tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30967961177223600072011-07-07T21:56:46.936-07:00Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.comBlogger2251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-49072436632834107342010-06-10T11:43:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:43:00.826-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/AlllApfxsvHtkCjeDAwgiqIzIakcxDxkHIsbchtbtDFtAqDCtxDjeAhygiIF/media_httpitelegraphc_saFtI.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="288"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7814345/Nasa-launches-its-first-ever-global-warming-investigation-to-the-Arctic.html">telegraph.co.uk</a></div> <p>Researchers from the space agency hope to provide the most detailed research yet on how global warming is devastating the ocean’s ecosystem. </p><p>Nasa’s said its first "dedicated oceanographic field campaign” on the earth will study the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of seas around the Arctic and its shifting ice conditions. </p><p>As part of their unprecedented research, scientists will study everything from the Arctic Ocean’s properties to the physiology of phytoplankton, the tiny creatures that are known as the base for marine food chain. </p><p>Scientists hope their vital research, part of a larger £7 million programme, could pave the way for a better understanding of how the ocean’s chemistry and ecosystems have changed due to climate change. </p><p>More than 40 scientists will spend just five weeks at sea as part of the "Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment" mission (Icescape). </p><p>Paula Bontempi, Nasa’s ocean biology and biogeochemistry program manager, said the expedition, which will leave from Alaska next week, was the space agency’s first field campaign on the ocean. </p><p>"We're continuing the objective that we have to pioneer scientific discoveries," she said as she announced the programme on Tuesday. </p><p>"We're trying to understand and protect our home planet." </p><p>The project, funded by Nasa’s Science Mission Directorate, will concentrate on the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off Alaska, which scientists say are particularly vulnerable to global warming.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/nasa-launches-its-first-ever-global-warming-i">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4907243663283410734?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-69689380175896531602010-06-10T11:42:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:42:03.958-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/vyjpFFFalJBjizebzGyeFpyohBjIrnAnEuuDGlAuDBsesqiGmaFnisynsbpz/media_httpblogsdiscov_EzaBm.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="320" height="304"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/american-concerns-about-climate-change-climb.html">news.discovery.com</a></div> <p>To read the comments section of this blog and others, and to listen to the bitter vitriol routinely spewed by folks who seem to revel in arguing about global warming, you might think Americans are divided on what to do about it. </p><p>Not so, at least according to a new poll of 1,024 adults in the U.S. performed by Yale University's Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. Even as climate legislation sits gathering dust in Congress, Americans appear to strongly favor moving forward with renewable energy technologies, drastically cutting carbon dioxide emissions, and regulating CO2 as a pollutant. </p><p>Some key numbers from two reports issued yesterday, which are up since the last time the poll was performed in January following a significant downturn throughout the previous year (you can find them here and here): </p><p> * 87 percent of respondents support funding more research into renewable energy sources <br /> * 83 percent support tax rebates for people who buy fuel-efficient vehicles and solar panels <br /> * 77 percent support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant <br /> * 65 percent support signing an international treaty that requires the United States to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide 90 percent by the year 2050 <br /> * 61 percent support requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if it cost the average household an extra $100 per year </p><p>Now, the poll also showed that fully 45 percent of people think "there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about whether or not global warming is happening". That's simply not true -- regardless of what you may think of scientists in general, they are overwhelmingly convinced that global warming is happening. </p><p>In all, 61 percent of the group said they believe global warming is happening. Of them, half believe humans are behind it, while 34 percent said the warming is down to natural processes. </p><p>So, while there is still a fair amount of disagreement among Americans about the causes of global warming, there is a surprisingly high level of support to move forward with new energy technologies and policy choices that will drastically cut our carbon emitting ways. </p><p>Perhaps lawmakers and pundits alike should dispense with the bickering and give the country what it wants: legislation that will push us towards a low-carbon energy future.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/american-concerns-about-climate-change-climb">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6968938017589653160?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-47280875118460724522010-06-10T11:35:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:35:11.201-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/atEmirIHzszGyHoCcrFlyvpBmniGbfryslpmDhECzJwBGvnnhxnmrjlvmJoe/media_httpstaticguimc_DFrvy.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="276"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/09/france-japan-ipcc-for-nature">guardian.co.uk</a></div> <p>World governments are meeting this week to try to set up a new international body that would put the global destruction of the natural world on an equal footing with the threat of climate change. </p><p>The proposed new organisation would be modelled on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), which was set up 22 years ago. </p><p>Since then, it has launched global warming and climate change to the top of the political and economic agenda. </p><p>The meeting, at Busan in South Korea, follows growing evidence in the last few years about the huge rate of destruction of species and the ecosystem services they provide for humans – from regulating local weather and fertilising soil to providing a rich gene pool for medical researchers. </p><p>Another major report this summer, commissioned by the United Nations, is expected to say that the economic benefits of policies to protect and restore biodiversity are worth 10 to 100 times the costs </p><p>"If the true value of ecosystem services – economic, social and spiritual – were factored into decision-making, wetlands, forests and reefs would be viewed and treated very differently," said French ecology secretary, Chantal Jouanno, and campaigner Janet Ranganathan in an article for the Guardian.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/france-and-japan-propose-an-ipcc-for-nature">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4728087511846072452?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-49696227726883933812010-06-10T11:33:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:33:16.198-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>HOUSTON, June 9 (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests global warming may threaten animal and plant life in hot spots that were once thought to be less likely to suffer from climate change.</p> <p>Research by Rice University Assistant Professor Amy Dunham is said to detail for the first time a direct correlation between El Nino-caused climate change and a threat to wildlife in Madagascar, a tropical island that acts as a refuge for many species that exist nowhere else in the world.</p> <p>Dunham said most studies of global warming focus on temperate zones.</p> <p>"We all know about the polar bears and their melting sea ice," she said. "But tropical regions are often thought of as refuges during past climate events, so they haven't been given as much attention until recently. We're starting to realize that not only are these hot spots of biodiversity facing habitat degradation and other anthropogenic effects, but they're also being affected by the same changes we feel in the temperate zones."</p> <p>Dunham said Madagascar's biodiversity is an ecological treasure. "But its flora and fauna already face extinction from rapid deforestation and exploitation of natural resources," she said. "The additional negative effects of climate change make conservation concerns even more urgent."</p> <p>The study that included Texas State University-San Marcos Associate Professor Elizabeth Erhart and Stony Brook University Professor Patricia Wright appears online ahead of print in the journal Global Change Biology.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/06/09/Climate-change-threatens-tropical-areas/UPI-54341276109013/">upi.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/climate-change-threatens-tropical-areas">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4969622772688393381?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-32395082455335373002010-06-10T11:32:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:32:35.031-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p align="justify" style="text-align: justify;">BONN, Germany—While many developed-country governments are scaling back expectations on clinching a comprehensive deal by the end of this year on tackling climate change, leaders of developing countries pressed their appeal for unity and urgent actions to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change to which their nations are most vulnerable.</p><p /><p align="justify" style="text-align: justify;">“Our survival is not negotiable. We need political will, and we should act now,” said Collin Beck of the Solomon Islands and vice chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States. He warned that most of the islands are doomed to disappear from sea-level rise and other climate impacts over the next 50 years.</p> <p /><p align="justify" style="text-align: justify;">Beck, in a meeting with the press here, said small islands in the Pacific are calling for legally binding agreements that would serve as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol at the next annual meeting of environment ministers in Cancun, Mexico, from November 29 to December 10.</p><p /><p align="justify" style="text-align: justify;">Countries around the world are still to negotiate a comprehensive global agreement to deal with climate change, a prospective deal that fell apart in the change conference in Copenhagen last December.</p><p /><p align="justify" style="text-align: justify;">“We are on the frontlines of the climate-change crisis. If governments failed to address funding for adaptation, technology transfer, deep emissions cuts, and finally a strong legally binding treaty, we are not ensured of our survival,” said Quamrul Islam Chowdhury of Bangladesh, the main negotiator for the Group of 77 poor nations. Banglades is a so-called estuary nation—a large part of its territory are deltas of rivers highly vulnerable even now to high tides.</p><p /><p align="justify" style="text-align: justify;">The island states and countries like the Solomons, Bangladesh and the Philippines may be thousands of miles from the industrialized countries where most greenhouse gases are emitted, but they are proving to be the first to feel the effects of global warming with the rising sea level, fiercer typhoons, more frequent and deeper flooding, and severe drought.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=26337:survival-of-poor-nations-at-risk-of-climate-is-paramount&amp;catid=23:topnews&amp;Itemid=58">businessmirror.com.ph</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/survival-of-poor-nations-at-risk-of-climate-i">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3239508245533537300?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-39621351030304381102010-06-10T11:31:00.003-07:002010-06-10T11:31:51.466-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>BONN, Germany — The new U.N. climate chief says nations have no choice but to join forces to stop global warming, even after her predecessor said he doubts sufficient climate goals will be set by 2020.</p><p>Christiana Figueres was appointed last month to replace Yvo de Boer as head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. On Monday, de Boer said the U.N.'s negotiation process was unlikely to deliver "adequate mitigation targets in the next decade."</p><p>Still, Figueres told reporters at a U.N. climate conference Wednesday "there is no other option" but to meet the challenge of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to prevent drastic climate change.</p><p>She says the Copenhagen climate summit had some positive results even if it was "full of errors from which we can learn."</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i9TuMrvrknh-ZXwqmZ2N-48kff3wD9G7N3S00">google.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/ap-new-climate-chief-no-choice-but-to-take-ac">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3962135103030438110?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-80828137256304620802010-06-10T11:31:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:31:08.617-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/FyEDzmDeIhromGrJFkFyijpuuAxrAJcovEJaFgquoiFCBAIymBshhoIdDzov/media_httpstaticguimc_ctCeE.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="276"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/jun/09/carbon-footprint-mobile-phone">guardian.co.uk</a></div> <p>A minute's mobile-to-mobile chatter comes in at 57g, about the same as an apple, most of a banana or a very large gulp of beer. Three minutes has a similar impact to sending a small letter (written on recycled paper) by second-class post. </p><p>Mobile phones cause a fairly tiny slice of global emissions, but if you are a chatterbox using your mobile for an hour each day, the total adds up to more than 1 tonne CO2e per year – the equivalent of flying from London to New York, one way, in economy class. </p><p>Indeed, the footprint of your mobile phone use is overwhelmingly determined by the simple question of how often you use it. One estimate for the emissions caused by manufacturing the phone itself is just 16kg CO2e, equivalent to nearly 1kg of beef. If you include the power it consumes over two typical years (that's about how long the average phone remains in use, even though most could probably last for 10 years) that figure rises to 22kg. </p><p>But the footprint of the energy required to transmit your calls across the network is about three times all of this put together, taking us to a best estimate of 94kg CO2e over the life of the phone, or 47kg per year. This breaks down as follows: </p><p>Base station 23.1kg <br />Administration 7.1kg <br />Manufacture 6.3kg <br />Switchboard 5.6kg <br />Phone energy 3.2kg <br />Transport before sale 1.6kg </p><p>In 2009 there were 2.7 billion mobiles in use: nearly half the world population has got one. On this basis, mobile calls account for about 125 million tonnes CO2e, which is just over one-quarter of a per cent of global emissions.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/whats-the-carbon-footprint-of-using-a-mobile">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8082813725630462080?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-10248168434127714102010-06-10T11:15:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:15:15.181-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/gtnxtklqvwlkqvHzJjkirJhyAlIfzmBDdwBzGvHzqrmtfwuJsaConshEiBah/media_httpwscdnbbccou_iChrD.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/gtnxtklqvwlkqvHzJjkirJhyAlIfzmBDdwBzGvHzqrmtfwuJsaConshEiBah/media_httpwscdnbbccou_iChrD.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="219"/></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ciencia_tecnologia/2010/06/100609_mundial_sudafrica_2010_verde_lp.shtml">bbc.co.uk</a></div> <p>2.700.000 toneladas de dióxido de carbono. </p><p>Ésta es la cantidad estimada de CO2 -el gas con efecto invernadero que más contribuye al calentamiento global- que generará el Mundial de Fútbol Sudáfrica 2010. Ocho veces más CO2 que el mundial de Alemania en 2006. </p><p>Las cifras provienen de un estudio presentado en febrero del año pasado, cuyo objetivo era hacer un cálculo estimativo de las emisiones de carbono del Mundial, a fin de buscar la manera más eficiente de contrarrestarlas. </p><p>Sin embargo, en vísperas del inicio del evento, los autores del informe -comisionado por los gobiernos de Noruega y Sudáfrica a la consultora internacional Pöyri- consideran que la mayoría de sus recomendaciones cayeron en el vacío. </p><p>Aunque las autoridades locales (con ayuda y financiamiento de organismos internacionales y empresas privadas) han logrando implementar una serie de proyectos "verdes", son pocas las emisiones que se compensarán al final del proceso, dicen los investigadores. </p><p>Volar, un mal inevitable </p><p>Uno de los principales factores que hace que el campeonato genere esta cantidad de CO2 son los vuelos internacionales de los equipos que vienen a jugar y del público que asiste al evento. </p><p>Este dato fue tomado en cuenta por primera vez para hacer esta clase de análisis.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/el-impacto-ambiental-del-mundial-de-futbol">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1024816843412771410?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-51936827453469249682010-06-10T11:13:00.003-07:002010-06-10T11:13:17.320-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p style="text-align: justify;">Bonn,&nbsp; (dpa) - Para los defensores del medio ambiente fue un golpe bajo que el responsable de Naciones Unidas para el Cambio Climático, Yvo de Boer, anunciara sin titubeos la expiración en los próximos años del acuerdo de Kyoto, efectivo sobre la protección del medio ambiente.</p> <br /><p style="text-align: justify;">La comunidad internacional no conseguirá antes de 2020 entenderse para reducir drásticamente las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Así de claro fue de Boer, y él sabe de lo que habla, pues es uno de los diplomáticos con más experiencia en este tema y desde hace años dirige las complicadas negociaciones en la ONU.</p> <br /><p style="text-align: justify;">También fue uno de los que estuvo en la última reunión a puerta cerrada de jefes de Estado y de gobierno de la cumbre de Copenhague, cuando aún había que salvar de alguna manera un acuerdo.</p> <br /><p style="text-align: justify;">En la conferencia de Bonn, que se celebra estos días, se observa una tendencia peligrosa: un posible fin del Protocolo de Kyoto de 1997, que es hasta ahora el único acuerdo vinculante internacional sobre la protección del medio ambiente y el cual todavía no ha sido ratificado por Estados Unidos y China, a pesar de que estos países son los mayores contaminantes.</p> <br /><p style="text-align: justify;">El primer periodo de cumplimiento de las obligaciones del protocolo expira en 2012, por eso desde hace años se está negociando una prórroga de manera paralela a la negociación sobre una solución mundial al problema del clima.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.elpais.cr/articulos.php?id=26126">elpais.cr</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/expira-protocolo-de-kyoto-y-no-hay-nuevo-acue">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-5193682745346924968?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-37457908908032274572010-06-10T11:13:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:13:09.482-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/EbnFwogJByJlushrxtDqJAjFDqauDumuqJrazaEbvgAaxtmjxwqhCCHfhizi/media_httpwwwelcomerc_qJEFq.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/EbnFwogJByJlushrxtDqJAjFDqauDumuqJrazaEbvgAaxtmjxwqhCCHfhizi/media_httpwwwelcomerc_qJEFq.