‘The Ultimate Technofix’: Playing God with the ClimateBy Clive Hamilton / CAPPE[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]March 7, 2013: Climate scientists have watched with mounting alarm as carbon dioxide concentrations have increased relentlessly. The anxiety has deepened each year as it has become clearer that the range of emissions paths mapped out by experts in the 1990s…
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Video[wpcol_2fifth id=”” class=”” style=””] [/wpcol_2fifth][wpcol_3fifth_end id=”” class=”” style=””] Free Market Solution Climate Change and Free Market Solution Published on YouTube May 23, 2013 Climate Scientist Hansen Turns Activist, Advocates ‘Fee’ on Carbon Pollution. If you give the money to the public, then it’s not a tax. It’s a fee collected from fossil fuel companies with…
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US national security advisor says climate change is threat, calls for Emissions ReductionsBy Carl Franzen / The Verge[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]April 24, 2013: Scientists and advocates have called for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for years. But now the White House national security advisor is joining in the chorus. Tom Donilon, the national security advisor…
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Expedition to a crumbling Antarctic ice shelfBy Ted Scambos / NSIDC[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]November 4, 2011: With preparations in place, I asked if I could tag along with a NASA group here working on Operation IceBridge, an airborne mapping and measurement program intended to bridge the gap between the ICESat satellite (a laser-ranging mission that…
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The answer is blowing in the wind: The warming went into the deep endBy Rasmus Benestad / RealClimate[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]April 26, 2013: There has been an unusual surge of interest in the climate sensitivity based on the last decade’s worth of temperature measurements, and a lengthy story in the Economist tries to argue that the…
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Now in Cinema A James Balog Film Related Watch: World’s Changing Glaciers “Chasing Ice” (2012)
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Part II[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]Figure 2: Number of Katrina magnitude surge events per decade (B) hindcast and projected changes in temperatures from climate model BNU-ESM under for RCP4.5 (A). The thick blue line shows the projection using the full spatial gridded temperatures and confidence interval (5–16–84–95%); magenta and black show the projections using only Main…
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New Research Shows Humans Causing More Strong HurricanesBy Dana Nuccitelli / Skeptical Science[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]April 29, 2013: The link between human-caused global warming and extreme weather is often difficult to pin down, particularly with regards to hurricanes. As Kevin Trenberth has discussed, a ll weather now occurs in a climate that humans have altered.…
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Obama Tweets Study Of 97% Scientific Consensus Background image “Ocean” by Andrey Kuzmin
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Video[wpcol_2fifth id=”” class=”” style=””] [/wpcol_2fifth][wpcol_3fifth_end id=”” class=”” style=””] Climate Warming & the Jet Stream Extreme Weather Published on YouTube Aug 21, 2012 One of the most confusing effects of climate change is the increasing incidence of weather extremes, that may include hot, AND cold, snow and rain, wet and dry, drought and flood. [/wpcol_3fifth_end] [wpcol_2fifth…
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350 PPMWhat is 350?[wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]Mission: Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350 means climate safety. To preserve our planet, scientists tell us we must reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from its current…
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The Consensus ProjectQuantifying Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Scientific Literature The Consensus Project / May 16, 2013: Study shows scientists agree humans cause global-warming. About 97 per cent of 4000 international scientific papers analysed in a University of Queensland-led study were rated as endorsing human-caused global warming.
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