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Can We Really Cut CO2 Levels By Leaving Fossil Fuels In The Ground?
Can We Really Cut CO2 Levels By Leaving Fossil Fuels In The Ground? Population growth in the world’s developing economies, particularly Africa and Asia, has been and will continue to be a primary driver of demand for energy resources into the near and distant future. As more babies are delivered into the world, they will […]
How Long Can Oceans Continue To Absorb Earth’s Excess Heat?
How Long Can Oceans Continue To Absorb Earth’s Excess Heat? The main reason soaring greenhouse gas emissions have not caused air temperatures to rise more rapidly is that oceans have soaked up much of the heat. But new evidence suggests the oceans’ heat-buffering ability may be weakening. For decades, the earth’s oceans have soaked up more […]
The Social Costs Of Capitalism Are Destroying Earth’s Ability To Support Life
The Social Costs Of Capitalism Are Destroying Earth’s Ability To Support Life I admire David Ray Griffin for his wide-ranging intelligence, his research skills, and for his courage. Dr. Griffin is not afraid to take on the controversial topics. He gave us ten books on 9/11, and anyone who has read half of one of […]
Mark Carney defends Bank of England over climate change study
Mark Carney defends Bank of England over climate change study Governor hits back at Nigel Lawson’s description of research into effects of global warming on insurance industry as ‘green claptrap’ Climate change is one of the biggest risks facing the insurance industry, the governor of the Bank of England has said after a former Conservative chancellor dismissed […]
A Major Surge in Atmospheric Warming Is Probably Coming in the Next Five Years
A Major Surge in Atmospheric Warming Is Probably Coming in the Next Five Years Forget the so-called ‘pause’ in global warming—new research says we might be in for an era of deeply accelerated heating. While the rate of atmospheric warming in recent years has, indeed, slowed due to various natural weather cycles—hence the skeptics’ droning […]
Harvard-Smithsonian Profited as Much as Willie Soon with Fossil Fuel Funding
Harvard-Smithsonian Profited as Much as Willie Soon with Fossil Fuel Funding Both Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute are trying to shake off the controversy surrounding Willie Soon, but these esteemed organizations should not be let off the hook easily. Earlier this week, documents revealed by the Guardian and New York Times provide irefutable evidence that climate denier Willie […]
THE YEAR THE DAM OF DENIAL BREAKS – READY FOR THE FLOOD?
THE YEAR THE DAM OF DENIAL BREAKS – READY FOR THE FLOOD? This is the year the “dam of denial” will break and the momentum for climate action will become an unstoppable flood. It will be messy, confusing and endlessly debated but with historical hindsight, 2015 will be the year. The year the world turned, primarily […]
Do Warmer Winters Mean Less Fruit?
Do Warmer Winters Mean Less Fruit? Californians have been enjoying summer weather in the dead of winter, but the downside is that unseasonably warm temperatures could threaten many of our favorite foods. The state experienced its warmest winter on record last year, and according to current reports, this year could shape up to be another record breaker, compounded […]
Republicans To Investigate NASA Over Climate Data Tampering
Republicans To Investigate NASA Over Climate Data Tampering With record heat (and drought) in the west and record cold (wet and snow) in the east, the global warming game-playing continues every day but the climate-gate rhetoric has increased vociferously since we first noted three weeks ago, the data that has been so relied upon to ‘prove’ global […]
Fossil fuel divestment campaign grows as protesters target UK banks
Fossil fuel divestment campaign grows as protesters target UK banks With Britain’s big five banks investing £66bn in fossil fuel extraction, campaigners believe pressure is building on banks to sell off toxic assets At least 1,400 UK customers are set to move their accounts in protest at their banks’ multibillion-pound funding of the fossil fuel industry. The […]
Was 2014 the hottest year after all?
Was 2014 the hottest year after all? World media rushed to report that “2014 was the warmest year on record”, but it seems no one bothered to look at the fine print and the fact scientists can’t be sure the claim is true, writes Samantha Walker. Was 2014 really the hottest year on record? The […]
US ‘at risk of mega-drought future’
US ‘at risk of mega-drought future’ The American south-west and central plains could be on course for super-droughts the like of which they have not witnessed in over a 1,000 years. Places like California are already facing very dry conditions, but these are quite gentle compared with some periods in the 12th and 13th Centuries. […]
Panel Urges Research on Geoengineering as a Tool Against Climate Change
Panel Urges Research on Geoengineering as a Tool Against Climate Change With the planet facing potentially severe impacts from global warming in coming decades, a government-sponsored scientific panel on Tuesday called for more research on geoengineering — technologies to deliberately intervene in nature to counterclimate change. The panel said the research could include small-scale outdoor experiments, which […]
Christophe McGlade on who gets left with the unburnable carbon
Christophe McGlade on who gets left with the unburnable carbon Christophe McGlade is a research associate in energy materials modelling at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. He recently co-authored, with Paul Ekins, a paper called “The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2°C”, a paper whose stark call to leave the […]
