Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Heat-tolerant grain vital to combat global warming

Source: Western Farm Press
Details: Washington State University will lead a $16.2 million effort to develop wheat varieties that are better at tolerating the high temperatures found in most of the world's growing regions - temperatures that are likely to increase with global warming. The ...

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Warning: Dems predict global warming will increase prostitution

Source: TheBlaze.com (blog)
Details: Unable to sway the public opinion with facts, Democrats are naturally turning to rhetoric to make their case on the dangers of global warming. While climate change may not be considered racist (yet), Democrats in the House of Representatives are making ...

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Milken Conference: Al Gore Rocks Crowd With Global Warming Speech

Source: Hollywood Reporter
Details: Gore was speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference, the same venue where he presented a global-warming slideshow several years ago that led to the film An Inconvenient Truth. Gore said the 2006 movie directed by Davis Guggenheim would not ...

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Investors warned, diversify before Carbon bubble bursts

Source: Live Trading News
Details: Coal investors could suffer heavy losses in the future as carbon assets are frozen by regulators to achieve global warming targets, a new research report has found. The report, "Unburnable Carbon: Australia's carbon bubble," launched jointly Monday by ...

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Another negative climate feedback: Warmer plants cool the planet

Source: Register
Details: Another powerful negative-feedback mechanism which acts to reduce the effects of global warming has been identified, as scientists say that rising temperatures cause plants to emit higher levels of planet-cooling aerosols. "Aerosol effects on climate ...

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CA Dem: Global Warming Will Force Women Into Prostitution

Source: NewsBusters (blog)
Details: Global warming alarmists are becoming more and more laughable in their feeble attempts to make the American people concerned about climate change. The recent scare tactic: global warming will force women into prostitution! According to the Hill, left ...

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Democrats: Global warming means more hookers

Source: Daily Caller
Details: On Friday, 13 House Democrats signed onto a resolution saying that the failure to halt global warming could force more poor women into prostitution. "Whereas food insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such ...

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The sun might hold answer to global warming

Source: gulfnews.com
Details: Vladimir Kotlyakov, from the Russian Academy of Sciences, supported the concept. "There are no grounds to claim that global warming will continue till the end of this century. Climate moves in natural cycles of warmer and colder, as well as drier and ...

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House Democrats claim global warming will drive women to prostitution

Source: Examiner.com
Details: Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and a dozen other House Democrats claims that global warming could drive women to prostitution, The Hill reported Monday. According to Democrats, climate change will affect women worse than men and could force poor women into ...

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Op-ed: The effects of global warming impacts Latinos the hardest - NBC

Source: Latino
Details: NBC Latino I serve a predominantly Latino community facing a variety of economic and health challenges, and I see firsthand how global warming's impacts fall hardest on patients who have the least resources to bounce back. Come by my clinic on a hot, smoggy day, ...

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Global Warming Alarm: Continued Cooling May Jeopardize Climate Science ...

Source: Forbes
Details: The past 17 years of flat global temperatures are creating a big chill for lots of global warming doom-premised industries. Those experiencing cold sweats must certainly include legions of climate scientists who have come to depend upon the many tens ...

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Global Warming Prompting Cooling? Plant Gases Released in Warmer Temps ...

Source: Latinos Post
Details: Global warming may itself be driving a cooling trend, caused by the release of plant gasses prompted in the first place by higher temperatures. According to research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the University of ...

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Global Warming Can Be Slowed Down By Gases From Plants - iTechPost

Source: iTech Post
Details: ... Shandong province January 30, 2013. Credit:Reuters. Global warming can be curbed by gases released naturally from plants, according to a new study. They do this by releasing tiny particles into the atmosphere that help reflect sunlight back into space.

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Global Warming a Hoax

Source: Guardian Express
Details: Science: Local temperatures taken as individual data points have nothing to do with the long-term trend of global warming. These local ups and downs in weather and temperature can hide a slower-moving uptick in long-term climate. To get a real bead on ...

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Global Warming: Can Plant Gases Reverse or Even Slow Its Effect?

Source: Design & Trend
Details: Global warming is causing plants to emit chemicals that lead to climate-cooling clouds, say researcher in a new study. The effect of these climate-cooling clouds would be negligible in places where humans are already changing the atmosphere say scientists.

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The Strange History Of Global Warming Fear

Source: The Market Oracle
Details: Arrhenius can be considered the real "father of global warming" as a scientific theory. However his concern, many times stated by him, in writing, was that global cooling was a constant threat to mankind. He believed that "anthropogenic" CO2 emissions, ...

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Film turns focus on global warming

Source: Gulf Today
Details: The film, the latest documentary salvo in the growing body of evidence that global warming is indeed a dangerously looming reality, has also been a winner at Run River International Film Festival, SXSW Film Festival and Excellence in Cinematography at ...

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U.S. sociologist tracks the politics of climate change

Source: UPI.com
Details: However, Michigan State University sociologist Aaron M. McCright said a political schism remains on the existence of climate change despite a scientific consensus that global warming is real. "The more people believe scientists agree about climate ...

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Global warm-up not seen in last 1400 years

Source: Futurity: Research News
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Plant gases help curb global warming, finds study

Source: Christian Science Monitor
Details: It's well known that plants can help mitigate global warming, by absorbing carbon dioxide and trapping it, via photosynthesis, in things like leaves, stalks, and branches. Skip to next paragraph. Gallery: Rising seas. Related stories ...

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Climate chief warns of 'urgency' as CO2 levels rise - Rappler.com

Source: Rappler
Details: PARIS, France - The UN's climate chief called for urgency Monday as she opened a new round of global talks amid warnings that Earth-warming carbon dioxide levels were approaching a symbolic threshold never seen in human history. Data from the Mauna ...

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Global Warming: Delusions, Hubris and Wishful Thinking

Source: Huffington Post UK (blog)
Details: Those of us who believe global warming/climate change is real and human-induced can be split into two camps. The first could be described as the "having their cake and eating it" camp; they argue that the technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS ...

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ALA and the Global Warming Issue

Source: Library Journal (blog)
Details: Don't get me wrong; I believe that global warming is a serious issue, as do many people here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I personally and professionally practice the most sustainable lifestyle I can. But to hear that the "global warming issue ...

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'Shaky sources' - Leader Post

Source: Regina Leader-Post
Details: John Gormley's April 26 opinion piece "Earth Day fearmongers proved wrong" would have us think that climate deniers are being 'rational' in their denials of scientific consensus on the crisis of global warming, but a closer look at his sources shows ...

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Robert Bennett: Cool off the global warming debate

Source: Deseret News
Details: In 1997, after roughly two decades of steadily increasing temperatures, representatives from most of the world's countries met in Kyoto, Japan, to draft what is known as the Kyoto Accord, the first international agreement on the issue of global warming.

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Waters off Northeast US coast warmest in 150 years: NOAA

Source: Northern Voices Online
Details: Global warming is becoming a major issue that is going to affect the whole world in the days to come. The impact of the global warming is already visible in almost every part of the world. Already we are experiencing several very perplexing scenes as ...

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Peter Kent's Earth Day gift to Canadians: 24 hours without the climate scare

Source: Canada Free Press
Details: Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent gave us an unexpected gift on April 22: his Earth Day speech focused on real environmental protection and included nothing at all about climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide.

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Coal producers ignore policy on carbon - Sydney Morning Herald

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Companies are sitting on Australian coal resources likely to generate an extra 150 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases, setting a potential collision course with international efforts to curb global warming that would strand investments. A new report ...

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RIGHT TO REPLY

Source: WND.com
Details: [Incorrect: Even the IPCC now admits there has been no global warming for 17 years, so it cannot have caused Sandy or anything else. What has not happened cannot have caused what has. Besides, science is not done by consensus but by measurement ...

