Friday, May 31, 2013

Concerted effort needed to overcome global warming

Source: The Star Online
Details: GLOBAL warming is a hot topic these days. From melting glaciers in the Antarctic to rising sea levels worldwide, this phenomenon is something to take heed of seriously. The recent movement of ice to residential areas in some parts of Canada thereby ...

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Obama should back up global warming words with action

Source: Southernminn.com
Details: President Obama's statement on Wednesday night acknowledging the overwhelming scientific consensus of global warming was a clear sign that he understands the urgency of addressing this issue. Given the continued push from big oil and other polluters ...

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The Effects of Global Warming

Source: LiveScience.com
Details: But the overwhelming consensus of researchers today is that global warming is real and is caused by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels that pump carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere ...

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It's hot! Must be global warming ... or not

Source: NBCNews.com (blog)
Details: According to a recent report by the folks at the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC), the percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening dropped 7 points to 63 percent, from fall 2012 to April 2013. The cause, they ...

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CFCs the new villain in global-warming debate

Source: The Province
Details: According to surprising new research from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are responsible for global warming since the 1970s, not carbon dioxide. And researchers at Oxford University say the climate is less sensitive ...

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Consider hybrid technology as possible solution to global warming

Source: Windsor Star (blog)
Details: Automobile emissions contribute significant amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere which causes global warming. This situation became a huge problem when car manufacturers weren't paying much attention about fuel consumption. In 2005 alone ...

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Global warming continues but most extreme projections 'less likely'

Source: India Education Diary
Details: Oxford: A new study led by Oxford University concludes that the latest observations of the climate system's response to rising greenhouse gas levels are consistent with conventional estimates of the long-term 'climate sensitivity', despite a "warming ...

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Rep. McKinley moderates debates on global warming

Source: The Daily Times
Details: David McKinley, R-Wheeling, quizzed a panel of national experts - only about half of them scientists - about the causes of global warming and what to do about it. McKinley has long questioned the science behind global warming. He now acknowledges ...

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Global warming caused by CFCs, not carbon dioxide, study says

Source: Eureka! Science News
Details: Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to a researcher from the University of Waterloo in a controversial new study published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B this week.

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Powerful storms, global warming not connected

Source: OneNewsNow
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Leaders to be judged on climate policies

Source: Sky News Australia
Details: Australia's political leaders are being told their climate policies will affect how they're judged on the world stage when it comes to negotiating a new agreement on global warming. The Climate Institute says the next three years will prove critical ...

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Think Again: Blame the News for the Public's Ignorance About the Climate

Source: Huffington Post
Details: According to the survey, "Among abstracts [of published scientific papers] expressing a position on AGW [anthropogenic global warming], 97.1 percent endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming." Cook and Nuccitelli, who read ...

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A diet of goose flesh may help polar bears survive global warming

Source: The Economist
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Global warming 'caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide'

Source: ANINEWS
Details: "Conventional thinking says that the emission of human-made non-CFC gases such as carbon dioxide has mainly contributed to global warming. But we have observed data going back to the Industrial Revolution that convincingly shows that conventional ...

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Global Warming: Nature's Game, Says MP

Source: French Tribune
Details: Scrutinizer of government policy on climate change, MP Tim Yeo, announced last night that global warming is likely only a natural phase and not a result of human actions. The Commons energy and climate change committee's chairman agreed that the ...

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What Is Global Warming?

Source: LiveScience.com
Details: Though the existence of global warming was once considered controversial, it is now acknowledged as real by an overwhelming majority of researchers throughout the international scientific community, according to the National Aeronautics and Space ...

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Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new

Source: study ...
Details: Phys.Org Chlorofluorocarbons are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to new research from the University of Waterloo published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B this week. This graph shows the predicted ...

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Climate change/ global warming: the first in a series

Source: Sierra Wave
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Honeywell's Low-global-warming Solvent Approved By U.S. Environmental ...

Source: Sacramento Bee
Details: MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., May 30, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that its new low-global-warming-potential solvent for precision cleaning of metal and electronics components has received final approval from the U.S. ...

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Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring '97-Percent Consensus' Claims

Source: Forbes
Details: Global warming alarmists and their allies in the liberal media have been caught doctoring the results of a widely cited paper asserting there is a 97-percent scientific consensus regarding human-caused global warming. After taking a closer look at the ...

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(PR) Global warming caused by CFCs, not carbon dioxide, study says

Source: Wall Street Journal
Details: WATERLOO, ON, May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to new research from the University of Waterloo published in the International Journal of Modern ...

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A quarrel with global warming

Source: Dailybarometer
Details: The newly hired zoology professor hopes to understand why reefs across the globe are disappearing, leaving underwater wastelands where vibrant corals once flourished. He wants to know how these fragile creatures respond to global warming. "Something ...

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Humans may not be responsible for global warming, it may just be a

Source: natural ...
Details: Daily Mail Global warming may not be caused by mankind, the MP who scrutinises government policy on climate change said last night. Tim Yeo, who chairs the Commons energy and climate change committee, accepted that the earth's temperature is rising.

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Forecasts for global warming 'too high'

Source: Express.co.uk
Details: Dr Roger Bodman, from Victoria University, along with Professors David Karoly and Peter Rayner, from the University of Melbourne, have generated what they say are more reliable projections of global warming. The team made their predictions by using a ...

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Global Warming and its Catastrophic Effect on Human's Health

Source: Guardian Express
Details: Global warming has various effects on humans. It is not only a threat to our future health, Global warming has already contributed to more than 150,000 deaths and five million illnesses every year. A team of health and climate scientists at the World ...

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Picketers push global warming agenda at Rogers' office

Source: Lansing State Journal
Details: LANSING — A group of picketers gathered Wednesday outside the Lansing office of U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, to address their concerns about global warming. The group of 10 picketers was organized by Organizing for America, a community ...

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Hidden agenda of global warming conspiracy

Source: The Union of Grass Valley
Details: Advocates of global warming state that man-made green house gases will raise sea levels many feet. Simple math will prove this a lie. The ocean area is over 259 million square miles. To raise oceans 1 inch would require 4,503 trillion gallons of water.

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Scientists Narrow Down Global Warming Estimates for 2100

Source: Science World Report
Details: It is likely that major uncertainty in predicting global warming will remain because of the complication of climate change. A few uncertainties will always exist, for which researchers need to manage the risk of warming with the limited available ...

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Is More Global Warming Hiding in the Oceans?

Source: U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Details: But the HMS Challenger also studied ocean temperatures along the way by dropping thermometers attached to Italian hemp ropes hundreds of meters deep – an effort that has been used as a baseline for global warming in oceans since pre-industrial times.

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Breaking Brad: Snowfall in upstate NY delays global warming summit

Source: Omaha World-Herald
Details: Nancy Pelosi is blaming the IRS scandal on George W. Bush. Now it's important to remember that Pelosi also blames global warming, the Dodgers' lousy start and the poor performance of the new "Star Trek" movie on George W. Bush. * Google and NASA are ...

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Ski corporations take stand on global warming

Source: Wyoming Business Report
Details: Companies that rely on cold weather are understandably up in arms when it comes to the impact of global warming. Consequently, more than 100 ski areas have signed onto the Climate Declaration calling for U.S. policies that capture the economic ...

