Sunday, September 30, 2012

Pakistan and climate change

Source: DAWN.com
Details: GLOBAL warming is the increase in the temperature of the earth's near-surface air and that of the temperature of oceans. This rise in the temperature will cause the sea level to rise. This will increase the intensity of the occurrence of extreme ...

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Experts say climate change will kill 100 million by 2030

Source: The Depaulia
Details: Climate change will kill an estimated 100 million people by 2030 and cost the global economy 3.2 percent of its potential output annually according to a report from humanitarian organization, DARA. DARA is based in Spain and the report, published in ...

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Think climate change isn't your problem? It will be when you can't eat

Source: Daily Maverick
Details: Yet as effects of global climate change intensify, politicians continue to talk past each other, ignoring or distorting the science, passing the buck on meaningful action. Enough is enough. The people who grow the food we eat, and everyone else by ...

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Global Warming Links Democrats, Independents Isolating Romney

Source: Businessweek
Details: Democrats and independent voters overwhelmingly accept the scientific evidence that human activity is warming the earth's temperature, while almost two out of three Republicans don't. Among likely voters, 78 percent of Democrats and 56 percent of ...

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Ignoring global warming is 'reckless' of the government, warn campaigners

Source: The Guardian
Details: The government's failure to tackle climate change is "reckless and short-sighted" with just 50 months remaining to prevent a critical threshold in the fight against global warming being breached, environmental campaigners warn today. In a letter to the ...

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Scaling down: Warming will make fish smaller

Source: AFP
Details: PARIS — A hearty fillet of fish, already a rare treat because of over-trawled oceans, will become even more infrequent in the future when global warming starts to reduce fish size, scientists said on Sunday. Researchers looked at computer models to ...

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Record Antarctica Ice Contradicts Global Warming Trend

Source: NewsMax.com
Details: As climatologists worry about the effects of global warming, Antarctica has quietly set a new record for the greatest sea ice extent ever measured at either pole, according to various sources. "NSIDC (National Snow and Ice Data Center) seems ...

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Fish to shrink as global warming leaves them gasping for oxygen

Source: Moneycontrol.com
Details: OSLO (Reuters) - Fish are likely to get smaller on average by 2050 because global warming will cut the amount of oxygen in the oceans in a shift that may also mean dwindling catches, according to a study on Sunday. Average maximum body weights for 600 ...

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Global warming could be combatted with asteroid dust acting like a

Source: sunshade ...
Details: Daily Mail Scottish scientists have come up with an intriguing new idea to combat global warming - blasting the surface of asteroids to create giant clouds of dust which would act as sunscreen for the planet. Researchers at the University of Strathclyde believe a ...

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Believe it or not, climate change is a reality ag must face

Source: Stockton Record
Details: In the past few days, the media reported that climate change threatens Valley crops. What is interesting about this is most Valley farmers don't believe in climate change. Farmers are realists; but most Valley farmers reject (what I believe to be ...

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Taiwanese artist to work with Tuvalu on global warming project

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel
Details: 30 (CNA) A local artist said recently that he is planning to launch a project with Tuvalu on the sidelines of a climate summit in Doha to highlight the threat of rising sea levels caused by global warming. Vincent J.F. Huang, who visited the South ...

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100 Million Examples of Global Warming Absurdity

Source: Health Care News (blog)
Details: in light of predictions by a group called DARA that global warming will kill more than 100 million people during the next 18 years and destroy the global economy. Yes, you read that right – global warming will kill more than 100 million people during ...

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Climate change may boost state's cranberry take

Source: Press Herald
Details: Charlie Armstrong, a cranberry specialist with the Cooperative Extension at the University of Maine in Orono, said the warming weather since the mid-19th century -- an average 1.5 to 2 degrees Fahrenheit globally -- may be a harbinger of changes to ...

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Guess What: 93% of Fox News, 81% Wall St. Journal Reporting on Global ...

Source: CleanTechnica
Details: Well, an eye-opening study of primetime news coverage on global warming by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that 93% of primetime Fox News' discussions of global warming are inaccurate, LiveScience reports. Examining the same at the ...

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Red flags at the UN summit about global warming

Source: Toronto Star
Details: The least-reported speeches at the United Nations annual summit are among the most crucial to the fate of the planet. The leaders of small island states made passionate pleas for help in curbing the global greenhouse gas emissions that are fuelling ...

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Melting sea ice may drive polar bears to extinction

Source: Zee News
Details: Melting sea ice may drive polar bears to extinction London: Polar bears could soon disappear from parts of the Arctic due to global warming, a climate-change expert has warned. And those that survive may become darker as they crossbreed with brown ...

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Scientist cleared in polar bear controversy popularizing global warming

Source: KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest
Details: A long, controversial investigation of a polar bear scientist has ended with his government employer saying it does not look like he engaged in any scientific misconduct. Charles Monnett is a wildlife researcher with the Bureau of Ocean Energy ...

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Was climate change responsible for the Mongol hordes?

Source: Washington Post (blog)
Details: First scientists told us that a "distinct drying" during the third century might have encouraged the fall of the Roman Empire, prompting critics to decry the idea as the "latest global warming scare tactic." Now the journal Science is highlighting ...

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Earth Talk: Global warming and extreme weather

Source: Augusta Free Press
Details: Extreme weather does not prove the existence of global warming, but climate change is likely to exaggerate it—by messing with ocean currents, providing extra heat to forming tornadoes, bolstering heat waves, lengthening droughts and causing more ...

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Southern Ocean warming impact on Antarctic Ice Sheet and global sea level

Source: rise
Details: Bay Area Indymedia Climate change is causing the southern ocean to warm and freshen which will melt ice shelves and glacier tongues affecting glacier discharge and producing Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss and global sea level rise. A new study shows that small temperature ...

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Asteroid Dust Could Fight Climate Change on Earth

Source: LiveScience.com
Details: To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution — a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which would act like a sunshade for Earth. The world is warming and the climate is changing. Although ...

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Years of global warming affect Arctic sea ice caps

Source: Guilfordian
Details: "While Arctic sea ice is a victim of global warming, it's also one of the planet's most important defenses against the climate change … and that defense is about to fail," said Siegal. "The Arctic is the earth's air conditioner," said Walt Meier, a ...

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Farmers hear warning about global warming

Source: Cal Coast News
Details: Farmers hear warning about global warming. September 28, 2012. California's agricultural industry will be faced with making major amendments to farming methods and crop plantings as Earth's climate continues its warming evolution. [San Francisco ...

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Don't Blame Trade for Climate Change

Source: Wall Street Journal (blog)
Details: Could limiting trade, perhaps through emissions tariffs, combat global warming? Some people think so, since Western nations typically import items that produce significant greenhouse emissions in developing countries. But two European climate change ...

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Rio shift on climate change

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: RIO Tinto's language on climate change has shifted, with the company now recognising that global warming is ''largely caused by human activities''. Previously, Rio had accepted that human activities were making ''a contribution'' to climate change.

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Environment Canada offers Peter Kent tips to describe impact of climate

Source: change
Details: Canada.com OTTAWA – Environment Canada has offered concrete examples to help its minister make "useful" public comments about the reality of global warming in the country. The department gave Peter Kent the advice in a 33-page slide show presentation that ...

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Hollywood Transfers Hypocrisy From Global Warming to Fracking

Source: Town Hall
Details: Remember all of the hysteria surrounding global warming? Remember Hollywood liberals and people like Al Gore preaching to the "little" people about how they used too much energy while they lived in mansions and were escorted in entourages of SUVs?

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Maryland should continue to address climate change

Source: Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
Details: In some quarters, the debate continues to rage. How much of climate change is caused by humankind? One study indicates that 97 percent of climate scientists who publish in peer-reviewed journals say global warming is man-made. Still, people continue to ...