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Plant Particles Slow Global Warming (and Smell Great)

Source: Discovery News
Details: With everything that progress has brought in our modern world, it's refreshing to know that there are still places on the planet that are virtually untouched -- places where humans haven't completely tainted the environment. Some areas may be on the ...

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China 'taking lead' to combat warming

Source: RTHK
Details: They are beginning to put in place seven emissions trading schemes that will cover quarter of a billion people," he said. The report added that China, which this month agreed to work with the US to tackle global warming, wanted "to position themselves ...

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Global warming is not reversible, but it's stoppable

Source: Oak Ridger (blog)
Details: 1. If we stop greenhouse gas emissions, won't the climate naturally go back to the way it was before? 2. Isn't there "warming in the pipeline" that will continue to heat up the planet no matter what we do? The correct answer to both questions is "no ...

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The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory

Source: Forbes
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Chris Rickert: Never too small to seek global change

Source: Wisconsin State Journal
Details: So it only makes sense that Mayor Paul Soglin would sign on to an effort to fight global warming by reaffirming the city's decision not to invest in the fossil fuel industry and to encourage other local governments and the state to do the same. It's ...

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Yachtsmen, rats, global warming threaten Chile's humboldt penguins

Source: Times LIVE
Details: Several dozen Humboldt penguins sun themselves along the coast of an islet in central Chile where the majestic birds coming here to nest once numbered in the thousands. Humboldt penguins - which nest only in parts of Chile and Peru - over the years ...

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Movie review: With climate change we're all skating on 'Thin Ice'

Source: GMA News
Details: "Climate change" and "global warming" are terms we hear often these days. They are especially relevant in this year's celebration of Earth Day, and also because they're some of the biggest global issues that nations have committed to understand and ...

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Climate change and dead fish: Think global, act local

Source: Lewiston Sun Journal
Details: Last summer, hundreds of economically valuable, fun-to-catch trout died at Lake Auburn. Some people blamed this event on "global warming," but were they right to do so? It's hard to say for sure, but the early ice-out and warm summer temperatures in ...

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House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Environment Hearing ...

Source: Utility Products
Details: How important is global warming? To get a sense of the importance of global warming, take a look at the total impact of damage compared to the cumulated consumption using the discount rates from Nordhaus' 2010 DICE model. The total, discounted GDP ...

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In the Northwest, rising coal exports to Asia stir huge fight

Source: The Seattle Times
Details: In the Northwest, rising coal exports to Asia stir huge fight. A push for more Montana coal exports to Asia — and a pushback over fears about air pollution and global warming — could turn into the Northwest's biggest environmental battle in years.

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Federal politicians say non-partisan climate group is 'safe space'

Source: behind ...
Details: Ottawa Citizen Chong, a prominent member of the non-partisan committee, also noted in the Commons that the government recognizes that climate change is "one of the greatest challenges of our time," by committing to prevent global warming of more than 2 C above ...

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Fox Snooze: Global Warming Name Game Debunked By Media Matters (Again)

Source: De Smog Blog (blog)
Details: Media Matters put out a video this past week with clips of all the recent FOX News mentions of a global warming name conspiracy. The Fox 'conspiracy' is that 'liberals' stopped calling it global warming and started calling it climate change. Little did ...

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Follow the money for answers

Source: Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Details: Regarding Steve Singleton's critique of my May 15 column on global warming, I think I set a higher standard for my sources than he apparently sets for his. I suggest the public follow the money before deciding who is "gullible" or "financially ...

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COLUMN: Not too late to bag a gobbler

Source: Hattiesburg American
Details: Where on earth are/were all the Global Warming zealots when record lows and record snows hit much of the North and West this April? The cold even forced turkey hunters like me to wear thermal underwear, even in the Deep South, to keep from shivering.

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Obama's smear misfires at GOP 'deniers' - Canada Free Press

Source: Canada Free Press
Details: President Barack Obama's campaign to smear and intimidate global warming skeptics in Congress is now in full swing. See: Obama campaign launches plan to shame climate skeptics in Congress: 'It is time to call out U.S. politicians who deny the science ...

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The ocean is warming and sea level rising

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: But 90 percent of global warming goes into heating, not the land or atmosphere, but the ocean. "Because it takes far more energy to heat up the entire ocean than the lower atmosphere or a surface layer of ice, the amount that the ocean has warmed is ...

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Media Display Stunning Ignorance and Bias in Warming Debate

Source: Health Care News
Details: Writing about an effort by the Obama administration to politicize the global warming debate and direct public ridicule at Republicans who are skeptical of alarmist global warming claims, Goldenberg describes that effort as one that will "shame members ...

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Earth warming for more than 1000 years

Source: University World News
Details: He said that one suggested 'magic bullet' to minimise the impacts of human-caused global warming was geo-engineering, such as putting tiny sulphate particles into the atmosphere that could reflect incoming sunlight and cool the planet. But the third ...

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Human nature got us into this

Source: Gisborne Herald
Details: Our speaker said global warming had ceased and recent worldwide severe weather events, our countrywide drought included, were all natural and not due to global warming. He accused scientists of dishonesty and manipulating data. He downplayed the ...

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Guy who discovered global warming thought rising temperatures were good

Source: Daily Caller
Details: Steam engineer and amateur scientist Guy Stewart Callendar, who first theorized a link between global warming and carbon dioxide emissions 75 years ago, believed that global warming would be a boon to mankind. "Callendar, who died in 1964, aged 66, ...

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Friday, April 26, 2013

Wyoming Gov.: don't examine global effects of coal

Source: Idaho Press-Tribune
Details: Wyoming is the nation's leading coal-producing state and state officials are concerned about falling domestic demand for coal as a result of global warming concerns. State officials are pushing to secure ports in the Northwest to allow coal exports to ...

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Federal politicians say non-partisan climate group is 'safe space'

Source: behind ...
Details: Canada.com Rempel, a Calgary-area MP, said she remembered learning about global warming as a 10-year-old in 1990 when her mother gave her a book about the 20th anniversary of Earth Day at the checkout line of a supermarket. "I was a bit of a science geek – I am ...

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Climate scientists come to terms with the lack of global warming

Source: Daily Caller
Details: Despite the heated rhetoric from the Obama administration and environmental groups about the urgency of global warming, climate scientists have begun to come to terms with the lack of evidence of catastrophic global warming over the last decade. "While ...

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The Oddly Tepid Political Fight Over Global Warming

Source: The Atlantic Wire
Details: The urgency with which scientists and the environmental community looks at global warming has still not been translated to Capitol Hill — or to the rest of America. The House hearing, led by Republican Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah, was never likely to ...

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A First-Time Father Sees Global Warming in a New Light

Source: Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
Details: If, for example, my son lives near his uncle in Denver, he could find himself fighting devastating fires that race through the dry deadwood of forests decimated by the bark beetle, which thrives in a warmer climate. But his father's dream of protecting ...

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Guy Stewart Callendar: Global warming discovery marked

Source: BBC News
Details: Seventy-five years ago an amateur scientist made a breakthrough discovery in the field of climate change. Guy Stewart Callendar linked global warming to CO2 emissions but his work went largely unnoticed at the time. Now the anniversary of his discovery ...

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My turn: Global warming and an appeal to basic fairness

Source: taosnews
Details: After all, in the words of famed physicist Freeman Dyson, Einstein's successor at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, global warming hysteria is far more for these people than science, it's a religion. Perhaps the news that global ...

