In the March edition of our Big Question video series, David Archer of the University of Chicago joins Booth professors Jesse Shapiro and Jane Risen to discuss why the public’s view of global warming is so far from the scientific consensus.
Ein Gast Beitrag von Brigitte Knopf auf Stefan Rahmstorf’s Blog, erläutert den neuen Bericht der Arbeitsgruppe 3, des IPCC’s. „Die Emissionen steigen global weiter an und der Anstieg ist an erster Stelle auf das Wirtschaftswachstum zurückzuführen. Um Klimaschutz zu erreichen, muss die Nutzung fossiler Ressourcen ohne CCS in der Stromerzeugung bis Ende des Jahrhunderts auslaufen.…
Published on Apr 3, 2014 Senator Grassley on the importance of renewing the wind energy PTC absent comprehensive energy tax reform. Senator Charles Grassley is known to be a long time fiscal conservative Republican Senator from Iowa. Obviously, the size and scope of the Iowa wind industry belies the anti-renewable propaganda of the science denial…
The summary of the report can be read here. Overview AR5 Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Related UN climate report: Pricing of CO2 emissions critical.
A new massive report on global warming says dangers will worsen as the climate changes. Related IPCC Climate Change Report The Five Key Points IPCC Report: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis IPCC Report: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability New York Times: Climate Study Puts Diplomatic Pressure on Obama
The Guardian recently summarized the five keypoints of the new IPCC AR5 Impact Report. The world faces threat to food supply, conflicts over water rights and growing inequality. The only option to is cut emissions By Suzanne Goldenberg (The Guardian): 1. Food threat Climate change is already taking a sizeable chunk out of global food supply…
On March 7, 2014 a Wikipedia user initiated the deletion process of the German Wikipedia article on the scientific consensus on climate change and claimed the article was not required. A week later the page got deleted by an admin who claims that because of climate sceptics the page violates NPOV. An afford to revert the…
National Geographic: Experts compare modern heat waves to the past and show what’s really going on with Carbon Dioxide. Related Some 15% of Pacific islands wiped out by 1m sea level rise – IPCC Carbon dioxide benchmark hits new heights, worries scientists Citigroup says the ‘Age of Renewables’ has begun
Virtually all of the scientific papers published in 2013 accept climate change By Lindsay Abrams (Salon): As geochemist James Lawrence Powell continues to prove, the only people still debating whether or not climate change is “real,” and caused by human activity, are the ones who aren’t doing the actual research. In an update to his ongoing project…