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Global warming scare too costly to let continue

Source: Canada Free Press
Details: The global warming scare is one of the most costly and misguided mass movements ever. The belief that man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) is causing dangerous climate change is not supported by the scientific evidence.

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Mitigating damage: Draft for climate change policy approved

Source: The Express Tribune
Details: "Pakistan's contribution to global warming is negligible but it is one of the top ten most affected countries," says Dr Qamar Zaman Chaudhry. PHOTO: FILE. ISLAMABAD: The cabinet on Wednesday approved the draft of National Policy on Climate Change, ...

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Global warming raising price of coffee

Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Details: Higher temperatures, drought, intense rainfall, more resilient pests and plant disease, all associated with global warming, are — right now — driving down premium coffee yields and increasing coffee prices world-wide. Costa Rican coffee production ...

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Global warming irrefutable fact

Source: Yuma Sun
Details: I have read the recent letters about the validity of global warming and feel the need to add my own two cents by saying that I am a fervent believer in global warming. There is very strong evidence for this. In fact, it is irrefutable! Every morning ...

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Report shows climate change behind the current drought and summer wild fires

Source: Examiner.com
Details: The first article reported evidence that our nation is getting warmer. In

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High Arctic temperatures exceed Viking times

Source: WA today
Details: People sceptical that mankind is the main cause of global warming sometimes point to the Medieval spike in temperatures as evidence that natural variations can bring large climate swings, Columbia wrote in a statement. "The warming of the past 25 years ...

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The Great Bacon Panic of 2012, Sewage-Based Snow, Global Warming's ...

Source: OnEarth Magazine (blog)
Details: Crunching the numbers: According to a new study, climate change leads to the deaths of almost 1,000 children every day. They're hungry and contracting diseases that they otherwise wouldn't. Global warming is also responsible for a $1.2 trillion hit on ...

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GOP Congressman Doubts Manmade Global Warming

Source: ThinkProgress
Details: MODERATOR: So you're suggesting the global warming change may not be caused by manmade sources? LUNGREN: No, my suggestion is we don't know to what extent it is and to what extent moves we would take on our own in the United States would ...

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Global Warming Is Solved: Just Make Snow Out of Sewage

Source: Gawker
Details: Global Warming Is Solved: Just Make Snow Out of Sewage Yes, sure, global warming is leading us inexorably down the path to all-out global war due to massive human displacement and destruction of resources. But let's focus on the real problem: what ...

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Romney And Obama Charged With 'Climate Silence'

Source: Huffington Post (blog)
Details: Whether it was meant as a jab at global warming itself, which many conservatives consider a non-issue, or at President Barack Obama's fondness for highfalutin oratory -- or perhaps both -- is unclear, but Romney enjoyed the quip enough that he has ...

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STUDY: TV News Covered Paul Ryan's Workout 3x More Than Record Arctic ...

Source: Media Matters for America
Details: What's Hotter: Global Warming Or Paul Ryan's Abs? TV News Covered Paul Ryan's Workout Over Three Times More Than Arctic Sea Ice Loss. Since June, the major TV news outlets have devoted seven full segments to Paul Ryan's physical fitness and P90X ...

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Study: Global Warming Could Claim 100 Million Lives by 2030

Source: Democracy Now
Details: A study commissioned by 20 developing countries is warning more than 100 million people will die by 2030 if the world fails to take on global warming. The Climate Vulnerable Forum says air pollution, hunger and disease caused by climate change and the ...

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Another voice: 2012 heat isn't evidence of global warming

Source: Buffalo News
Details: By William D. Balgord. The severity of this year's heat wave and drought, compared with those of 1934 and 1936, is disputed. Does 2012 support the idea of a warming planet? Underlying the heat wave, as in the 1930s, was the persistent ridge of high ...

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Venice Lagoon research indicates rapid climate change in coastal regions

Source: Phys.Org
Details: Research suggests that in coastal regions of high urban development, human activity is directly warming adjacent coastal waters and that this contribution to global warming at the coastal zones is equal to, or greater than, other factors such as ...

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Climate policy key to fighting global warming: experts

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel
Details: Regulations aimed at reducing harm to the environment caused by global warming needs to be systematically directed by the government for better risk management, a British expert said. "We have to understand those risks, and we need to have the right ...

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Speedy action on global warming sought

Source: Disaster News Network
Details: The presidents of the Marshall Islands and Nauru urged the United Nations to speed up legally binding agreements to curb global warming emissions. Both the states, which are members of the Pacific Small Island Developing States, are among the ...

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Imperium Watch: We Can't Bomb Global Warming

Source: Valley Advocate
Details: Droughts leading to food shortages; rises in sea level leading to massive displacement; conflicts over water; all these results of global warming create fertile ground for unrest, the toppling of governments, and wars. That's clear to the military, and ...

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U.N. Chief Sounds the 'Alarm' on Global Warming, Food Prices

Source: HispanicBusiness.com
Details: In his wide-ranging speech, Mr. Ban also said global action on climate change remained unfinished business and food prices were too volatile. The economic and political crisis across the band of Africa just south of the Sahara is not getting sufficient ...

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Report warns Europe 'urgently' needs to adapt to global warming

Source: TheParliament.com
Details: Speaking at the launch, Leinen, a member of parliament's environment committee, said more had to be done to adapt to global warming and to address the impact of climate change on water and food security, biodiversity, human health, infrastructure and ...

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Climate change due to global warming freezes world economy: Report

Source: Economic Times
Details: "Climate Vulnerability Monitor: a guide to the cold calculus of a hot planet" says global warming will not only lead to environmental catastrophe, but is already choking the international economy. Key findings include estimates that carbon-intensive ...

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US has oversized role in causing global climate change, scientist says.

Source: The Courier-Journal (blog)
Details: The United States is no longer the leading emitter of climate pollution, those heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide and methane blamed for causing global warming. China is. But, NASA scientist James Hansen had an interesting slide in a recent ...

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100 mn people will die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate: report

Source: Hindustan Times
Details: AFP/Cesar Manso, File. More than 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report commissioned by 20 governments said on Wednesday.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Wake up and smell global warming

Source: MetroNews Canada
Details: It's going to be tougher to bring home the bacon next year, thanks to global warming. According to the National Pig Association, a U.K. trade group, there will be a world shortage of pork and bacon next year as farmers stop raising pigs as the price of ...

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Global warming slows down world economy: report

Source: AFP
Details: NEW YORK — Climate change caused by global warming is slowing down world economic output by 1.6 percent a year and will lead to a doubling of costs in the next two decades, a major new report said. The DARA and Climate Vulnerable Forum report, ...

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Poll: Hunter, angler concerns include global warming

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Details: Forty-two percent of hunters and anglers who consider themselves Republicans, and an even greater percentage who say they are ideologically conservative, agree with hunters and anglers of more independent and liberal persuasions that global warming is ...

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Fox News Climate Coverage 93% Wrong, Report Finds

Source: LiveScience.com
Details: Primetime coverage of global warming at Fox News is overwhelmingly misleading, according to a new report that finds the same is true of climate change information in the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages. Both outlets are owned by Rupert Murdoch's media ...

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We are responsible for global warming

Source: UAB Kaleidoscope
Details: Other, less advanced nations, have not even grasped the concept of global warming. Forests are mercilessly cut down to make way for inefficient, pollution factories burning fossil fuels; smog is funneled from the chimneys into the atmosphere, clouding ...

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Undecided voters care about global warming

Source: Mother Nature Network
Details: Sixty-one percent of the undecided voters said they see global warming as an "important issue" they'll consider when making their choice. Seventy-five percent of Obama supporters said the same, as did 32 percent of likely Romney voters. In many ways ...

