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A 12-Year-Old Bet on Global Warming Is About to Pay Out
A 12-Year-Old Bet on Global Warming Is About to Pay Out A climate change modeler who bet two Russian solar physicists $10,000 that the world would get warmer appears to have easily won the 2005 wager with less than two weeks to go. British scientist James Annan says he is “confident” that he has won his […]
Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans
Analysis: Why scientists think 100% of global warming is due to humans The extent of the human contribution to modern global warming is a hotly debated topic in political circles, particularly in the US. During a recent congressional hearing, Rick Perry, the US energy secretary, remarked that “to stand up and say that 100% of […]
Climate Change has Nothing to do with the Sun?
Climate Change has Nothing to do with the Sun? COMMENT: You are wrong. This chart proves you are wrong and it is mankind that is creating global warming. The sun activity has been declining for 35 years and the temperature is rising. That proves you are wrong. PL REPLY: First of all, the chart you […]
Trump Resists Progress on Global Warming
Trump Resists Progress on Global Warming Exclusive: Market trends now favor renewable energy as a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels, but President Trump’s resistance to this good news is doing real damage in the fight against global warming, reports Jonathan Marshall. With petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch paying many of the GOP’s bills these […]
Climate Change and the Challenge to All Forms of Agriculture
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CHALLENGE TO ALL FORMS OF AGRICULTURE We´ve all heard of climate change and probably understand the basics of how excess greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide produced by our society´s burning of fossil fuels is causing the earth´s temperature to rise. We´ve most likely seen maps of what the world will look […]
Averting the apocalypse: lessons from Costa Rica
Averting the apocalypse: lessons from Costa Rica Earlier this summer, a paper published in the journal Nature captured headlines with a rather bleak forecast. Our chances of keeping global warming below the 2C danger threshold are very, very small: only about 5%. The reason, according to the paper’s authors, is that the cuts we’re making […]
Should we try to fix global warming with fake volcanic eruptions? TBD.
Should we try to fix global warming with fake volcanic eruptions? TBD. There could be unintended consequences. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 sent planet-cooling aerosols into the atmosphere. Photo by Arlan Naeg/AFP/Getty Images. By Mary Beth Griggs With heat-trapping carbon emissions on the rise again, researchers are looking for ways to turn down […]
How Runaway Inequality Creates Runaway Global Warming
How Runaway Inequality Creates Runaway Global Warming The bottom half of humans own next to nothing, but they own as much as the world’s richest 80 individuals do, because though the bottom half are poor, there are 3.79 billion of them. The average person among the richest 80 owns 45,750,000 times as much as does the average […]
State of the climate: 2017 shaping up to be warmest ‘non-El Niño’ year
State of the climate: 2017 shaping up to be warmest ‘non-El Niño’ year Much of the year, though the summer Arctic minimum was only the eighth lowest on record. 2017 is also almost certain to be the warmest year without an El Niño event. When the effects of El Niño and La Niña are removed […]
The Ecosystem is Breaking Down
The Ecosystem is Breaking Down Photo by Richard Allaway | Public Domain The ecosystem is the quintessential essence of life on our planet, and this crucial life system is showing signs of breaking down. It is likely a more pressing problem than climate change. Time will tell but time is short. The ecosystem consists of […]
Are Driverless Cars a Good Way to Help Stop Greenhouse Warming, or Is Greenhouse Warming a Good Pretext for Selling Driverless Cars?
Are Driverless Cars a Good Way to Help Stop Greenhouse Warming, or Is Greenhouse Warming a Good Pretext for Selling Driverless Cars? Photo by Paul Sableman | CC by 2.0 The automakers and IT giants are predicting that autonomous vehicles (AVs or “driverless cars”) will play a big role in reducing America’s currently extravagant emissions […]
Global Climate Change & Its Link to Soil Organisms
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE & ITS LINK TO SOIL ORGANISMS When people think of the consequences of global warming, most jump to the melting ice caps and death of beloved polar bears. We know that as our Earth undergoes climate change, it’s adversely affecting the ecological balance in complex ways. For the first time, however, a […]
Connor Stedman: Carbon Farming
Connor Stedman: Carbon Farming Sequestering atmospheric carbon through natural means Climate change remains a hotly debated topic. But a scientific fact not up for dispute is the pronounced spike in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere over the past two centuries. There’s a building urgency to find solutions that can manage/reverse that […]
Galveston’s BioLab Amid Global Warming
Galveston’s BioLab Amid Global Warming Ken Kramer grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Houston. As a child he spent a lot of time on Galveston, an island about 50 miles away in the Gulf of Mexico. Kramer experienced Hurricane Carla in 1961 with gusts of 175 mph and a storm surge of 22 […]
Blowout Week 195
Blowout Week 195 It’s official – climate models are overheating and global warming may not be so bad after all. So say two authors of the recent Nature Geoscience study featured in this week’s Blowout. Nature, however, puts a different spin on this “good news” in the next article. We follow up with our customary […]