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No insurance cost surge from climate

Source: The Australian
Details: The Actuaries Institute, in a submission to a Senate inquiry into preparedness for extreme weather, predicts the impact of climate change on insurance costs will be about 0.5 per cent a year using a mid-range scenario for global warming. The institute ...

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Global cooling ended 113 years ago (1)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: "Global warming associated with large accumulations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over millions of years, emitted primarily by volcanic activity, is the proposed trigger for melting a snowball Earth. Due to positive feedback for melting, the ...

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Did the contentious global warming 'hockey stick' graph get it right after

Source: all?
Details: Telegraph.co.uk (blog) Sceptics widely claim that the hockey stick graph – one of the main focuses of their assault on the case for global warming – has been discredited. Indeed flaws have been found in the research that produced it. But flaws have equally been found in ...

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Futile efforts on global warming

Source: Washington Post
Details: The April 22 editorial "Lights off in Europe," on Europe's economic decision to burn more coal and Germany's political decision to phase out its nuclear facilities, illustrates the futility of fighting global warming on an economic, political ...

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Climatologist James Hansen explains how government can stave off global ...

Source: Salon
Details: "On a blistering June day in 1988 he was called before a Congressional committee and testified that human-induced global warming had begun," the New York Times wrote in a recent story about Hansen. "Speaking to reporters afterward in his flat ...

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On climate change, public opinion varies by party

Source: Patriot-News
Details: According to a poll by the Pew Research Center, a vast majority of Democrats (87 percent) thinks there is solid evidence of global warming. Among Republicans, those doubting evidence of global warming (50 percent) outnumber those who see evidence of ...

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The Keeling Curve will soon reach 400 parts per million

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: As CO2 Now writes, "Carbon dioxide is at the heart of the global warming problem. When we want to know whether humanity is collectively doing enough to solve global warming, just look to the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. No other indicator ...

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Al Gore: U.S. Democracy Has Been 'Hacked'

Source: Patch.com
Details: Meanwhile, Gore, a leading advocate of policies to prevent global warming by cutting consumption of fossil fuels, said carbon emissions that contributed to warming continued to increase. "In order to solve the climate crisis, the world needs leadership ...

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Poll: 58% of Republicans Still Believe Global Warming is a Hoax - Triple

Source: Pundit
Details: Triple Pundit A recent Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey found that 58 percent of Republicans polled still believe that global warming is a hoax. This, at the same time that international polls are finding that Americans are among the biggest doubters, a dubious ...

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Regarding global warming, follow the money

Source: Cape Gazette (blog)
Details: In a recent column, Positive Growth Alliance President Rich Collins once again espouses the PGA line that "special interests are using fear of manmade global warming to exert more and more control over citizens."

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Global warming: Do you know or think you know?

Source: Washington Times
Details: LOUISIANA, April 25, 2013 – Are those that so adamantly state that "climate change" and man-made global warming are caused primarily as the result of human activity aware of the facts? If you, like them, believe that man-made global warming is a fact ...

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Red state worried about climate change

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: "Lawmakers voted 35-0 to advance the proposal by Sen. Ken Haar of Malcolm after a handful of lawmakers denounced global warming." The fact that temperatures in that state are expected to rise 4 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century could ...

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JustGreen® Launches Business Advantage Program Dedicated to Carbon ...

Source: Sacramento Bee
Details: TORONTO, April 24, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- JustGreen, is pleased to announce the launch of JustGreen Business Advantage, a new green energy initiative designed to help businesses go carbon neutral and help slow global warming and climate change by ...

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Global warming accelerating last 15 years

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: "Most importantly, everybody (climate scientists and contrarians included) must learn to stop equating surface and shallow ocean warming with global warming. In fact, as Roger Pielke Sr. has pointed out, 'ocean heat content change [is] the most ...

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Are Snowshoe Hares Evolutionary Tortoises?

Source: Discovery News
Details: Snowshoe hares have been in the news because a new study has shown they can't turn brown as fast as the snowy ground where they live, now that winters are being shortened by global warming. Which begs the question: Are snowshoe hares able to adapt ...

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The Trouble With the Term 'Anti-Science'

Source: U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Details: But most often, it is trumpeted by those criticizing anyone who allegedly "denies" global warming. The problem is that the phrase is used and abused all too often, with both alpha and beta errors. That is, there are those who refer to non-scientific ...

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UN official hopeful about 2015 climate talks

Source: Las Vegas Sun
Details: The climate change talks in Copenhagen were a resounding failure, setting back the movement to control global warming. Even so, the U.N. official, Christiana Figueres, is optimistic, though she admits the world needs to step up its efforts to meet its ...

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Historical Climate Study Reveals Humans' Role in Current Warming

Source: LiveScience.com
Details: "The new results show that climate change is, as usual, more complicated than we expected: long, millennial natural cooling trends were punctuated by warming episodes that turned out to be more local than we thought," Filmer said. [8 Ways Global ...

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Good Question: Is 'Global Warming' The Wrong Term To Use?

Source: CBS Local
Details: Noble said that many people think global warming means that our weather will always be warmer, but there are far more impacts to climate change. "Severe drought would be an impact, severe flooding would be an impact, straight-line winds would be an ...

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Global warming activist, former NASA scientist James Hansen speaks out

Source: before ...
Details: OregonLive.com Hansen was one of the first scientists to sound unequivocal warnings about global warming, telling Congress in 1988 that it had begun. Since 2009, he's been arrested or cited several times at climate change protests, which he attended on NASA vacation ...

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Global cooling trend ended in 19th century - Zee News

Source: Zee News
Details: Because long-range cooling was caused by natural factors that continued to exist in the 20th century, the researchers argued, the warming of the 20th century makes it more difficult to discount the effects of the increase of greenhouse gases in the ...

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Is 'global warming' the right term to use?

Source: Mother Nature Network
Details: Meanwhile, the Fox News set asserts that "liberals" switched from "global warming" to "climate change" when they (the "liberals") realized the planet wasn't really warming up. Ah, the Fox logic. In fact, it was Republican consultant Frank Luntz who ...

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Dr. Roy Spencer on Global Warming, 'No one knows'

Source: Catholic Online
Details: Many of our readers have urged Catholic Online to interview Dr. Roy Spencer as a leading, qualified skeptic on the issue of anthropogenic global warming. On Monday, Marshall Connolly interviewed Dr. Spencer to hear his expert opinions on the issue.

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Why is Reuters puzzled by global warming's acceleration?

Source: The Guardian
Details: The rate of heat building up on Earth over the past decade is equivalent to detonating about 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs per second. Take a moment to visualize 4 atomic bomb detonations happening every single second. That's the global warming that we're ...

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The Global Warmists' Last Line Of Defense: The Warming Must Be In The ...

Source: Forbes
Details: You see, the alarmists have been telling us for decades that rapidly accelerating global warming was imminent and unavoidable. The problem for the alarmists is the warming that has occurred has been modest and decelerating. In fact, it has ground to a ...

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Global warming will likely result in a double whammy

Source: Cape Breton Post
Details: The other option is that no controls are imposed on burning fossil fuels, and the carbon bubble does not burst until the warming breaks through the two-degree limit and triggers the natural feedbacks that will carry us inexorably to average global ...

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VIDEO: The Global Warming Name Game

Source: Media Matters for America (blog)
Details: Fox News has often claimed that "liberals" stopped using the term "global warming" in favor of the term "climate change" because the planet is no longer warming. Fox News' The Five, for instance, celebrated Earth Day 2013 by trotting out this talking ...

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Almost Flunking on Global Warming

Source: Consortium News
Details: Focusing on issues like terrorism and austerity, the world has slid back toward neglecting the slow-grinding existential threat of global warming. A report card by an Establishment think tank offers poor grades on some of the most important subjects ...