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The history of global warming

Source: On Line opinion
Details: A few weeks ago I wrote about a book which had not then been published, but would be at the end of April. It seemed interesting enough to order a copy in advance, and I did so. The book is The Age of Global Warming. A History, by Rupert Darwall ...

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National Survey: Nearly 90% Of Americans Say Government Should Act On ...

Source: CleanTechnica
Details: Yet more alarming is that based on current trends we are on track to experience global warming of 4ºC or more, according to the latest research, Dunlop and Kannien pointed out, and that could result in sea level rises of as much as 70 meters (230 feet ...

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Tim Yeo: humans may not be to blame for global warming

Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Details: Tim Yeo: humans may not be to blame for global warming. Humans may not be responsible for global warming, according to Tim Yeo, the MP who oversees government policy on climate change. 560. 315. TelegraphPlayer_10087901 ...

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Why don't we listen to the markets on global warming?

Source: Foreign Policy (blog)
Details: Responding to recent media coverage noting that the insurance industry is basically taking future disasters caused by global warming as a given and that hedge fund investors are looking for ways to capitalize on the effects of climate change, Yale Law ...

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Focus: Who is behind Global Warming (6-9)

Source: Sudan Vision
Details: Sometimes the irony is almost Borat-scale obvious: In early June, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled on a Norwegian research trawler to see firsthand the growing damage from climate change. "Many of the predictions about warming in the Arctic ...

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Watson: Global warming is the result of ignoring nature's limits

Source: The Salem News
Details: Taking everything — including uncertainties — into account, there is a preponderance of evidence to conclude that man is accelerating global warming and altering the climate in dangerous ways. It is time for us — globally — to move much more ...

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'Global warning doesn't concern 40 percent of adult Indians'

Source: Business Standard
Details: Over 40 percent of adult Indians are unconcerned, indifferent or disengaged about global warming, posing a threat to policy implementation on this crucial subject, says a research report by the Yale University. According to the report, supported by ...

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Warming: 6°C unlikely, 2°C nearly certain

Source: Register
Details: Under "business as usual" global warming will almost certainly exceed 2°C by 2100, but the high-end extreme range of warming of 6°C is unlikely to occur. That "good news, bad news" scenario comes from work conducted by Dr Roger Bodman from Victoria ...

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Population and global warming

Source: The Nation
Details: While industrial and eastern bloc nations cut down CO2 emission at least by 5.2 percent below 1990 level, in the US and the developing countries these rose by 12 percent and 30 percent respectively. And since eighty per cent of global warming is due to ...

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NBC Uses Tragedy in Oklahoma to Advance Global Warming Agenda

Source: NewsBusters (blog)
Details: The issue in the global warming debate is if human contributions are to blame, or if this warming is simply part of a meteorological cycle that the Earth goes through, which is largely undecided in the scientific community according to a Manhattan ...

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Global Warming Temperature Increase Range Gets Narrowed

Source: Science 2.0
Details: A recent paper in Nature Geoscience (Energy budget constraints on climate response - Nature Geoscience doi:10.1038/ngeo1836) found that since the rate of global mean warming has been lower over the past decade than previously estimated, models ...

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Global Economic Impact of Global Warming Policy

Source: Heritage.org
Details: By 2100, the global economy would lose more than $100 trillion. Analysis suggests that countries with stronger economies can overcome the challenges posed by warming. Indeed, faster growth would insulate the economy from the negative impacts of global ...

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Okla senator: Liberal media 'trying to exploit'

Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Details: Jim Inhofe, famous for describing human-caused global warming as a man-made "hoax." Inhofe was on climatologists' case early this month when Oklahoma experienced below normal temperatures. "Global Warming Alarmists Should Send Some of their Hot ...

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Scientists narrow global warming range

Source: Science Codex
Details: Dr Roger Bodman from Victoria University and Professors David Karoly and Peter Rayner from the University of Melbourne have generated what they say are more reliable projections of global warming estimates at 2100. Their paper, published in Nature ...

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135-Year-Old Data Helps Understand Climate Change

Source: RedOrbit
Details: Ocean data collected over 135 years ago by the crew of the HMS Challenger oceanographic expedition has helped confirm global warming. Researchers from NASA and the University of Tasmania used the data to provide further confirmation that humans ...

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Grannies unite to fight global warming

Source: The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
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Focus :Who is behind Global Warming (5-9)

Source: Sudan Vision
Details: So far, as I said at the start, environmental efforts to tackle global warming have failed. The planet's emissions of carbon dioxide continue to soar, especially as developing countries emulate (and supplant) the industries of the West. Even in rich ...

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97% global warming consensus meets resistance from scientific denialism

Source: The Guardian
Details: The Skeptical Science survey finding 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming has drawn an incredible amount of media attention. Hundreds of media stories documented our survey and results. Lead author John Cook and I participated in a ...

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American environmentalist Bill McKibben wins Sophie Prize for his fight ...

Source: Washington Post
Details: OSLO, Norway — American environmentalist Bill McKibben has won the $100,000 Sophie Prize for being a mobilizing force in the fight against global warming. The award committee commended McKibben for "building a global, social movement, fighting to ...

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Monday, May 27, 2013

Letter, 5/28: Stop global warming gamble

Source: Lincoln Journal Star
Details: Sadly we are taking the greatest gamble of all time with our children's and our grandchildren's futures -- indeed the futures of the next 50 generations -- because of global warming. Most especially, we are running the risk of condemning the poorest of ...

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NASA uses Century-Old Science to Confirm Global Warming

Source: Clarksville Online
Details: The Challenger expedition measurements also revealed that thermal expansion of sea water caused by global warming contributed about 40 percent of the total sea level rise seen in tide gauges from 1873 to 1955. The remaining 60 percent was likely to ...

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Scientists narrow global warming range

Source: Phys.Org
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World gone cold on global warming

Source: The Nation
Details: While no one could show a causal link, the extreme weather and the terror it unleashed was enough to put global warming on the world's agenda. Now, the political temperature has cooled as the world grapples with more immediate concerns. Hopefully it ...

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Teen Forest Endicott begins project aimed at reversing global warming

Source: OregonLive.com
Details: The goal is to educate everyone about the huge role buildings play in global warming and the trends that must be embraced to reverse the carbon dioxide emissions in the air we breathe, he says. Out of everything going on, he says of the status of ...

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Focus: Who is Behind Global Warming (3-4)

Source: Sudan Vision
Details: How good are these numbers? No one is insisting that they're exact, but few dispute that they're generally right. The 565-gigaton figure was derived from one of the most sophisticated computer-simulation models that have been built by climate ...

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Global warming shown in data from 19th century expedition

Source: iTech Post
Details: As part of their research, the crew of Challenger lowered thermometers hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface. Examination of data from that four-year-long scientific mission lends evidence supporting a rise in global sea temperatures since that ...

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N.Y. 3 Feet of Snow: Reversed Global Warming Causes Unusual Amount of ...

Source: KpopStarz
Details: 3 feet of snow had just fallen in New York over Memorial Day weekend, and the unusual amount of snowfall sparked speculations that say the extreme weather was caused by reversed global warming. While spring weather is the norm for the month of May in ...

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Livestock Research Centre to study global warming and climatic change

Source: The Hindu
Details: The Livestock Research Centre at Thiruvazhamkunnu here will become part of the Worldwide University Network (WUN) consisting of Universities and Research Centres in different countries engaged in the study of global warming and climatic change.