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="228"/></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.elcomercio.com/2010-06-09/Noticias/Sociedad/Noticia-Principal/090610bonn.aspx">elcomercio.com</a></div> <p>Jaime Plaza. Desde Bonn, Alemania <br />cumbre | 11:48 - miércoles 09/06/2010 <br />Sin medidas a tiempo para frenar al cambio climático, más de 1 000 millones de habitantes de Bangladesh y de otros países del sudeste asiático sufrirán daños irreparables. Esa dramática advertencia hizo hoy Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, delegado principal de esa nación. </p><p>El llamado lo lanzó esta mañana, tras considerar que no hay avances de las negociaciones en la reunión mundial sobre cambio climático. La cita se realiza en el Hotel Maritim de Bonn, Alemania, con alrededor de 4 000 delegados de gobiernos, observadores y ONGs. </p><p>El delegado asiático, cuyo país integra el Grupo 77+China (incluye a Ecuador, para las negociaciones), aseguró que si no se logran concreciones en la Cumbre de Cancún, México, en noviembre próximo, será trágico para los países menos desarrollados. Incluso fue drástico al señalar que el planeta pudiera soportar un incremento de temperatura máximo de un 1°C, caso contrario los países insulares no solo perderán sus territorios, sino también su población. </p><p>Entre tanto, Ivo de Boer, secretario ejecutivo de la Conferencia de Cambio Climático de Naciones Unidas, emitió esta tarde, a las 15:00 (08:00 de Ecuador), su mensaje final. Conminó a sumar esfuerzos y “no tirar piedras a nuestro propio tejado”. Pidió aportar con soluciones a las organizaciones de observadores que han cuestionado el proceso.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/bangladesh-teme-un-holocausto-climatico">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3745790890803227457?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-69893509293661786312010-06-10T11:12:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:12:13.974-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/GlBivgqceIcwjfckwqnIruGmbItBehtfciumkncyewHiifoplnzByglBeoGD/media_httpimgeuropapr_kGfdA.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="225" height="225"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.europapress.es/ciencia/noticia-pajaros-montana-indicadores-cambio-climatico-20100609112254.html">europapress.es</a></div> <p>MADRID, 9 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) </p><p>Los pájaros que habitan en las montañas son los mejores indicadores del cambio climático en estos ecosistemas, según se desprende de un estudio publicado en 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences', llevado a cabo por investigadores de la Universidad norteamericana de Yale. </p><p> En concreto, los especialistas han descubierto que el riesgo de extinción de los pájaros que viven en las montañas es debido al calentamiento global y que éste es mayor o menor en función de la altitud a la que los animales habitan. </p><p> De hecho, el trabajo apunta que la distribución vertical de especies a lo largo de la montaña es la mejor predicción del riesgo de extinción, más que la amplitud o variación de temperaturas que experimentan en el monte. </p><p> "Los pájaros nos permiten hacer las primeras mediciones sobre la salud de la biodiversidad presente en estos ecosistemas, especialmente a altas altitudes, en relación con el cambio climático. Las especies que se sitúan en lo más alto viven fundamentalmente en islas donde los incrementos de temperatura afectan", explica el profesor de Ecología y Evolución biológica de la Universidad de Yale, Walter Jetz.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/los-pajaros-de-montana-indicadores-de-cambio">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6989350929366178631?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-18899681257641023412010-06-10T11:10:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:10:48.484-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/vBcbanmucrdwxGIfihfjftrIIgfDEyrfqEkvhdehhBzunErbFJlcAAmdaoFk/media_httpimgrianruim_iwICA.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="262" height="161"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://sp.rian.ru/onlinenews/20100609/126637610.html">sp.rian.ru</a></div> <p>Moscú, 9 de junio, RIA Novosti. La agencia espacial estadounidense, NASA, anunció la próxima partida de una expedición oceanográfica que deberá estudiar los efectos del calentamiento global sobre los ecosistemas del Ártico. </p><p>Más de 40 investigadores subirán el 15 de junio a bordo del rompehielos Healy, del Servicio Guardacostas de EEUU, y zarparán de Dutch Harbour, en Alaska, con rumbo a los mares de Chukchi y Beaufort, a través del estrecho de Bering. Su travesía se va a desarrollar durante cinco semanas paralelamente al monitoreo satelital de la zona. El coste del programa asciende a 10 millones de dólares. </p><p>"Los ecosistemas oceánicos en el Ártico han sufrido en estos últimos años cambios radicales que son mucho más veloces y de mayor envergadura que en los demás océanos", señaló Kevin Arrigo, catedrático de la Universidad de Stanford y jefe científico de esta expedición llamada ICESCAPE.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/nasa-envia-un-rompehielos-al-Artico-para-estu">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1889968125764102341?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-26387384873030151212010-06-10T11:08:00.001-07:002010-06-10T11:08:55.569-07:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div><p><b> G.M., Puerto de la Cruz</b> </p> <p>El director del Observatorio Atmosférico de Izaña, Emilio Cuevas, dio a conocer ayer que los datos paleoclimáticos "muestran que los niveles de dióxido de carbono son más altos de lo que jamás han sido en los últimos 800.000 años".</p> <p>Cuevas, que defendió la vinculación entre el cambio climático y el aumento de CO₂ como consecuencia de la actividad humana, mostró estadísticas que demuestran que la temperatura ha crecido especialmente desde la década de los 70. "Los cambios sólo se explican si se introducen los gases de efecto invernadero, porque si se tienen en cuenta sólo la radiación solar o los volcanes sería imposible explicarlos", señaló.</p> <p>Respecto al calentamiento global, indicó que está relacionado con los gases de efecto invernadero. "Tienen un claro efecto positivo porque sin ellos habría 30 grados menos en la superficie de la Tierra y no sería posible la vida como la conocemos; el problema es que con la aportación exagerada de CO₂ se está produciendo una elevación de las temperaturas y, como consecuencia de ello, el cambio climático".</p> <p>El Observatorio de Izaña creó en 1984 un programa para estudiar los gases de efecto invernadero. "Medimos CO₂ y metano y podemos decir que no han parado de incrementarse y la tendencia es cada vez mayor", indicó Cuevas.</p> <p>Preguntado sobre la contaminación global y la calidad del aire, admitió que "hasta hace poco sólo afectaba a las grandes ciudades pero ahora afecta igual a todos los sitios. Las ciudades y los cinturones industriales han crecido tanto que la contaminación es bestial".</p> <p>Centrándose en Santa Cruz de Tenerife, la calificó como "la ciudad más sucia de Canarias" y explicó que esto se debe a factores como que está rodeada por el sistema montañoso de Anaga y que, además de tener numeroso tráfico, se le une la contaminación propia de los barcos y la de la Refinería.</p> <p>Cuevas insistió en la necesidad de aumentar el grado de conocimiento de los aerosoles para determinar su efecto en el clima. "Su origen es variable porque pueden ser naturales, marinos, producidos por el tráfico, la combustión, las cementeras, las centrales térmica, etc. Además, ellos mismos producen una reflexión y hacen que los gases se vayan a la atmósfera. Otros, sin embargo, absorben la radiación", dijo.</p> </div></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.eldia.es/2010-06-10/sociedad/5-niveles-CO2-son-elevados-anos.htm">eldia.es</a></div> <p>No entiendo realmente cómo todavía hay personas que hacen zancadillas en el tema, que conspiraciones, que errores, que no sé qué... despierten, no sigan tratando de tapar el sol con el pulgar.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/los-niveles-de-co2-son-los-mas-elevados-en-80">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2638738487303015121?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-84414712376868873522010-02-23T14:44:00.005-08:002010-02-23T14:44:48.068-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <embed name="mpl" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://climate.nasa.gov/warmingworld/player.swf" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="file=warmingWorld.mp4&amp;image=videoStill.jpg&amp;title=Running A Fever" allowscriptaccess="always" height="300" wmode="opaque" quality="high" width="500" style="" /><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/warmingworld/">climate.nasa.gov</a></div> <p>Each year, scientists at NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instrumental temperature records began 130 years ago. Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57°C (1.03°F) warmer than the 1951-1980 base period. And January 2000 to December 2009 came out as the warmest decade on record.</p></embed></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/climate-change-a-warming-world">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8441471237686887352?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-16487312016612766422010-02-23T14:44:00.003-08:002010-02-23T14:44:18.528-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/kjzAJtpxIeGokrxpwBFEzbptoeflHujijupEJoaFgwDpnCGunHjyICmypabj/media_httpmedia3washi_obktm.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="350" height="222"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022301443.html">washingtonpost.com</a></div> <p>BONN, Germany -- The United Nations says formal negotiations on an international treaty to control global warming will resume in Bonn in April, four months after the failed climate change summit in Copenhagen. </p><p>U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said Tuesday the negotiating schedule is being intensified in order to secure a global climate deal at the end of the year. After the Bonn meeting April 9-11, more talks are scheduled there for May 31-June 11. </p><p>The next world climate summit is to take place in Cancun, Mexico, from Nov. 29 to Dec. 10. </p><p>De Boer, who will resign July 1, said that since Copenhagen 100 countries have submitted individual emission cut targets. He said he saw commitment by governments "to move negotiations forward toward success in Cancun."</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/un-climate-talks-to-resume-in-april-in-german">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1648731201661276642?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-68535849607398925152010-02-23T14:44:00.001-08:002010-02-23T14:44:06.361-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/wFlnkbpwtlqvwkubxEGFjnuhybfavHydGmtpFchdGFxuyBhBgHxwAwparixv/media_httpwwwvancouve_ljdxm.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/wFlnkbpwtlqvwkubxEGFjnuhybfavHydGmtpFchdGFxuyBhBgHxwAwparixv/media_httpwwwvancouve_ljdxm.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="323"/></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Figuring+global+warming+becomes+global+warming/2596138/story.html">vancouversun.com</a></div> <p>Whatever your thoughts about global warming, you have to feel a little sorry for Phil Jones. </p><p>First, the formerly private e-mails of the former director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England were hacked, leading to the so-called climategate scandal. And now, media everywhere are putting words in Jones's mouth, words that are the exact opposite of those he actually spoke. </p><p>In an interview with the BBC last week, Jones said he is "100-per-cent confident the climate has warmed," and "there's evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity." </p><p>One day later, the United Kingdom's Daily Mail newspaper's headline read: "Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995." </p><p>The fair and balanced FOX-News.comfollowed that up with a story saying that Jones "dropped a bombshell" in admitting "there has been no global warming over the past 15 years." Similar statements have now been repeated in media and blogs from around the world. </p><p>Now, how does "global warming" become "no global warming?" As the Center for Environmental Journalism explains, it's easy: When the media either don't, or choose not to, understand the concept of statistical significance. </p><p>Jones was asked specifically whether he agreed "that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically significant global warming." He replied: "Yes, but only just. I calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. The trend (0.12 C) is positive, but not significant at the 95-per-cent significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level."</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/figuring-out-how-global-warming-becomes-no-gl">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6853584960739892515?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-21045322182366744842010-02-23T14:33:00.001-08:002010-02-23T14:33:39.838-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/xztdlnjDhobGpjsmslhxjrhIDfAHiienACEpjgAzBsJlzdEadyvHmzJurHqE/media_httpweblogsmary_lqdpA.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/xztdlnjDhobGpjsmslhxjrhIDfAHiienACEpjgAzBsJlzdEadyvHmzJurHqE/media_httpweblogsmary_lqdpA.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="319"/></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2010/02/despite_climate_doubts_america.html">weblogs.marylandweather.com</a></div> <p>A survey of more than 1,000 Americans suggests that we have increasing doubts about the nature of global climate change and the urgency of acting on the science. </p><p>Even the group identified as the most "alarmed" among those surveyed - those convinced that global warming is happening, is caused by humans and is a serious and urgent threat - has AP photo India shrunk from 18 to 10 percent of the total, according to the survey conducted by Yale and George Mason universities. </p><p>Groups described as "concerned," "cautious," and "disengaged" also declined as a percentage of the total surveyed. Only those described as "doubtful" and "dismissive" have grown as percentages of the whole - to 29 percent, from less than 20 percent in a 2008 survey. </p><p>The study's authors attribute the shift to "gloomy unemployment numbers, public frustration with Washington, attacks on climate science and mobilized opposition to national climate legislation." </p><p>But despite our increasing doubts, a strong majority of Americans - in six categories from the "alarmed" to the "dismissive" - still support the allocation of more money for clean energy research, tax rebates for people who make their homes and cars more energy efficient, and they back regulation of carbon dioxide emissions as atmospheric pollutants. </p><p>"The fact that five of the six Americas support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant is bound to be of interest to the president, Congress, and the EPA," said Edward Maibach, director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. "Some business groups and other special interests as opposing EPA regulation, but most of the American people appear to be for it."</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/despite-climate-doubts-americans-back-co2-cur">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2104532218236674484?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-84194932139481947392010-02-23T14:32:00.007-08:002010-02-23T14:32:47.979-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>Scientists who believe global sea levels are going to rise even more than now predicted have scored a victory with the retraction of a less-alarming report from a scientific publication.</p> <p>That's bad news for the global warming deniers and Climategate believers.</p> <p>Here's what happened: Several scientists published a 2009 study in Nature Geoscience, predicting sea levels would go up 7cm and 82cm by 2100.</p> <p>However, the authors recently retracted their findings, saying other scientists had pointed out a few mistakes with their methodology.</p> <p>And who could that have been? Try <strong>Martin Vermeer</strong> of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, and <strong>Stefan Rahmstorf</strong> of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.</p> <p>Their prediction in another study in 2009: Sea levels would rise between 0.75m to 1.9m by 2100. </p> <p>On the high level, that's more than <em>twice</em> the rise predicted by the now-retracted paper. </p> <p>To read the details, here's the <a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/08/ups-and-downs-of-sea-level-projections/"> report</a> from Rahmstorf and Vermeer. It talks about the errors made by the authors of the now-retracted report in Nature Geoscience.</p> <p>The authors of the retracted paper pointed to Rahmstoorf and Vermeer as the reason behind the retraction.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://voices.kansascity.com/node/7729">voices.kansascity.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/global-warming-deniers-suffer-another-blow">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8419493213948194739?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-66389138177842999162010-02-23T14:32:00.005-08:002010-02-23T14:32:35.362-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p><span class="articleLocation">BEIJING (Reuters) - </span>President Hu Jintao said on Tuesday China was committed to fighting climate change, both at home and in cooperation with the rest of the world, but stopped short of offering any new policies.<span></span></p> <span></span> <p>Britain, Sweden and other countries have accused China of obstructing December's Copenhagen climate summit, which ended with a non-binding accord that set a target of limiting global warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius but was scant on details.</p> <span></span> <p>Chinese officials have said their country would never accept outside checks of its plans to slow greenhouse gas emissions and could only make a promise of "increasing transparency."</p> <span></span> <p>Hu told a study meeting attended by senior politicians, including Premier Wen Jiabao, that China took the problem seriously, state television reported.</p> <span></span> <p>"We must fully recognize the importance, urgency and difficulty of dealing with climate change," the report paraphrased Hu as saying. "We must make it an important strategy for our socio-economic development."</p> <span></span> <p>The government says some areas of the country are already seeing the effects of climate change, with higher temperatures and reduced rainfall in some parts and stronger storms in others.</p> <span></span> <p>China has pledged to cut the amount of carbon dioxide produced for each unit of economic growth by 40-45 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels.</p> <span></span> <p>This "carbon intensity" goal would let China's greenhouse gas emissions keep rising, but more slowly than economic growth.</p> <span></span> <p>Hu said energy saving, emission cuts and environmental awareness must be inculcated into not only every government worker but Chinese society as a whole, state television said. </p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61M2LF20100223">uk.reuters.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/hu-says-china-committed-to-fighting-climate-c">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6638913817784299916?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-85231570133623146122010-02-23T14:32:00.003-08:002010-02-23T14:32:29.015-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <p>WASHINGTON %u2014 Facing wide criticism over their <a href="http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment.html" title="The E.P.A.