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Earth was warmest between 1971 and 2000, says new study

Source: Hindustan Times
Details: "This period of manmade global warming reversed a natural cooling trend that lasted several hundred years," stated the study published in Nature Geoscience on Tuesday. Conducted by more than 80 scientists from 24 countries including the Indian ...

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'Global warming' was always far too important to be left to the scientists

Source: Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Details: Now that global warming is completely unravelling, I want to elaborate on a point I made a few blogposts back about the role of humanities graduates in

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April 23 News: 75 Years Ago A Steam Engineer Showed Global Warming Was ...

Source: ThinkProgress
Details: 75 years ago this month, a steam engineer in England named Guy Stewart Callendar used his avid interest in meteorology to publish a landmark study in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society linking fossil fuel burning to global warming.

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Put truth about global warming ahead of the facts

Source: Windsor Star (blog)
Details: Barbara Yaffe's article about Harper versus Science last week should have her and her editors fired for gross negligence. Yes, the science is settled on global warming and the fact is there has been no warming for the past 20 years but a slight decline ...

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Last 100 years reverse 1400 years of global cooling - Nanowerk

Source: Nanowerk LLC
Details: (Nanowerk News) The first continental-scale reconstruction of temperatures over the past 2000 years has found 20th Century warming was a global event that has produced the hottest global average temperature in 1400 years. The study by 78 scientists ...

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Call to cut power, water use - Khaleej Times

Source: Khaleej Times
Details: "We are, to a great extent, responsible for the rise in gas emissions causing global warming, due to excessive exploitation of resources and irrational practices," the Minister of Environment and Water, Dr Rashid Ahmed bin Fahd said. He noted that the ...

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What You Can Do To Prevent Global Warming

Source: Bahamas Tribune
Details: GHGs are making it easier for the sun's harmful UV rays to pass through, which has resulted in global warming. The United States is among the world's worst offenders when it comes to GHG emissions per capita, according to the United Nations Statistics ...

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Long-term global cooling ended in 19th century

Source: New Straits Times
Details: "Global warming that has occurred since the end of the 19th century reversed a persistent long-term global cooling trend," the National Science Foundation, one of the study's sponsors, quoted the report as saying. Researchers found that various factors ...

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Monday, April 22, 2013

20th century warmer than any other time in nearly 1400 years

Source: Daily News & Analysis
Details: The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, found that the global warming that began in the late-19th century reversed a long cooling trend across the planet that lasted well over 1000 years, the Sydney Herald reported. "The striking feature ...

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Global warming study suggests human causes, dating back to 1800s

Source: NBCNews.com (blog)
Details: "The 18th and 19th centuries would probably have been colder than the 20th century no matter what just because there has been a bit less volcanism in

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Global warming impacts discussed in wake of Hurricane Sandy

Source: The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Details: Another speaker, Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office Climate Initiative Chair Jan Dash, explained global warming will cause less food, less water, more diseases and extreme weather, which he said poses a national security risk because there ...

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How Americans see global warming — in 8 charts - Washington Post

Source: Washington Post (blog)
Details: 2. Not a top priority. The dearth of immediate concern regarding climate change helps explain the relatively low importance Americans place on trying to solve the problem. Just 18 percent of Americans said addressing global warming was the "highest ...

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Warming goose is being cooked

Source: Herald Sun
Details: LABOR'S global warming fever has already claimed the careers of two prime ministers. Kevin Rudd claimed global warming was "the great moral challenge of our generation", but lost public support when he didn't dare back his hyperbole with action.

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A way to curb global warming: Suck carbon emissions right out of the air?

Source: Christian Science Monitor
Details: But it's also driven by the recognition that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere already exceed a level that some scientists say stands the best chance of holding global warming by the end of this century to about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees ...

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On Earth Day 2013, a planetary report card on global warming

Source: Christian Science Monitor
Details: As an environmental issue, global warming was far down the list of concerns. At the time, a small number of climate scientists noted a general cooling trend in Earth's climate. They even suggested Earth might be about to begin a millenniums-long slide ...

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Global warming claims are just a bad joke

Source: TheDay.com
Details: I thought it was appropriate that Gail Collins' article, "Don't expect change on climate change," (April 1), on global warming should appear in The Day. A recent study by NASA's James Hansen, a strong proponent of human caused global warming, stated ...

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20th century warmest in 1400 years: Study

Source: Times of India
Details: MELBOURNE: Global warming over the 20th century has produced the hottest global average temperatures in 1400 years, a major scientific study has found. Scientists have found that the period between 1971-2000 was warmer than any other time in nearly ...

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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Animated Google Doodle honors Earth Day

Source: GMA News
Details: "The Google Doodle have also been cleverly designed into an animation showing the effects of Global Warming on the Earth. If you clicked on the Google Doodle without seeing the animation, you can go back to Google and click on the Earth Day 2013 play ...

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Protecting global climate with Vegan Challenge: Interview with Paul Mahony

Source: rabble.ca (blog)
Details: (Over a 100-year time horizon, methane is around 21 times as potent as CO2 in terms global warming. Over a 20-year time horizon, it's between 72 and 105 times as potent). A 12-year measure would be even better, but does not appear to be available.

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Earth is becoming warmer

Source: News24
Details: The planet was warmer from 1971-2000 than at any other time in nearly 1 400 years. This measure is a global average and some regions did experience warmer periods than that - but only for a time. Europe, for instance, was probably warmer in the first ...

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Dangers of global warming: Changing weather patterns pose serious threat

Source: to ...
Details: The Express Tribune As global warming warrants greater attention, Earth Day 2013, celebrated annually on April 22, has selected "Faces of Climate Change" as its theme for this year. Some of these 'faces' include the small farmers on Islamabad's outskirts like Rustum Khan ...

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Scientists Study Global Warming's Impact On Tropical Rainfall

Source: Asian Scientist Magazine
Details: AsianScientist (Apr. 22, 2013) – Global warming is likely to affect the planet's water cycle, causing changes in rainfall patterns which could have a huge impact on human lives, economies, and the environment. Findings by scientists studying the impact ...

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Global warming affects the oceans and lakes

Source: The Morning Sun
Details: We can no longer ignore global warming and air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. China recently became very concerned about the terrible quality of air over their major cities. In a recent Pew Research Center poll, 75 percent of Chinese ...

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Late 20th century was warmest in 1400 years

Source: AFP
Details: The investigation is the first attempt to reconstruct temperatures over the last 2,000 years for individual continents. It seeks to shed light on a fiercely-contested aspect in the global-warming debate. Sceptics have claimed bouts of cooling or ...

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Research backs global warming theory

Source: Financial Times
Details: The image has become a potent symbol of global warming, especially after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN body that delivers the most comprehensive scientific assessments of climate change, included it in a major report in 2001.

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Antarctic melt has increased tenfold over past 1000 years

Source: Mother Nature Network
Details: Summer ice melt has increased tenfold over the last millennium in the Antarctic Peninsula, with most of the melt occurring during the last several decades in conjunction with global warming, new research suggests. Rapid melt can destabilize glaciers ...

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Last decades of the 20th century the hottest for 1400 years

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: The study found the global warming that began in the late 19th century reversed a long cooling trend across the planet that lasted well over 1000 years. One of the authors of the paper, Steven Phipps, of the University of NSW's ARC Centre of Excellence ...

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Captives to global warming, say experts - Sunday Times Online

Source: The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
Details: The almost unbearable heat signals a new trend of climatic change caused by global warming, experts say, with the Department of Meteorology forecasting the hot and humid weather conditions continuing until the second week of May.Sri Lanka has never ...