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Mitt Romney raises EU concerns for climate talks

Source: The Guardian
Details: Stern himself drew international climate fire last month, when he appeared to speak out in favour of ditching the US's previous commitment to the international goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees centigrade. Senior US negotiator Jonathan ...

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Next global warming worry: Thawing tundra

Source: CNN
Details: Next global warming worry: Thawing tundra. By Natalie Boelman, Special to CNN. updated 9:38 AM EDT, Tue September 25, 2012. Researcher Shannan Sweet working in the Alaskan tundra in summer. Natalie Boelman says thawing of the tundra could ...

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YOUR VIEW: We don't know emissions' effect on global warming

Source: The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)
Details: The only question that matters is: Do most scientists who study the causes of climate change support the hypothesis that our emissions of carbon dioxide are causing dangerous global warming and other climate problems? No one knows the answer to this ...

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As the US Warms, Power Plants Face New Water Limits

Source: Climate Central
Details: And so it is not without a hint of irony that a recent study concluded that the effects of global warming, particularly drought and heat waves, will increasingly limit the generating capacity of these power plants — thereby making them both ...

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Monday, September 24, 2012

USD Panel: Climate Change Will Change Us

Source: Yankton Daily Press
Details: The future is now in much of Africa, which is suffering from a lack of water and other problems created by global warming, said Dr. Moses Ikiugu of the School of Health Sciences. Ikiugu, a Kenya native, showed the devastation in Africa. He presented ...

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Undecided Voters Care About Global Warming, Report Finds

Source: LiveScience.com
Details: Only about 7 percent of likely voters have not yet decided whether they will support Barack Obama or Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, a new national survey finds. But on the topic of climate change, at least, these undecideds look more like Obama ...

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Global warming threatens Qld agriculture sector: report

Source: ABC Online
Details: The Federal Government's Climate Change Commission is warning in a new report of a looming crisis in Queensland's agricultural sector. The Climate Change Commission says Queensland's economy is particularly vulnerable to the effects of global ...

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Is global warming the drought culprit?

Source: Paris Post Intelligencer
Details: Is the drought plaguing the nation's middle merely part of normal climatic cycles, or is it related to global warming? A lot rides on the answer to that question. And the problem is that there's no way to know the correct answer — not yet, anyway. We ...

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Six weeks to save the planet

Source: Salon
Details: On Monday, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication released the results of a survey suggesting that undecided voters "say that the presidential candidates' positions on global warming will be one of several important factors determining how ...

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As world heats up, A/C adds to global warming

Source: Winnipeg Free Press
Details: When the electricity went out in northern India this past summer, alarm bells went off among global energy experts. They're still ringing as one hemisphere eases out of the hot season and the other warms up. The roots of the blackout - increasingly ...

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Honeywell's Low-Global-Warming Potential Performance Fluid Approved By

Source: US ...
Details: IT News Online 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved Honeywell's new low-global-warming-potential Solstice™ Performance Fluid (PF) for use in aerosol solvent applications.

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Global Warming Causing Record Ice in Antarctica

Source: National Review Online (blog)
Details: But if anyone had asked an actual scientist, they would have learned that a good year for sea ice in the Antarctic in no way nullifies the precipitous drop in Arctic sea-ice levels year after year — or the mounds of other evidence indicating global ...

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Qld could be a solar super state: Flannery

Source: The Australian
Details: Environmentalist Tim Flannery will on Tuesday launch the climate commission's latest report, which examines the impact of global warming on Queensland. It reveals the state's solar energy output has doubled over the past two years. Queensland has the ...

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FiveThirtyEight: The Number of Things Nate Silver Gets Wrong About

Source: Climate ...
Details: Huffington Post Nate, I was told, was working on a chapter about global warming. He sought me out because he felt my expertise would make me an "excellent guide to the history of climate modeling". He also expressed interest in my own upcoming (since published) book ...

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Global warming could make Canada flourish: Rising temperatures may bring ...

Source: Daily Mail
Details: But the forests could be about to return, thanks to changing global temperatures, according to research at the University of Montreal, which suggests the freezing temperatures may mellow just enough to see the return of the ancient forests which once ...

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Global warming coverage cools in Europe

Source: Columbia Journalism Review (blog)
Details: Had the annual climate change summits sponsored by the United Nations fallen out of favor with Western journalists? That was the question on my mind when I arrived at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University earlier

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Are we wrong about climate change? (2)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: 97% of the 489 scientists surveyed agreed that that global temperatures have risen over the past century. Moreover, 84% agreed that "human-induced greenhouse warming is now occurring." Only 5% disagreed with the idea that human activity is a ...

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VOX POPULI: Reining in global warming without nuclear power

Source: Asahi Shimbun
Details: Aside from the fact that autumn's arrival has tended to be late every year over the last decade, global warming is definitely in progress. Arctic sea ice levels are reported to have hit a record low. According to Japan's observation satellite Shizuku ...

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Think twice before imposing carbon tariffs: Researchers

Source: Economic Times
Details: PARIS: Calls for carbon taxes to tackle global warming often dodge the complexity of this issue, with the risk that hasty action could damage the world economy and fuel the greenhouse-gas problem, experts warned today. Carbon taxes - levies that would ...

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Global warming: Alternative energy is future

Source: Ravalli Republic
Details: More than 90 percent of climate scientists attribute global warming in large part to the burning of fossil fuels and other human activity. Many Republican candidates don't believe this. They believe it would be alright to create jobs by reducing ...

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Solar Variation and Climate Change. Future Temperature Decline and

Source: Energy ...
Details: Oil and Gas Industry Latest News It is known that climate change is triggered by phenomena that occur in the Global ocean, such as South (El Niño), North Atlantic and Arctic oscillation, that is, temperature changes of the surface water layer, as well as the reaction to phenomena ...

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WHY IT MATTERS: Global warming

Source: Businessweek
Details: Scientists blame global warming for more frequent weather disasters, with the World Health Organization saying: "Climatic changes already are estimated to cause over 150,000 deaths annually." Others put the toll lower. Emissions of carbon dioxide and ...

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Reefer Madness (Climate Change Edition)

Source: American Thinker
Details: The global warming grant-seekers and their promoters at the United Nations have thrown some more data into their Big If Machine and come up with another argument for destroying the world's economy, impoverishing or eliminating millions, and violating ...

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Global warming to affect rainfall

Source: Times of India
Details: MUMBAI: Global warming is expected to intensify extreme precipitation, but the rate at which it does so in the tropics has remained unclear. Now an MIT study has given an estimate based on model simulations and observations: With every 1 degree Celsius ...

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Is opposition to wind, solar projects hurting efforts to curb global

Source: warming?
Details: StandardNet The green backlash against sacrificing habitat and wildlife to curb global warming parallels polls finding that the public rates climate change low on a menu of environmental problems and has doubts whether it can be fixed. In a March Gallup survey ...

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Global warming commitment sought

Source: Independent Online
Details: Brasilia, Brazil - Brazil, South Africa, India and China are urging developed countries to adopt more ambitious goals to reduce global warming. The four countries form the bloc known as BASIC and representatives on Friday ended a two-day meeting to ...

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What Arctic foxes know about global warming

Source: Tehran Times
Details: Given that the retreat of Arctic ice has become a key piece of evidence for those who take a more alarmed view of global warming, it's newsworthy that 2012's melt was the greatest since records began in 1979, with sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere ...

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Early salamanders were amphibians: Study

Source: Zee News
Details: Early salamanders were amphibians: Study Washington: Modern giant salamanders adapted to live in water due to global warming, but their ancestors ventured out on land, a new study has found. According to geoscientists at the University of Tubingen the ...

