Antarctic Ice Bubbles Show CO2, Methane, at 800,000-Year Highs
May 14 (Bloomberg) — Ancient air bubbles trapped in Antarctica’s ice have revealed that levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the Earth’s atmosphere are at their highest in 800,000 years, two studies in the journal Nature said.
Embassy, May 14th, 2008
NEWS STORY
Washington Tarsand Ad Campaigns Throw Mud
While the Alberta government is preparing to launch a $25-million
advertising campaign, environmental groups have already sprung into
action. Read the rest of this entry »
Published on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
Climate Policy: From ‘Know How’ to ‘Do Now’
by Herman E. Daly
Recent increased attention to global warming is very welcome. But much of it is misplaced.
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It Isn’t Morning in America Anymore — It’s Dusk on Planet Earth
By Bill McKibben, Tomdispatch.com. Posted May 12, 2008.
If we want to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed, we’ve got to cut CO2 emissions.
Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start — even for us, the world looks a little Terminal right now.
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How We Know Global Warming is Real
The Science Behind Human-induced Climate Change
by Dr. Tapio Schneider
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Global Cooling-Wanna Bet?
Global cooling appears to be the “flavour of the month”. First, a rather misguided media discussion erupted on whether global warming had stopped, based on the observed temperatures of the past 8 years or so (see our post). Now, an entirely new discussion is capturing the imagination, based on a group of scientists from Germany predicting a pause in global warming last week in the journal Nature (Keenlyside et al. 2008). Read the rest of this entry »
CANBERRA, Australia — Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.
Is Desert Solar Power the Solution to Europe’s Energy Crisis?
By Jens Lubbadeh
A tiny fraction of the sun’s energy that shines upon the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East could meet all of Europe’s electricity demands. The technology to harness the energy already exists. So why is hardly anyone investing in it?
The oil of the 21st century is not buried deep within the earth. Instead, it falls on its surface — as sunshine.
From the Los Angeles Times
Oxygen-poor ocean zones are growing
Linked to global warming, these areas of the Pacific and Atlantic cannot
sustain most marine life, a new study warns.
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Global warming: What can we do?
A pair of new books offer solutions on climate change
By Thomas Hayden
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http://ucsusa.org/assets/documents/scientific_integrity/Climate-Change-and-the-EPA.pdf
The average global temperature (land and ocean surface combined) for last month was the 2nd warmest on record for March, while the average temperature for the contiguous U.S. was near average (ranking the 63rd warmest), according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
How to Win the War on Global Warming
We are now faced with a similarly momentous challenge: global warming. The steady deterioration of the very climate of our very planet is becoming a war of the first order, and by any measure, the U.S. is losing. Indeed, if we’re fighting at all—and by most accounts, we’re not—we’re fighting on the wrong side.
How Many Earth Days Do We Have Left?
By Terrence McNally, AlterNet. Posted April 22, 2008.
Lester Brown, author of Plan B 3.0, shows us how we can change in enough time to save life on earth, as we know it.
Climate change: Losing Greenland
Is the Arctic’s biggest ice sheet in irreversible meltdown? And would we know if it were? Alexandra Witze reports.
Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bitesAcross the world a crisis is unfolding at alarming speed. Climate change, China’s increasing consumption and the dash for biofuels are causing food shortages and rocketing prices - sparking riots in cities from the Caribbean to the Far East. Robin McKie and Heather Stewart report on the millions facing starvation - and the growing threat to global security
via Climate date Daily
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120761565455196769.html
By FRED KRUPP
April 8, 2008; Page A20
In the Frank Capra movie classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan is facing a Depression-era bank run. George Bailey leaps over the counter, blocks the door, and says to the panicky investors that they’re “thinking of this place all wrong.”
Today’s investors need to hear the same message: If you’re worried that stopping global warming will wreck the economy, you’re looking at this all wrong. Solving global warming will be an added cost, yes – but a bargain compared with the economic cost of unchecked climate change. And fixing this problem will create an historic economic opportunity.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120761565455196769.html
Wind farms could be moored off Scotland
Remote wind generation in deep water out of sight of the shore will avert local opposition to land-based turbines
Growing Hunger
Let Them Eat Ethanol!
By SHARON SMITH
Wall Street millionaires have spent months mourning their losses from once ridiculously over-valued investments. Yet these same free market cheerleaders remain blissfully unaware of the magnitude of the crisis facing the real victims of the unfolding global meltdown they so enthusiastically enabled.
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Talks Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
CLIMATE CHANGE: A Game With Too Many Free Riders
By Stephen Leahy*
BROOKLIN, Canada, Apr 4 (IPS) - The evidence is piling up that climate change threatens to bring a chaotic future unlike anything ever known. Taking collective action in time to avert the worst means rewarding climate-safe behaviour, punishing climate transgressors and publicly praising those who are trying to protect the environment, a new study suggests.
From R-G
Climate change ‘seriously underestimated’ by UN
Curbing emissions more daunting than panel reported: study
Margaret Munro
The United Nations’ celebrated climate change panel has “seriously
underestimated” the challenge of curbing global CO2 emissions, say Canadian
and U.S. researchers.
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rabble.ca April 3, 2008
Will capitalism survive climate change?
by Walden Bello
There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the
change in global mean temperature in the twenty-first century exceeds 2.4
degrees Celsius, changes in the planet’s climate will be large-scale,
irreversible, and disastrous. Moreover, the window of opportunity for action
that will make a difference is narrow – that is, the next 10 to 15 years.
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From R-G
by Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Independent.co.uk (March 20 2008)
Spring, which officially starts today, is starting to dissolve as a
distinct season as climate change takes hold.
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