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Climate change is right focus for 2013 Earth Day

Source: Biddeford Journal Tribune
Details: For years, this phenomenon was labeled as "global warming," but it's much more complex than just increased temperatures. It's true that Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.4°F over the past century, according to the Environmental Protection ...

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Climate change conclusion goes against scientific method

Source: The Desert Sun
Details: There are several questions involved with the subject of man-made global warming (after this, I will simply call it global warming). Is the average temperature of the Earth increasing? What definition of global warming is being used? What is the method ...

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

75% of U.K. kids worried about climate change

Source: Mother Nature Network
Details: x. Tweet · Email · Bookmark and Share Share · Earn Points · What's this? 75% of U.K. kids worried about climate change. A new poll reveals that three-quarters of British teens are concerned about global warming both at home and in the developing world.

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Adventure scientists document chilling facts of global warming

Source: The Spokesman Review (blog)
Details: While ICL is working to move Idaho away from dirty fossil fuel plants that contribute to global warming and toward energy conservation and clean resources like wind, geothermal and solar, LPOW is striving to protect our regions waterways, including ...

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Study finds Hurricane Sandy literally shook Earth; Could global warming ...

Source: Science Recorder
Details: The study comes as researchers have suggested that rising temperatures from global warming could increase the intensity of hurricanes and northeastern storms. Research released in 2012 by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

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Majority of Pastors Doubt Global Warming but Recycle at Church - Charisma

Source: News
Details: Charisma News While many churches are acting "green," the majority of pastors disagree global warming is real and man-made. The percentage of skeptics has dropped since 2010, but the percentage is still higher than in 2008, according to a survey by LifeWay Research.

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World Bank changes tack to face new challengers - GlobalPost

Source: GlobalPost
Details: Global warming, a new offensive against poverty -- the World Bank has overhauled its agenda to prove its relevance in the face of competition from rich emerging nations, notably China. On the outside walls of its headquarters in Washington, where the ...

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400000 Hiroshima Atomic Bombs Per Day

Source: Infoshop News
Details: The energy of four hundred thousand (400,000) Hiroshima atomic bombs is how much energy imbalance Earth is absorbing because of global warming… per day! This imbalance was explained by Dr. James Hansen, one of the world's foremost, and most ...

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Global warming lies heat up

Source: The Inter-Mountain
Details: Climate change/global warming/man-made global warming has served the Democrats well over the years, but it hasn't been pretty. As Kimberly Stassal of the Wall Street Journal recently put it, "Turn over any green-energy rock, and wiggling underneath ...

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During Standoff, GOP Congressman Tweets Global Warming Joke About Boston ...

Source: ThinkProgress
Details: "Suspect thought he could escape in backyard boat after hearing Gore speak on global warming." — Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX). As police surrounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday night, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) ...

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Adoption of Clean Energy Too Slow to Limit Global Warming

Source: The Green Optimistic (blog)
Details: Clean Energy 300x195 Adoption of Clean Energy Too Slow to Limit Global Warming On Wednesday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that low-carbon energy development is progressing far too slowly to have any limiting effect on global warming.

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Global warming no slower

Source: Gisborne Herald
Details: YOUR editorial of Saturday 13 April 2013 titled "Climate Change Express is behind schedule" points to the 30 March 2013 edition of The Economist which suggests that man-made climate change is not as bad a threat as it appeared and global warming has ...

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Len Frenkel: Curbing consumer habits could slow global warming

Source: Allentown Morning Call
Details: There is a very powerful connection between economic growth and global warming. Everything that is manufactured requires energy to run the equipment that leads to the product. That energy almost always comes from burning coal, oil or natural gas.

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Global companies 'risk losing billions' if emissions targets are hit

Source: Citywire.co.uk
Details: Meeting the targets set out in the Cancun Agreement would give an 80% chance of keeping global warming below 2°C, making between 60% and 80% of fossil fuel reserves held by listed firms 'unburnable', a new study has claimed, and the cost to the ...

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Global Warming Emissions in US and China

Source: Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Details: The Wall Street Journal had a front page article today about how US global warming emissions have been going down. (Side note: The opening paragraph described carbon dioxides as "the greenhouse gas widely believed to contribute to global warming" ...

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Coastal Cities Confront Global Warming-Induced Sea Level Rise

Source: Huffington Post
Details: Rising sea level is what linked Sandy directly to global warming. Over the last century, the ocean off the New York coast rose 13 to 16 inches, making flooding from Sandy a lot worse. The super storm triggered an estimated $60 billion in estimated ...

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Yes, Let's Please Have More Conversations About Global Warming

Source: Somewhat Reasonable - Heartland Institute (blog)
Details: Speaking on behalf of people skeptical of an asserted global warming crisis, I accept the invitation. Bassam Shakhashiri, a professor at the ultra-liberal University of Wisconsin-Madison and Distinguished Chair of the "progressive" group the Wisconsin ...

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Antarctic clams may take a hit from global warming

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: FRISCO — Warming ocean temperatures and increased glacial outflow around Antarctica may have a big impact on clams living on the ocean floor. Younger clams try to move away when they sense warmer temperature or reduced oxygen levels, but older ...

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Chesapeake Bay: Grass Decline Caused By Storms And Global Warming

Source: iTech Post
Details: Global warming may also be playing a role in the Chesapeake Bay sea-grass loss, especially considering an unusually hot summer in 2010. Despite the reduction, the researchers claim that the Chesapeake Bay is still resilient, and hope that the results ...

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Global Warming Hoax Finally Falling Apart - Canada Free Press

Source: Canada Free Press
Details: If you ever wondered where all those communist and socialist went when the old Soviet Union collapsed—look no farther than the environmental movement—the Global Warming crowd. So now we can expect another campaign to shut up those of us who are, ...

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Pakistan: Clean energy progress too slow to limit global warming, warns IEA

Source: Utility Products
Details: progressing too slowly to limit global warming, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. With power generation still dominated by coal and governments failing. to increase investment in clean energy, top climate scientists have said ...

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Earth Week lectures at Western Nevada College to highlight global

Source: warming ...
Details: Carson Now The lecture on global warming and ways that plants, wildlife and humans living in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin will adapt to climate change will be the focus of a free forum Tuesday, April 23, at Western Nevada College in Carson City. Sponsored by ...

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What needs to happen to pass global warming legislation?

Source: In These Times
Details: Given that neither filibuster reform nor global warming legislation have a chance in the near-term, what's the best path forward? How did Democrats fail to pass cap-and-trade legislation in 2010 despite the relatively tame nature of the bill—and ...

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Commentary - Earth Day is April 22; global warming is occurring

Source: Alexandria Echo Press
Details: Today, the purpose is the same because the problem is the same, but with increased scientific certainty on climate change and its causes (primarily the burning of fossil fuels), global warming has become the new focus. We now know an immediate change ...

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Hot topics in global warming

Source: The Aggie
Details: Day in and day out, the U.S. population is bombarded with controversial opinions and claims about global warming. As with many mainstream scientific issues that implicate mankind of wrongdoing, there appears to be a split in popular belief. There are ...

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Fossil fuel funding 'grossly inconsisent' with warming limits

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Hundreds of billions of dollars in fossil fuel investments would be stranded, triggering a potential economic crisis, if companies continue to invest in fossil fuels while governments introduce stronger policies to limit global warming, a new report ...

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Global Warming Models are Complex

Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Details: The result was a model prediction of small changes in global temperatures for the next 20-30 years, followed by another big acceleration in warming around 2050. This is clearly fodder for GW science deniers and model skeptics. As support to the latter ...

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Lawmakers leave global warming provision out of greenhouse gas permit bill

Source: Dallas Morning News (blog)
Details: But the bill also removed wording from state law that's been in place since 1991 that says state officials should be allowed to control air contaminants if necessary to protect against the adverse effects of "climatic changes, including global warming ...