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Researchers make more accurate global warming predictions

Source: Zee News
Details: Researchers make more accurate global warming predictions Melbourne: Australian scientists claimed to have narrowed down the predicted range of global warming which will lead to more accuracy while projecting future level of rise in temperature due to ...

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Researchers make more accurate global warming predictions

Source: Business Standard
Details: The study found 63 per cent of uncertainty in projected warming was due to single sources - such as climate sensitivity, followed by future behaviour of the carbon cycle and the cooling effect of aerosols - while 37 per cent of uncertainty came from ...

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Uncertainty no excuse for procrastinating on climate change

Source: Business Spectator
Details: Today we released research which reduces the range of uncertainty in future global warming. It does not alter the fact we will never be certain about how, exactly, the climate will change. We always have to make decisions when there are uncertainties ...

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Global warming: What about the heat-island effect?

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: FRISCO — For years, anti-science global-warming deniers have claimed the instrumental temperature record that shows steady warming is skewed because of the so-called heat -island effect in urban areas. The instrumental temperature record shows ...

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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Prince Charles: Too "green" to be king?

Source: Enter Stage Right
Details: Meanwhile, British families have seen no global warming trend in 16 years, while their electric bills have doubled to support expensive and unreliable wind turbines. Is Prince Charles now too "green" to be king of Britain? Until recently most Britons ...

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Climate Change: Human Disaster Looms, Says Research

Source: Climate Central
Details: Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialize, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe. The researchers said warming was ...

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Slovenian flyer completes eco-friendly Arctic voyage

Source: GlobalPost
Details: The plane was equipped to measure air pollution over the North Pole -- a hot-spot for global warming -- and Lenarcic said all measurements had gone as planned. While flying over the Arctic, an important indicator of global weather changes, Lenarcic was ...

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Chris de Freitas: Science proves alarmist global warming claims nothing

Source: but ...
Details: New Zealand Herald Negative feedback processes are played down by climate alarmists who assume climate is governed by positive feedback processes which they claim will lead to runaway global warming. Four billion years of global climate history shows that negative ...

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Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: Blaming Turbulent Weather On Global Warming

Source: Is ...
Details: Forbes Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wasted no crisis knowing what and whom to blame following the devastating tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma. Republicans caused it to happen through anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming. "When cyclones tear ...

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Don't blame tornadoes on global warming

Source: Colorado Springs Gazette
Details: When people in the Northeast are freezing in uncommonly cold winters and conservatives cite the low temperatures as "proof" that global warming is not happening, liberals remind everybody that "the science is settled," so the deep cold must be disregarded.

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To the Horror of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here

Source: Forbes
Details: Around 1250 A.D., historical records show, ice packs began showing up farther south in the North Atlantic. Glaciers also began expanding on Greenland, soon to threaten Norse settlements on the island. From 1275 to 1300 A.D., glaciers began expanding ...

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Hay Festival 2013: global warming is 'fairly flat', admits Lord Stern

Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Details: The peer, who first warned the Government of the cost of climate change in his 2006 Stern Report, said that for the last decade global warming has remained stable. "I note this last decade or so has been fairly flat," he told the Telegraph Hay Festival ...

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Start of summer comes 15 days earlier nowadays

Source: GlobalPost
Details: SEOUL, May 26 -- Summer starts a half month earlier and lasts longer compared with 50 years ago due possibly to global warming, the weather agency said Sunday. Summers in the 2000s started on average on May 27, 15 days earlier than those during the ...

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My Turn: Global warming — so who do you believe?

Source: taosnews
Details: The April 25 op-ed titled, "Global warming: An appeal to basic fairness," is factually incorrect and misleading. The article is a bad argument for the fossil fuel industry, as to say don't worry about climate change, pollution is good for you. Contrary ...

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Boxer and Whitehouse Blame Republicans for Oklahoma Tornado

Source: Global Warming (blog)
Details: Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) were quick to use the giant tornado that obliterated Moore, Oklahoma to chastise Republican members of Congress for failing to get on board the global warming bandwagon. Senator James ...

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Solid climate change science as requested (1)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: I really would like to see how they define "solid science," though. To me "solid science" would consist of the 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers published in legitimate science journals since 1991 using the words "global warming" or "global ...

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Global warming poses a number of threats to Bay Area

Source: Marin Independent Journal
Details: Global warming poses a number of threats to Bay Area. Marin Independent Journalmarinij.com. Posted: 05/25/2013 05:50:00 PM PDT. Related. Greenhouse gas; May 25: Report: Plan Bay Area would reduce Bay Area's greenhouse gas emissions, but ...

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Why I think we're wasting billions on global warming, by top British

Source: climate ...
Details: Daily Mail So the time has come to focus on something just as important: that 90 per cent of the measures adopted in Britain and elsewhere since the 1997 Kyoto agreement to cut global emissions are a waste of time and money – including windfarms in Scotland, ...

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From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science?

Source: Salon
Details: Unfortunately, the focus remains mostly on "global warming" instead of on the bigger concern—that we are disrupting the planet's climate in completely unpredictable ways. Because climate prediction includes a significant degree of scientific ...

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Focus :Who is Behind Global Warming (2-4)

Source: Sudan Vision
Details: And in the very next paragraph, it declared that "we agree that deep cuts in global emissions are required... so as to hold the increase in global temperature below two degrees Celsius." By insisting on two degrees – about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit – the ...

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Davey demands EU emissions target

Source: Express.co.uk
Details: The Lib Dem Cabinet minister said the goal was ambitious but achievable as the Government set out its position ahead of efforts to secure a new international deal in 2015 on tackling global warming. But the UK will oppose a European Union wide ...

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The #GOP response to #globalwarming is irrational and dangerous: click here

Source: OpEdNews
Details: These discussions are not moderated. We rely on users to police themselves, and flag inappropriate comments and behavior. In accordance with our Guidelines and Policies, we reserve the right to remove any post at any time for any reason, and will ...

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How much time remains still not clear

Source: Financial Times
Details: Sir, Martin Wolf ("Climate sceptics have already won", Comment, May 22) was quite depressing about the apparent inevitability of global warming proceeding inexorably to the point of life-sustaining system damage. What is still not clear is how much ...

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Finding out what climate adaptation looks like at the local level

Source: Examiner.com
Details: The US disconnect over climate change Amid growing scientific proof that global warming is man-made, we look at why the public gives credence to the sceptics. As scientists become more overwhelmingly convinced that climate change is man-made, why do ...

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Critics: Washington Post used misleading photo to bash coal plant

Source: Daily Caller
Details: Critics are saying that The Washington Post published a misleading photo of a coal plant appearing to spew pollutants to accompany an op-ed about global warming by a liberal columnist. Post columnist Eugene Robinson argued that President Obama ...

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Have the climate sceptics really won?

Source: The Guardian
Details: Lord Lawson, former chancellor of the exchequer and now chairman of climate sceptic thinktank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Photograph: Martin Argles. Earlier this week, Martin Wolf of the Financial Times announced that the "climate sceptics ...

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New York City's Summers May Heat Up

Source: Truthdig
Details: LONDON—If you are a New Yorker, global warming could seriously damage your health. The sweltering summer temperatures of the Big Apple are likely to go on rising through the next six decades, and deaths from heatstroke and other forms of hyperthermia ...

