpayer-funded trip to Qatar for a climate change conference – despite denying global warming exists. The North West MEP is staying at a luxury hotel in the sun-drenched capital Doha with an all-expenses paid ...

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Global warming talks bog down in debate on $100 billion in aid

Source: Hamilton Spectator
Details: DOHA, QATAR United Nations global warming talks bogged down as envoys from more than 190 nations worked into a third night in Doha to settle differences on climate aid and fossil-fuel emissions that would pave the way to a new treaty by 2015.

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Monckton Ejected From UN Meeting For Telling Truth

Source: Investor's Business Daily
Details: Christopher Monckton, the third viscount of Benchley, adviser to Margaret Thatcher and global warming realist, shook up the U.N.'s talks in Doha, Qatar, when he told the delegates that "in the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there ...

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Global Warming Gives Ski Industry Chills

Source: LiveScience.com
Details: A number of industries, from agriculture to insurance, are taking a cold, hard look at global warming's potentially devastating impacts. Now one more group is taking to the mountaintops to express concern about climate change: the ski industry. Skiers ...

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Gore Chides Obama on Global Warming Priorities

Source: Fox Business
Details: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Thursday sharply criticized President Barack Obama, a fellow Democrat, for failing to make global warming a priority issue, saying action was more urgent than ever after the devastation in the Northeast from ...

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Vancouver vulnerable to the ravages of global warming, researchers say

Source: Vancouver Sun
Details: Part 1 of a three-part series. VANCOUVER — Hurricane Sandy killed 80 people on the U.S. East Coast and flooded entire neighbourhoods including Lower Manhattan were flooded. Power failures affected 4.6 million homes and there was an estimated $50 ...

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Global Warming 'Damages' Spur Rift at UN Climate Treaty Talks

Source: Bloomberg
Details: Global Warming 'Damages' Spur Rift at UN Climate Treaty Talks. By Kim Chipman - 2012-12-07T18:28:04Z. The world's richest and poorest countries are divided over whether to create a new fund to help vulnerable nations such as Bangladesh, Kenya and ...

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Arizona governor gets testy over global warming question

Source: Current TV
Details: Jan Brewer (R) was asked about global warming by the local TV station KTVK. "Everybody has an opinion on it, you know, and I, you know, I probably don't believe that it's man made," she said. "I believe that, you know, that weather elements are ...

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Sen. Whitehouse Fumes at 'Climate Deniers'

Source: Global Warming (blog)
Details: The problem for skeptics is not that people like Al Gore or the editors of Bloomberg cite Hurricanes Katrina or Sandy as "proof" of global warming, it's that they blame global warming (hence "polluters") for Katrina and Sandy. They insinuate or even ...

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Winter Sports Fans Join Global Warming Fight

Source: CNY News (subscription)
Details: But the lack of natural snow is so familiar that a group of winter sports enthusiasts has joined forces with a major environmental group and is pushing the ski industry to play a greater role in fighting global warming. The NRDC, researchers from the ...

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Global Warming Could Devastate California's Ski Resorts, Report Finds

Source: Huffington Post
Details: As temperatures continue to rise due to global warming, as is predicted by most climate scientists, more and more years will likely fall on the comparatively unprofitable lower end of the snowfall spectrum. By 2050, snowpack in the Sierra Nevada ...

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Philippines in warning over global warming

Source: Times of Malta
Details: The Philippines urged UN climate negotiators in Doha yesterday to learn from the deadly typhoon that struck the archipelago this week and wake up to the realities of global warming. "I appeal to the whole world, I appeal to leaders from all over the ...

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Don't question UN's Global Warming Con

Source: MINA
Details: "In the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming," Monckton said as confused murmurs filled the hall and then turned into a chorus of boos. The stunt infuriated negotiators and activists here who gather every ...

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Global warming on back burner?

Source: SHU Spectrum
Details: We are already seeing the effects of global warming with hurricanes on Halloween and Christmases without snow," said Goggin. "Since the environment is a pressing issue of our time, the more people our age are educated the better prepared we will be for ...

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Using wind displaces some global warming

Source: White Mountain Independent
Details: PHOENIX — Officials with an Arizona based wind power (renewable energy) advocacy group, said a recent study performed by them indicates that using wind power can displace some global warming. kAmp }@G] ah !C6DD C6=62D6 7C@> t?G:C@?>6?

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Global warming could impact WA ski industry: Report

Source: Bizjournals.com
Details: Although it's currently snowing heavily in the Cascade Mountains, environmental groups are warning that global warming could have an impact on Washington state's winter tourism industry, where more than 6,000 people are employed. According to the ...

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Waiting for it to all come together at global warming negotiations in

Source: Doha ...
Details: Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Today we begin the final day (hopefully) of the global warming negotiations in Doha. A lot of delegates are talking about it going into Saturday as the meeting is being poorly handled by the host country Qatar. Unfortunately the leadership of the host ...