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What would Thatcher do today about global warming? - Proactive Investors

Source: Proactive Investors UK
Details: What would Thatcher do today about global warming? - This informative tribute by William Waldegrave was published by The Times (UK). Here is the opening: Margaret Thatcher was proud of her scientific training. It was one of the reasons she was ...

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Clean energy progress too slow to limit global warming – report

Source: Firstpost
Details: With power generation still dominated by coal and governments failing to increase investment in clean energy, top climate scientists have said that the target of keeping the global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius this century is ...

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Most Churches Recycle Despite Global Warming Doubts Among Pastors

Source: Christian Post
Details: Researchers surveyed 1,000 Protestant pastors in October 2012 and found that just 43 percent of them agreed with the statement: "I believe global warming is real and manmade." But while a majority (54 percent) of ministers did not agree with the ...

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Global Warming Slowed Down While CO2 Emissions Rose - What's The Rumpus?

Source: Science 2.0
Details: Deniers also can't declare the issue settled and that global warming is not going to happen, it could come roaring back even worse than expected. What we do know is that heat-trapping water vapor models were overly pessimistic - feedbacks are hard to ...

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Republicans become more concerned about global warming

Source: Mother Nature Network
Details: Self-identified Republicans are less likely than Democrats to say global warming concerns them, but while Democrats' global warming anxiety has remained relatively steady, Republicans' worry is climbing. In 2011, just 30 percent of Republicans said ...

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Global warming and Pakistan - The Frontier Post

Source: Frontier Post
Details: Global warming is a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, CFCs, and other pollutants. "Global warming is one of the most ...

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Global Warming Will Cause Mass Starvation, Scientists Claim - iTechPost

Source: iTech Post
Details: "Food production will have to rise 60% by 2050 just to keep pace with expected global population increase and changing demand," Frank Rijsberman, head of the world's 15 international CGIAR crop research centers, said. "Climate change comes on top of ...

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Sandy, Katrina a taste of what globalwarming will bring, UGA ecologist says

Source: Online Athens
Details: No single weather event can be chalked up to global warming — but climate scientists believe that warmer temperatures will fuel bigger and more frequent hurricanes, Porter told a University of Georgia audience of about 100 people Tuesday. "A warmer ...

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

'Chasing Ice' provides global warming evidence

Source: Mother Nature Network
Details: If anyone doubted the existence of global warming, they need look no further than the documentary "Chasing Ice," which, via time-lapse photography, depicts glaciers that are vanishing at an alarming rate. Premiering on National Geographic Channel on ...

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Global report issues 'wake-up call' on fossil fuels and catastrophic warming

Source: Montreal Gazette
Details: Canada and the rest of the world need "strong, credible and long-term commitments" to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gases across the economy and prevent catastrophic global warming, says a new report released Wednesday by the International ...

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Most Pastors Don't Believe in Global Warming

Source: ChristianityToday.com (blog)
Details: A majority of pastors continue to doubt man-made global warming, according to a report by LifeWay Research. The survey found about 4 in 10 Protestant pastors "believe global warming is real and man made" — an increase from similar data collected in ...

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Stubbed Toe? Blame Global Warming...or Fracking

Source: Forbes
Details: Blame Global Warming". In his piece he correctly points out that, whatever one personally believes about theories of anthropogenic "global warming", the credibility of the movement behind those theories suffers greatly due to the actions of climate ...

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Greenland Bets on Mining as Global Warming Hits Fishing Industry

Source: Bloomberg
Details: The 58,000 inhabitants of Greenland, the world's most scarcely-populated nation, are trying to attract offshore funds to develop its energy and mineral resources as changes to global weather systems disrupt fishing patterns and threaten its main source ...

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COLUMN-Cool roofs, New York summers and global warming: Kemp

Source: Reuters
Details: LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) - Converting the world's roofs from dark colours to reflective white would cancel the warming effect of 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide each year for the lifetime of the roof, according to former California Energy ...

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Newly Discovered Methane-Gobbling Material Could Help Stem Global Warming

Source: Science World Report
Details: There may be a new way to reduce the emissions that help spark global warming. Researchers have discovered new materials that can capture methane, the second highest concentration greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere. (Photo : Pixabay) ...

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Global warming slowdown leaves climate scientists struggling to find answers

Source: National Post
Details: The overwhelming consensus on global warming among journalists may be cracking. Last week, the world's most prestigious newsmagazine – The Economist – backed away from its past alarmist position, saying that "If climate scientists were credit-rating ...

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Yes, Let's Please Have More Conversations About Global Warming

Source: Forbes
Details: Two scientist-activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published an article in Science last week calling for more "Climate Change Conversations," as the article was titled. Speaking on behalf of people skeptical of an asserted global warming ...

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Lawrence Solomon: Reuters joins list of global warming skeptics

Source: Financial Post
Details: Why have global warming models failed to predict that temperatures would stop rising? Doyle makes clear that scientists are all over the map on this and other climate change issues. They are unsure as to whether the pause would be short-lived or not ...

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Clean energy progress too slow to limit global warming: report

Source: Reuters
Details: LONDON (Reuters) - The development of low-carbon energy is progressing too slowly to limit global warming, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. With power generation still dominated by coal and governments failing to increase ...

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Unexplainable incompetence: Kerry bonds with Asia over global warming

Source: BizPac Review
Details: Meeting with Chinese officials in Beijing, thoughts of North Korean troops invading its neighbor to the south took second fiddle to a threat Kerry deemed more immediate — "anthropogenic" global warming. And he and his hosts agreed that discussion of ...

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Time to take global warming seriously - Pakistan Observer

Source: Pakistan Observer
Details: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - It is heart-warming that in a world, in which human values — what to talk of human life — have lost all sanctity; there exist people who still worry about such causes as global warming. It tends to restore whatever little ...

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EU lawmakers reject plan to make polluters pay more - GlobalPost

Source: GlobalPost
Details: European lawmakers defied the European Commission Tuesday to vote down controversial plans to make polluters pay more under a scheme designed to cut greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. The European Parliament voted 334 against, with ...

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Research challenges assumptions about global warming effect

Source: Laboratory Products News
Details: Calgary, AB - For years, many scientists believed that forest tree lines on mountains everywhere would shift to higher elevations as the planet's temperature increased due to global warming. It's not that simple, new University of Calgary research has ...

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Guiana Shield Could Be Answer to Fighting Global Warming

Source: Latin American Herald Tribune
Details: INIRIDA, Colombia – Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Guiana, French Guiana and Suriname share the Guiana Shield, the oldest intact tropical forest on the planet, where deforestation and mining are being resisted in the fight against global warming.

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Clean Coal Could be the Solution to Global Warming

Source: RenewablesBiz
Details: Eliminating 99 percent of the pollution from coal, the Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL) technique will have a significant impact on the rate of global warming. The Environmental Protection Agency has found that in 2010, coal-burning power plants ...

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EarthTalk / 4-step plan for US to ease global warming

Source: Westport-News
Details: Step 1 is to cut global warming pollution via "strong legislation that caps carbon emissions and makes polluters pay for the global warming gases they produce." Step 2 involves investing more in green jobs and clean energy. Producing more fuel ...

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Greenhouse gases with short lifespan also add to global warming, NCAR ...

Source: Daily Camera
Details: However, said, Hu, "The cutting of these short-lived climate pollutants only gives us a short-term fix to the increase of global mean temperature and the seal level. If we really want to reduce the global warming effect due to greenhouse gas emissions ...