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Friday, May 24, 2013

Pitbull Gets 'Epic': 'You Constantly Have To Defend Your Success'

Source: WVTF
Details: "It's all about a global movement, it being a global market, making global music. So I've gotten a chance to tour the world, learn from so many different cultures, different sounds, foods, dances. And I'd just like to apply that to the music. Global ...

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Asking and Waiting: Seeking Answers to Disrupt the Disease Process of

Source: Global ...
Details: Mother Earth News If this isn't an apt metaphor for global warming, I don't know what is. Only we are the cells who are unwittingly attacking our shared body, planet Earth, by spraying pesticides, draining aquifers, clear-cutting forests, and boosting CO2 levels in the ...

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Century-Old Science Helps Confirm Global Warming

Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Details: Century-Old Science Helps Confirm Global Warming. Drawing of the HMS Challenger survey vessel preparing to measure ocean temperatures by lowering thermometers deep into the ocean on ropes in 1872. A new NASA and University of Tasmania study ...

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Twister: Warming evidence?

Source: Charleston Gazette
Details: Debate erupted between Washington Republicans -- who generally defend polluting industries and deny that manmade "greenhouse gases" are causing global warming that produces ever-worse storms and weather calamities -- and Democrats who hold ...

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Global Warming News: Consensus, Denial, and Rebuttal

Source: Slate Magazine (blog)
Details: A lot of news has bubbled up about global warming over the past few days, and devoting a post to each one would be a) carpal tunnel syndrome-inducing, and 2) depressing as hell. So in the manner of ripping off a Band-aid quickly, here is a torrent of ...

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Murphy's Law

Source: urbanmilwaukee
Details: The National Wildlife Federation predicts increases in water temperature of up to 12 degrees and decreases in water level of up to 8.2 feet for the Great Lakes driven by global warming. That includes Lake Erie, which could drop 4-5 feet by the end of ...

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Global Warming Call To Action

Source: MyMotherLode.com
Details: Mountain View, CA -- Governor Jerry Brown has been crusading for climate change and now he is joining scientists who released a 20-page call to action regarding environmental problems including pollution, extinctions and population growth. Brown says ...

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Ponifasio warms to his Kiribati dance work

Source: Montreal Gazette
Details: MONTREAL — North American coastal dwellers who fear the destructive effects of rising sea levels caused by global warming might well appreciate the far greater threat facing the tiny Pacific island nation of Kiribati. The roughly 100,000 residents of ...

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After Oklahoma City Tragedy, Shameless Politicians Unsheath Global

Source: Warming ...
Details: Somewhat Reasonable - Heartland Institute (blog) Tornado Outbreak Slams Through Oklahoma Not 24 hours passed from the time a devastating tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people including eight children, until shameless global warming activists in Congress began exploiting ...

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Global warming: most extreme projections 'less likely', say Oxford

Source: researchers
Details: domain-B A new study led by Oxford University concludes that the latest observations of the climate system's response to rising greenhouse gas levels are consistent with conventional estimates of the long-term 'climate sensitivity', despite a ''warming pause ...

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Global warming: Study helps quantify how much Alaska's melting glaciers ...

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: The global study involved scientists from 10 countries who combined data from field measurements and satellites to get the most complete global picture to date of glacier mass losses and their contribution to rising sea levels. The findings appear in ...

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Wind turbines: an answer to global warming or an eyesore around Dundee?

Source: Evening Telegraph
Details: Wind turbines — the answer to global warming or an eyesore? Even Donald Trump has had his say, but plans keep coming in — and now a host of new wind turbines have been proposed for the land around Dundee. The Tele can reveal applications for 15 ...

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The Global Warming: a terrible imposition by the US Government

Source: Guardian Express
Details: The only reason to stop the global warming theory is the existence of a rational motivation to punish countries and people with disagree practices, in form of currency taxes in acceptance of a minority group of international banks that advocates with a ...

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Sarah Palin's Facebook Wisecrack on Global Warming Goes Viral

Source: International Business Times AU
Details: To indicate her disbelief in the concept of global warming, former Republican Party vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin posted a naughty remark in her Facebook account. The post, which was a photo of her youngest daughter Piper ...

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Senator Whitehouse and his Idiotic Rant about Global Warming

Source: Texas GOP Vote
Details: Shortly after the devastating and tragic tornado had struck Moore, OK, with its huge loss of life and property, Senator Whitehouse immediately went to the Senate floor to "blame" this event on Global Warming. What level of thoughtlessness and ...

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The Odds of Disaster: An Economist's Warning on Global Warming

Source: PBS
Details: No one can say with any assurance what the dollar value of damages would be from the highly uncertain climate changes that might accompany a planet earth that is steadily warming. Paul Solman: Are headlines trumpeting the fact that carbon dioxide ...

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Global warming is here to stay, whichever way you look at it

Source: The Conversation
Details: Has global warming stalled? This question is increasingly being asked because the local weather seems cool and wet, or because the global mean temperature is not increasing at its earlier rate or the long-term rate expected from climate model projections.

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Mount Everest's glaciers shrinking at increasing rate, say researchers

Source: The Guardian
Details: Global warming is melting snow and ice on the world's highest mountain at an accelerating rate, researchers have claimed. A study by a team led by a Nepali scientist at the University of Milan has found that glaciers on or around Mount Everest have ...

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Report: Global Warming Emissions From Coal-fired Power Plants in U.S. to

Source: Rise ...
Details: Sacramento Bee Global warming emissions from coal-based electricity are projected to continue to increase throughout 2013, as rising natural gas prices encourage more use of coal. The latest projections from the EIA indicate that coal-based generation will increase 8 ...

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Science Group Criticizes Politicians for Global Warming Distortions

Source: New York Times (blog)
Details: It's great to see the Union of Concerned Scientists offering nonpartisan criticism of elected officials for distorting — in both directions — what's known about the role of human-driven global warming on several fronts, from tornado ferocity to ...

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Ninety-nine one-liners to use againt global-warming deniers

Source: Sault Ste. Marie Evening News (blog)
Details: HERE's a great collection of arguments to use against the disinformation campaigns of global-warming deniers. Each of these quick responses is accompanied by a link to a scientific article dealing with the specific subject at issue. You might want to ...

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Misinformation clouds global warming

Source: Norman Transcript
Details: NORMAN — Next spring I will again have to update my lecture on global warming. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is now rising above the 400 ppm level for the first time in perhaps 5 million years — a scenario humans have never experienced. In my Geology ...

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Tornadoes and Global Warming: Is There a Connection?

Source: National Geographic
Details: It sounds intuitive: Of course global warming should lead to more—and more powerful—tornadoes. We're adding energy to the atmosphere by trapping heat with greenhouse gases, and tornadoes are the very picture of terrifying atmospheric energy.

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Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams 'Ambulance Chasing' by Global Warming ...

Source: NewsBusters (blog)
Details: Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, meteorologist Joe Bastardi of Weatherbell Analytics -- formerly of AccuWeather -- argued against the view that global warming is causing more violent tornadoes and compared Democratic ...

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Majority thinks global warming, clean energy should be priorities

Source: RenewablesBiz
Details: Global warming and clean energy should be priorities for Congress and the president, a majority of Americans said in a recent survey. In the survey, released Tuesday by Yale and George Mason universities, 70% of American adults say global warming ...