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Guest Viewpoint: Denying global warming is no longer an option

Source: Press & Sun-Bulletin
Details: For a long time, many people did not believe global warming was real and thought that climate change was a myth, like Santa and his reindeer. But it wasn't Santa who came swooping down out of the sky, but rather rain, hurricane winds and even snow.

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Global warming to blame for Hobsonville twister?

Source: TVNZ
Details: Scientists are warning that weather events like the devastating tornado that struck Auckland yesterday may be a symptom of global warming. Three people were killed and several others admitted to hospital by the storm that has immobilised Hobsonville ...

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Troubled UN climate talks enter final day

Source: Economic Times
Details: Funding to help poor countries deal with the fallout from global warming and convert to planet-friendlier energy sources remains a key sticking point between negotiators from nearly 200 countries gathered in the Qatari capital. Developed countries are ...

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

As Researchers Warn of Global Warming, Investors Can Measure Polluters

Source: Business Insider
Details: Rising carbon dioxide emissions make it less likely that global warming will stay below the international goal of 2 °C, according to recent research. Investors can take steps to evaluate which companies emit such pollutants. "A shift to a 2 °C pathway ...

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Global warming: poor countries demand action

Source: gulfnews.com
Details: Doha: A delegate from typhoon-hit Philippines demanded Thursday that ministers at the United Nations climate talks put aside their political differences and take bold steps to combat global warming. In an emotional appeal, Naderev Sano spoke of the ...

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Report: Global warming hits Utah's ski industry hard

Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Details: Every lean-snow winter batters Utah and its $1 billion-a-year ski industry, according to an economic study on global warming released Thursday by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Comparing snowfall to visitation records since 1999, the NRDC ...

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UN Envoys Work Toward Global Warming Agreement as Deadline Nears

Source: Businessweek
Details: Envoys from more than 190 nations at United Nations global-warming talks are working through the night in Doha to resolve disagreements on climate aid and fossil-fuel emissions, paving the way to a new treaty by 2015. "The final negotiations are well ...

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Tubb: Superstorm Sandy is not proof of global warming

Source: Newsday
Details: But regardless of what the truth is about manmade global warming or how fast the climate is changing, no one can rightly attribute Sandy to its effects. The world is much more complex than a grade-school diorama of the ecosystem and atmosphere, where ...

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'Arctic Report Card' Shows Region Spiraling Into Volatile State Due To

Source: Climate ...
Details: Huffington Post SAN FRANCISCO — Global warming is rapidly driving the Arctic into a volatile state characterized by massive reductions in sea ice and snow cover, more extensive melting of the Greenland ice sheet, and a host of biological changes, according to a ...

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US Failure To Act Swiftly On Global Warming Imperils The US And The World

Source: CounterCurrents.org
Details: America's failure to get serious about Global Warming recalls the story of the German bureaucrats who, as the Soviet tanks rolled into Berlin in April, 1945, were busy working on Hitler's paperclip requirements for the third quarter of the year. If ...

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Study: Global warming could have major impact on CA winter tourism

Source: Sacramento Bee
Details: The report warned that a continuation of the global warming trend could result in the loss of thousands more jobs at ski resorts and create numerous related economic setbacks. The effects would include economic and job losses in the restaurant and ...

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Global warming Fleeing the storms

Source: The Economist (blog)
Details: In a new NBER working paper, Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg look at the importance of geographic variation in the effects of global warming. Some parts of the world will be rendered unpleasant or uninhabitable by sea level rise, temperature ...

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Walkom: Global warming? (Yawn). We don't care about that any more.

Source: Toronto Star
Details: More interesting is the assumption behind the Conservative attack — which is that one of the few measures devised to deal with global warming is so outrageous as to be dismissed out of hand. But Ottawa isn't the only culprit. As Ontario Environmental ...

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Why it's probably too late to roll back global warming

Source: The Week Magazine
Details: According to scientists, that's the rise in global temperature, measured against pre-industrial times, that could spark some of the most catastrophic effects of global warming. Preventing the two-degree bump has been the goal of every international ...

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Global Warming Meets Economic Reality

Source: American Thinker
Details: Is global warming a myth or a reality? It all depends upon who you ask.

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Global warming is driving Middle Easterners into cities, where they're

Source: more ...
Details: Quartz EADS up. Enders Game: The EADS CEO escapes European politicians after his first attempt failed. December 5, 2012 · urbanization. Global warming is driving Middle Easterners into cities, where they're more vulnerable than ever. December 5, 2012 ...

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Arabs and Jews Common Target for Global Warming

Source: Arutz Sheva
Details: Israel news photo: Hana Levi Julian. Global warming could devastate Middle East farming and tourism, without any distinction between Arabs and Jews, according to a World Bank report issued Wednesday. Average temperatures in the region are likely to ...

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Global warming, a winter's tale

Source: Globe and Mail
Details: Global warming, a winter's tale Add to ... The Globe and Mail. Published Wednesday, Dec. 05 2012, 7:30 PM EST. Last updated Wednesday, Dec. 05 2012, 7:30 PM EST. 0 comments · Print / License; AA. The holiday season is a time for family, light and ...

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