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LETTER: Global warming is junk science

Source: Evansville Courier & Press
Details: The distortions he is willing to keep making are shameful, after the scientific world just two years ago was found to be making the "global warming" claim based on junk science and outright lies. Many scientist had to openly admit their bias and ...

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Friday, September 21, 2012

What Arctic Foxes Know About Global Warming

Source: Wall Street Journal
Details: As this column has sometimes pointed out ways in which the effects of global warming are happening more slowly than predicted, it is fair to record that this rate of decline in Arctic sea ice is faster than many predicted. Although an entirely ice-free ...

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Global warming could awaken the Arctic's ancient forests

Source: io9
Details: Global warming could awaken the Arctic's ancient forests We're rolling back millions of years of change in the Arctic, and soon enough the area will be able to support the same kind of life found in the region over 2.5 million years ago. That's the ...

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4 nations wants global warming commitments

Source: Sacramento Bee
Details: They say developed nations must assume stronger emission reduction commitments under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that is aimed at stemming pollution and global warming. It has been opposed by the United States. Chinese climate negotiator Xie Zenhua ...

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Global Warming Victims in Alaska Lose Novel Suit

Source: Courthouse News Service
Details: (CN) - Native Alaskans whose village is teetering on the edge of survival cannot use a federal public-nuisance law to nail energy giants on global warming, the 9th Circuit ruled Friday. Kivalina is a tiny town on Alaska's northwest coast, located at ...

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PBS Ombud: NewsHour Climate Change Report Worth Criticizing

Source: Media Matters for America (blog)
Details: A PBS NewsHour global warming report that allowed a climate change contrarian to "counterbalance" mainstream scientific opinion is worth criticizing, according to PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler, who said he received hundreds of emails and calls about ...

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Court rules against village in global warming case

Source: Businessweek
Details: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled against the northwest Alaska village of Kivalina, which sued energy companies over claims that greenhouse emissions contributed to global warming that is threatening the community's ...

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Global Warming imperils coral reefs: 2 degrees Celsius warming is too hot

Source: say ...
Details: Bay Area Indymedia Increasing sea surface temperatures are imperilling coral reef ecosystems say scientists. A new scientific paper with extensive modelling reveals that atmospheric warming of 2 degrees celsius is too much for nearly all the world's coral reef ecosystems.

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Talk on climate change

Source: Times of India
Details: Smita Bhutani, Professor, Department of Geography, Panjab University shared her views and sensitized the students and faculty on Climate Change, its indications and Global Warming. She also highlighted the natural and anthropogenic causes of climate ...

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Does the expanding Antarctic sea ice disprove global warming?

Source: Houston Chronicle (blog)
Details: In a 2010 paper (see abstract) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Curry said the answer is tied up in a combination of natural variability and global warming. (By the way, skeptics, before you dismiss Curry you'd do well to understand ...

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Aerosmith's Global Warming Tour continues fall 2012

Source: Ticket News
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Global Warming and Thai Farmers

Source: Live Trading News
Details: Global Warming and Thai Farmers. Thai farmers urged to grow rice earlier than usual to avoid damage by flooding. An agriculture expert has urged Rice farmers in Thailand to cultivate Rice far ahead of Monsoon season to prevent enormous damage to their ...

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Global Warming Alarmists Skip Over Data That Show Antarctic Sea Ice Is

Source: Setting ...
Details: Investor's Business Daily Naturally the global warming alarmists couldn't contain themselves. James Hansen, whose politicized ravings are primarily responsible for the climate change scare, wrote in August that the summer was "the kind of future that climate change would bring ...

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Discuss solutions to poverty, global warming [Google+ Hangout]

Source: Los Angeles Times
Details: Join Ken Weiss in an online discussion -- via Google+ Hangout -- about population growth, climate change and other intractable problems at 3:30 p.m. today from UC Berkeley. The newspaper explored such issues around the world in its recent five-part ...

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Global Warming Causing Economic Development in Northern Canada

Source: National Review Online (blog)
Details: PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. (MarketWatch) — It's been called "Ice Train Station Zebra" by some Canadian quipsters. No one has ever built a railway on huge Baffin Island, part of which is north of the bottom half of Greenland. That is, until now. A huge iron ...

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When Global Warming and Climate Change Are a Good Thing: Three Cheers

Source: for ...
Details: PolicyMic Climate models are notoriously finicky, so it's hard to say what the future of the Arctic is and what the Arctic means for other problems caused by global warming. But if current trends continue, we should be thankful that the Arctic is shrinking and ...

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Global warming: Worth reading

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Details: Climate models still have a way to go before they can be counted on to attribute extreme weather events to global warming. That's a point made in

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Global warming scientist says Arctic ice at record low

Source: KENS 5 TV
Details: Man-made global warming has melted more sea ice and made it thinner over the last couple decades with it getting much more extreme this year, surprisingly so, said snow and ice data center director Mark Serreze. "Recently the loss of summer ice has ...

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Aerosmith unleashes another Global Warming round

Source: SoundSpike
Details: Aerosmith is preparing for the second-leg launch of "The Global Warming Tour" this fall, taking place on the heels of the November release of "Music From Another Dimension." The Steven Tyler-helmed rock outfit kicks off the latest round of shows with a ...

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Scientists stunned as Arctic ice cover plummets to record low

Source: Times of India
Details: NEW DELHI: In what is being described as a global disaster, Arctic sea ice has fallen to its minimum extent for the year, covering just 3.41 million sq km. This is the lowest summer cover since satellite data collection began. It is nearly 50 percent ...

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Tackling global warming

Source: Times of Malta
Details: Around the world, tackling climate change has, in recent years, moved up the list of policy priorities. But what are the consequences of global warming? Just during this past year we have witnessed some bizarre weather patterns that some attribute to ...

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Global warming nibbles at edge of Antarctica

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: "However, our results have confirmed recent observations suggesting that ocean warming can trigger increased flow of ice through these narrow corridors. This can cause inland sectors of the ice-sheet - some larger than the state of Victoria – to become ...

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Pitbull Drops Global Warming Release Date

Source: PerezHilton.com
Details: Summer may be over, but thanks to Pitbull this fall is going to be mucho caliente! Our Latin Love has just announced his new HIGHly anticipated album, Global Warming, will hit shelves WORLD WIDE on…. November 19th! Yeah, we know. In Pitbull years that ...

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Global waming: A fracking good story

Source: Economic Times
Details: Weather conditions around the world this summer have provided ample fodder for the global warming debate. Droughts and heat waves are a harbinger of our future, carbon cuts are needed now more than ever and, yet, meaningful policies have not been ...

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PBS gets pummeled for showing balanced global-warming piece

Source: Examiner.com
Details:

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Summer takes unprecedented toll on Arctic ice, prompting global warming

Source: fears
Details: Vancouver Sun But the speed and extent of the melt this year has prompted them to revisit their projections for ice-free summers and for global warming more generally. "It didn't just beat the 2007 minimum, it beat it by a whole lot," said Julienne Stroeve, a ...

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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit supposed island casualty of global

Source: warming
Details: Examiner.com Prince William and Kate Middleton continued a tour of the Pacific with a visit to the tiny island nation of Tuvalu yesterday. For more than a decade the so-called 'sinking island' has been held up as an example of the dangers of manmade climate change ...

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Climate change threat more real to those with perceived personal

Source: experience ...
Details: Tehran Times A new study has found that a feeling of 'personally experiencing' global warming heightens people's perception of risks related to the environmental phenomenon. We have dramatically shrinking glaciers. We have compelling science. We have adorable polar ...

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Climate change threatens nature from coffee to Arctic fox - forum

Source: Moneycontrol.com
Details: Habitats such as coral reefs or the Arctic region were among the most vulnerable to global warming, scientists said at a conference in Lillehammer, south Norway, organised by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Almost 200 governments ...

