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Why a UK shale gas industry is incompatible with the 2°C framing of dangerous climate change
Why a UK shale gas industry is incompatible with the 2°C framing of dangerous climate change This piece is a response to Professor Robert Mair’s Royal Society science policy blog, “Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas in the UK – an opportunity to shape a constructive way forward” (In Verba, 26th Jan): Professor Mair’s Royal Society post suggests that the development of a UK shale gas industry is […]
Global Warming May Spawn More Southeast US Tornadoes
Global Warming May Spawn More Southeast US Tornadoes The same loopy weather patterns directing California’s ongoing drought and last year’s deep freeze across the East Coast may also change how often tornadoes strike the southeastern United States, a new modeling study finds. Researchers examined how global warming will affect severe weather during the heart of tornado season […]
Sister Acts of Havoc Set to Intensify El Niño Effect
Sister Acts of Havoc Set to Intensify El Niño Effect LONDON—El Niño, the cyclic Pacific weather phenomenon that periodically brings global devastation in its wake, is not the only thing likely to grow more extreme with global warming. A team of international scientists now predicts that its cool little sister, La Niña, is liable to […]
‘The Drop in Oil Price Means We Need More Action on Climate Change Not Less’
‘The Drop in Oil Price Means We Need More Action on Climate Change Not Less’ This month, a powerful article in Nature highlighted yet again that most of the world’s oil, coal and gas needs to stay in the ground, if we want to prevent dangerous climate change. This is the “unburnable carbon” analysis that President Obama and Bank […]
MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages
MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages On January 21, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) again displayed the same deception/incompetence that pervaded his book, The Greatest Hoax (2012). In this video segment (3:00-5:20), he presented a poster on the Senate floor that matches the image below from“Kyoto by Degrees,” an anonymous Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Opinion piece, June 21, 2005. Both contained […]
Antarctica’s Totten Glacier, twice the size of Victoria, ‘melting from below’
Antarctica’s Totten Glacier, twice the size of Victoria, ‘melting from below’ Warm ocean water is melting one of the world’s biggest glaciers from below, potentially leading to a rise in sea levels, Australian scientists have discovered. Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis recently returned to Hobart from Antarctica, with a team of 23 scientists who had used […]
Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany’s Energy Revolution
Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany’s Energy Revolution The energy market in Germany saw a spectacular change last year as renewable energy became the major source of its electricity supply—leaving lignite, coal and nuclear behind. But researchers calculate that, allowing for the mild winter of 2014, the cut in fossil fuel use in energy production meant CO2 […]
Heatwave in Rio
Heatwave in Rio Heatwave conditions have been affecting southeastern Brazil since the beginning of 2015. This comes after 2014 was declared the warmest, globally, since records began in 1880. The findings from the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) support earlier conclusions from both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the UK Met […]
Rising Temperatures on Land and Sea Made 2014 Hottest Year
Rising Temperatures on Land and Sea Made 2014 Hottest Year High temperatures across most of the globe made 2014 Earth’s hottest year in records dating back to 1880, a government report showed. The combined land and ocean temperature on the planet was 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit (about 0.7 Celsius) above the 20th-century average, the National Oceanic and […]
Could Global Tide Be Starting To Turn Against Fossil Fuels?
Could Global Tide Be Starting To Turn Against Fossil Fuels? From an oil chill in the financial world to the recent U.S.-China agreement on climate change, recent developments are raising a question that might once have been considered unthinkable: Could this be the beginning of a long, steady decline for the oil and coal industries? by […]
Why is there so little action on climate change?
Why is there so little action on climate change? According to the World Bank, human-induced or “anthropogenic” climate change may raise the earth’s temperature by two degrees in the next 20 or 30 years. Once four degrees is reached—which may arrive by the end of this century—the polar ice will be gone, sea levels will […]
How to Think of Climate Change on a Small Scale
How to Think of Climate Change on a Small Scale When I used to live near the waterfront in Toronto’s east end, I would wake before dawn and go sit at the end of a breakwater to catch the sunrise. I would face the lake, close my eyes, and notice a subtle warmth on my […]
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Perpetuating the Reign of Carbon
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Perpetuating the Reign of Carbon Think of it as the uncertainty principle. By the nature of things, doubt, the unknown, and uncertainty are naturally part of the big picture in science, especially when it comes to creating “models” of the future. As Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway showed in their blockbuster book, Merchants […]
For California Salmon, Drought And Warm Water Mean Trouble
For California Salmon, Drought And Warm Water Mean Trouble With record drought and warming waters due to climate change, scientists are concerned that the future for Chinook salmon — a critical part of the state’s fishing industry — is in jeopardy in California. by alastair bland Gushing downpours finally arrived in California last month, when December […]
Scientist terrified of geoengineering technology being developed under guise of halting global warming – NaturalNews.com
Scientist terrified of geoengineering technology being developed under guise of halting global warming – NaturalNews.com. (NaturalNews) A prominent climate scientist who’s actively involved in developing technologies to thwart the natural weather patterns of the globe says he’s disturbed by the prospect of having to make such drastic changes to the common order of things in […]
