Several manufacturers have launched models that produce more pollutants when driven in real-world conditions The Guardian: New diesel cars are still emitting many times the official limit for polluting nitrogen oxides when driven on the road, almost a year after the Volkswagen emissions scandal broke. Renault, Mercedes-Benz, Mazda and Hyundai have all launched diesel models…
Merchants of Doubt is a 2014 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner and inspired by the 2010 book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. The film traces the use of public relations tactics that were originally developed by the tobacco industry to protect their business from research indicating health…
The Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts recently claimed on a ABC television show to the audience that there is a pause in global warming, and added that NASA manipulates their data. He then went on to argue that there is no evidence. Roberts refers to a blogger called Steven Goddard aka Tony Heller, who has no scientific background, but ties to…
Climate change is expected to alter the geographic and seasonal distributions of existing vectors and vector-borne diseases [Likely, High Confidence]. Rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and a higher frequency of some extreme weather events associated with climate change will influence the distribution, abundance, and prevalence of infection in the mosquitoes that transmit West Nile virus…
As someone who just discovered Netflix i want to share some of their climate related programs. Currently when you visit Netflix.com you can signup for a free month, and begin watching all their catalog instantly on your devices. If you did not yet watched Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, the stunning Chasing Ice, the post…
Mangrove expert says it is the most extreme “dieback” he has ever seen! The mangrove deaths happened across a 700 km distance. International mangroves expert Dr Norm Duke said he had no doubt the “dieback” was related to climate change. “It’s a world-first in terms of the scale of mangrove that have died,” he told…
Back in 1991 Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl published a nonfiction book about global warming, the environment and the solutions – Our Angry Earth Listen to the segment on effects of global warming, based on the knowledge known 25 years ago. More info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Angry_Earthhttps://books.google.com/books/about/Our_Angry_Earth.html?id=iGaGQgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
07/27/2016 – Global-mean temperatures are breaking one record after the other since instrumental observations began. Driven by burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, carbon dioxide concentrations have also soared to unprecedented levels. In fact, today’s CO2 concentrations are higher than they have ever been over the last 800 thousand years. Scientists from the Potsdam Institute…
JULY 27, 2016 | CLIP OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, DAY 3 | Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA) spoke about combating global climate change. He criticized Donald Trump for not addressing climate change in his acceptance speech, saying “Trump says global warming is a hoax. I say Trump is a fraud.” Release via C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4615492/governor-jerry-brown