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Global warming: Pachauri for creating buffer stock of water

Source: Hindu Business Line
Details: Pachauri, Director-General of the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), said policymakers need to pay attention to the issue as India is facing problems due to global warming. His concept of creation of a buffer water stock was supported by Ashok ...

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PBS Attacked for Allowing Global Warming Skeptic to Speak

Source: NewsBusters (blog)
Details: ANTHONY WATTS: Global warming has become essentially a business in its own right. There are whole divisions of universities that are set up to study

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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

McRib delayed from McDonald's until late 2012: blame global warming...

Source: Jackson Clarion Ledger
Details: CHICAGO — The McRib sandwich is traditional McDonald's fare, appearing on the menu seasonally from late October through early November. But not this year. The McDonald's McRib is delayed until late 2012, and there is only global warming to blame.

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Aerosmith Cooks Up More 'Global Warming' Tour Dates

Source: Billboard
Details: Aerosmith has announced the second leg of its "Global Warming" tour. The rock act's latest jaunt picks up in Oklahoma City on November 8, and will travel through North America until wrapping up Dec. 13 in Nashville. The 14-date run will including ...

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Arctic ice may totally collapse in 4 years: Expert

Source: Times of India
Details: LONDON: Arctic sea ice may completely collapse within four years due to global warming, one of the world's leading ice experts has warned. As the sea area freezes and melts each year, shrinking to its lowest extent ever recorded, professor Peter ...

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Aerosmith Returns For Newly Announced Second Leg Of 'The Global Warming ...

Source: Stockhouse
Details: America's greatest rock band delivered absolutely killer sets on the first leg of their triumphant, sold-out The Global Warming Tour this past summer, with critics dropping comments like (we kid you not, see below) "stunning…jaw-dropping…impassioned ...

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Climate Change From Different Perspectives

Source: PBS NewsHour (blog)
Details: Anything dealing with climate change is bound to provoke an argument. And our story on Berkeley physicist Richard Muller's recent conversion to a believer in man-made global warming, which he made in an op-ed in the New York Times, certainly stirred ...

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Shipping, oil hunt may accelerate Arctic thaw

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Local pollution in the Arctic from shipping and oil and gas industries, which have expanded in the region due to a thawing of sea ice caused by global warming, could further accelerate that thaw, experts say. The United Nations Environment Programme ...

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Pitbull readies 'Global Warming' for Nov. 19

Source: Los Angeles Times
Details: The new set, "Global Warming," is scheduled to hit stores Nov. 19 and will be released through RCA Records / Mr. 305 / Polo Grounds, his label announced on Tuesday. Keeping with Pitbull's goal of maximum international appeal, the album was recorded ...

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Global warming can intensify tropical rainfall

Source: Times of India
Details: To better understand global warming's effect on tropical precipitation, O'Gorman studied satellite observations of extreme rainfall between the latitudes of 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south -- just above and below the Equator. The observations ...

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Australian 'mega mine' plan threatens global emissions target

Source: The Guardian
Details: Plans to open up a new Australian "coal export rush" would turn a single Queensland region into the seventh largest contributor of carbon dioxide emissions on the planet, undermining international efforts to keep global warming below 2C, a new report ...

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'Arctic sea ice will disappear within 4 years'

Source: Zee News
Details: "Climate change is no longer something we can aim to do something about in a few decades' time, and that we must not only urgently reduce CO2 emissions but must urgently examine other ways of slowing global warming, such as the various ...

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Global warming foreign to many

Source: Vancouver Sun
Details: A new study has found that a feeling of "personally experiencing" global warming heightens people's perception of risks related to the environmental phenomenon - and particularly those risks germane to where they live. Changes to the seasons, unusual ...

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Arctic ice may completely collapse within 4 years: scientist

Source: Business Standard
Details: The main cause is simply global warming: as the climate has warmed there has been less ice growth during the winter and more ice melt during the summer," he said in an email to the paper. "At first this didn't [get] noticed; the summer ice limits ...

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Global warming likely to intensify tropical rainfall

Source: Daily News & Analysis
Details: Global warming is likely to intensify tropical precipitation such as thunderstorms, flood-inducing monsoon and wide-sweeping cyclones like the recent Hurricane Isaac, warns a new study. The MIT study has given an estimate based on model simulations and ...

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Global warming drives extreme rainfall in the tropics

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: SUMMIT COUNTY — Researchers at MIT say extreme rainfall in the Earth's tropical regions appear to be more sensitive to global warming than other parts of the world. While they don't fully understand the mechanism for that higher sensitivity, they ...

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Warming casts shadow over survival of coral reefs

Source: Zee News
Details: ... millions of people world-wide. Global warming and ocean acidification, both driven by human-caused CO2 emissions, pose a major threat to these ecosystems, the journal Nature Climate Change reports. Warming casts shadow over survival of coral reefs ...

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U.Va. wins key ruling in Prince William global warming-FOIA case

Source: Washington Post (blog)
Details: His e-mails from his six years at the University of Virginia were being sought by groups skeptical of climate change. (Tom Cogill - TOM COGILL) The battle over global warming in Prince William County Circuit Court, focused on renowned climate scientist ...

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Global warming likely to intensify tropical rainfall

Source: Newstrack India
Details: Washington, Sep 18 (IANS) Global warming is likely to intensify tropical precipitation such as thunderstorms, flood-inducing monsoon and wide-sweeping cyclones like the recent Hurricane Isaac, warns a new study. The MIT study has given an estimate ...

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Climate Change Skeptic Says Global Warming Crowd Oversells Its Message

Source: PBS NewsHour (blog)
Details: Actually, Anthony Watts calls himself a pragmatic skeptic when it comes to global warming. Watts is a former television meteorologist, who has been studying climate change for years. He doesn't claim to be a scientist; he attended Purdue. He's the ...

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As Global Warming Creates Climate Changes Our Oceans Are in Danger

Source: PolicyMic
Details: As Global Warming Creates Climate Changes Our Oceans Are in Danger. Calcium carbonate is important for many marine animals. This chalky substance forms the ridged spicules that scaffold some sponge species, the limy deposits that build coral reefs, the ...

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Arctic summer ice to disappear within four years, expert says

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: In an email to the Guardian he says: ''Climate change is no longer something we can aim to do something about in a few decades' time, and that we must not only urgently reduce CO2 emissions but must urgently examine other ways of slowing global ...

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Study estimates increasing rate of extreme rainfall with global warming

Source: R & D Magazine
Details: Global warming is expected to intensify extreme precipitation, but the rate at which it does so in the tropics has remained unclear. Now a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study has given an estimate based on model simulations and observations ...

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Climate change threat more real to those with perceived personal

Source: experience ...
Details: Calgary Herald Climate change has sparked fears about the survival of the polar bear, seen in Churchill, Man., in this file photo. A new study has found that a feeling of 'personally experiencing' global warming heightens people's perception of risks related to the ...

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Global-warming fighter unbowed by climate of cynicism

Source: Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Details: SEATTLE -- If you dedicated your life to fighting global warming, these have got to be about the worst of times. There's the climate itself, which is smoking. So far, 2012 has been the hottest year ever recorded in the U.S. It ranks as one of the 10 ...

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The End of Global Warming: How to Save the Earth in 2 Easy Steps

Source: The Atlantic
Details:

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Study estimates rate of intensification of extreme tropical rainfall

Source: with ...
Details: Phys.Org Global warming's effect on rainfall in general is relatively well-understood: As carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases enter the atmosphere, they increase the temperature, which in turn leads to increases in the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

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The 2012 CDP Global 500 Report: A Glass Half Full of Arctic Melt Water

Source: Triple Pundit
Details:

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As climate change crisis looms, presidential campaigns stay quiet

Source: Macon Telegraph (blog)
Details: In a year when the political debate has lacked nearly any discussion of climate change, some environmentalists have struggled to summon enthusiasm for the Democratic president they helped elect in 2008 in part because of his views on global warming.