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Global Warming Solved by a Giant A/C

Source: Guardian Express
Details: We've all heard that the Earth is heating up because of greenhouse gases (GHGs) released by the human race. But scientists are divided about whether global warming is a catastrophe or a hoax. Anyway, gases formerly regarded as the culprits may actually ...

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Old science confirms global warming

Source: ScienceAlert
Details: Ocean measurements taken more than 135 years ago during the scientific expedition of HMS Challenger have provided further confirmation of human-produced global warming over the past century. The researchers also found the thermal expansion of sea ...

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Biden: Global warming, oil transport will challenge Coast Guard

Source: The Hill (blog)
Details: "You graduate into a world where the consequences of global warming offer the possibility of ice-free passage across Arctic regions that didn't exist when you were born — presenting entirely new challenges that will demand greater international ...

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The Warrior Ink: Global Warming: Hot and Heavy Weather Gonna Getcha

Source: my.hsj.org
Details: There may in fact be evidence that global warming contributes to "heavy weather"--storms that are not more frequent but more intense and powerful, like "Super Storm Sandy" and the FE4 tornado that just hit Moore, Oklahoma a few days ago. The ...

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The tropical upper atmosphere 'fingerprint' of global warming

Source: Science Codex
Details: The decline in the strength of the QBO is consistent with computer model projections of how the upper atmosphere responds to global warming induced by increased greenhouse gas concentrations. The study appears in the May 23, 2013, online issue of ...

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Calling out climate change deniers in the media

Source: The Vancouver Observer
Details: The global warming deniers are at it again, and it is high time that the environmental movement in Canada and the United States launched an organized campaign to expose these scientific community charlatans. The mainstream business media, which bows ...

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Leftists Use Oklahoma Tornado to Advance Global Warming Agenda

Source: Hardhatters
Details: Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), who delivers a weekly climate change rant on the Senate floor, slammed Republicans Monday afternoon for not embracing man-made global warming. He answered his rhetorical question of "why do you, Sheldon ...

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Columbia researchers predict an increase of heat related deaths in

Source: Manhattan ...
Details: amNY As many as 1,000 extra weather-generated deaths a year may occur in the borough by the 2080s under the worst case global warming scenario, according to a new joint study by the Columbia University Earth Institute and the Mailman School of Public Health ...

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After Oklahoma City Tragedy, Shameless Politicians Unsheath Global

Source: Warming ...
Details: Forbes Not 24 hours passed from the time a devastating tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people including eight children, until shameless global warming activists in Congress began exploiting the grief and pain of a devastated ...

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More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows

Source: Boston Herald
Details: Q. Is global warming to blame? A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there will be more or fewer twisters as global warming increases. Tornadoes arise from very local conditions ...

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Senator blames global warming for tornado

Source: The Detroit News (blog)
Details: Not hard to believe, but Democratic Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Monday tried to blame global warming for the tragic tornado in Oklahoma. Amazingly, these supposedly smart people are either ignorant of, or refuse to acknowledge, the history ...

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Democrat blames tornado on global warming

Source: WND.com
Details: Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek ...

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Global Warming “Consensus”: Cooking the Books

Source: The New American
Details: The president was cheering on the media-drawn bandwagon for the latest round of global warming "consensus" puffery. John Cook, an Australian blogger/global warming activist, has President Obama and all the usual climate alarmists in academia, the ...

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

'Global warming my gluteus maximus': The Sarah Palin syndrome

Source: RenewEconomy
Details: When Palin was running for national office, she advocated capping carbon emissions and said man's activities contribute to global warming. Over the last half decade, she has swung back to rejecting climate science and embracing carbon emissions: Aug.

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The GOP response to global warming is irrational and dangerous

Source: OpEdNews
Details: At that time temperatures were 5.4 to 7.2 degrees F warmer than now, and sea levels were 16 to 131 feet higher than today. A major cause of global warming is consumption of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas). When burned, these fuels emit carbon ...

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Was It Global Warming?

Source: Daily Beast
Details: On one hand, warmer air can hold more moisture than cool air can, so moisture content will increase with global temperatures. On the other hand, wind shear is expected to decrease as the poles get warmer. Researchers have debated for several years ...

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Pitbull Global Warming Tour 2013

Source: Altsounds.com
Details: Pitbull's new single from his critically-acclaimed album Global Warming is another worldwide smash 'Feel This Moment' featuring Christina Aguilera. The song is the third Top 10 hit from Global Warming which also includes his global smash "Don't Stop ...

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Reader objects to global warming post, says consensus was against Galileo

Source: Reno Gazette Journal (blog)
Details: The former "global warming" / now "climate change" hypothesis does not meet

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Barbara Boxer blames global warming for Oklahoma tornado, calls for carbon

Source: tax
Details: Examiner.com When I had my hearings, when I had the gavel years ago — it's been a while — the scientists all agreed that what we'd start to see was extreme weather," she said, despite reports that global warming stopped in 1998. "Carbon could cost us the planet ...

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Sarah Palin: 'Global Warming My Gluteus Maximus' - The Inquisitr

Source: The Inquisitr
Details: Though it won't come as a surprise to many, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin doesn't really buy the global warming argument. Over the weekend, Palin highlighted the issue on her Facebook, pointing to the fact that was snowing in Alaska in May ...

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R.I. Democrat uses Okla. tornado to bash GOP on global warming from

Source: Senate ...
Details: Examiner.com Contact Email2. Contact Url. Subscribe to Blog. Remember my Info. On Monday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., used the tragedy of a tornado that struck Moore, Okla., to bash the GOP on global warming from the Senate floor, the Daily Caller reported.

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UKIP's popularity will stop action to prevent global warming, warns Ed Davey

Source: Express.co.uk
Details: UKIP's popularity will stop action to prevent global warming, warns Ed Davey. THE popularity of Ukip risks undermining action on global warming, because of the eurosceptic party's "saloon bar" views on climate change, Energy Secretary Ed Davey warned ...

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More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows

Source: Businessweek
Details: A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there will be more or fewer twisters as global warming increases. Tornadoes arise from very local conditions, and so they're not as influenced ...

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Keown guest column: Global warming is more than a 'fad'

Source: Laramie Boomerang
Details: When Gene Watson first took his anti-climate change position to the local newspaper to put down the 98 percent of the thousands of atmospheric scientists who believe in global warming and that we are causing the warming, I told him about the National ...

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Global Warming Scare Sinking Under Weight Of Science News

Source: Investor's Business Daily
Details: It must have pained the BBC, which has done its part to ring loudly the global warming alarm, to report that the study's "authors calculate that over the coming decades global average temperatures will warm about 20% more slowly than expected." ...

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Global warming likely to be slower than predicted - Zee News - India

Source: Zee News
Details: ... cent more slowly than expected over the coming decades, scientists have predicted. The recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term, scientists said. Global warming likely to be slower than ...

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Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought

Source: Pakistan Daily Times
Details: Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought. * Less extreme warming seen over 50-100 years * Oceans may be absorbing more heat than was thought. OSLO: Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown ...

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Global perils of dirt, glaciers and lizardocalypse overblown, say boffins

Source: Register
Details: A trio of new studies out this week have undermined three of the basic ideas underpinning the belief that the world is facing imminent doom as a result of human carbon emissions and perhaps-associated global warming in past decades. It would seem that ...

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Global warming likely to be slower than predicted

Source: Economic Times
Details: The recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term, scientists said. They said there has been an unexplained "standstill" in the heating of the Earth's atmosphere since 1998. Researchers say this ...

