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23/5/2013
I was optimistic when I began reading the Washington Post op-ed on
climate change by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), current chairman of the House
Science Committee. He began with a plea for a thoughtful and objective discussion of
climate science. ...
22/5/2013
The global warming deniers are at it again, and it is high time that the environmental movement in the United States and Canada launched an organized campaign to expose these scientific community charlatans.
The mainstream business ...
22/5/2013
Organizing for Action - a group that formed out of President Obama's re-election campaign - has posted five tweets in the past week about
climate change using the @BarackObama Twitter account.
OFA's mission is to promote the president's ...
22/5/2013
Barack Obama’s advocacy group, Organizing for Action, has been calling out Republican
climate skeptics in Congress, but
climate activists are not impressed. They`re planning to crash OFA events and push the group to fight the Keystone XL ...
22/5/2013
Bill Nye may be known as the
Science Guy, but his Twitter feed reveals that he has another interest -- politics.
Early Tuesday morning Nye wondered what Oklahoma senator and well-known
climate change denier Jim Inhofe thought about the ...
22/5/2013
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 ...
22/5/2013
The Oklahoma twister was a 'classic look`, but the data shows we are experiencing more volatility in the US tornado season.
Oklahoma National Guard Soldiers and Airmen respond to a devastating tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., ...
22/5/2013
As I explained earlier this week, questions related to any impact of human-driven global warming on tornadoes, while important, have almost no bearing on the challenge of reducing human vulnerability to these killer storms. The focus on the ...
22/5/2013
UCLA life scientists provide important new details on how
climate change will affect interactions between species in research published online May 21 in the Journal of Animal Ecology. This knowledge, they say, is critical to making accurate ...
21/5/2013
For the third time, Gov. Christie has refused to link
climate change and Sandy.
"I don't think there's been any proof thus far that Sandy was caused by
climate change,' Christie said yesterday in response to a question from a reporter ...
20/5/2013
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 ...
19/5/2013
File this one under unintended consequences. Angelina Jolie, by announcing her preventative double masectomy, will likely have significant influence well beyond women’s health. By modeling how to think with data when data do not tell us what we ...
19/5/2013
Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, 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 ...
19/5/2013
Major international oil companies are buying off governments, according to the world's most prominent
climate scientist, Prof James Hansen. During a visit to London, he accused the Canadian government of acting as the industry's tar sands ...
19/5/2013
On Wednesday night, Minnesota State Representative Glenn Gruenhagen (R-Glencoe) took to the House floor to talk about
climate change and renewable energy.
Using sources such as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), ...
19/5/2013
Methane is created naturally near the Earth's surface, primarily by microorganisms by the process of methanogenesis. It is carried into the stratosphere by rising air in the tropics. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, stronger than carbon ...
19/5/2013
The expansion of oil-sands operations and various pipeline proposals to get bitumen to market have incraseingly been topics of conversation in Canada, from debates in the House of Commons to discussions around the dinner table. Much of the ...
19/5/2013
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 ...
19/5/2013
When a handful of retired homeowners from Osborn Island in New Jersey gathered last month to discuss post-Hurricane Sandy rebuilding and environmental protection, L. Stanton Hales Jr., a conservationist, could not have been clearer about the ...
19/5/2013
"Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the
science literature" was published in the Environmental Research Letters journal on Thursday. It looked at 12 000 academic papers that talked about
climate change and were published ...
19/5/2013
In the rarefied air of Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, which sits 11,141 feet above sea level, scientists have charted the passing of a milestone that, if ignored, heralds a future for civilization both tragic and chaotic.
I'm referring ...
18/5/2013
In a 2010 speech before a packed ballroom of university students in Sydney, Shi Zhengrong, founder of Chinese solar-panel maker Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, listed the people who had been important in his rise to fame and riches.Two ...
18/5/2013
With at least 10 tornadoes ripping through North Texas in one night this week -- leveling neighborhoods, killing six and injuring dozens -- it might be tempting to call the twisters yet another instance of
climate-fueled weather. But not so ...
18/5/2013
The world`s major ice sheets -- on Greenland and Antarctica -- haven`t really started a major meltdown yet. But the rest of the world`s glacial regions have been losing ice at a rate of about 260 billion metric tons annually, raising sea level by ...
18/5/2013
One afternoon in the waning days of winter, the most powerful man in Newtok, Alaska, hopped on a plane and flew 1,000 miles to plead for the survival of his village. Stanley Tom, Newtok`s administrator, had a clear purpose for his trip: find the ...