Thank goodness for the courts...
White House Change to Clean Air Act Blocked
A federal appeals court Wednesday blocked new rules by the Bush administration that would exempt companies from installing state-of-the-art air pollution controls when they modify or expand their plants.
Humanity is engaged in a perilious experiment with their atmospheric chemistry in which ignorance is not bliss.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Soot 'makes global warming worse'
The effects of soot in changing the climate are more than most scientists acknowledge
"CLIMATE CHANGE isn't just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues. It's the issue that -- unchecked -- will swamp all others."
Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / `Rewiring' the world's energy
Again the complexity of climate change becomes apparent. Sub-systems in the global climatic system may shift to another state - leading to highly variable regional changes in climate. In this case, changes in the saltiness of the Atlantic may lead to colder temperatures in Europe and New England. This is entirely consistent with what has perhaps been misdescribed as "global warming" on the basis of a higher average global temperature. However, it appears to be emerging that greater variability and climatic extremes in multiple directions (hotter or colder, wetter or drier) is at least as serious of threat to global ecological sustainability and human societies.
Boston.com / News / Nation / Saltier Atlantic may help decipher global warming
Researchers announced yesterday that the tropical Atlantic Ocean is much saltier than it was 50 years ago, a discovery that may help shed light on a poorly understood climate system that could have implications for global warming.
President Bush's climate change policy - or lack thereof - is increasingly isolated from even fringe science and his position is becoming ever more scientifically untenable. His intransigence makes him a very dangerous man.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | US science body warns on climate
One of the most influential US science organisations dedicated to studying the Earth and its environment says human influence on the climate is increasing.
Hey, anyone notice it is getting hotter, and climate is more unpredictable? It is pretty easy to suppose humans are above the natural world. We shall see how prevalent that believe is when average temperatures creep up a few more degrees; devastating ecosystems, farmland and ocean communities.
U.N. Says 2003 3rd Hottest Year on Record
"The year 2003, marked by a sweltering summer and drought across large swaths of the planet, was the third hottest in nearly 150 years..."
The magnitude of human cultural and social processes upon ecological systems has not been adequately appreciated. We have a long history of diminishing the global ecological system.
Humans began altering the climate 8,000 years ago, long before the industrial revolution, claims a leading climate scientist.
Massive complexity in global climatic systems and human caused change defy simple explanation. This is why it is important to educate people regarding the fact that climate change will have different impacts in different regions. It is entirely possible if not likely that as average global temperatures increase, climatic sub-systems will change their processes and rates in ways that dramatically impact a particular region - either making it more cold, hotter, drier, wetter, etc. There is no contradiction in the fact that climate change may well chill Europe while greening the Arctic. Indeed, the speed and degree to which climate may oscillate has potentially catestrophic implications.
The Daily Telegraph | Global warming to chill Europe
WESTERN Europe may actually get colder as a result of global warming, because the melting Arctic ice cap is cooling off the warm ocean current that is largely responsible for Europe's mild weather
Emperor Bush is on the wrong side of history. Should he continue to obstruct global climate change policy he will be vilified by posterity. Never has there been a more corporate controlled, anti-environmental American leader. Ecological devastation is real, is happening now, and is the political, social,
economic and ecological challenge of all time.
As nations from around the world gather in Milan for the next round of Kyoto Protocol talks, environmental groups confirmed that the multilateral effort to combat climate change is alive and kicking, despite the efforts of the Bush Administration to kill it.