%u2019s findings on greenhouse gases.">recent finding</a> that greenhouse gases endanger the public welfare, top <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/e/environmental_protection_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Environmental Protection Agency.">Environmental Protection Agency</a> officials said Monday that any regulation of such gases would be phased in gradually and would not impose expensive new rules on most American businesses.</p> <div> <p> </p><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/business/energy-environment/23epa.html#secondParagraph">Skip to next paragraph</a> <div> <h5><a href="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs_v3/greeninc/greeninc190b.gif" height="24" alt="green inc." width="190" /></a></h5><p> </p><div><a> <img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs_v3/greeninc/greeninc75.gif" height="75" alt="Green Inc." width="75" /></a><p></p></div> <a href="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs_v3/greeninc/greeninc190b.gif" alt="Green Inc" /></a></div> --&gt; <p>A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line.</p></div> <div> <a href="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/">Go to Blog �</a> </div> </div> </div><a name="secondParagraph"></a> <p>The E.P.A.%u2019s administrator, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/lisa_p_jackson/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Lisa P Jackson.">Lisa P. Jackson</a>, wrote <a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/19132862f2b332de852576d2007d866c?OpenDocument" title="Ms. Jackson%u2019s letter to 8 Democratic senators.">in a letter to eight coal-state Democrats</a> who have sought a moratorium on regulation that only the biggest sources of greenhouse gases would be subjected to limits before 2013. Smaller ones would not be regulated before 2016, she said.</p><p>%u201CI share your goals of ensuring economic recovery at this critical time and of addressing greenhouse gas emissions in sensible ways that are consistent with the call for comprehensive energy and climate legislation,%u201D Ms. Jackson wrote.</p><p>The eight Democratic senators, led by <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/john_d_iv_rockefeller/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about John D. IV Rockefeller.">John D. Rockefeller IV</a> of West Virginia, said hugely significant decisions about energy, the economy and the environment should be made by elected representatives, not by federal bureaucrats. </p><p>The senators, who earlier questioned broad <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/greenhouse_gas_emissions/cap_and_trade/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about carbon caps and emissions trading programs.">cap-and-trade</a> legislation pushed by the Obama administration, join a number of Republican lawmakers, industry groups and officials from Texas, Alabama and Virginia in challenging the proposed E.P.A. regulations of industrial sources. Senate Republicans are going a step further, seeking to prevent the agency from taking any action to limit greenhouse gases, which are tied to <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about global warming.">global warming</a>.</p><p>Ms. Jackson warned that if the Republicans thwarted the agency%u2019s efforts to address climate change, it would kill the deal negotiated last year to limit carbon pollution from cars and light trucks and would have a chilling effect on the government%u2019s scientific studies of global warming.</p><p>%u201CIt also would be viewed by many as a vote to move the United States to a position behind that of China on the issue of climate change, and more in line with the position of Saudi Arabia,%u201D Ms. Jackson wrote. </p><p>The group led by Mr. Rockefeller asked Ms. Jackson to <a href="http://rockefeller.senate.gov/press/Letter%20to%20Lisa%20Jackson%202-19-10.pdf" title="The senators%u2019 letter to the E.P.A. administrator (PDF).">suspend any E.P.A. regulations of stationary sources</a> %u2014 including <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/coal/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about coal.">coal</a>-burning power plants and large industrial facilities %u2014 while Congress considers comprehensive energy and climate change legislation. The House passed a major climate and energy bill last summer that would have overridden some of the agency%u2019s regulatory authority. The Senate, however, has not acted on the issue and there is considerable doubt that it will do so this year.</p><p>%u201CE.P.A. actions in this area would have enormous implications, and these issues need to be handled carefully and appropriately dealt with by the Congress, not in isolation by a federal environmental agency,%u201D Mr. Rockefeller said. </p><p>The Democrats who joined Mr. Rockefeller are Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/robert_p_casey_jr/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Robert P. Casey Jr.">Bob Casey</a> of Pennsylvania, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/mark_begich/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Mark Begich.">Mark Begich</a> of Alaska, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/carl_levin/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Carl Levin.">Carl Levin</a> of Michigan, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/robert_c_byrd/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Robert C. Byrd.">Robert C. Byrd</a> of West Virginia and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/max_baucus/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Max Baucus.">Max Baucus</a> of Montana.</p><p>Manufacturers, oil companies and business coalitions also filed petitions objecting to the proposed rules.</p><p>Environmental advocates said the E.P.A. was justified in declaring carbon dioxide and gases that contribute to global warming to be dangerous pollutants under the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/air/caa/" title="The Clean Air Act.">Clean Air Act</a> and was moving cautiously to regulate them. </p><p>%u201CThese answers from Lisa Jackson hopefully will reassure the authors of the letter that the E.P.A. is proceeding in a very measured way and doing what is achievable and affordable to curb global warming pollution and focusing as they should on the biggest sources like power plants and not small businesses,%u201D said David Doniger, climate policy director of the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/natural_resources_defense_council/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Natural Resources Defense Council">Natural Resources Defense Council</a>.</p> <div><span style="float: right;"><a style="padding: 0pt 0pt 3px 20px; cursor: pointer; font-size: 1em;">Sign in to Recommend</a></span> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/health/23niss.html" title="A Face-Off on the Safety of a Drug for Diabetes">Next Article in Business (30 of 47) �</a> <span>A version of this article appeared in print on February 23, 2010, on page A19 of the New York edition.</span> </div> </blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/business/energy-environment/23epa.html">nytimes.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/epa-plans-to-phase-in-regulation-of-emissions">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8523157013362314612?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-57394677848583860332010-02-23T14:32:00.001-08:002010-02-23T14:32:15.689-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Climate change is melting the floating ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula, giving scientists a preview of what could happen if other ice shelves around the southern continent disappear, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Monday.</p> <span></span> <p> The ice has retreated so far from the land mass that Charcot Island, which has long been connected to the peninsula by an ice bridge, emerged as a real island again last year, a USGS scientist said.</p> <span></span> <p> "This is the first time since people have been observing the area, since the 1800s, that that ice shelf has not hitched together Charcot Island and the peninsula," scientist Jane Ferrigno said in a telephone interview.</p> <span></span> <p> The Antarctic Peninsula extends further northward than the rest of the roughly circular ice-covered continent, and it is warmer than the rest of Antarctica. But even in the peninsula's coldest, southern part, ice shelves are vanishing.</p> <span></span> <p> Research by the USGS was the first to show that every ice front on the southern section of the peninsula has been retreating from 1947 to 2009, with the most dramatic changes since 1990.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN2221476020100222">uk.reuters.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/climate-change-melts-antarctic-ice-shelves-us">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-5739467784858386033?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-28839717193350583132010-02-23T14:31:00.001-08:002010-02-23T14:31:47.765-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p class="indent">Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. said it wants to reach a legally binding climate-change agreement at a summit in Mexico in December, a sign President Barack Obama hasn’t given up the fight for a global accord to limit greenhouse gases.</p> <p class="indent"> The pact should cover “all major economies,” and include elements from the non-binding Copenhagen Accord made in December, the State Department said in a letter released today by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC.</p> <p class="indent"> With China and India resisting mandatory curbs on their emissions and legislation in the U.S. outlining domestic commitments stalled in the Senate, Obama is attempting to keep the talks alive. A two-year push for a treaty ended in December with a voluntary deal that wasn’t accepted by all of the 193 nations present.</p> <p class="indent"> “Mexico is an ambitious time frame, but a year later it’s very possible,” Saleemul Huq, head of climate change at the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development said today in a telephone interview.</p> <p class="indent"> The fight against global warming has been beset in recent months by the failure of the UNFCCC to secure a treaty in Copenhagen and the resignation last week of its chief diplomat, Yvo de Boer. Impediments to a legally binding deal include the lack of a U.S. domestic law and a reluctance of India and China to adopt mandatory emissions targets.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-22/u-s-aims-for-legally-binding-climate-change-agreement-in-2010.html">businessweek.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/us-aims-for-legally-binding-climate-change-ag">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2883971719335058313?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-12286641222503801812010-02-13T12:45:00.003-08:002010-02-13T12:45:47.498-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/BrAknedcApvemGjasIezqzwkJJxiHApGgajnEbhEequEfizCaJACnnhDyfng/media_httpwwwchicagot_Aaada.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/BrAknedcApvemGjasIezqzwkJJxiHApGgajnEbhEequEfizCaJACnnhDyfng/media_httpwwwchicagot_Aaada.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="478"/></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0214-page-20100212,0,2646573.column">chicagotribune.com</a></div> <p>Here's a recent headline that caused a few double takes in Washington, D.C.: "Global warming hearing postponed because of snow." </p><p>Yes, nothing gives an unearned boost to global warming skeptics like back-to-back snowstorms variously nicknamed "snow-pocalypse" and "snow-mageddon," among other less-charitable labels in the nation's capital. </p><p>Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe, an outspoken skeptic of global warming and warm friend of his state's oil and gas industries, recently mocked Al Gore, climate activist and former vice president. Inhofe posted photos on his Facebook page of his family building an igloo near the Capitol with a sign that read "Al Gore's new home." Har, har. </p><p>But, contrary to popular belief, a robust snowfall does not mean global warming is a myth. </p><p>In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow. </p><p>A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species. </p><p>That's simple science even for me, a guy whose scientific education pretty much ended with the old "Watch Mr. Wizard" TV show and a subscription to Popular Mechanics. </p><p>Yet, confusion about that simple science is one of the reasons why experts and activists increasingly prefer the term "climate change" as less confusing and politically loaded than "global warming." Still, confusion and politics persist. Fox News host Sean Hannity cheerfully asserted that the storm "would seem to contradict Al Gore's hysterical global warming theories." His fellow Fox host Glenn Beck agreed, mocking the very idea that "warming" could lead to more snow. </p><p>Sure, it's laughable if you believe in the very unscientific theory of simple observational research, which means you base your views about global warming on your own weather.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/clarence-page-yes-global-warming-could-mean-m">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1228664122250380181?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-36210961134736583592010-02-13T12:45:00.001-08:002010-02-13T12:45:21.994-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/srsrGweskmesufFtFvwqoFkygdIEJccAmguJzDAgekHiDIboCpfodruypulI/media_httpimageshuffi_Bujvl.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="260" height="190"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/bill-gates-ted-speech-201_n_461034.html">huffingtonpost.com</a></div> <p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates took on climate change during his TED speech Friday. He told those gathered at the conference that "What we're going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system... So we need energy miracles." </p><p>To cut CO2 emissions to zero and stop climate change -- a problem that he said is bigger than creating new vaccines -- Gates urged researchers to find clean sources of energy. CNN reports: </p><p> Gates said the deadline for the world to cut all of its carbon emissions is 2050. He suggested that researchers spend the next 20 years inventing and perfecting clean-energy technologies, and then the next 20 years implementing them. </p><p> The world's energy portfolio should not include coal or natural gas, he said, and must include carbon capture and storage technology as well as nuclear, wind and both solar photovoltaics and solar thermal power.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/bill-gates-ted-speech-2010-we-need-energy-mir">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3621096113473658359?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-74507817778084341952010-02-13T12:43:00.007-08:002010-02-13T12:43:22.658-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/CJfEkwtweucylbIoiqmgzixbuvvcpigfxhhnamffyhzeligilIoHqylfCwDu/media_httpitelegraphc_vicpj.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="288"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7221110/Climate-change-sceptics-playing-Russian-roulette-with-planet.html">telegraph.co.uk</a></div> <p>Prof Peter Liss, acting director of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), said sceptics were endangering the lives of generations to come by making unsupported claims. </p><p>"The evidence is hugely for there being substantial climate change due to man's activities and if you want to argue against that case you have to produce some evidence." </p><p>Prof Liss spoke after the Norwich-based UEA launched an independent review of the CRU~s work. </p><p>An international furore erupted up after staff emails were stolen and posted onto the internet last year. </p><p>Climate sceptics believe they show data has been manipulated in favour of the case for man-made climate change - a claim strongly denied. </p><p>Prof Liss said: "This is not just some intellectual argument between people who think they know the answer, we are talking about the future of the globe. </p><p>"If you're on the climate sceptics side, you have to have really good evidence for your case because if you're wrong then the consequences for all of us and all our children and whoever comes after is hugely influenced.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/climate-change-sceptics-playing-russian-roule">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-7450781777808434195?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-15541182567399876852010-02-13T12:43:00.005-08:002010-02-13T12:43:14.099-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>LONG BEACH, California — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has broken from philanthropic work fighting poverty and disease to take on another threat to the world's poor -- climate change.</p><p>"Energy and climate are extremely important to these people," Gates told Friday a TED Conference audience packed with influential figures including the founders of Google and climate champion Al Gore.</p><p>"The climate getting worse means many years that crops won't grow from too much rain or not enough, leading to starvation and certainly unrest."</p><p>Gates said he is backing development of "terrapower" reactors that could be fueled by nuclear waste from disposal facilities or generated by today's power plants.</p><p>He broke down variables in a carbon-dioxide-culprit formula, homing in on a conclusion that the answer to the problem is a source of energy that produces no carbon.</p><p>"The formula is a very straight forward one," Gates said. "More carbon dioxide equals temperature increase equals negative effects like collapsed ecosystems. We have to get to zero."</p><p>To dramatize his point, Gates pulled out a large jar of fireflies in playful flashback to when he unleashed mosquitoes on a TED audience a year earlier while discussing battling malaria.</p><p>"They won't bite," Gates joked of the fireflies. "As a matter of fact, they might not even leave this jar."</p><p>Gates touted terrapower as more reliable than wind or solar, cleaner than burning coal or natural gas, and safer than current nuclear plants.</p><p>"With the right materials approach it could work," Gates said. "Because you burn 99 percent of the waste, it is kind of like a candle."</p><p>Nuclear waste fed into a terrapower reactor would potentially burn for decades before being exhausted.</p><p>"Today we are always refueling the reactor so lot of controls and lots of things that can go wrong," Gates said. "That is not good. With this, you have a piece of fuel, think of it like a log, that burns for 60 years and it is done."</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h_iNFAG254im4XHNHGNRIpKj6bLA">google.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/afp-microsoft-co-founder-gates-tackling-clima">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1554118256739987685?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-69967700312803363172010-02-13T12:43:00.003-08:002010-02-13T12:43:09.758-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <h3>Ban unveils new high-level advisory group to spur action on climate change</h3><div style=""><img title="" src="http://www.un.org/News/dh/photos/2009/03-27for.jpg" border="1" height="120" width="180" /><p></p></div><span>12 February 2010 %u2013 </span><span>The leaders of the United Kingdom and Ethiopia will head up a new high-level group launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today, intended to mobilize financing swiftly to help developing countries combat climate change. </span><p></p><p> </p><p> The Copenhagen Accord reached at December's United Nations conference in the Danish capital aims to jump-start immediate action on climate change and guide negotiations on long-term action, with developing countries to be given $30 billion until 2012 and then $100 billion a year until 2020. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> It also includes an agreement to working towards curbing global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius and efforts to reduce or limit emissions. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> %u201CThere will be an even balance between developing and developed countries%u201D in the new Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing, chaired by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Mr. Ban <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/statments_full.asp?statID=728">announced</a> in New York today. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> The body's other members, who will be appointed for 10 months, include President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway, senior ministers and officials from central banks and experts on finance and development, according to a <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=4381">statement</a> issued by his spokesperson. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> It will be tasked with creating practical proposals to boost both short- and long-term financing for mitigation and adaptation strategies in developing countries, the Secretary-General said during a press conference, where he was joined via video-link from London and Addis Ababa by Mr. Brown and Mr. Zenawi. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> %u201CLet me emphasize the importance of rapid action,%u201D Mr. Ban told reporters. </p><p></p><p> %u201CDeveloping countries need to move as quickly as possible toward a future of low-emissions growth and prosperity,%u201D he stressed, noting that millions of people in Africa and around the world are suffering from climate change's effects. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> Additionally, the Secretary-General emphasized that assisting with adaptation efforts is a %u201Cmoral imperative,%u201D as well as %u201Ca smart investment in a safer, more sustainable world for all.%u201D </p><p></p><p> </p><p> The new group is expected to issue its final recommendations before the next conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (<a href="http://unfccc.int/2860.php">UNFCCC</a>) in Mexico later this year. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> Last week, the UNFCCC announced that by the 31 January deadline specified in the Copenhagen Accord, some of the world's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide %u2013 including the United States and China %u2013 have formally submitted their national targets to cut and limit greenhouse gases by 2020. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> It said that it had received specific pledges from 55 countries that together account for 78 per cent of global emissions from energy use. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> %u201CThis represents an important invigoration of the UN climate change talks under the two tracks of Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol. The commitment to confront climate change at the highest level is beyond doubt,%u201D Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, said in a statement. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> The pledges to the Accord are purely voluntary and there are no enforcement provisions for the signing countries. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> %u201CGreater ambition is required to meet the scale of the challenge. But I see these pledges as clear signals of willingness to move negotiations towards a successful conclusion,%u201D said Mr. de Boer. </p><p></p><p> </p><p> The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (<a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/">IPCC</a>) has found that to stave off the worst effects of climate change, industrialized countries must slash emissions by 25 to 40 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020, and that global emissions must be halved by 2050. </p><p></p><p> </p><p>News Tracker: past stories on this issue</p><p><a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33748&amp;Cr=climate&amp;Cr1=#">Bulk of emitters submit climate pledges to UN convention</a></p> </div></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33748&amp;Cr=climate&amp;Cr1=">un.org</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/ban-unveils-new-high-level-advisory-group-to">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6996770031280336317?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-20888176571848540882010-02-13T12:43:00.001-08:002010-02-13T12:43:00.152-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>UNITED NATIONS — UN chief Ban Ki-moon set up a high-level advisory panel Friday to mobilize funding to help developing nations battle climate change.</p><p>The panel, to be led by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi, aimed "to mobilize the resources for climate change pledged at the recent climate change conference in Copenhagen," Ban told reporters.</p><p>The group, evenly balanced between developed and developing nations, "will develop practical proposals to significantly scale up long-term (public and private) financing for mitigation and adaptation strategies in developing countries," he added.</p><p>The UN boss said the group would specifically seek to marshal new and innovative resources to reach a 100-billion-dollar target by 2020 to fund "adaptation, mitigation, technology development and transfer, and capacity building in developing countries, with priority for the most vulnerable."</p><p>The panel was set to include heads of state and government, top officials from ministries and central banks as well as experts on public finance, development and related issues.</p><p>Ban said the composition of the panel would be announced shortly and revealed that he planned to ask Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to join.</p><p>The secretary-general, who was linked by video conference with Brown and Meles, said he expected the panel to deliver a preliminary report at the May-June meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which provides a planetary arena for tackling climate change.</p><p>"Finance for adaptation and mitigation and transfer of technology are of central significance for developing countries in general and the poor and vulnerable countries in particular," the Ethiopian premier said from Addis Ababa.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hKOKVOyAqm4a3vfxXbztQrasGq1g">google.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/afp-un-panel-to-mobilize-climate-change-fundi">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2088817657184854088?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-33847316558892257212010-02-13T12:42:00.003-08:002010-02-13T12:42:42.414-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>Mexican President Felipe Calderón made international headlines recently with his <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DHEOOO2&amp;show_article=1">comments regarding climate change at the World Economic Forum</a> in Davos, Switzerland, where he called upon developing and developed countries alike to act multilaterally rather than continue endlessly debating over how to tackle the problem.</p><p>Calderón expressed the need for "building bridges" instead of walking away, once again, from a forum with resolutions on paper that fail to materialise as actual policies –&nbsp;much less realities.</p><p>Calderón's position regarding <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-change" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Climate change">climate change</a> is coherent with his administration's current strategy touting <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/mexico" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Mexico">Mexico</a> as one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, as well as the venue of the <a href="http://unfccc.int/2860.php">UN framework convention on climate change this autumn</a>. (By the way, the meeting is set to take place in the environmental disaster area that is <a href="http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-regional/13822911-1.html">Cancún</a>, a project that converted an island into an artificial beach packed with human parking lots back in 1974).</p><p>But before allowing Calderón to crown himself International Advocate of Environmental Concerns, let's do a reality check. If as he says, climate change is a problem that "we are all obliged to attend to", he should start at home, where the "economic costs associated with trying to tackle climate change" are not the only concern.</p><p>While megadiverse Mexico is home to approximately <a href="http://app1.semarnat.gob.mx/dgeia/informe_04/04_biodiversidad/index_biodiversidad.html">10% of the planet's species</a>, soon, all that fauna will have no place to live. This is because according to Greenpeace, <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/mexico/prensa/reports/destruccion_mexico">Mexico takes fifth place in world deforestation</a> –&nbsp;which is also, incidentally, a key factor in climate change. </p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/feb/12/mexico-climate-change">guardian.co.uk</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/reality-of-mexicos-green-battle">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3384731655889225721?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-67827223589453790312010-02-13T12:42:00.001-08:002010-02-13T12:42:37.266-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>The cross-country ski race I've been training for, set for today high in the Green Mountains: cancelled, lack of snow. </p> <p> Meanwhile, across the continent, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021003825.html" target="">backhoes and helicopters are moving snow</a> down British Columbia's Cypress Mountain in an attempt to cover the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/special/vancouver2010/index.html?hpid=skybox" target="">Olympic ski courses</a>, and technicians are burying cooling pipes beneath the moguls to keep them from melting. Some climate-conscious jokers put out a video pushing the sport of "<a href="http://bobwheeling.com/" target="">bobwheeling"</a> for future snow-challenged Olympiads. </p> <p> And apparently there was some snowfall in the greater Washington area last week. </p> <p> When you're trying to launch snowboarding tricks on dry ground and simultaneously <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/02/federal_government_shutdown_ex.html" target="">shutting down the U.S. government</a> because the snowbanks are casting shadows on the Washington Monument, something odd is going on. This isn't a good old-fashioned winter for the District of Columbia, not unless you're remembering the last ice age. And it doesn't disprove global warming, despite Sen. <span class="aptureLink "><span class="aptureLinkIcon" style="">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://twitter.com/JimDeMint/status/8863771523" class="aptureLink snap_noshots">Jim De Mint's cheerful tweet</a></span>: "It's going to keep snowing until Al Gore cries 'uncle.' " </p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021103895.html">washingtonpost.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/washingtons-snowstorms-brought-to-you-by-glob">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6782722358945379031?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-19503972115489092362010-02-09T12:13:00.003-08:002010-02-09T12:13:42.067-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/JobacHanyrHpmgbIAxyEcGkDJgDgApcfafhcgrtpzpdJzbCnBcqqCIlGJroH/media_httpwwwtreehugg_nhzbp.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/JobacHanyrHpmgbIAxyEcGkDJgDgApcfafhcgrtpzpdJzbCnBcqqCIlGJroH/media_httpwwwtreehugg_nhzbp.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="352"/></a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/report-exxon-still-campaign-undermine-public-acceptance-global-warming.php">treehugger.com</a></div> <p>I have a challenge for you: try to come up with a company that better exemplifies the archetype of the nefarious, greed-driven, monolithic corporation than Exxon. Besides Haliburton. You have until the end of this blog post to do so. But it's a tall order: Exxon is behind one of the most infamous environmental catastrophes of our time, it makes more gross income than most nations' entire GDPs, and it does business with nations with unstable governments that are often hostile to the US. Worst of all, it has done everything in its power to push a misinformation campaign designed to discredit both climate science and international efforts to keep the earth's temperatures from rising to dangerous levels. And according to recent reports, its still up to its old tricks. </p><p>ExxonMobil: Still the Biggest Force Behind Climate Denial <br />A report in the Independent outlines how the oil giant is still funneling money through various conservative think tanks and organizations in order to propagate the myth that the science behind human-caused climate change is "unsettled." Even though it has repeatedly stated that it would stop doing so. Hell, we even fell for it when they said so (see Exxon turns off the disinformation tap). </p><p>We won't fall for it again. We won't fall for it when Exxon publicly calls for a carbon tax, saying it's the best way for them to anticipate costs--knowing full well that such a tax is entirely, 100% impossible politically in the US. Because Exxon has only one, singular goal--and just like that ol' stereotype of the Evil Corporation--it will do anything necessary to continue to turn profits. Even if it means intentionally misleading the public. I know this is starting to sound a bit too much like a Greenpeace press release, but I've had it.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/exxon-still-orchestrating-campaign-to-undermi">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1950397211548909236?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-29545829719686466602010-02-09T12:13:00.001-08:002010-02-09T12:13:33.977-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/fmahrvEgvfqaqtFcCakzwEilsiIJhsJnaefJIwFmBEDJwGdlHxgAernlIhDq/media_httpphotosupico_loqEI.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="300" height="449"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/02/09/Climate-change-aids-invasive-plants/UPI-35311265722130/">upi.com</a></div> <p>CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Harvard University scientists say they've determined invasive plants could become more prevalent and destructive as climate change continues. </p><p>The scientists, led by Assistant Professor Charles Davis, said they analyzed more than 150 years of data and discovered non-native plants, especially invasive species, appear to thrive during times of climate change because they're better able to adjust the timing of annual activities, such as flowering and fruiting. </p><p>"These results demonstrate for the first time that climate change likely plays a direct role in promoting non-native species success," Davis said. "Secondly, they highlight the importance of flowering time as a trait that may facilitate the success of non-native species." </p><p>Davis and his colleagues said they analyzed a dataset that began with Henry David Thoreau's cataloging of plants around Walden Pond during the 1850s. Since then, the mean annual temperature in the vicinity of Concord, Mass., has increased by 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit, causing some plants to shift their flowering time by as much as three weeks in response to ever-earlier spring thaws, the scientists said.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/climate-change-aids-invasive-plants">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2954582971968646660?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-5961099903113077002010-02-09T12:12:00.001-08:002010-02-09T12:12:12.078-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/bBJkCobliavxskzaendjhFcmzeAzGoDeBpfcGEkpiylyokBrmcGHfexDhFmI/media_httpchangeprodu_zlkeq.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="250" height="187"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://environment.change.org/blog/view/toppling_bpa">environment.change.org</a></div> <p>An avalanche of evidence is amassing that Bisphenol A, or BPA, is a serious health hazard. </p><p>To reproductive problems, behavioral problems, and increased risk of cancer, add asthma. A new study in Environmental Health Perspectives found that mice exposed in utero to concentrations of BPA comparable to what a human fetus could encounter were significantly more likely to have asthma. </p><p>The evidence is frighteningly suggestive, given that asthma rates have skyrocketed in the last couple of decades. Nearly 10 percent of all American children suffer from the disease, up from 8.7 percent just 8 years ago. </p><p>The response of the FDA has been to shift from calling BPA a substance of "negligible concern" to one of "some concern" and to call for further study. </p><p>But study isn't what's lacking. What's lacking is federal action, and these shifts in bureaucratic language don't help consumers. </p><p>Many items — from baby bottles to Campbell's Soup to medical tubing — contain BPA, which isn't even required to be labeled. Consumers can't be expected to do all the work on their own. </p><p>Yet the FDA claims that it can't ban BPA without action from Congress allowing it to do so. Sick children? No brainer. Congress should let the regulators regulate. </p><p>Photo credit: Michael Jastremski</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/toppling-bpa">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-596109990311307700?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-51427384903648367472010-02-09T12:11:00.003-08:002010-02-09T12:11:50.131-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/etbjgcrhpnyJlmhqgEtybeCtBulBHzHbmwvlzmqrhAnsItctzCGgeekEEshd/media_httpstaticguimc_xriJJ.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="276"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/08/climate-scientists-melting-glaciers">guardian.co.uk</a></div> <p>Climate scientists who worked on the UN panel on global warming have hit out at "sloppy" colleagues from other disciplines who introduced a mistake about melting glaciers into the landmark 2007 report. </p><p>The experts, who worked on the section of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that considered the physical science of global warming, say the error by "social and biological scientists" has unfairly maligned their work. Some said that Rajendra Pachauri, the panel's chair, should resign, though others supported him. </p><p>The IPCC report combined the output from three independent working groups, which separately considered the science, impacts and human response to climate change, and published their findings several months apart.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/climate-scientists-hit-out-at-sloppy-melting">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-5142738490364836747?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-10418307227966871552010-02-09T12:11:00.001-08:002010-02-09T12:11:15.842-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/bmjtfaJczCdiIpGlDbjEhyyghbpBubiBIpEzFuHGxBFCqaJaBcazAofdxEII/media_httpchangeprodu_aouHp.