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Is NASA Wrong About Global Warming? Ex-Employees Speak Out

Source: Nature World News
Details: The government is overreacting to a largely unreal threat of global warming and NASA isn't helping, states a report issued by The Right Climate Stuff (TCRS) research team. Comprised largely of ex-NASA engineers and scientists, the team acknowledges in ...

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Bernie Sanders – Global warming is not a hoax - Red, Green, and Blue

Source: Red, Green, and Blue
Details: It was clear at the hearing that Senator John Barrasso, from coal-producing Wyoming, does not want the EPA to address the global warming crisis. What he wants is for us to continue doing as little as possible as we see extreme weather disturbances ...

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Global warming affects seasonal rainfall patterns - study - Bizcommunity.com

Source: Bizcommunity.com
Details: ... the higher the surface temperature in a region, the more the rainfall. By merging the impact from the two mechanisms, they noted that they could account for nearly 80 percent of the variations in the models' projected rainfall changes from global ...

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Probing the reasons behind the changing pace of warming

Source: On Line opinion
Details: Whatever happened to global warming? Right now, that question is a good way of starting a heated argument. Some say it is steaming ahead. But others say it has stalled, gone into reverse, or never happened at all - and they don't all run oil companies ...

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Climate scientists can't explain global warming slowdown

Source: Irish Independent
Details: Weak economic growth and the pause in warming is undermining governments' willingness to make a rapid billion-dollar shift from fossil fuels. Almost 200 governments have agreed to work out a plan by the end of 2015 to combat global warming.

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Study reveals seasonal patterns of tropical rainfall changes from global

Source: warming
Details: Phys.Org Projections of rainfall changes from global warming have been very uncertain because scientists could not determine how two different mechanisms will impact rainfall. The two mechanisms turn out to complement each other and together shape the spatial ...

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Most pastors doubt global warming, but recycle

Source: BP News
Details: NASHVILLE (BP) -- While many churches are acting "green," the majority of pastors disagree that global warming is real and manmade. The percentage of skeptics has dropped since 2010, but the percentage is still higher than in 2008, according to a ...

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The Economist Cautiously Admits Global Warming Theory Overblown

Source: WEBCommentary
Details: Real world global temperature measurements reveal the lack of any significant climate change over more than a decade is impressively damaging the human-caused-global-warming movement. In fact, so much doubt has now been cast on the false ...

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Big US drought big freak: report

Source: The Japan Times
Details: WASHINGTON – Last year's huge U.S. drought was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming, a new federal science study has found. The report by dozens of scientists from five federal agencies looked into why forecasters didn't see ...

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Global warming most definitely not a hoax - a scientist's rebuttal

Source: Catholic Online
Details: LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - In a recent Catholic Online interview, we heard from a seemingly reputable person (adjunct faculty member Mark Hendrickson) that global warming is a hoax "perpetrated by those who let a political agenda shape ...

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Global warming? It's simply fraud - sceptic

Source: Taranaki Daily News
Details: His theory about global warming is similar: he says there was warming during the medieval period which proves any small degree of warming occurring in modern times is nothing to worry about. "One thousand and fifty-six scientists in 650 institutions in ...

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Global Warming: Why Aren't We Using More Alternative Energy?

Source: Truth-Out
Details: It's clear that global warming and climate change are hitting one of the most pristine places on Earth with unprecedented speed, and it's only going to get worse if we continue to do nothing to curb the biggest threat this planet has ever faced ...

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Report: U.S. Makes 'Messy' Progress on Global Warming Policy

Source: U.S. News & World Report
Details: Despite "political infighting" that has prevented comprehensive policies to fight global warming, the United States has made significant policy progress over the past decade to curb carbon emissions, according to a new report released Monday. A series ...

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Kerry Goes to Asia Over North Korean Threat, Focuses on Global Warming

Source: FrontPage Magazine
Details: As threats from North Korea makes headlines in northeast Asia and around the world, Secretary of State John Kerry, in his weekend visit to the region, gave high priority to a different subject – one that he is passionate about – "anthropogenic" global ...

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Global warming not only environmental issue

Source: Winnipeg Free Press
Details: Global warming is the greatest environmental danger. But so much focus on it has long crowded out other issues. Obama is right to take a wider view. Last month the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rules governing toxic emissions from car ...

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Climate Change Didn't Cause the Big Drought

Source: New York Times (blog)
Details: "I'm an advocate of global warming because science tells me that greenhouse gases have warmed the planet by about 1 degree Celsius in the last 100 years," he said. "But the science also tells that every drought that's occurring isn't a result of ...

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My turn: A wake-up call on global warming

Source: taosnews
Details: Ernie Atencio's recent article in The Taos News on global warming was a wake-up call, if we needed one. His column included an alarming report from the Natural Resources Defense Council which predicted the loss of 50 to 75 percent of yearly snowpack ...

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Global warming: New study suggests short-term focus on transient

Source: greenhouse ...
Details: Summit County Citizens Voice FRISCO — Even without tackling the buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide, cutting methane, tropospheric ozone, hydrofluorocarbons, and black carbon could help limit sea level rise, seen as one of the most serious impacts of global warming. Reducing ...

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NOAA Study Demonstrates Global Warming Over Land is Real

Source: The Green Optimistic (blog)
Details: NOAA Climate Change 300x168 NOAA Study Demonstrates Global Warming Over Land is Real A new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) demonstrates that concerns about global warming over land are legitimate.

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'Unqualified' scientists stand to gain from hysteria of global warming

Source: The Coloradoan
Details: The Soapbox by Professor William Gray in the April 4 Coloradoan points out correctly the news media's eagerness to embrace uncritically the catastrophic global warming scenarios. The Coloradoan is certainly guilty of endorsing the claims of unqualified ...

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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Global warming: When it's hot, we're believers, but in the cold we're

Source: skeptics
Details: MetroNews Canada Right now, you can be forgiven for asking yourself: Whatever happened to global warming? Admit it, when Al Gore and all those scientists were warning us about melting polar ice caps and runaway temperatures, around Prince Albert you were going: "Bring ...

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Changing Rainfall Patterns in Nigeria and Global Warming

Source: AllAfrica.com
Details: It is now very obvious, even to those who had initial doubts about the veracity of the claim by scientists of rising global temperatures, that there is a change in the global climate pattern. Before now, the phrase 'global warming' seemed more like a ...

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Slowdown In Warming No Argument For Policy Change

Source: Hurriyet Daily News
Details: A recent slowdown in the rise of the Earth's surface temperatures has led some commentators to question whether scientists have exaggerated the global warming problem. Scientific advances have removed any reasonable doubt that carbon emissions are ...

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Easterbrook disputes WWU faculty global warming opinions

Source: Bellingham Herald
Details: Check NASA data tampering at http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/data-tampering-at-ushcngiss/. This lies behind all of the false claims that recent global warming is "unprecedented." The authors claim a "vast consensus of the science community." However ...

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Report: global warming not the cause of 2012 drought

Source: Examiner.com
Details: The latest shocker from a federal study released by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) states unequivocally that last year's mid-west drought was not driven by global warming. The report's lead researcher, NOAA's meteorologist ...

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Will Global Warming Slow Down the Boston Marathon?

Source: Discovery News
Details: But some scientists warn that global warming may one day bring an end to faster times at the world's oldest annual marathon. "By the year 2100, the average temperature at Boston will have changed enough to affect race times," said Richard Primack, ...

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Millions in Asia face starvation by 2050 due to global warming

Source: Economic Times
Details: The impending threat of global warming was discussed at two major food security summits being held in Ireland, organised by UN World Food Programme, the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change and the Mary Robinson Climate Justice ...