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Climate change casts shadow over coral reef survival

Source: Business Standard
Details: Global warming and ocean acidification, both driven by human-caused carbon dioxide emissions, pose a major threat to these ecosystems, they said. The study is the first comprehensive global survey of coral bleaching to express results in terms of ...

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Global warming: Tracking Himalayan glaciers

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: FRISCO — Many of the world's glaciers and ice sheets are retreating in the face of global warming, but a few are stable or growing — including glaciers in the western Himalaya Mountains, according to a new report from the National Research Council.

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Global warming: More bad news for coral reefs

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: SUMMIT COUNTY — Most coral reefs are likely doomed unless humankind acts quickly to curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new global assessment of global warming impacts published last week in Nature Climate Change. "Our findings show ...

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Spatially-managed cities reduce ozone depletion, global warming

Source: Daily Pioneer
Details: The United Nations' (UN) International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is celebrated on September 16 every year. This event commemorates the date of the signing of the Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer in 1987.

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Global warming: Businesses see 'tangible and present risk'

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: According to a survey of 405 of the biggest global companies conducted by the Carbon Disclosure Project, 37 percent say they are already seeing the impact of climate change on their business — up from 10 percent in 2010. The Carbon Disclosure Project ...

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Global Warming Must Be Made History

Source: AllAfrica.com
Details: Rwanda: Global Warming Must Be Made History. By Oscar Kimanuka, 17 September 2012. Comment. column. Last Saturday, September 15, Rwanda was presented with an award for her outstanding contribution to Ozone layer protection at the 14th Ordinary ...

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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Global Warming Causes Sales of Iced Drinks to Spike Year-Round

Source: The Chosun Ilbo
Details: Global warming has in recent years boosted sales of iced drinks in fall and winter as well as raised the prices of imported fruits in Korea. Temperatures have been steadily increasing here, standing at 12.8 degrees Celsius on average between 2001 and ...

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As climate change crisis looms, presidential campaigns stay quiet

Source: TheNewsTribune.com
Details: It was just six words, but when President Barack Obama gave a shout-out to global warming in his acceptance speech this month, he reintroduced an issue that had all but disappeared from the political debate. By Erika Bolstad; McClatchy Newspapers ...

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Tornados, Hurricanes and Global Warming, Oh My

Source: The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
Details: The years from 2001 to 2012 have been the hottest in recorded history and continues to rise, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. The change in temperature and global climate is due to global warming. Hotter temperatures caused by the ...

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Climate Change: Coral Reefs Expected To Suffer Greatly, Study Finds

Source: Huffington Post
Details: Coral reefs face serious threats even if global warming is restricted to a 2 degrees Celsius limit, which is widely viewed as a safe threshold to avert the most devastating effects of climate change, such as drought, sea level rise or crop failure ...

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Most coral reefs are at risk unless climate change is drastically limited

Source: Phys.Org
Details: Coral reefs face severe challenges even if global warming is restricted to the two degrees Celsius commonly perceived as safe for many natural and man-made systems. Warmer sea surface temperatures are likely to trigger more frequent and more intense ...

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Climate Change: 'Hoax' Or Crime Of The Century?

Source: Forbes
Details: John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, and various other critics have called the theory that human use of carbon-based fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic global warming or climate change a "hoax." It is, but it's more than that, it's ...

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'Smart' gases boost global warming

Source: The Australian
Details: THE "smart" gases created by scientists to help save the Earth's ozone layer have turned out to have a devastating side effect: they have boosted global warming by up to 20 per cent. A new study has shown that the gases, although present in just tiny ...

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Cheap natural gas might help reduce global warming

Source: Zanesville Times Recorder
Details: A government policy providing incentives for the installation of compressed natural gas fueling stations and purchase of CNG vehicles would further reduce carbon dioxide emissions and possibly slow global warming. Like the Kyoto Protocol nations, we ...

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Global warming to disrupt Arctic species migration

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: FRISCO — It's very likely that human-caused global warming will disrupt the natural cycles of glaciation that have prevailed in recent millennia, and that could spell trouble for species that have relied on bridges of sea ice to maintain genetic ...

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Prizewinning global-warming fighter unbowed by climate of cynicism

Source: The Seattle Times
Details: Prizewinning global-warming fighter unbowed by climate of cynicism. KC Golden is one of those crazy people I get the pleasure of meeting in this job. Crazy because they just don't know when to give up.

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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Letting LaMalfa's lies lie (6)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: Doug LaMalfa answered, in part, "The science regarding man made global warming is mixed at best. The earth was both warmer and colder than current temperatures prior to the industrial revolution. Since Mars is warming also I find it hard to blame ...

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NELSON: 2500 scientists agree on climate change

Source: The Tri-City News
Details: There were times this summer when I thought I didn't need science to tell me global warming is real: sweating in my seat at Theatre Under the Stars, watching the frightening heat waves in the east and avoiding golf because it was too hot. But luckily ...

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Sea Otters Fight Global Warming

Source: Scientific American
Details: Plants can pull carbon dioxide, the planet-warming greenhouse gas, out of Earth's atmosphere. But these aren't the only living organisms that affect carbon dioxide levels, and thus global warming. Nope, I'm not talking about humans. Humble sea otters ...

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Forecast the core facts of climate change (2)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: "For years scientists have predicted that global warming would lead to a dangerous future of habitat loss, sea level rise, dwindling agricultural production, extreme weather events, and numerous other catastrophic effects. That future is now upon us ...

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Blinded By The Right: House GOP Deletes Climate Change 'Concern' From

Source: Anti ...
Details: ThinkProgress In fact, "concern" is about the weakest possible word you could use to describe how most climate scientists view our current predicament (see Lonnie Thompson on why climatologists are speaking out: "Virtually all of us are now convinced that global ...

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Forecast the core facts of climate change (1)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: September 14, 2012 9:04 PM | No Comments. Some of us are awake. Some of us are asleep. It is that simple. Those of us trying to educate our fellow citizens about global climate change are no one special. We are just people who see and cannot look away.

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Fossil Fuel Industry Ads Dominate TV Campaign

Source: New York Times
Details: That tally is nearly four times the $41 million spent by clean-energy advocates, the Obama campaign and Democratic groups to defend the president's energy record or raise concerns about global warming and air pollution. The Times rated presidential ...

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Nuclear energy can help abate global climate change

Source: Quad City Times
Details: The melting speeds up global warming. The change in sea ice causes the jet streams to become wilder, causing more radical weather down here. For agriculture, it means it rains at the wrong time, and there is less food. Many countries are already having ...

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Wind farms will not stop global warming, claims minister

Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Details: The Conservative right-winger, who took over the role last week, acknowledged global warming exists but stopped short of saying it is an entirely man-made problem. His comments are likely to alarm green groups as part of his new department's official ...

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Blocking patterns: How global warming might have worsened US drought

Source: Christian Science Monitor
Details: But some researchers suggest that global warming's influence on the Arctic and on the tropics can change circulation patterns in ways that keep blocking patterns in place longer than they otherwise might. Obama vs. Romney 101: 4 ways they differ on ...

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Global warming: the heat's back on

Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Details:

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New Bloomberg Global Poll

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: Almost 50 per cent of global investors in a survey said government efforts to combat climate change will have little effect on corporate profits. • Most say global warming is a danger to the planet. • Actions to limit pollution will have "not much ...