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Extreme global warming seen further away than thought

Source: Moneycontrol.com
Details: Extreme global warming seen further away than thought. The rate of global warming has slowed after strong rises in the 1980s and 1990s, even though all the 10 warmest years since reliable records began in the 1850s have been since 1998. Source: ...

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Global warming? Not so fast

Source: Daily Caller
Details: New research suggests that the standstill in global temperature increases since 1998 means that global warming will be less severe than originally predicted in the coming decades as temperature estimates are adjusted downwards. "The most extreme ...

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Fact Checker: Global-warming consensus based on weak survey?

Source: Reno Gazette-Journal
Details: Earlier this year, record high temperatures triggered scores of wildfires across Australia. Extreme weather events are expected to increase with global warming. In this Jan. 4, photo provided by the Holmes family, Tammy Holmes and her grandchildren ...

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Recent Slump in Global Warming Would Lead to Lower Rise in Temperatures ...

Source: Jagran Josh
Details: Researchers in the month of May 2013 found that recent slump in global warming would lead to lower rise in temperatures in short-term. Since the year 1998, there has remained unexplained stagnation in heating of the atmosphere of Earth. The researchers ...

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Global Warming to exacerbate Heat related deaths, more storms for New York

Source: Bay Area Indymedia
Details: The residents of Manhattan and New York are already feeling the effects of global warming after experiencing Hurricanes Irene and Superstorm Sandy. But more is in store with more frequent large storms, rising sea levels, and higher temperatures and ...

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Nanaiah raises concern over global warming - Deccan Herald

Source: Deccan Herald
Details: MLC M C Nanaiah stressed the need for conserving forest to check rise in global warming. With the deforestation, the temperature is on rise. Speaking at the silver jubilee celebrations of Ponnampet College of Forestry, he said all the graduates of the ...

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Dire outlook despite 'pause' in global warming

Source: Herald Sun
Details: A GLOBAL warming "pause" over the past decade may invalidate the harshest climate change predictions for the next 50 to 100 years, a study says. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, an international team of climate scientists said a slower rate of ...

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Global Warming Slowdown Reveals Extreme Predictions Not as Likely for ...

Source: Science World Report
Details: Is global warming slowing down? To some extent, it is. Scientists have revealed that the most extreme predictions of global warming are not likely to happen-at least in the short term. Yet the Earth is still likely to see a temperature rise that's ...

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Global warming is displacing BC's iconic fish species

Source: Vancouver Sun (blog)
Details: Global fisheries are increasingly dominated by tropical and sub-tropical fish as warm-water species expand their range toward the Earth's poles in response to rising temperatures, said William Cheung, co-author of the study published in Nature this week.

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Dire outlook despite global warming 'pause': study

Source: AFP
Details: PARIS — A global warming "pause" over the past decade may invalidate the harshest climate change predictions for the next 50 to 100 years, a study said Sunday -- though levels remain in the danger zone. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, ...

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Plants are fighting back against global warming

Source: GMA News
Details: It seems that plants aren't taking this whole global warming business sitting down: new research shows that at least some plants are finding ways to fight back. This is despite the dire projections of how global warming may wipe out as much as one ...

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New reports suggests global warming could be slower than first thought

Source: ABC Online
Details: A new report says the planet may be warming slower in the short-term than had been previously projected. The study published in the journal Nature Geoscience reveals that while the world has experienced its hottest decade since records began, the rate ...

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Global warming likely to be slower than predicted

Source: Hindu Business Line
Details: Global average temperatures will warm about 20 per cent more slowly than expected over the coming decades, scientists have predicted. The recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term, scientists said.

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Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought

Source: NDTV
Details: email. Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought. Oslo: Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on ...

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Melting Arctic requires global action - The Nation

Source: The Nation
Details: The agenda of the meeting had nothing to do with stopping global warming, which, in 2012 alone, caused the melting of a portion of theArcticSealarger than the entire area of theUnited States. Rather, the meeting was about nothing less than ownership of ...

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Minnesota State Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen Claims Global Warming is 'United ...

Source: Opposing Views
Details: "The latest facts from CPAC show that in the last sixteen years there's been no global warming," said Gruenhagen, while not revealing CPAC's financial ties to big oil companies. According to ThinkProgress.org, Gruenhagen also claimed that green energy ...

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Global warming likely to be slower than predicted, scientists say

Source: Financial Times
Details: But the new findings on one of the most contentious topics in climate science – the slowdown in global warming over the last decade – show that, in the long term, temperatures are still likely to rise to potentially dangerous levels of more than 2°C ...

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Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming 'not as likely'

Source: BBC News
Details: Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. Since 1998, there has been an unexplained "standstill" in the heating of the Earth's atmosphere. Writing in Nature Geoscience, the ...

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Lid lowered on global warming rate

Source: New Zealand Herald
Details: Global warming is shrinking the environments of polar bears and threatening low-lying island nations. Photo / Supplied. New research from Oxford University shows the rate of global warming has been lower over the past decade than it was previously.

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Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought

Source: Reuters
Details: OSLO (Reuters) - Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on Sunday. Warming is still on track, however, to breach a goal set ...

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Dire outlook despite global warming 'pause': study

Source: NDTV
Details: Because of the hiatus, warming in the next 50 to 100 years "is likely to lie within the range of current climate models, but not at the high end of

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What the deniers of global climate change must deny (1)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: If you are a global warming denier you need to pretend the world's ice isn't melting at a furious and unprecedented pace. A recent study found that about 3.6 million years ago, "The Arctic experienced an extended period of warm temperatures -- before ...

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Who's Paying the Price for Global Warming?

Source: Scientific American
Details: So who's paying the price for all these global warming impacts? It might seem like insurers are most at risk. Indeed, insurers did pay out some $33 billion in climate-related damages last year in the U.S. alone. But it turns out that bearing the brunt ...

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Warming to take longer in reaching forecast levels - Sydney Morning Herald

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Details: Modelling by an international team of climate scientists has found that despite lower rates of global warming over the past decade, previous estimates of long-term temperature rises if carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is doubled can still be expected.

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Global warming's reluctant poster child

Source: Pique Newsmagazine
Details: When a report warning of global warming's disastrous impacts on skiing garnered national headlines in December, activists hoped the news would encourage a serious response both at home and in Washington, D.C. But the ski industry itself, where bad ...

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Global Warming is Man Made

Source: Guardian Express
Details: In the past, I'd read articles about the recently published article "Survey finds 97% of climate science papers agree warming is man-made," but the importance of it all didn't click. I was raised like the typical city dweller. My home lacked a true ...

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Scientists agree on global warming

Source: The Virginian-Pilot
Details: The attack on the notion of global warming takes many forms, but a particularly pernicious one argues that scientific consensus on the subject is a myth. That charge has been made so many times by so many global warming deniers that 60 percent of ...

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Sarah Palin: 'Global warming my gluteus maximus'

Source: BizPac Review
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What the deniers of global climate change must deny (2)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: "According to several leading climate scientists and public health researchers, global warming will lead to higher incidence and more intense versions of disease. The direct or indirect effects of global warming might intensify the prevalence of ...

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Why Canada should back Antarctica North

Source: Globe and Mail
Details: More business is coming to the Arctic, like it or not, courtesy of global warming, an issue that leaves the Harper government largely indifferent. Global warming is altering the geography of the Arctic, making it easier for shipping, drilling, mining ...