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="250" height="156"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://environment.change.org/blog/view/global_warming_on_thin_ice">environment.change.org</a></div> <p>Scientists, like most people, don't particularly like giving bad news. If a scientist is lucky enough to work in a field like astronomy or quantum mechanics she rarely has to talk about anything that would affect the GDP. She gets to describe super novae happening billions of light years away, and you get to imagine it like a fire cracker in space. So pity the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, because they have much more difficult working conditions. </p><p>A must-see debate is happening over at the New York Time's Dot Earth, between an anonymous user with the monicker "Wmar" and Andrew Revkin, the author of the blog. Wmar is a man-made climate change skeptic, and Mr. Revkin is a highly experienced journalist. The debate is especially refreshing because both parties are being so darn polite about it. There are a few snide, completely unhelpful remarks from others, but the main contenders are both sincere. That's important, because when people are being polite it's easier to understand what they're saying, and (especially important) what they mean. </p><p>Wmar does not believe that we humans are causing global warming. He does not deny that it is happening, or that there is hard data demonstrating that the globe is warming. As his own evidence he uses links to a website called CO2science.org, which has charts and graphs of its own and the names of scientists from all over the world who are referenced, but never quoted. On the other side is Mr. Revkin and the IPCC. An impasse, huh? It would only seem so. </p><p>At this point human caused climate change deniers are banking that if people see scientists in disagreement on the issue they'll take the safe route and wait until greater consensus has been established, or forget the problem altogether. If it were a duel at high noon, and the IPCC had 75 scientific studies, and CO2science.org had 802 scientific studies, we'd be measuring the IPCC for a casket. Fortunately for the IPCC, none of CO2's studies are loaded. CO2 is just a blog using other scientists' data; but it uses the numbers without the researchers' analysis.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/global-warming-on-thin-ice-environment">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1041830722796687155?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-70764706390641325142010-02-09T12:09:00.005-08:002010-02-09T12:09:53.569-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <div style=""> <img title="spiderweb_dew_Flickr_max-s-pixs.jpg" src="http://www.scidev.net/scidev_images/spiderweb_dew_Flickr_max-s-pixs.jpg" height="140" alt="spiderweb_dew_Flickr_max-s-pixs.jpg" width="140" /> <p>Spiders' webs are good at catching dew</p> <p>Flickr/k2pi</p> </div> <p><span>Better techniques for collecting water from the air could be possible with the discovery of why spiders' webs are so effective at catching the morning dew.</span></p> <p><span>Chinese researchers studying the silk of the spider <em>Uloborus walckenaerius</em> found that dry spider silk has a "necklace-like" structure of fibres connecting "puffs" of tiny, randomly arranged fibres. </span></p> <p><span>When water condenses onto these puffs, they form tightly-packed knots, rougher than the smooth 'joint' fibres that connect them. When a water droplet condenses, it slides along the smooth joint to its nearest knot where it coalesces with others to form a larger drop.</span></p> <p><span>To test whether this structure was responsible for the effective water-catching, the scientists created artificial silk using nylon fibres coated in a polymer solution that forms knots in a similar way. They say their findings could lead to new materials for collecting water from air.</span></p> <p><span>Spider silk expert Brent Opell, at <span>Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University</span>, United States, calls the scientists' ability to reproduce the properties of the silk "impressive". </span></p> <p><span><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7281/full/7281586a.html">Link to article in <em>Nature<br /> </em></a></span></p> <p><span><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7281/pdf/nature08729.pdf">Link to full paper in <em>Nature</em></a>[1.11MB]</span></p> </div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.scidev.net/en/news/spider-silk-provides-clues-for-fog-harvesting.html?utm_source=link&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=en_news">scidev.net</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/spider-silk-provides-clues-for-fog-harvesting">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-7076470639064132514?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-82118912615573157782010-02-09T12:09:00.003-08:002010-02-09T12:09:31.687-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <p>The melting of ice in the Arctic could result in economic costs of between $2.4 trillion (£1.54tn) and $24 trillion by 2050, according to a major <a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/uploadedFiles/wwwpewtrustsorg/Reports/Protecting_ocean_life/Cost%20of%20Warming%20Arctic-FINAL%202%205%2010.pdf?n=4808">new study</a> that predicts that the loss of "the planet's air conditioner" will accelerate the rate of global warming and lead to an increase in losses associated with heat waves, rising sea levels and other climate change effects. </p> <p>The study, which was commissioned by the <a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_category.aspx?id=110">Pew Environment Group</a>, was presented to G7 finance ministers gathering for a two-day meeting on Canada's Baffin Island late last week.</p> <p>Reviewed by more than a dozen scientists and economists, the study found that average temperatures are rising faster in the Arctic than in any other region. It warned that the resulting loss of Arctic sea ice and the melting of frozen permafrost had the potential to accelerate global warming by reducing the amount of heat reflected by the ice and increasing emissions of methane.</p> <p>Researchers then calculated how these warming effects equated to carbon emissions and used methodologies for assessing the social cost of carbon to work out the likely economic impact of climate change in the Arctic.</p> <p>"Putting a dollar figure on the Arctic's climate services allows us to better understand both the region's immense importance and the enormous price we will pay if the ice is lost," said Dr Eban Goodstein, co-author of the report and an economist who directs the Bard Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College in New York. "At the mid-range of our estimates, the cumulative cost of the melting Arctic in the next 40 years is equivalent to the annual gross domestic products of Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom combined."</p> <p>The report calculates that this year alone, the warming effects of Arctic melting could have an impact equivalent to emitting three billion metric tons of CO2. "That's equal to 40 per cent of all US industrial emissions this year or bringing on line more than 500 large coal-burning power plants," said Dr Eugenie Euskirchen, co-author of the report and a scientist from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks’ Institute of Arctic Biology.</p> <p>Scott Highleyman, international Arctic director for the Pew Environment Group, called on G7 finance ministers to commission a full economic analysis of the "global climate services" provided by the Arctic.</p> <p>The report comes as climate scientists continue to face the fallout from the so-called Climategate affair, with a new survey by the BBC showing that the number of people who accept that temperatures are rising primarily as a result of human activity has fallen since emails from the University of East Anglia purportedly showing scientists attempting to resist freedom of information requests were stolen.</p> <p>The survey of 1,000 people found that a quarter did not believe in global warming - a rise of eight per cent since a similar poll last year. Meanwhile, a third of those who did accept that temperatures are rising felt the pace and scale of climate change was being exaggerated.</p> <p>Yet despite an unseasonably cold winter in Europe and the US, scientists have found that climate change is impacting the Arctic faster than expected, with a separate study involving more than 370 scientists from 27 countries showing on Friday that sea ice is retreating at a more rapid rate than previous models had predicted.</p> </div></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2257475/melting-arctic-cost-global">businessgreen.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/melting-arctic-could-cost-global-economy-over">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8211891261557315778?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-41048971236433716672010-02-09T12:09:00.001-08:002010-02-09T12:09:15.570-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/zbxIDfdIJkBtpEdfJzJuaAktgiGyGyzmyiDdtdiqxvkJJqmjBBcBGaurgIyB/media_httpnewsimgbbcc_vqJzG.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="226" height="170"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8502823.stm">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div> <p>The scientist at the centre of "climategate" says he contemplated killing himself after leaked e-mails were seized on by sceptics. </p><p>In an interview with the Sunday Times, Professor Phil Jones also said he had been provoked into sending the e-mails. </p><p>It was claimed the e-mails, leaked after a University of East Anglia server was hacked into, showed climate data was being manipulated. </p><p>Prof Jones, 57, said he had received death threats over the incident. </p><p>He told the newspaper: "I did think about it, yes. About suicide. I thought about it several times, but I think I've got past that stage now." </p><p>He agreed it became his "David Kelly moment" - a reference to the scientist who killed himself in the aftermath of the "sexed up" Iraq intelligence dossier claims. </p><p>Internet leak </p><p>Professor Jones, 57, also said he received death threats in the aftermath of the scandal. </p><p>"People said I should go kill myself. They said they knew where I lived." </p><p>The row erupted last December when hundreds of messages between scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and their peers around the world were put on the internet along with other documents.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/climategate-scientist-contemplated-suicide">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4104897123643371667?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-59684084886257961102010-02-09T12:08:00.005-08:002010-02-09T12:08:30.049-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) - The Commerce Department said on Monday that it plans to create an agency under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that will provide businesses and community leaders with the latest data on climate change.</p><img src="http://www.allheadlinenews.com/images/cp.gif" border="0" /><p>"Working closely with federal, regional, academic and other state and local government and private sector partners, the new NOAA Climate Service will build on our success transforming science into useable climate services," Jane Lubchenco, NOAA administrator and undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere, said in a statement.</p><p>The agency will create a single point of entry for local governments and businesses in agriculture, energy, transportation and other sectors seeking climate services such as air quality data and inundation maps. It will be a comprehensive source of science and services much like the National Weather Service has been for weather information.</p><p>Thomas Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, will serve as transitional director of the agency. His post will be complemented by six new NOAA regional climate services directors.</p><p>No new funds are required to establish the agency, since funds will be re-organized to integrate NOAA's climate services. However, new funds will be needed so the agency to meet continued demands for climate data. Congress will have to approve the changes in the budget, but is not required to pass legislation for the creation of the new federal entity.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017769500">allheadlinenews.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/noaa-creates-new-climate-change-agency">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-5968408488625796110?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-39299850561309506262010-02-09T12:08:00.003-08:002010-02-09T12:08:13.047-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>The Nobel-prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change faces new challenges following a call for an investigation of its conduct and for its chairman to resign amid continuing criticism of the scientific basis of its reports.</p> <p>Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming called on Thursday for the independent investigation and for Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Geneva-based panel, to resign. </p> <p>The panel has so far declined to make Dr. Pachauri available for an interview, and officials didn't return phone calls or emails over the weekend seeking further comment. Republicans previously had pushed for him to resign in the fall. </p> <p>The IPCC, whose vast reports on climate science influence policy makers and undergird global action against global warming, defends its work, saying that its reports "are as solid as careful science can make them," and that it is required to include some literature that hasn't been peer-reviewed and therefore requires "additional care and professional judgment" to evaluate.</p> <p>Dr. Barrasso said that "new scandals" emerge "every day" about the "so-called 'facts'" in the panel's reports. "The integrity of the data and the integrity of the science have been compromised.…The scientific data behind these policies must be independently verified," he said.</p> <p>While evidence of global warming is voluminous and the notion of global warming has gained wide scientific acceptance, the credibility of the panel has been challenged by continuing allegations that its seminal 2007 climate-change study is plagued with unsubstantiated predictions about the danger posed by global warming. </p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704197104575051620263103684.html">online.wsj.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/panel-on-climate-faces-challenges">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3929985056130950626?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-40799178740851378132010-02-09T12:08:00.001-08:002010-02-09T12:08:04.206-08:00<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.</p> <p> Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting.</p> <p> Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service.</p> <p> "Whether we like it or not, climate change represents a real threat," Locke said Monday at a news conference.</p> <p> Lubchenco added, "Climate change is real, it's happening now." She said climate information is vital to the wind power industry, coastal community planning, fishermen and fishery managers, farmers and public health officials.</p> <p> NOAA recently reported that the decade of 2000-2009 was the warmest on record worldwide; the previous warmest decade was the 1990s. Most atmospheric scientists believe that warming is largely due to human actions, adding gases to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9777038">abcnews.go.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/new-federal-climate-change-agency-forming">Global Warming News</a> </p> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4079917874085137813?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-20106733434169809592009-12-31T12:28:00.001-08:002009-12-31T12:28:43.586-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/CfqriDqoDdbugpvnibGzDtncCoDeqAaGsGvlzDmlaruGfGotctCcgwFngnwC/media_httpiicomcomcnw_Gffen.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="244" height="183"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/31/earlyshow/main6041931.shtml">cbsnews.com</a></div> <p>(CBS) This month, a poll of 3,000 Americans showed 49 percent were not that worried about global warming. That's up from 39 percent in 2007, when Al Gore's book and documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" was the hot topic in the climate change debate. </p><p>So, does the political will to save the planet from the potential harm from global warming still exist in the U.S.? </p><p>According to Gore, who has authored a new book called "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," the movement is rising -- not only in the U.S. but also around the world -- with people determined to solve the crisis. </p><p>"Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith recently sat down with Gore and asked him about the environmental debate as we head into a new decade. </p><p>In the U.S., while there is more scientific agreement, there seems to be less political agreement about global warming. How does Gore view this disparity? </p><p>Gore told Smith, "Some of the largest carbon polluters have been vigorous and try to convince people -- as the tobacco industry did years ago on the link between smoking cigarettes and lung disease -- that there really isn't a link -- between global warming -- pollution and global warming. But the power of that kind of lobbying and advertising does have an impact." </p><p>Some climate models, Smith noted, say it takes a certain number of years for the environment to recover -- even if you stopped pouring carbon into the atmosphere now. So is it too late? </p><p>Gore said it's not too late, but added, "Some of the consequences are going to play out because we've already increased temperature one degree and another degree is stored up in the oceans. But the truly catastrophic effects that these scientists have been telling us we've got to stop, can still be avoided."</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/gore-carbon-polluters-like-big-tobacco">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2010673343416980959?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-77981119860393251522009-12-31T12:27:00.005-08:002009-12-31T12:27:44.510-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <h3>Secretary-General confers with world leaders on climate change</h3><div style=""><img title="Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on a trip to the Polar Ice Rim to see the effects of climate change firsthand. [File Photo]" src="http://www.un.org/News/dh/photos/2009/407609-ban.jpg" border="1" height="120" width="180" /><p>Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on a trip to the Polar Ice Rim to see the effects of climate change firsthand. [File Photo]</p></div><span>30 December 2009 – </span><span>Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been speaking to numerous world leaders on the heels of the historic United Nations conference in Copenhagen which recently wrapped up with nations reaching a political agreement on climate change.</span><p> Following the summit’s end less than two weeks ago, Mr. Ban has made calls to leaders from countries such as China, the United States, Ethiopia, the Maldives, Grenada, France, Brazil and Australia.</p><p> The Copenhagen Accord was struck in the Danish capital on 19 December after the Secretary-General intervened at the last minute to assuage nations that felt they had been excluded from parts of the negotiations.</p><p> It aims to jump-start immediate action on climate change and guide negotiations on long-term action. It also includes an agreement to working towards curbing global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius, efforts to reduce or limit emissions, and pledges to mobilize $100 billion a year for developing countries to combat climate change.</p><p> “While I am satisfied that we sealed a deal, I am aware that the outcome of the Copenhagen conference, including the Copenhagen Accord, did not go as far as many have hoped,” Mr. Ban <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/statments_full.asp?statID=687">told reporters</a> after returning to New York from Denmark.</p><p> The two-week-long UN conference in Copenhagen, attended by more than 100 heads of State and government, was marked by interruptions in negotiations due to divisions between States over transparency and other issues. </p><p> “The leaders were united in purpose, but they were not united in action,” Mr. Ban pointed out, exhorting world leaders to act in concert to ensure that a legally binding treaty is reached next year. </p><p> Nonetheless, he said that the talks “represent a beginning – an essential beginning,” because without nations hammering out a deal in Copenhagen, the financial and technical support for poorer nations agreed upon would not take immediate effect.