Global Warming
Thursday, 3 September 2009, By Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News website Arctic temperatures are now warmer than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals. Changes to the Earth’s orbit drove centuries of cooling, but temperatures rose fast in the last 100 years as human greenhouse gas emissions rose. The result is a “hockey stick”-like sudden 90 degree turn, in which the last decade – 1998-2008 –. . . CONTINUE
By Phil Mercer, BBC News, Sydney; Thursday, 3 September 2009 Australia has experienced its warmest August on record amid soaring winter temperatures. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology says that August was a “most extraordinary month” with mean temperatures 2.47C above the long-term average. Blair Trewin, from the National Climate Centre, says the past month has brought unprecedented conditions. “Early last week we saw a number of locations in northern New South. . . CONTINUE
Wednesday, 2 September 2009 By Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News Coral reefs do more than look pretty – they are nurseries for many fish [Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology says that by 2050, 98 percent of today’s coral reefs will be in waters too acidic to support their growth.] Current climate targets are not enough to save the world’s coral reefs – and policymakers urgently need to consider. . . CONTINUE
Jay Yarow; Aug. 8, 2009, 7:35 PM; New York Times The military analysts the Times spoke to say that climate issues could destabilize regions, increase terrorism, and destroy governments. With extreme weather comes displacement. As people have to leave their homes, the government steps in with aid. Further, as new groups of people are forced to live together there’s a risk of warfare. CONTINUE
WWF’s Dr. Neil Hamilton on Global Warming in the Arctic the Director of the International Arctic Program ice thickness has decreased dramatically since 2003: It’s now about half as thick. In its report “Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air,” the Union of Concerned Scientists slammed ExxonMobil for lying: “underwriting the most sophisticated disinformation campaign since the tobacco industry,” as well as for “funneling about $16 million between 1998 and 2005. . . CONTINUE
Think Tank Led By Former U.N. Secretary General Also Says World Loses $125B Annually From Global Warming May 29, 2009 (CBS/AP) A think-tank led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan says that around 300,000 people die each year from disasters related to climate change. The Global Humanitarian Forum also estimates that global warming seriously affects 325 million people and causes $125 billion in economic losses each year. Annan says. . . CONTINUE
Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US by 3 degrees in 50 years By SETH BORENSTEIN | AP Science Writer, September 4, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) _ Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday. These. . . CONTINUE
More evidence of global warming. By Charmaine Noronha | The Associated Press, September 4, 2008 TORONTO – A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada’s northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer weather is changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday. Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, said the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf. . . CONTINUE
Arctic sea ice at second lowest level in 30 years By Seth Borenstein and Dan Joling, The Associated Press, August 28, 2008 WASHINGTON – More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming “tipping point” in the Arctic seems to be happening before our eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years. With about three weeks left in the. . . CONTINUE
10 July 2008 In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), former White House official Jason Burnett revealed that Vice President Cheney’s office deleted portions of the testimony of Center for Disease Control Director Julie Gerberding, who testified last year about the consequences of climate change on public health. In a press conference yesterday, Boxer charged that White House spokesperson Dana Perino had ‘lied’ about the rationale behind the editing. . . CONTINUE
12-05-2007 Agence France-Presse NUSA DUA, Indonesia – As the world tries to hammer out a future plan to tackle climate change, tiny islands say it is too late — their homes and histories are disappearing under the rising sea. Dressed in traditional grass and rattan skirts, the islanders used music, song and slide shows to tell their story to a tearful audience in a luxury hotel on the Indonesian island. . . CONTINUE
By BETH DUFF-BROWN Associated Press Writer, April 15 2007 IQALUIT, Nunavut — Inuit hunters are falling through thinning ice and dying. Dolphins are being spotted for the first time. There’s not enough snow to build igloos for shelter during hunts. As scientists work to establish the impact of global warming, explorers and hunters slogging across northern Canada and the Arctic ice cap on sled and foot are describing the realities. . . CONTINUE
Resisting Change: Global Warming Deniers The Truth About Denial The denial here is documented, exposed. In China it is incredible! (see previous post) By Sharon Begley, Newsweek, Aug. 13, 2007 Sen. Barbara Boxer had been chair of the Senate’s Environment Committee for less than a month when the verdict landed last February. “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” concluded a report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups. . . CONTINUE