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Is Climate Change Increasing Tornado Intensity? - Huffington Post

Source: Huffington Post
Details: While most climate scientists agree that global warming is driving record heat waves, widespread drought, heavy rain and floods, intense hurricanes, and even monster snowstorms, tornadoes — at least for now — are a different story. "With tornadoes ...

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What's new with leadership

Source: Philippine Star
Details: Global terrorism has heightened uncertainty. Political landscapes have changed, especially when a young leader installed into power is threatening to fire their nuclear weapons on their neighbors. Global warming has caused scarcity of resources, and ...

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Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist

Source: Tehran Times
Details: Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist. Damian Carrington. On Line: 18 May 2013 14:53. In Print: Sunday 19 May 2013. Print · E-mail. Font Size Larger Font Smaller Font. Professor James Hansen first alerted the ...

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The US disconnect over climate change

Source: Aljazeera.com
Details: But in the process they are giving that two or three percent 50 percent of the coverage and actually creating a false balance and false perception that there is a big divide among climate experts about the cause of global warming. Dana Nuccitelli ...

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Climate Warnings, Growing Louder

Source: New York Times
Details: The news that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the most important global warming gas, have hit 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years increases the pressure on President Obama to deliver on his pledges to limit this ...

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97 percent of scientific studies agree on manmade global warming, so what

Source: now?
Details: Washington Post (blog) The authors* of the study (Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature), who painstakingly sifted through nearly 12,000 academic journal article to reach their conclusion, say they hope their results bridge ...

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Obama Tweets Study Of 97% Scientific Consensus On Manmade Warming ...

Source: ThinkProgress
Details: First, on Wednesday a study came out that found 97% consensus on human-caused global warming in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. It was by our friends at Skeptical Science, John Cook and Dana Nuccitelli. Then on Thursday, President Obama ...

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EU to dial back measures against global warming

Source: GlobalPost
Details: The European Union, which has spearheaded efforts to curb global warming, is set to adopt a change of focus in response to concerns over costs and the impact on companies in economically depressed Europe. Under the change, the European Uniln will ...

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Aerosmith Adds Latin American Dates to Global Warming Tour

Source: Rock Square
Details: The tireless travelers in Aerosmith, having already taken their Global Warming tour to the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, have just announced plans to extend their vacation with a quick Latin American jaunt this fall. The band will ...

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Out of 11944 peer-reviewed climate papers, 97.2% agree on man-made

Source: global ...
Details: Treehugger (blog) A new meta-study by John Cook et al titled "Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature" tells us what a lot of us already knew; that there's a scientific consensus on human-caused global warming in peer ...

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To heat or eat? That's the EU's question - Vancouver Sun

Source: Vancouver Sun
Details: For a growing number of Europeans, their continent's global warming policies have forced them to decide whether to heat their homes or buy food. In short they must choose whether to "Heat or Eat," which was the title of a talk by a British climate ...

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LETTER: Pooh-Poohs Global Warming

Source: Hartford Courant
Details: In contrast to the notion that the concentration of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) reaching 400 ppm is an important milestone [May 16, Robert Thorson column, May 16, "The Mark You Don't Want to Hit"], some scientists have recently been downplaying the warming ...

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Global Warming melting Mount Everest glaciers, researchers say

Source: Business Mirror
Details: A WARMING climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth's highest peak by 13 percent in the last 50 years, researchers have found. Rocks and natural debris previously covered by snow are appearing now as the snow ...

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Japan revises global warming measure law

Source: Press Trust of India
Details: STAFF WRITER 12:36 HRS IST. Tokyo, May 17 (Kyodo) Japan's parliament revised a law today concerning measures to combat global warming, to create a new plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The government intends to produce by this fall the ...

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Friday, May 17, 2013

The Debate is Over: 97 Percent of Climatologists Agree Global Warming Is

Source: Real
Details: Opposing Views The study looked only at papers published by scientific journals in order to weed out political persuasion and found 12,000 papers about global warming. Of those, 4,000 papers discussed the causes of global warming. The researchers then read the papers ...

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Experts: Increased rate of weather disasters in Ohio linked to global

Source: warming
Details: Chillicothe Gazette Julian Boggs, state policy advocate for the green group, said that although no specific weather event can be linked to global warming, the increase of global temperatures from carbon emissions makes it more likely for these events to occur. "The ...

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Blue crabs in Maine? Something fishy about global warming.

Source: Alaska Dispatch
Details: Between 1970 and 2006, the global-average catch temperature increased by 0.19 degrees C per decade. As global averages do, the figure masks significant regional differences. For the North Pacific and the northeastern Atlantic, the catch temperature ...

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Climate scientists agree: Humans cause global warming

Source: Register
Details: As the title of Cook's book implies, he adheres to the consensus view that anthopogenic global warming (AGW) is a fact. He also maintains the website Skeptical Science, which describes its goal as being "to explain what peer reviewed science has to say ...

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Global warming measure law to be revised to make way for new plan

Source: The Japan Daily Press
Details: The law for global warming measures has been revised by Japan's Parliament in order to create a new plan to reduce greenhouse emissions. This revised plan needs to be finalised by fall in order to replace the guidelines to accomplish the Kyoto Protocol ...

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Study: 97 percent Agreement on Manmade Global Warming

Source: Kitsap Sun
Details: The study looked at peer reviewed research that mentioned climate change or global warming. Peer review is the way that scientific journals approve research papers that are submitted. In peer review, group of scientists that weren't involved in the ...

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Fiji's villagers move uphill to escape global warming's rising seas

Source: Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Details: ... the villagers of Newtok, Alaska are also preparing to leave for higher ground, becoming the first US community to be forced to relocate, though in their case the problem is as much the instability of the ground beneath their feet, as global warming ...

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New Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is

Source: Real ...
Details: Slate Magazine (blog) A new study has just come out that looked at nearly 12,000 professional scientific journal papers about global warming, and found that—of the papers expressing a stance on global warming—97 percent endorse both the reality of global warming and the ...

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Scientists Agree Overwhelmingly on Global Warming. Why Doesn't the

Source: Public ...
Details: New York Times (blog) Climate scientists agreed that humans cause global warming in 97.1 percent of the published papers that discuss the issue. While similar studies have been carried out before, none has included as many peer-reviewed works, explained Mr. Cook in this ...

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Has global warming stalled?

Source: BBC News
Details: ... a standstill since 1998. The BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin hears from climate sceptics who are saying they were right to question the science behind global warming. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday 17 May 2013.

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Global Warming Pioneer Says Melting Ice May Cool North Atlantic

Source: Businessweek
Details: Greenland ice melting at an expanding pace may begin cooling the North Atlantic and increasing the severity of storms by 2075, said James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who raised concerns about global warming in the 1980s. "If we stay on this path ...

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Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist

Source: The Guardian
Details: Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist. Prof James Hansen, who first alerted the world to ...

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New Secretary of Energy Can Reduce Global Warming Pollution with

Source: Efficiency ...
Details: Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Issuing strong efficiency standards, and updating them regularly, has proven to be a powerful and cost-effective approach to saving energy on a broad scale, reducing global warming pollution and saving money for consumers and businesses. However ...