</p><p></p><p> </p><p>News Tracker: past stories on this issue</p><p><a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33377&amp;Cr=copenhagen&amp;Cr1=#">United action on global scale needed to clinch new climate pact, says Ban</a></p> </div></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33377&amp;Cr=copenhagen&amp;Cr1=">un.org</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/secretary-general-confers-with-world-leaders">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-7798111986039325152?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-12822697141562413302009-12-31T12:27:00.003-08:002009-12-31T12:27:16.586-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div> <h3>Facing climate change, developing world benefits from UN online scientific scheme</h3><div style=""><img title="" src="http://www.un.org/News/dh/photos/2009/20-02-2009unep.jpg" border="1" height="120" width="180" /><p></p></div><span>30 December 2009 – </span><span>As part of a project to promote scientific knowledge in the developing world in the face of climate change, the United National environmental agency this month extended its online programme to Yemen, offering it a chance to gain greater access to leading scientific journals.</span><p> Yemen is now one of 108 developing countries which have free access to the latest in scientific literature through the Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) project of the UN Environment Programme (<a href="http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=606&amp;ArticleID=6432&amp;l=en&amp;t=long">UNEP</a>).</p><p> UNEP, Yemen’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and the Ministry of Water and Environment worked together with the UN World Health Organization (<a href="http://www.who.int/">WHO</a>) to train 30 Yemeni researchers, scientists, planers, and lecturers about the use of OARE to support the country as it faces increasing environmental challenges due to climate change, food crisis and water scarcity.</p><p> Yemen’s economy depends largely on the oil and fishing industries. Even though recent reports show a 25 per cent increase in fish product exports and a 30 per cent increase in fish volume, according to a recent World Bank report, the country is facing an alarming decline in fish stock and production in some areas. </p><p> “We need to do much more to get to a climate-smart world,” Katherine Sierra, Vice-President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, said. “On the energy front, we must tackle difficult issues like technology transfer, investment, and climate finance. But when it comes to adaptation and building climate resilience, the challenge is more complex and the role of knowledge will be key.”</p><p> So far, more than 1,600 institutions are registered with OARE to use the wide collection of scientific research and the increasing number of scientific databases and portals. OARE's expanding role in developing countries comes at a time when the world is focusing on knowledge and technology transfer to promote more sustainable development. Access to the latest findings in environmental science will help those countries adapt to an increasingly changing environment. </p><p> In November, a similar workshop was organized in Amman, Jordan, where 35 Jordanian and Iraqi participants were trained. Other trainings are scheduled for Tunisia, Morocco and Afghanistan in early 2010. </p><p> The crucial transfer of scientific information to the developing world began two years ago when UNEP negotiated a deal with leading publishers to build one of the largest electronic collections of scientific knowledge in environmental and related areas, in partnership with WHO, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (<a href="http://www.fao.org/">FAO</a>), Yale and Cornell universities in the United States, international publishers, and private sector groups like Microsoft.</p><p> The result is a collection that is available online and contains more than 2,900 scientific and peer-reviewed journals with a value of around $1.5 million a year.</p><p></p><p> </p><p>News Tracker: past stories on this issue</p><p><a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33373&amp;Cr=climate+change&amp;Cr1=#">Climate change deal marks an 'essential beginning,' Ban says</a></p> </div></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33373&amp;Cr=climate+change&amp;Cr1=">un.org</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/facing-climate-change-developing-world-benefi">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1282269714156241330?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-25331257764062594012009-12-31T12:27:00.001-08:002009-12-31T12:27:10.062-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>Despite the epic failure of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, I think there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful that 2010 will be a banner year for achieving new and lasting environmental protection. Here are the top 5 reasons why:</p> <p>5.) The <a href="http://globalwarming.change.org/blog/view/its_official_epa_says_greenhouse_gas_emissions_are_harmful" target="_blank">EPA’s official “endangerment finding”</a> on greenhouse gases — the determination that they pose a threat to human health and welfare — obligates the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. This gives us another tool with which to combat global warming. The climate bill passed by the House of Representatives would actually strip this regulatory capacity from the EPA, however, while the Senate bill so far does not. But still, I think the endangerment finding is a very positive step, as it puts pressure on both houses of Congress to take action, and gives us a fallback option should Congress fail to act.</p> <p>4.) The call for action is growing louder every day. About halfway through the Copenhagen climate summit, for instance, the global coalition <a href="http://tcktcktck.org/" target="blank">Tcktcktck.org</a> hit the 15 million calls for climate action mark. There are now <a href="http://tcktcktck.org/people/i-am-ready" target="blank">well over 15 million</a> “Global Citizens for Climate Action” counted by the site. People from all over the globe are realizing that climate change is the greatest threat we face, and are committed to doing something about it. These types of numbers cannot be ignored for long.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://globalwarming.change.org/blog/view/top_5_reasons_to_be_hopeful_about_2010">globalwarming.change.org</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/top-5-reasons-to-be-hopeful-about-2010">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2533125776406259401?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-34351425459410872372009-12-31T12:26:00.001-08:002009-12-31T12:26:40.893-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/btnaIlulhqpqlzCusfhJuJtmbscHouvlHwsFkenFcaEaafiBFcEJyzGvvuxw/media_httpimrediffcom_EJets.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="350" height="469"/> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://business.rediff.com/column/2009/dec/30/column-the-great-betrayal-at-copenhagen.htm">business.rediff.com</a></div> <p>By sealing the so-called Copenhagen Accord [ Images ] with the United States, the BASIC grouping (Brazil [ Images ], South Africa [ Images ], India and China) has mocked at the multilateral negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), destroyed the unity of the developing-countries bloc, the Group of 77 + China, and paved the way for accelerated global climate change. </p><p>The BASIC countries had pledged to rescue the climate talks from the machinations of those developed countries which are bent on avoiding their climate-related obligations. Instead of using its clout to press them to do so, BASIC colluded with some of them. </p><p>The Copenhagen Accord is a shady, stealthily executed backroom deal between these five countries and was extended to only 26 of the 193 countries represented at Copenhagen. It was principally driven by the United States and China, with India's complicity. </p><p>Contrary to propaganda, the Accord isn't a 'win-win' deal, an honourable compromise, or a first step to a better deal. It runs against the imperative of an ambitious, effective, equitable and legally binding agreement, which the world desperately needs to fight climate change. It's deeply iniquitous because it will increase the disproportionate burden that climate change already imposes upon the world's poor people. It thus represents a disaster for the vast majority of Indians.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/the-great-betrayal-at-copenhagen">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3435142545941087237?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-4792764316040090882009-12-17T21:34:00.003-08:002009-12-17T21:34:10.460-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/17/barack-obama-copenhagen-hillary-clinton"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/jtCbzCGIIdrbHjpzyknslDEafdfGfaotdCexvwfJEDGCCocajHqGiHFcsrtA/media_httpstaticguimcouksysimagesGuardianPixpictures200912171261078115476BarackObamawithHillary001jpg_gIdfqhxBCssjjBC.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="276"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/17/barack-obama-copenhagen-hillary-clinton">guardian.co.uk</a></div> <p>* Environment <br /> * Copenhagen climate change conference 2009 </p><p>Copenhagen climate conference <br />Obama's arrival expected to inject fresh momentum into Copenhagen talks </p><p>US president said to be preparing 'knock out punch' after Hillary Clinton's gamechanging promise to back $100bn climate aid </p><p> * <br /> Comments (11) <br /> * Buzz up! <br /> * Digg it </p><p> * Suzanne Goldenberg in Copenhagen <br /> * guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 December 2009 19.38 GMT <br /> * Article history </p><p>Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office </p><p>Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office earlier this year - the US secretary of state soothed tensions before the US president's arrival for the final day of talks in Copenhagen. Photograph: Pete Souza/White House/HO/EPA </p><p>Barack Obama is poised to arrive in Copenhagen tomorrow with additional pledges of cash for poor countries which will suffer the most from global warming, a day after America's promise to support a $100bn a year climate fund. </p><p>Obama's arrival has been the most anticipated event of the 10-day summit, which has lurched between optimism and rank despair. He will seek to make a decisive impact, building on the announcement today by Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, who said for the first time that America would support a $100bn global climate change fund from 2020. But she will be a tough act to follow, as the statement was seen by delegates as a gamechanger. </p><p>Obama is expected to add an extra boost of momentum by beefing up America's share in a $10bn a year fast-track aid package. That aims to cushion poor countries from the impact of climate change and promote rainforest preservation starting next year. He is also expected to outline little-known provisions in the climate bill passed by the House of Representatives that would direct some $4bn a year from the auction of emission allowances to a fund to help developing countries adapt to climate change and deploy clean technology. </p><p>He is also expected to call more forcefully on the Senate to pass climate change law, critical to the eventual success of Copenhagen. "I've got a sense that she set the table, and he is going to deliver the knock-out punch," said Earl Blumenauer, part of the delegation of Democratic congressmen to the talks.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/obamas-arrival-expected-to-inject-fresh-momen">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-479276431604009088?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-87127216650476522692009-12-17T21:34:00.001-08:002009-12-17T21:34:00.146-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6835224/Copenhagen-climate-conference-Leaked-UN-document-shows-deal-could-still-lead-to-catastrophic-global-warming.html"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/xAIsbDguCsEyGcnhdpwqgDiAovabrlsAhJwlaeitwbCaJccsGiyopswmvFpd/media_httpitelegraphcouktelegraphmultimediaarchive01243browniain1243374cjpg_whfJFeDvtrmqjmc.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="287"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6835224/Copenhagen-climate-conference-Leaked-UN-document-shows-deal-could-still-lead-to-catastrophic-global-warming.html">telegraph.co.uk</a></div> <p>The document is an internal briefing paper drawn up by the UN Framework Committee on Climate Change that is in charge of the talks. </p><p>It says that even the most ambitious emission reduction targets currently offered by developed and developing countries, including the EU and US, would set the world on course for warming of around 5.4F (3C). </p><p>This could cause a rise in sea levels, droughts, floods and mass extinction of species. </p><p>Kumi Naidoo, the executive director of Greenpeace International, said the document is a “smoking gun” that puts pressure on world leaders to increase targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. </p><p>“This is the single most important piece of paper in the world today. It shows in stark terms that the climate deal on the table in Copenhagen would put at risk the very viability of our civilisation on Earth. A three degree rise in temperatures means devastation for Africa and the possible collapse of the eco-systems that billions of humans rely on,” he said.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/leaked-un-document-shows-deal-could-still-lea">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8712721665047652269?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-17714609095194476502009-12-17T21:33:00.003-08:002009-12-17T21:33:25.683-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-us-climate18-2009dec18,0,3752887.story"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/jjuFBhfhmngicGobfvmIvvAbEldlpJgFhkhiDtJintDpAeJvhCpFBiJmpGof/media_httpwwwlatimescommediaalternatethumbnailsblurb2009125069664217140113jpg_jxmtpxBrbyCuJBc.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="315" height="125"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-us-climate18-2009dec18,0,3752887.story">latimes.com</a></div> <p>Reporting from Copenhagen - Overnight gloom at international climate negotiations here has given way to cautious afternoon optimism, with delegates and observers expressing hope today that world leaders are moving toward clearing several key roadblocks to a new agreement to limit greenhouse gases. </p><p>Two moves revived the talks, which appeared this morning to be dangerously close to flat-lining. </p><p>The Obama administration announced that it would join allies in raising $100 billion by 2020 to help the world's poorest countries adapt to climate change, a number that stunned many environmentalists with its size -- and which appears to meet the top demand of China, whose stalemate with the United States had bogged down the negotiations. </p><p>In response, China signaled it was moving toward satisfying the top American demand: that developing nations such as China and India will limit their greenhouse gas emissions as their economies grow, and that those limits must be subject to some form of outside verification. </p><p>Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei told reporters in a news conference that China is open to "dialogue and cooperation that is not intrusive, that does not infringe on China's sovereignty" -- a major linguistic departure from the country's staunch opposition to transparency measures throughout the talks so far.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/us-pledge-signal-from-china-spur-hope-for-cli">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1771460909519447650?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-92119826838737605112009-12-17T21:33:00.001-08:002009-12-17T21:33:23.837-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://globalwarming.change.org/blog/view/clinton_pledges_support_to_end_deforestation_as_brazil_leads_the_way_in_copenhagen"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/gAacsngzpdlkzGjiHDzpBxFuernCrrxcszFuAmjaDfFwoaiImdfnDIwqInwk/media_httpchangeproductions3amazonawscomphotoswordpresscopiesglobalwarming2009121riojpg_ofdpsCamJoHjDrl.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="335"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://globalwarming.change.org/blog/view/clinton_pledges_support_to_end_deforestation_as_brazil_leads_the_way_in_copenhagen">globalwarming.change.org</a></div> <p>Canada has emerged as a serious climate criminal in the last two weeks in Copenhagen by weakening its pledged emissions cuts. But Brazil has emerged as potential climate heroes in their determination to both cut emissions, cut deforestation, and use 10 per cent of an oil exploration fund to invest in climate change adaption. </p><p>Of course, oil exploration, drilling and burning will continue in Brazil but by supporting sustainable production chains, developing policy to reduce carbon emissions, and further supporting "scientific analysis of impacts and vulnerabilities," hopefully Brazil's Climate Fund will make the precise impact of climate change in Brazil even more clear, and further encourage politicians to act to cut emissions, even more steeply than the 40 per cent below business-as-usual rates by 2020. Norway, for the record, is pledging carbon neutrality by 2030. </p><p>No matter what happens in Copenhagen, cutting deforestation is essential: the rainforests are the lungs of the world, and replacing the land with carbon-intensive farming, agriculture, and soy or meat production is even worse. Today in Copenhagen Hilary Clinton proposed an international fund of $100 billion each year for a decade to preserve rainforests and help the world's most vulnerable people cope with the effects of climate change.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/clinton-pledges-support-to-end-deforestation">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-9211982683873760511?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-69997208258066750352009-12-17T21:32:00.003-08:002009-12-17T21:32:34.436-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/futuristic-bike-wheel-and-iphone-app-set-to-fight-pollution-climate-change-1843654.html"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/riiAfbpmixzhjBJEmIBGmvwAfvikAmHEzfgmCDGcIjoizJzGbewyppejmcFk/media_httpwwwindependentcoukmultimediaarchive00277cphwheel0292665277967tjpg_GuJydChyEjchBAe.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="300" height="199"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/futuristic-bike-wheel-and-iphone-app-set-to-fight-pollution-climate-change-1843654.html">independent.co.uk</a></div> <p>The Copenhagen Wheel is a bike wheel with a "Swiss army knife's worth of electronic gadgets," designed by researchers at MIT's Senseable City Lab. </p><p>The Copenhagen Wheel is one of many initiatives created to help the city of Copenhagen achieve its goal of becoming the first carbon neutral capital in the world by 2025. </p><p>The wheel was presented to government officials at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change on December 15, 2009. </p><p>The Copenhagen Wheel transforms ordinary bikes into hybrid e-bikes that can provide their rider with an extra power boost in the tough parts of their ride. Energy from braking is stored inside the purposely designed batteries housed inside the wheel, ready to be expended on the next uphill climb. </p><p>"The wheel uses a technology similar to the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), which has radically changed Formula One racing over the past couple of years. When you brake, your kinetic energy is recuperated by an electric motor and then stored by batteries within the wheel, so that you can have it back to you when you need it," explained professor Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Senseable City Lab. </p><p>Combined with a specially designed iPhone application, the Copenhagen Wheel uses its inbuilt sensors and Bluetooth connection to track your ride from A to B. </p><p>The smartphone application keeps detailed information about the bicycle's speed, direction and distance travelled. As the person rides, sensors also collect information about the amount of pollution in the air and can tell the rider if their friends are nearby.