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Without nuclear, the battle against global warming is as good as lost

Source: The Guardian
Details: Without nuclear, the battle against global warming is as good as lost. Even many greens now admit this in private moments. We are already witnessing the first signs of the collapse in the biosphere this entails – with the Arctic in full-scale meltdown ...

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Arctic sea ice hits record low: live updates and reaction

Source: The Guardian (blog)
Details: We understand that Arctic sea-ice decline has accelerated over recent years as global warming continues to increase Arctic temperatures at a faster rate than the global average. "This government is working hard to tackle climate change and we are ...

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Flora and fauna at risk by march of global warming

Source: John O'Groat Journal
Details: SOME of us could be forgiven for thinking that after the miserably cold and wet summer, a bit of global warming wouldn't be a bad thing. Sadly, however, it doesn't work like that. Our climate is becoming more unpredictable with increasingly frequent ...

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Global warming: How fast will the ice melt?

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: SUMMIT COUNTY — It's pretty clear that glaciers and ice fields have been melting the past few decades under relentless global warming. But scientists aren't sure exactly how fast the melting will proceed, whether it will speed up, or perhaps stabilize ...

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Thursday, September 13, 2012

A pragmatic path through the perfect moral storm of climate change

Source: ABC Online
Details: The global climate change debate has gone badly wrong. Many mainstream environmentalists are arguing for the wrong actions and for the wrong reasons, and as long as they continue to do so they put all our futures in jeopardy. My diagnosis is a twofold ...

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In the future, living in the USA will be more neighborly

Source: USA TODAY
Details: Global warming will be a fait accompli in 30 years, and so these urban Americans will raise their own food, in fields and on rooftops, and build structures to withstand everything from hurricane winds to Formosan termites. They will walk and ride more ...

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Does global warming increase violent crime? Here's someone who says so.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Details: Global warming has been blamed for many things. But crime? Improbable as it may seem, a paper recently published by Harvard University is suggesting just that. The paper, from the University's Kennedy School, puts up a fairly convincing case that ...

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Our View: Climate alarmism grows more extreme

Source: Appeal-Democrat
Details: For years, President Barack Obama has been curiously low-key about global warming, or climate change, as politically correct terminology now prefers. Perhaps that is because, when running for office in 2008 he overpromised, declaring that his ...

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Global Warming

Source: Wayne County Journal Banner
Details: Over the last few years the subject of global warming has become a hot topic of discussion (no pun intended). According to the Danish Institute for International Studies, global warming refers to an increase in the earth's temperature caused by human ...

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Global Warming Will Cause More Murders

Source: National Review Online (blog)
Details: Well, using MSNBC's rule that Chicago is code for "black" and is racist, this is one of the most racist pieces ever on global warming. To suggest that blacks will commit crimes because it's too hot is disgusting. I hope Mother Jones Washington bureau ...

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Are hurricanes linked to global warming?

Source: Mother Nature Network (blog)
Details: Hurricanes are often seen as heralds of global warming, which makes sense. They're fueled by warm seawater, and the warming of Earth's oceans coincides with a recent spike in hurricane activity. Plus, scientists have grown increasingly confident that ...

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The Truth Behind the Shrinking Arctic Ice Cap

Source: Patriot Post
Details: The reason we are seeing all this is because we have seen a distortion of the global temperature pattern the past 30 years brought about by the warm phase of the Pacific, which started the warming of the northern hemisphere, followed by the Atlantic ...

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Sea otters fend off global warming

Source: SFBay
Details: As it turns out, even gooier gobs of chintzy alliteration are needed to give sea otters their due credit for what researchers believe is a measurable contribution to palliating our planet's warming atmosphere. UC Santa Cruz researchers published a ...

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House Democrats Blame Global Warming For Millstone Shut Down

Source: Patch.com
Details: House of Representative members Henry Waxman of California and Bobby Rush of Illinois, both Democrats, are calling for Congressional hearings after learning that Millstone Power Station's Unit 2 reactor was shut down

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Methane a rising danger in global warming

Source: Buffalo News
Details: There is a broad scientific consensus that human generated carbon dioxide plays a large role in global climate change, but a vocal minority rejects

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Thawing permafrost to accelerate global warming, says UVic study

Source: Saanich News
Details: Given that global temperatures have already risen by about 0.8C since the Industrial Revolution, limiting global warming to less than 2C – the goal identified in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord – doesn't leave much room for future emissions, MacDougall said.

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Obtuse deniers of climate change (2)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: Almost every day I get a science magazine or journal in the mail and in almost every issue there is a reference to a new study on climate change or an article referencing global warming. For example, I just grabbed the August 31, 2012 issue of Science ...

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Study: Sea otters' role in kelp forest health could aid in global

Source: warming ...
Details: San Jose Mercury News SANTA CRUZ -- Monterey Bay's main mascot may turn out to be a secret agent in the fight against climate change. It has long been known that sea otters, nursed back from brink of extinction in the past several decades, provide huge benefits for the ...

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Climate Change: Real or Not?

Source: Jackson Free Press
Details: The party platforms back up the candidates: "We know that global climate change is one of the biggest threats of this generation—an economic, environmental and national security catastrophe in the making," the Democratic platform states. Republicans ...

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Global warming: Environmentalists want BLM to control harmful fracking

Source: pollution
Details: Examiner.com Methane's far too powerful at driving global warming to let it leak out

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Study: Southwestern Forests May Be Victim Of A 'Vicious Cycle' Of Drought

Source: Due ...
Details: ThinkProgress Even just the small amount of global warming measured to-date has pushed climatic growing conditions to extremes, according to a new report from University of Arizona researchers. "Our concern is that vegetation will experience even more extreme ...

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Global Warming Alarmists Seek More Power, Not Emissions Reductions

Source: Forbes
Details: As U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to decline, one would think global warming alarmists would celebrate the ongoing achievement. Instead, alarmists are ramping up their vitriol. The alarmists' increasing vitriol reveals that for many alarmists ...

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Why global warming may affect foxes

Source: The Northern Echo
Details: While the 10,000-strong Icelandic arctic fox population is not at risk, experts say increasing isolation from the rest of the Arctic, caused by warmer temperatures and reducing sea ice, could further differentiate the island's population from their ...

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Global warming real: attack on scientists, surreal

Source: The Telegram
Details: With the flood of emails and comments I received after last week's column, I could be forgiven for thinking tropical storm Leslie had arrived early. As it turns out, there was a more innocuous explanation. Mark Steyn found my headline amusing and ...

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Is your kid the next global warming poster child?

Source: SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Details: Is your kid the next global warming poster child? By Janet Fang | September 11, 2012, 10:20 PM PDT. A polar bear sitting on a melting iceberg seems to be the current poster child for global warming. But some health officials argue the symbol should ...

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Study says otters help combat global warming

Source: KTOO News
Details: A new study is adding another dimension to the sea otter debate. The research shows the marine mammals help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a major contributor to climate change. Jim Estes remembers taking a look around the bottom of Sitka ...

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Global warming may be upping Snake River metals pollution

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: By default, they think global warming may be a significant factor. "This is a really undisturbed watershed as far as anything that might change the water chemistry," said USGS scientist Andy Manning. "It's really important to be clear about the ...

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Global Warming: Top Firms 'Fear Climate Change'

Source: Huffington Post UK
Details: Of the 379 of the 500 companies who responded to the CDP's request for information about climate strategies and emissions data, 78% say they are now integrating climate change into their business strategy, up from 68% last year, the annual CDP Global ...

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

UN climate talks should stick with 2 degree goal: EU negotiator

Source: Reuters
Details: LONDON (Reuters) - United Nations' climate talks should continue pushing for more ambitious action to ensure global warming is kept under 2 degrees, an EU climate negotiator said on Tuesday, a month after the United States was accused of backtracking ...