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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Poll: Americans have become more worried about global warming

Source: Mother Nature Network
Details: The belief that people are contributing to the problem is also back on the rise, the survey found, with 57 percent of Americans saying global warming is caused by human activities, down from the high of 61 percent in 2007, but up from 50 percent in 2010.

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Was the 2012 drought caused by global warming?

Source: Palm Beach Post (blog)
Details: More evidence of global warming? Not according to a federal report released last week. According to the report, prepared by leading scientists, the 2012 drought was more of a freak event. Normally, summer winds blow north from the Gulf of Mexico ...

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Government report: Last year's drought not caused by global warming

Source: NewsNet5.com
Details: The devastating drought that affected a large part of the United States, including Texas and the Central Plains, was being blamed on the increase of man-made CO2 in the atmosphere, otherwise known as global warming. (Since the Earth inconveniently ...

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Global warming will cause starvation of millions in Africa and Asia by 2050

Source: Newstrack India
Details: London, Apr. 14 (ANI): Millions of people might face starvation by 2050 as a result of extreme temperature globally. A report has warned that people in Africa and Asia could also become destitute as staple more than double in price by 2050 as a result ...

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Margaret Thatcher: Global warming provides excuse for 'worldwide, supra ...

Source: Town Hall
Details: In honor of Margaret Thatcher's memory, favorite quotes from the Iron Lady have popped up everywhere. This one came across my Facebook newsfeed: "Global warming 'provides a marvelous excuse for worldwide, supra-national socialism.'" The hundreds ...

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What is Global Warming?

Source: Vancouver Sun
Details: What is Global Warming?What is Global Warming? Category. Entertainment. License. Standard YouTube License. Show more. Show less. Loading icon Loading... Loading icon Loading... Loading icon Loading... The interactive transcript could not be loaded.

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AP Poll: Science doubters agree world is warming

Source: Vancouver Sun
Details: Report. Published on Apr 12, 2013. A new AP/GfK poll shows rising thermometers, flooded New York City subway tunnels, and the drought parched Heartland are proving more convincing to skeptical Americans than scientists' global warming warnings. (Dec.

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EXCLUSIVE: Arctic sea ice loss is related to global warming

Source: Science Recorder
Details: ... (NOAA), the Arctic could face its first ice-free summer ice as early as 2040. The study is the first to show Arctic summers free of ice within the next twenty years, which the team of scientists attribute to rising temperatures related to global ...

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US, China agree climate change working group

Source: GlobalPost
Details: The United States and China will establish a joint working group on climate change, they said Saturday, adding that they had a shared view on the "increasing dangers" of global warming. The two countries "recognise that the increasing dangers presented ...

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US Droughts Not Caused by Global Warming, says Report

Source: NewsPoint Africa
Details: A new finding through a research has explained that the record-high drought that influenced the agricultural production across the Great Plains region last year was not caused by global warming. This is contrary to the initial reasons. Earlier it was ...

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Suffering Fools, But Not Gladly

Source: Akron Beacon Journal (blog)
Details: I searched the Web of Science, an online science publication tool, for peer-reviewed scientific articles published between January first 1991 and November 9th 2012 that have the keyword phrases "global warming" or "global climate change." The search ...

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Sounding alarms or crying wolf?

Source: U-T San Diego
Details: As for this global warming cause d'jour, it doesn't seem too many years ago that climate scientists were warning us of the imminence of another ice age that was going bring doom and gloom to the planet. Seems like global warming showed up just in time ...

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Global warming could bring stronger air turbulence with it

Source: Mother Nature Network
Details: ... altitude dealing with clear-air turbulence, and 1 percent of cruising time in clear-air turbulence of moderate intensity or more. Clear-air turbulence is associated with major air currents called jet streams, which are expected to get stronger as ...

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Canada's Plan to Break the Carbon Bank

Source: Huffington Post Canada
Details: Last summer, 350.org founder Bill McKibben wrote an article for Rolling Stone called "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math." The piece, based on research from the Carbon Track Initiative and backed up by the World Bank and International Energy Agency, ...

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Stewart cautious on climate change

Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Details: As the newly appointed chairman on the House Sub-Committee on the Environment, I have been given oversight over scientific issues regarding environmental policy. None of the issues before my committee is more controversial than global warming, more ...

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Global Warming Means Oceans are Taking the Heat

Source: Environmental Defense Fund (blog)
Details: Here's an update on an issue recently discussed here on EDF Voices. The Economist magazine reaffirmed, again, that our climate is warming due to greenhouse gas pollution, but they also pointed to a curious question within that larger trend. Why had ...

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Global Warming: Drought In 2012 Not Connected

Source: iTech Post
Details: The severe drought that ravaged the nation's midsection in 2012 was apparently not caused by man-made global warming, according to a new federal science study. Rather than blaming global warming, the study points to the reason behind the drought as a ...

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Report: Global Warming Not the Cause of US Drought

Source: Sci-Tech Today
Details: The cause of last year's devastating drought in the central U.S. was a series of freak natural variations in weather that cannot be placed at the feet of global warming, according to an NOAA report. But other scientists say the report didn't take into ...

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Feeling heat of global warming

Source: Windsor Star
Details: China, the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide, is directly feeling the man-made heat of global warming, Canadian and Chinese scientists conclude in the first study to link the burning of fossil fuels to one country's rise in its daily ...

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Government report: Historic drought not caused by global warming

Source: Daily Caller
Details: FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, drought-damaged corn is seen in a field near Nickerson, Neb. A new federal science report looking at last year's Midwestern drought says it was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming.

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Global Warming Impact on Severe Thunderstorm Days in the Future

Source: AccuWeather.com (blog)
Details: Scientists have evidence that global warming should increase CAPE by warming the surface and putting more moisture in the air through evaporation. On the other hand, disproportionate warming in the Arctic should lead to less wind shear in mid-latitude ...

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Global warming: Forest timberline impacts not so clear

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: SUMMIT COUNTY — For residents of high-elevation regions, including Colorado — the impacts of global warming include a potentially radical change in the composition of plant communities. In mountainous areas, the distribution of many species is ...

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Friday, April 12, 2013

Santa Barbara conference tackles skepticism about global warming

Source: Ventura County Star
Details: An oceanographer and former Navy rear admiral said Friday that rising sea levels driven by global warming are now considered a serious threat to national security, but the nation is beginning to get a handle on the issue. "We may do it with duct tape.

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Global Warming Over Land Is Real: CU-Boulder, NOAA Study

Source: Huffington Post
Details: "This shows that global warming over land is real," said Gilbert Compo, a scientist at NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado. "It is not an artifact of the observing system," said Compo, lead ...

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Factors Other than Global Warming Influence Shifting of Mountain Tree Lines

Source: AZoCleantech
Details: Even in a warmer world, local geologic/geomorphic conditions – including slope steepness, exposure and soil depth – will limit trees being established and growing on mountainsides, the research found. The disruption caused by a shifting tree line could ...

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Report: Global warming didn't cause big US drought

Source: Businessweek
Details: WASHINGTON (AP) — Last year's huge drought was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming, a new federal science study finds. Scientists say the lack of moisture usually pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico was the main reason for ...

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Global warming didn't cause drought

Source: Belfast Telegraph
Details: Mr Hoerling used computer simulations to see if he could replicate the drought using man-made global warming conditions. He could not, so that meant it was a random event, he said. Using similar methods, Mr Hoerling has been able to attribute ...

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Global warming may not be happening on the surface, but the oceans are warm

Source: Science Recorder
Details: The debate over global warming and climate change has reached a fever pitch in recent years as both climate scientists and their skeptics have tried to prove one side right over the other, although scientific research heavily favors the former ...

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