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/futuristic-bike-wheel-and-iphone-app-set-to-f">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6999720825806675035?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-36936412567621915102009-12-17T21:32:00.001-08:002009-12-17T21:32:09.984-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BG0MU20091217"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/vvwxixlcjEcpnhiJFqnudtkJevhdkzuAxcitIBaCjiFnyspEtmyGvEDgAknr/media_httpwwwreuterscomresourcesrm02d20091217t2i32890934w460r20091217T204220Z01BTRE5BG1LIO00RTROPTP0USALEBANON_hyybyFqzrdCuGFp.resourcesr.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="293"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BG0MU20091217">reuters.com</a></div> <p>Obama leaves Washington later on Thursday and is expected to arrive in Denmark around 8 a.m. local time on Friday, U.S. officials told reporters on a conference call. </p><p>He will give a brief address at a plenary session with other world leaders and emphasize the renewed U.S. commitment to show leadership on global warming, but he is not expected to be more specific about Washington's pledge to help provide funding for poor countries dealing with climate change. </p><p>That pledge is tied to monitoring, reporting and verification requirements by China and other big developing countries on their emissions curbs. China has resisted such requirements. </p><p>One U.S. official said progress was being made on that issue and others ahead of Obama's arrival. </p><p>"We're making progress on all of our outstanding issues with the Chinese. We have a good dialogue going and there are other parties as well," the official said. </p><p>"There's still a way to go on all the issues and there's not much time left, so we certainly can't predict at this point what the outcome of the conference will be," he said. </p><p>Obama, who delayed a decision on whether to attend the talks until just weeks ago, is staking his credibility on the still elusive deal with ramifications for him at home and on the world stage. </p><p>Asked whether the president was concerned about returning empty-handed from Copenhagen for a second time this year after failing to secure the 2016 Olympics for Chicago, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "Coming back with an empty agreement would be far worse than coming back empty-handed."</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/obama-heads-to-copenhagen-sees-progress-with">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3693641256762191510?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-6489160279399795542009-12-17T21:31:00.001-08:002009-12-17T21:31:31.455-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-china-hot17-2009dec17,0,3842540.story"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/hmuupFExarJnADCcGIyzcvbeykcmzpvbHpzvnCAoerDmBiAorpreoGGctABu/media_httpwwwlatimescommediaphoto20091251120194jpg_ukrbEmlfvJeFHih.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/hmuupFExarJnADCcGIyzcvbeykcmzpvbHpzvnCAoerDmBiAorpreoGGctABu/media_httpwwwlatimescommediaphoto20091251120194jpg_ukrbEmlfvJeFHih.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="339"/></a> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-china-hot17-2009dec17,0,3842540.story">latimes.com</a></div> <p>Reporting from Beijing - In the debate over global warming, some historical meteorologists in China pose a contrarian view. </p><p>Their theory, in a nutshell? Some like it hot. </p><p>Looking back over the millenniums, these scientists suggest that China has prospered during periods when temperatures are higher than usual. Conversely, they point out, cold spells have accompanied tragedies along the order of barbarian invasions, collapsing dynasties and civil war. </p><p>The proposition that global warming might actually be good for China, or at least a mixed blessing, has been quietly discussed -- and largely dismissed -- in academic circles here. </p><p>Those who see possible good in global warming for China rarely speak about it publicly, fearing that they will be seen as being out of step with the scientific mainstream.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/most-throw-cold-water-on-china-warming-theory">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-648916027939979554?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-32641143336494119922009-12-17T21:30:00.001-08:002009-12-17T21:30:40.858-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/97-climate-scientists-humans-causing-global-warming.php"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/oBiBlxntljdwBEzFviFbEGvJFDtbDwAlzcbazHGvJEcmmCaqJvecEBjzcsJj/media_httpwwwtreehuggercomclimatechangehumansscientistsjpg_sfzosyaohgGrzjr.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="382"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/97-climate-scientists-humans-causing-global-warming.php">treehugger.com</a></div> <p>Despite Reporting Results, CNN Ignores Its Own Memo. </p><p>The results of an important survey of 3,145 scientists, are crystal clear: the vast majority of the scientific community believes humans are responsible for a warming climate. A full 90% of all scientists surveyed believe global warming is occurring, and 82% believe it is because of the actions of man. And a whopping 97% of climatologists surveyed said humans are causing global warming. But that didn't stop CNN from ignoring its own articles and running a misleading 'climate debate' TV segment despite its reports on the scientific consensus. </p><p>This is extremely important information at this crucial time. With results of Copenhagen uncertain, the fate of the energy reform bill in the Senate uncertain, and the recent debacle over hacked climate emails giving deniers an (unfounded) excuse to make noise, the results of this survey, which was covered by CNN online should help send a clear message about the scientific stance on climate change.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-humans-are-cau">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3264114333649411992?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-23033680928997808412009-12-17T21:29:00.001-08:002009-12-17T21:29:57.748-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><div class="inside-copy">If getting 60 senators to agree on health care is tough, try persuading 193 countries to agree on anything.</div> <p class="inside-copy">That's the task that awaits President <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Politicians,+Government+Officials,+Strategists/Executive/Barack+Obama" title="More news, photos about Obama">Obama</a> when he arrives Friday in <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Places,+Geography/Towns,+Cities,+Counties/Copenhagen" title="More news, photos about Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a> to try to salvage a worldwide pact to address global warming. Nine days of negotiations have so far failed to bridge the gap among rich and poor countries on a wide range of economic and political issues, and even some of Obama's supporters say they have lowered their expectations.</p> <p class="inside-copy">"I don't think the president can completely close this deal (Friday)," Rep. <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Diana+DeGette" title="More news, photos about Diana DeGette">Diana DeGette</a>, a <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Places,+Geography/States,+Territories,+Provinces,+Islands/U.S.+States/Colorado" title="More news, photos about Colorado">Colorado</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Political+Bodies/Democratic+Party" title="More news, photos about Democrat">Democrat</a> and vice chairwoman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, said by telephone from Copenhagen.</p> <p class="inside-copy">The United Nations-run conference has brought more than 20,000 government officials, environmental activists, scientists and others under one roof to try to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that scientific data suggest are causing the earth to warm.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2009-12-17-copenhagen-obama_N.htm">usatoday.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/obama-heads-to-un-climate-change-talks-in-cop">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2303368092899780841?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-41554283705264580332009-12-16T04:46:00.001-08:002009-12-16T04:46:29.504-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/dec/16/al-gore-copenhagen-climate"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/hikybcDbGnrtJghFqiqGilFmuGkpBoAqzitedzsqEfAEfanviscFoCotdIve/media_httpstaticguimcouksysimagesEnvironmentPixcolumnists200912161260960020811COP15AlGoredeliversa002jpg_pytesoogrEoGgyv.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="276"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/dec/16/al-gore-copenhagen-climate">guardian.co.uk</a></div> <p>Al Gore took full advantage of his stature among fellow environmentalists to dish out some hard home truths today – and try to prod the climate change summit towards a deal. </p><p>The former US vice-president, though among friends, was unsparing. He turned up the pressure on Barack Obama, calling on activists to press the White House and the Senate to pass a climate change law by the 30th anniversary of Earth day in late April. </p><p>"Join me in asking president Obama and the US Senate to set a deadline of 22 April for final action in the US Senate," he said. "I do not believe we can wait till next November or December." </p><p>The ultimatum to Obama was a departure for Gore who has been cautious of exerting too much pressure on the president, or causing him embarrassment. </p><p>He kept up the pace by calling for the international community to sign up to a fully fledged climate change treaty by July 2010 – and then announcing that Mexico was prepared to host a deal-making summit. </p><p>He scolded rich countries for demanding the developing world offer evidence of emissions cuts while at the same time trying to inflate the funds they were prepared to offer poor countries to deal with climate change. "This issue of transparency should also be applied to financial pledges of developed countries," he said. "How many times has same money been pledged two, three or even four times?"</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/al-gore-rallies-the-troops-in-copenhagen">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4155428370526458033?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-26033191422380147422009-12-16T04:44:00.003-08:002009-12-16T04:44:53.406-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-19673-Michelle-Obama-Examiner%7Ey2009m12d16-Hillary-Clinton-joins-Copenhagen-climate-change-conferenceObama-doubles-down"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/uppEoybyajDkrgsiGIclBhfbshwhtnzrfpkEvzoiIclwqrpeHlixBpvcEnmp/media_httpimage3examinercomimagesblogEXID19673slideshowshillaryclintonCopenhagenclimatechangesecretarystatejpg_xwvtEAppfrxffJu.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="391" height="430"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-19673-Michelle-Obama-Examiner%7Ey2009m12d16-Hillary-Clinton-joins-Copenhagen-climate-change-conferenceObama-doubles-down">examiner.com</a></div> <p>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Copenhagen for the conference on climate change on Thursday. The Obama administration has decided to double down late in the game as the talks have come to a stand still, Secretary of State Clinton with vast experience on the world stage will enter the fray this week. Clinton is a well known figure in international circles and she will attend the meetings in hopes of putting together some type of agreement with developing countries. </p><p>She will hold meetings at the conference on Thursday and then join the Obama administration team due to arrive on December 18th. </p><p>The divide between rich and poor countries is one of the key fissures at the United Nations conference on climate change in Denmark. </p><p>Clinton has said that developing countries must try harder to come to an agreement on climate change.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/hillary-clinton-joins-copenhagen-climate-chan">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2603319142238014742?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-26251272805869518592009-12-16T04:44:00.001-08:002009-12-16T04:44:00.347-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8415166.stm"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/pttEDaEezeexHcmFjIhBhfjewmIiogkJGHzqgnxubilFCwmaByyzezmCpchr/media_httpnewsimgbbccoukmediaimages46929000jpg46929036squirrelafp466jpg_JpwFCsxflDEmjhx.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="466" height="200"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8415166.stm">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div> <p>As President Dmitry Medvedev prepares to join talks to save the planet in Copenhagen, only a minority of Russians will be worrying much about the outcome. </p><p>Climate change and the environment are not big issues for most Russians - and most of the time the government seems equally unconcerned. </p><p>"Global warming, the Kyoto Protocol, cutting emissions, nuclear waste, incinerators - it might be a topic of discussion among Moscow's business elite, but the masses are nowhere near these issues. No-one's talking about them," said former Russian deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of the current Russian government. </p><p>"There is one popular opinion, though - that Russia is a cold country and warming it up slightly wouldn't do any harm." </p><p>Russia has pledged to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 are at least 25% below 1990 levels.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/bbc-news-climate-change-summit-leaves-sceptic">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2625127280586951859?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-68680009803953814062009-12-16T04:43:00.003-08:002009-12-16T04:43:44.641-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/15/clinton.climate.copenhagen/"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/mhBllsAlhHttBuacdBhdcujkkwfHghFgGgGrsDfvycFyanwAHfwdxBkJJare/media_httpicdnturnercomcnn2009WORLDeurope1215clintonclimatecopenhagenstoryclintonclimatejpg_CakEmBuJDupxmyI.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="300" height="169"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/15/clinton.climate.copenhagen/">edition.cnn.com</a></div> <p>(CNN) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged both industrialized and developing countries to do more during this week's Copenhagen summit toward reaching an agreement on limiting carbon emissions. </p><p>With world leaders gathering in hopes of forging a deal to reduce the emissions blamed for increasing global temperatures, Ban told reporters that "Nature does not negotiate with us." </p><p>"We have a chance -- a real chance, here and now -- to change the course of our history," he said. But both industrialized and developing countries "can and they must do more." </p><p>"This is a time to stop pointing fingers," Ban added. "This is a time to start looking in the mirror and offering what they can do more of." </p><p>The divide between rich and poor countries is one of the key fissures at the U.N. climate change conference that is nearing a climax in Denmark. Developing countries object to restrictions which they fear would keep them from following the same path to prosperity that the United States and other industrialized nations took, while developed countries are wary of taking steps that would hinder their own economies.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/un-climate-deal-could-change-history">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6868000980395381406?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-45284665128767081332009-12-16T04:43:00.001-08:002009-12-16T04:43:19.321-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Nature+negotiate+over+climate+change+warns+talks/2344857/story.html"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/CbffpBDFimeBzEbiBpiuccHtbBxyJpwiyffiCzyEkBkedHJzJkmmJAdybfbj/media_httpa123gakamainetf123124651dwwwvancouversuncomtechnologyNaturenegotiateoverclimatechangewarnstalks23448572344861binsize620x400_wIulafgyJvfiBHB.bin.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/CbffpBDFimeBzEbiBpiuccHtbBxyJpwiyffiCzyEkBkedHJzJkmmJAdybfbj/media_httpa123gakamainetf123124651dwwwvancouversuncomtechnologyNaturenegotiateoverclimatechangewarnstalks23448572344861binsize620x400_wIulafgyJvfiBHB.bin.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="323"/></a> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Nature+negotiate+over+climate+change+warns+talks/2344857/story.html">vancouversun.com</a></div> <p>COPENHAGEN — Tensions at international climate talks here rose a notch on Tuesday as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned an assembly that the outcome of a worldwide climate pact years in the making will be determined during the next three days. </p><p>"We have a chance, a real chance, to change the course of our history," Ban said in a speech in the main plenary hall. "We do not have another year to deliberate. Nature does not negotiate with us." </p><p>Tuesday saw the arrival of such heads of state as Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe who will be joined by 60 more of their peers on Wednesday. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama will arrive later in the week. </p><p>In the meantime, already-weary negotiators will be working alongside environment ministers through the remaining days and nights to find a deal on which world leaders can agree.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/nature-wont-negotiate-over-climate-change-ban">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4528466512876708133?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-17671769265853782482009-12-16T04:42:00.005-08:002009-12-16T04:42:37.203-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>The world's nations are gathering in Copenhagen in an attempt to reach agreement over how to prevent dangerous interference with the climate, the stated aim of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).</p> <p>There is no such thing as 'safe' climate change. Even the global temperature increase to date (about 0.75˚C) is contributing to effects that are impossible to adapt to in some regions, notably small low-lying islands and coastal areas. As the temperature rises further, so will the risk of more widespread and dangerous climate impacts; from sea level rise, from increasing frequency and intensity of climate extremes such as heat waves, floods and droughts, especially in vulnerable areas.</p> <p>A maximum global temperature increase of 2˚C since pre-industrial times has been adopted by many nations as a goal to prevent dangerous climate change. If global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are reduced at 3 - 4% per year after 2020,it has been estimated that there is a fifty-fifty chance of limiting global temperature increase to roughly 2°C;but only if GHG emissions begin to decline within the next decade. By 2050, emissions would need to be down to near 50% of their 1990 levels, with continuing reductions in the second half of this century. </p> <p>It is not only the rate of GHG emissions that matters, but also their accumulation over time, particularly for the long-lived gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2). Once our actions have raised concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere,&nbsp;levels will remain elevated for more than a thousand years. The crucial role played by the cumulative emissions of CO2 means that the later global emissions peak, the more rapid the eventual decline would have to be, which would likely cause economic and social disruption across the globe. </p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/science/2009/12/royal-society-statement-on-cli.html">blogs.mirror.co.uk</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/royal-society-statement-on-climate-change">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1767176926585378248?