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The level of heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere has passed the

Source: dangerous ...
Details: AMERICAblog (blog) Even though this is just an "odometer reading" event — like when your car goes from 99,999 miles to 100,000 — this global warming milestone is a big number and a big deal. The earth has not seen levels like this in at least three million years.

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Survey finds 97% of climate science papers agree warming is man-made

Source: The Guardian
Details: In 2004, Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of 928 peer-reviewed climate papers published between 1993 and 2003, finding none that rejected the human cause of global warming. We decided that it was time to expand upon Oreskes' work by performing a ...

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Google and Nasa unveil superfast quantum computer that could cure

Source: diseases ...
Details: Daily Mail Google and Nasa unveil superfast quantum computer that could cure diseases, stop global warming and even learn to drive a car. The D-Wave computer is 3,600 times faster than a normal computer; It's classed as a 'quantum computer' because it uses qubits ...

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North Pole Moves, Global Warming Blamed, But Is It Climate Change Or ...

Source: The Inquisitr
Details: As the North Pole moves Global Warming is already be blamed. But is this climate change or an unknown factor in the Chandler Wobble? The North Pole moving is being blamed on global warming by scientists who noted the average change in the Chandler ...

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Blue crabs in Maine? Something fishy about global warming.

Source: Christian Science Monitor
Details: Warming oceans are changing the mix of species in the world's fisheries, according to a new study. Marine-ecosystem models have indicated that this could be an effect from global warming. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer / May 16, 2013. Lobsterman Mike ...

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NEW YORK, NY – Global warming will only be brought under control by deep…

Source: Macleans.ca
Details: NEW YORK, N.Y. – Global warming will only be brought under control by deep international collaboration and intense investment in technology — not yelling on street corners, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says. Harper was in New York all day Thursday, ...

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Everest Ice Shrinking Fast, Scientists and Climbers Say

Source: National Geographic
Details: Everest isn't the same mountain it was when Jim Whittaker became the first U.S. climber to summit the peak in 1963. The world's highest peak has been shedding snow and ice for the past 50 years, possibly due in part to global warming, new research says.

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Global Warming Spreads West Nile Virus Further Than Ever - iTechPost

Source: iTech Post
Details: Global warming is pushing the limits of environment, spreading dreadful bugs worldwide into areas never present before. West Nile Virus is spread by mosquitoes which become infected when they feed on infected birds. Infected mosquitoes then spread WNV ...

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It's official! Humans caused global warming

Source: Zee News
Details: It`s official! Humans caused global warming Melbourne: A comprehensive analysis of 4,000 studies on climate change published over last 21 years has revealed an overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that humans are to blame for global ...

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Why Warming Oceans Could Mean Dwindling Fish

Source: TIME
Details: It's easy to forget that global warming doesn't just refer to the rising temperature of the air. Climate change is having an enormous, if less well understood, impact on the oceans, which already absorb far more carbon dioxide than the atmosphere. Like ...

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Global warming risks still causing confusion

Source: gulfnews.com
Details: Oslo: Ninety-seven per cent of scientists say global warming is generally man-made but a wide public belief that experts are divided is making it harder to gain support for policies to curb climate change, an international study showed on Thursday. The ...

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It's official! Humans caused global warming

Source: Hindu Business Line
Details: A comprehensive analysis of 4,000 studies on climate change published over last 21 years has revealed an overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that humans are to blame for global warming, researchers claim. The study is the most ...

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Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer ...

Source: ThinkProgress
Details: A new survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers by our citizen science team at Skeptical Science has found a 97 percent consensus in the peer-reviewed literature that humans are causing global warming. Lead author John Cook created a ...

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Consensus Confirmed: 97 Percent of Climate Papers Agree on Manmade

Source: Global ...
Details: Huffington Post It should finally put to rest the claims of climate deniers that there is a scientific debate about global warming. Of course, this bunch isn't known for being reasonable or susceptible to facts. But maybe the mainstream media outlets that have given ...

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Study consensus for global warming

Source: Herald Sun
Details: A REVIEW of thousands of studies published over 21 years found "overwhelming" and growing consensus among scientists that humans are mostly to blame for global warming, its authors said Thursday. This contradicts a widely held view that scientists are ...

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Global warming: Mt. Everest's glaciers melting away

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: FRISCO — Even at the frozen roof of the world in the mighty Himalaya, global warming is evident. The snow line in the Mt. Everest region has moved uphill by 180 meters (590 feet). Glaciers in the region are shrinking, some by as much as 13 percent in ...

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Global Warming was NEVER Scientific - Nolan Chart

Source: Nolan Chart LLC
Details: Compare this now to the Theory of Global Warming. While the theories of natural science and chemistry have minutely accurate mathematical definitions as fundamental "causes," where are such causes and constants anywhere in the Theory of Global ...

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Global warming, wind turbines, spin masters

Source: Shoreline Beacon
Details: Global warming, climate change, weather change or whatever the spin masters will decide to call it tomorrow has been occurring even before mankind knew they were living on planet earth. But it has become a weapon used for big profits for governments ...

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Scientists agree global warming is man-made

Source: Financial Times
Details: An overwhelming majority of scientists agree humans have caused global warming, according to a study of scientific literature produced over the past two decades that claims to be the most comprehensive of its kind. The findings fly in the face of ...

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Power Plant Global Warming Suit Dismissed by Federal Court

Source: POWER magazine
Details: A three-judge panel at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that alleges carbon dioxide emissions by several power companies contributed to global warming that intensified Hurricane Katrina. The 5th ...

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Scientists say united on global warming, at odds with public view

Source: Reuters AlertNet (blog)
Details: OSLO, May 16 (Reuters) - Ninety-seven percent of scientists say global warming is mainly man-made but a wide public belief that experts are divided is making it harder to gain support for policies to curb climate change, an international study showed ...

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Global warming may leave Mount Everest without glaciers

Source: Tehran Times
Details: While it is easy to point the finger at global warming as the cause, Thakuri admits that no definitive link has been established between rising greenhouse gases and the glacier melts in the Himalayas. The Geophysical Union went on to say that Thakuri ...

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World's fish are migrating to escape global warming

Source: New Scientist
Details: Now, Pauly and colleagues have found that the mix of fish in all the world's major fisheries has changed since 1970, as fish that prefer warmer waters move in. The average temperature preference of fisheries has risen by nearly 1 ºC in temperate regions.

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Appeals court dismisses Katrina-related global warming lawsuit

Source: Jackson Clarion Ledger
Details: A federal appeals panel has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a group of Mississippi Gulf Coast residents and landowners who alleged that emissions by energy companies contributed to global warming, which intensified Hurricane Katrina, which, ...

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Snow falls in May as UK faces another summer washout

Source: The Week UK
Details: The Telegraph says: "One theory is that the jet stream is being pushed south by melting ice from the Arctic, caused by climate change. Global warming also means warmer seas, that means more water evaporating, and hence more moisture in the air and ...

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Global warming causes North Pole shift: Study - Zee News - India

Source: Zee News
Details: ... causes North Pole shift: Study Zee Media Bureau Texas: A new study that has been published in the Geophysical Research Letters, has found that the location of the earth's geographic poles is changing due to global warming. Global warming causes ...

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Arctic Nations Debate Future

Source: Discovery News
Details: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is among the dignitaries convening in Sweden today for the biennial meeting of the Arctic Council – an eight-nation gathering that is attracting greater global interest as a warming Arctic presents challenges and ...

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