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Global Warming to Stress Tennessee: Vandy, ORNL Experts

Source: Nashville Public Radio
Details: Nashville Mayor Karl Dean says there's an upside to projects that address global warming, even if some people doubt the science. Speaking to the report's authors, Dean ticked off efforts to expand mass transit and green spaces, and improve the city's ...

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Permafrost thaw will speed up global warming, study says

Source: CBC.ca
Details: Permafrost soils in Canada's Arctic are melting at a rate that will significantly speed up global warming, according to new research from the University of Victoria. The study, published this week in Nature Geoscience, predicts that the thawing ...

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New models suggest wind power won't cause global warming

Source: Carbon Brief (blog)
Details: Two new studies have suggested that wind turbines have less of a warming impact on the temperature of the atmosphere than previous studies have suggested, unless deployed at a level that far exceeds current global power demand. Wind turbines have the ...

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Key global warming report was fudged

Source: Winnipeg Free Press
Details: Stern suggests that global warming will cut GDP by five per cent "now and forever." Yet his own analysis shows that the economic losses due to responding to emissions with the kind of measures he envisaged were below the costs of mitigation, at least ...

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Global warming, YouTube style

Source: Rochester City Newspaper (blog)
Details: NASA actually released the video in January, along with summaries from researchers about changing global temperatures. But the video was making the rounds again yesterday, thanks to some contributors to Climate Desk, a multi-organization news ...

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Global Warming Complicates Shell's Arctic Drilling

Source: National Review Online (blog)
Details: Global Warming Complicates Shell's Arctic Drilling. By Greg Pollowitz · September 11, 2012 9:51 A.M. · Comments. 2. Stupid ice: (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) halted oil drilling in the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic on Monday just one day after ...

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Global water supply critical - leaders

Source: News24
Details: Until now, the Security Council has treated water as a factor in other crises, such as Sudan or the impact of global warming. Demand growth. It said that about 3 800km3 of fresh water was taken from rivers and lakes every year. "With about one billion ...

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Sept. 11 News: Global Warming Could Raise Deaths From Extreme Heat By ...

Source: ThinkProgress
Details: A panel convened by the UN reported on Monday at a meeting in Bangkok that the system, known as the clean development mechanism (CDM), was in dire need of rescue. The panel warned that allowing the CDM to collapse would make it harder in future to ...

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Taiwanese artist aims to draw attention to Tuvalu amid global warming

Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel
Details: 11 (CNA) For Taiwanese Vincent Huang, art has been a tool to take on serious issues, and his latest artistic offensive is a mission to draw the world's attention to Tuvalu, a Pacific island country at risk of rising sea levels amid global warming ...

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Melting permafrost may speed up warming: study

Source: Victoria Times Colonist
Details: MacDougall said the UVic analysis, which used a sophisticated computerized Earth System Climate Model, showed the international aim of limiting global warming to less than two degrees - confirmed in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord - is becoming less and ...

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Climate change will extend hay fever season by six weeks, report warns

Source: The Guardian
Details: Global warming will cause earlier flowering, possibly extending the hay fever season by six weeks, and enable new species to grow in the UK. Pollen is also getting more potent, packing more allergen into each grain. The report, from the Health ...

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Monday, September 10, 2012

New jab could relieve your hayfever for weeks - as global warming threatens

Source: to ...
Details: Daily Mail A new hay-fever vaccine that promises lasting relief for sufferers is being developed, amid fears that the pollen season could go on six weeks longer in future due to global warming. British scientists behind the project say it could help control ...

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Plant For The Planet Combats Global Warming Apathy, Harnesses The Power

Source: Of ...
Details: Huffington Post He's addressed the United Nations; he's a published author; and when he was 9, he founded Plant for the Planet, a non-profit dedicated to planting trees and combating climate change. Four years later, the organization has expanded to 131 countries, and ...

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California Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32, Explained

Source: Long Beach Business Journal - Long Beach News
Details: Under the AB 32, called the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Golden State is working to implement a plan that will reduce emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. According to Dave Clegern, spokesperson ...

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Chris de Freitas: Global warming: Court no substitute for science

Source: New Zealand Herald
Details: One assumes scientific analysis is objective, so it may come as a surprise that this was challenged in a New Zealand High Court case, the results of which were released last week. The New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust (NZCSET) contested the ...

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When Heat Kills: Global Warming As Public Health Threat

Source: NPR (blog)
Details: The current poster child for global warming is a polar bear, sitting on a melting iceberg. Some health officials argue the symbol should, instead, be a child. That's because emerging science shows that people respond more favorably to warnings about ...

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TV Forecasters: Connect Climate and Extreme Weather!

Source: Huffington Post
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Republican Meteorologist to Mitt Romney: My Top Ten Reasons for

Source: Republicans ...
Details: Huffington Post As a Republican business owner, entrepreneur, meteorologist and father of two upbeat, optimistic boys, I may not fit the stereotype of a "global warming alarmist." I'm an Evangelical Christian. I'm enthusiastic about streamlining government and letting ...

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The 3D ocean map that could reveal exactly what effect global warming is ...

Source: Daily Mail
Details: Nasa is planning to create a 3D map of the ocean that could reveal exactly what effect global warming is having on rainfall. The expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3D picture of how salt content ...

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Global Warming Deniers

Source: Democratic Underground
Details: That is when it finally occurred to me that of course these guys know that climate change is happening. The pushers of the false science have finally achieved their goal so now they can soften their stance. Good thing too because after this summer ...

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Sea otters help fight global warming

Source: TG Daily
Details: Sea otters are an up-to-now unsuspected ally in the fight against global warming, say scientists from UC Santa Cruz. By munching on sea urchins, they allow kelp forests to prosper and absorb large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere - as much as 12 ...

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Voters Abandon Global Warming Fears

Source: WEBCommentary
Details: But, in his speech to the convention, Obama made only a passing reference to global warming with, "... my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet". On the night that Obama had won his primary victory over Hillary ...

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Global warming: Famed Austrian peak nearly ice-free

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: FRISCO — In yet another sign of how quickly global warming is eating away at glaciers in the European Alps, the Austrian Alpine Club is reporting that the summit cross high on the 3,660-meter Grossvenediger in Austria came close to toppling off its ...

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'Organic farming can help save world from global warming'

Source: Times of India
Details: "More significantly, organic could help save the world from global warming. It saves 40 per cent of water used in conventional farming and uses non-conventional energy sources," says Patel, claiming that he did not have to use water pump for as long as ...

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Sunday, September 9, 2012

A global warming primer

Source: On Line opinion
Details: New UK Met Office global temperature data show that there has been no global warming in the past 15 years - a timescale that challenges current models of global warming. The graph shows the global annual average temperature since 1997. No statistically ...

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Lee arrives in Greenland to highlight problems of global warming

Source: Yonhap News
Details: Together with Kleist and Danish Crown Prince Frederik, Lee will travel to Ilulissat, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its famous ice fjord, to take a first-hand look at problems resulting from global warming there and discuss ways to tackle the ...

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Global warming and climate change

Source: Lankaweb
Details: Each individual can help cut down or reduce this climate change if they use fossil fuel sensibly or efficiently. In one of the reports it is mentioned that a reduction of just 5 percent in global energy use would save the equivalent of more than 10 ...

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Sea Otters Help Reduce CO2 in Atmosphere and Ward Off Global Warming, UC ...

Source: Latinos Post
Details: Sea Otters Help Reduce CO2 in Atmosphere and Ward Off Global Warming, UC Santa Cruz Study Shows. Print This Article; Send This Article. By Nicole Rojas | First Posted: Sep 09, 2012 03:29 PM EDT. Tags global warming. (Photo : Reuters) Undated ...

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