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-25919119931368809952009-12-16T04:42:00.003-08:002009-12-16T04:42:25.648-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>Former United States Vice President Al Gore urged world leaders at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday to speed up a binding deal on climate change.</p> <p>Instead of finishing up work with a treaty in Mexico City in a year, Gore <br />proposed a final meeting and treaty agreement in July 2010, saying he was sure that Mexico would go along with the new schedule.</p> <table style="" /><br />give momentum to this process, make it a success and set the stage for the completion of a binding international treaty next year," he said, speaking at the talks in the Danish capital.</p> <p>Gore also urged the US Congress to come up with its climate legislation by April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.</p> <p>In a pep-talk to climate negotiators, he suggested that verifying emission cuts, which the US wants, should be married to transparency in financial aid pledges, which poorer countries want.</p> <p>"We can do it, we must do it, and as I have said many times, I believe that political will is a renewable resource," the Nobel Peace Prize winner said.</p> <p>Gore won the accolade for his efforts at climate change.</p></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.wifr.com/weather/headlines/79363072.html">wifr.com</a></div><p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/former-vice-president-al-gore-speaks-on-clima">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2591911993136880995?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-27219213646125927522009-12-16T04:42:00.001-08:002009-12-16T04:42:16.631-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took the stagein Copenhagen today to deliver his speech on combating climate change, but he also created buzz with a series of shots at 2008 GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin's global warming skepticism.</p><p>"You have to ask: what was she trying to accomplish?" he told the Financial Times. "Is she really interested in this subject or is she interested in her career and in winning the [Republican] nomination [for president]? You have to take all these things with a grain of salt."</p><p>On ABC's "Good Morning America," he dismissed Palin's calls for President Obama to boycott the climate talks. </p> <p> "I think there are people that just don't believe in fixing and working on the environment. They don't believe there is such a thing as global warming, they're still living in the Stone Age, which is OK, we need people like that, too," he said. </p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1383134.html">miamiherald.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/schwarzenegger-blasts-palins-take-on-global-w">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2721921364612592752?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-18271492166455917962009-12-16T04:41:00.003-08:002009-12-16T04:41:49.513-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <embed name="The National" src="http://multimedia.thenational.ae/pic440_new.swf?xmlfile=http://multimedia.thenational.ae/ssp_director/images.php%3Falbum=2414&amp;xmlfiletype=Director" allowfullscreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" height="360" quality="high" align="middle" width="440" /> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091216/FOREIGN/712159836/1135/FRONTIERS">thenational.ae</a></div> <p>Rathong Glacier, West Sikkim, India // Breathing heavily in the thin Himalayan air, Shresth Tayal pauses for a moment on the steep mountain track and gestures with his walking stick towards the Rathong glacier, nestling like a pearl between two jagged peaks on the skyline. </p><p>Then, with a sweep of his stick, he points down beneath him to a wide, silver scar running along the brown-green floor of the Rathong Valley in India’s north-eastern state of Sikkim. </p><p>“That’s where the glacier used to be,” he said, tracing the length of the pale, rubbly corridor with his cane. “Last year it was in a much better state.” </p><p>Up close, the glacier reveals further signs of deterioration. The sound of running water burbles up from hollows in its core and at its snout (the technical name for a glacier’s lowest point) a lake has formed. </p><p>For Mr Tayal, this is all evidence of one thing: that climate change is causing the Himalayan glaciers – the largest store of fresh water in the world after the polar ice caps – to disappear.</p></embed></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/before-your-very-ice-glacial-evidence-of-glob">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1827149216645591796?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-25669491422594905172009-12-16T04:41:00.001-08:002009-12-16T04:41:27.318-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>Ahmed Djoghlaf also told Reuters on the sidelines of December 7-18 talks on climate change in Copenhagen that every nation in the world was set to fail to meet a target of slowing the loss of species by 2010.</p><span></span> <p>The Copenhagen talks are considering adopting a goal of limiting global warming to a 2 degree Celsius rise over pre-industrial times, a target agreed in July by industrialized nations and other leading economies including China and India.</p><span></span> <p>"For each degree centigrade of warmer temperature, it is predicted that 10 percent of all known species will disappear," Djoghlaf told Reuters.</p><span></span> <p>"Therefore this idea of stabilizing the temperature at no more than 2 Celsius...will lead to the disappearance of 20 percent of known species," he said. "Climate change is contributing to the loss of biodiversity."</p><span></span> <p>He said scientists have recorded more than 2 million species, from apples to zebras, but there may be more than 15-30 million. World temperatures have already risen by about 0.7 degrees Celsius since the start of the Industrial Revolution.</p><span></span> <p>"We continue to lose biodiversity at unprecedented rates and this has been seriously compounded by climate change but also by land use, urbanization," and other factors, Djoghlaf said.</p><span></span> <p>A report this week said climate change will disrupt habitats for many creatures other than polar bears whose Arctic home is thawing.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BE60W20091215">reuters.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/moderate-global-warming-to-wipe-out-many-spec">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2566949142259490517?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-68638374089898142092009-12-11T15:28:00.001-08:002009-12-11T15:28:09.685-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2009-12-11-voa1.cfm"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/ubfobjDssczzcjIHhByuvssdgsknbBnucAhofDgspIicoqarnltBrnxwcGAv/media_httpwwwvoanewscomspecialenglishimagesAPdeboerw11dec09sejpg_FfIFjJCsGiyrvtv.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="210" height="210"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2009-12-11-voa1.cfm">voanews.com</a></div> <p>In Copenhagen, Denmark, the United Nations Climate Change Conference opened this week. Around fifteen thousand delegates and observers from nearly two hundred countries are there. Some call it "the last best chance" for an agreement to fight climate change. </p><p>Yvo de Boer is the top climate official at the United Nations. </p><p>YVO DE BOER: "The time for formal statements is over. The time for restating well known positions is past. The time has come to reach out to each other. I urge you to build on your achievements, take up the work that has already been done and turn it into real action." </p><p>But there are questions about how much can be done, and how an agreement would be put into action. </p><p>The twelve-day conference ends next Friday. Late next week, leaders from more than one hundred countries are expected at the talks, including President Obama. </p><p>Delegates hope to set new targets to reduce greenhouse gases -- the pollution blamed for trapping extra heat in the atmosphere. An existing agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, ends in two thousand twelve. Many countries have offered new proposals for cuts, including the United States and China.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/aiming-for-a-deal-on-climate-change">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6863837408989814209?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-10474411228552580282009-12-11T15:27:00.001-08:002009-12-11T15:27:15.103-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://globalwarming.change.org/blog/view/what_a_leading_climate_scientist_has_to_say"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/idnEipoqDtrhjBpbckrljkkahjwwljxDfknyrFrqcHaEwBrDrphHghmzaemm/media_httpchangeproductions3amazonawscomphotoswordpresscopiesglobalwarming200912fung0384233x350jpg_GmDkewmDhxAHspp.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="233" height="350"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://globalwarming.change.org/blog/view/what_a_leading_climate_scientist_has_to_say">globalwarming.change.org</a></div> <p>Berkeley climate researcher Inez Fung doesn't really like politics. She's a scientist . But over her distinguished career, she has regularly waded into political battles, like when she contributed to the IPCC work that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 and advised Massachusetts during its successful suit to force the EPA to count CO2 as pollution. </p><p>Next week, rather than go to Copenhagen, she will attend the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) annual conference, one of the biggest collection of Earth scientists in the world. Change.org spoke to her on Friday as she hurried to prepare. </p><p>Q: So what are you hoping for from the Copenhagen conference? </p><p>Inez Fung: What I'm hoping for I don't think will happen. I'm hoping for drastic reduction in emissions and I do not see that in the cards. So now what I'm hoping for is that they give a sense of urgency. To pretend we can do two degrees [conservative estimate for temperature rise] is a pretense. The greenhouse gases that are in the atmosphere have already committed us to over two degrees. The reason [temperatures have not risen] over two degrees is that we are counting on aerosols to offset. But aerosols are bad guys. They are pollution.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/what-a-leading-climate-scientist-has-to-say">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1047441122855258028?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-45570115466658845122009-12-11T15:26:00.001-08:002009-12-11T15:26:42.891-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1929071_1929070_1947173,00.html"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/dvbecFbtxghlFcjCcmlzisDBnsazouJoiycEhkpcvjaFErntjreioIIuwbuu/media_httpimgtimeincnettimedaily20090912bankimoon1210jpg_dtqCpHdHGrHdHDA.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="307" height="200"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1929071_1929070_1947173,00.html">time.com</a></div> <p>As the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon has a wealth of global problems he could turn his focus on: genocide, war, HIV. But the South Korean diplomat has chosen to make climate change his number one priority, even hosting a one-day, high-level summit on warming at the UN in New York this September. Now with a momentous climate change summit under way in Copenhagen, Ban's efforts are bearing fruit. He spoke with TIME's Bryan Walsh about his hopes for the conference, the responsibilities of rich and poor nations and why climate change is ultimately a moral issue. </p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1929071_1929070_1947173,00.html#ixzz0ZQSJKXNs">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1929071_1929070_1947173,00.html#ixzz0ZQSJKXNs</a></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/the-uns-ban-ki-moon-on-climate-change-and-cop">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4557011546665884512?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-36892564983982765452009-12-11T15:25:00.005-08:002009-12-11T15:25:54.376-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&amp;sid=axWZifRZu0dY"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/gmbtjjqJqukuHAdIgzDvspwbbwmDCpCEhsJcjoCyryeIHBrhGeanrIEDFwID/media_httpwwwbloombergcomappsdatapidavimageiidi7TQQYbcD1Rk_AvriIfuodIwFEev.appsdata.scaled500.jpg" width="488" height="366"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&amp;sid=axWZifRZu0dY">bloomberg.com</a></div> <p>Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Climate-change skeptics are wrong and the U.S. will pass a new law capping greenhouse gases as it seeks to compete in the global market for low-emission technologies, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today. </p><p>“Some people don’t even accept that climate change is real,” Salazar said in Copenhagen, where 192 countries are meeting to negotiate a new treaty to combat global warming. “I believe they are wrong. Their fear in my view is misplaced.” </p><p>Salazar, a former Democratic senator from Colorado, also said the U.S. Congress will succeed in passing a measure setting limits on carbon-dioxide pollution from power plants, factories and other sources. </p><p>“We will pass a comprehensive energy and climate-change legislation in the United States of America,” he said. “We will build a clean-energy future for our country.” </p><p>Salazar said it’s important that the U.S. remain competitive in the race to dominate the burgeoning market for low-emissions technologies. </p><p>“The U.S. can’t afford to fall behind in the energy technology that will shape” the future, he said.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/salazar-says-climate-skeptics-wrong-us-will-c">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3689256498398276545?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-60619936659443509462009-12-11T15:25:00.003-08:002009-12-11T15:25:34.822-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <embed name="flashObj" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/26396137001?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1&amp;publisherID=281851582" allowfullscreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" flashvars="playerID=26396137001&amp;@videoPlayer=55953122001&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;adServerURL=http%3A%2F%2Fads.guardian.co.uk%2Fhtml.ng%2Fspacedesc%3Dvideo%26system%3Dvideo%26title%3D55953122001%26site%3DEnvironment%26url%3D%25252Fenvironment%25252Fvideo%25252F2009%25252Fdec%25252F11%25252Fclimate-change-mongolia%26comfolder%3DEthicalLiving%26keywords%3DClimate%252Bchange%252B%2528Environment%2529%252CEnvironment%252CMongolia%252B%2528News%2529%252CWorld%252Bnews%252CDrought%252B%2528Environment%2529%252CEndangered%252Bhabitats%252B%2528Environment%2529%26series%3D35557%26bandwidth%3Dbroadband%26tile%3D5917345%26partnerid=%26" allowscriptaccess="always" height="370" width="460"> </embed> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/dec/11/climate-change-mongolia">guardian.co.uk</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/video-climate-change-in-northern-china-the-ev">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6061993665944350946?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-6264262141691098672009-12-11T15:25:00.001-08:002009-12-11T15:25:12.702-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <embed name="flashObj" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/26396137001?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1&amp;publisherID=281851582" allowfullscreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" flashvars="playerID=26396137001&amp;@videoPlayer=55890687001&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;adServerURL=http%3A%2F%2Fads.guardian.co.uk%2Fhtml.ng%2Fspacedesc%3Dvideo%26system%3Dvideo%26title%3D55890687001%26site%3DEnvironment%26url%3D%25252Fenvironment%25252Fvideo%25252F2009%25252Fdec%25252F10%25252Fcopenhagen-sherpa-himalayas%26comfolder%3Dcopenhagen%26keywords%3DCopenhagen%252Bclimate%252Bchange%252Bconference%252B2009%252B%2528environment%2529%252CClimate%252Bchange%252B%2528Environment%2529%252CEnvironment%252CMountains%252B%2528environment%2529%252CGlaciers%252B%2528Environment%2529%252CWater%252B%2528Environment%2529%26bandwidth%3Dbroadband%26tile%3D2119345%26partnerid=%26" allowscriptaccess="always" height="370" width="460"> </embed> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/dec/10/copenhagen-sherpa-himalayas">guardian.co.uk</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/video-nepal-is-not-to-blame-for-this-yet-we-a">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-626426214169109867?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-22913955971347722662009-12-11T15:24:00.003-08:002009-12-11T15:24:54.781-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/12/10/copenhagen-climate-change-summit-scientists-say-planet-only-has-10-years-to-stop-catastrophic-global-warming-115875-21886693/"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/CDnblzpgaGdcJBEkkJtwhInkcBqoHDhuxnaiFjlzCBCwnnIrthcBbBezhpsc/media_httpimagesmirrorcoukuplm4dec200955image4forclimatechangechangingthefaceoftheearthgallery937367829jpg_tvCgFFhgAvAdFIv.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="450" height="287"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/12/10/copenhagen-climate-change-summit-scientists-say-planet-only-has-10-years-to-stop-catastrophic-global-warming-115875-21886693/">mirror.co.uk</a></div> <p>The deadline for going green and and saving the planet from dangerous warming was dramatically spelled out at the Copenhagen climate conference yesterday. </p><p>If we are not making drastic cuts in pollution by 2020, costing everybody on the planet up to £150-a-year, we have virtually no chance of limiting temperature rises to 2C. </p><p>Only geo-engineering solutions such as covering the planet in artificial trees or reflecting sunlight back into space with mirrors could save us. They are still on the drawing board without any proof they will work </p><p>And even the most optimistic deal in Copenhagen might not be enough to save us from dangerous warming above 2C. </p><p>Scientists from the Met Office and Hadley Centre have just run 729 emission scenarios through computers and found just how tough reaching the targets will be - even with a climate deal. </p><p>Dr Jason Lowe, head of mitigation advice at the Met Office, said: "None of the modelling I have seen has an easy answer to the question of limiting warming to 2C. What this research says is that there are pathways which lead to 2C, the Copenhagen goal, but those pathways appear very challenging in terms of time and rate of emissions reductions. </p><p>"The only way you can achieve the 2C target is to peak no later than 2020 and cut emissions by at least 4 per cent every year after that. If you don't manage to do that you will have to turn to geo-engineering.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/scientists-say-planet-only-has-10-years-to-st">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2291395597134772266?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-68900326992721382982009-12-11T15:24:00.001-08:002009-12-11T15:24:06.891-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>With the type of breathless hysteria usually reserved for concert promoters and reality show organizers, the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change is underway in Copenhagen.</p><p>In an attempt to transfer wealth from rich countries to poor and to eventually wipe out the fossil fuel economy, all in the name of global warming, there's been unprecedented hoopla. And if hyperbole is any measure, we hit some new highs with a couple of guests on my radio show.</p><p>Professional environmental organizer Jeh Custer, who is from Saskatoon, phoned from Copenhagen and declared that "climate change is the human rights issue of our generation." He compared it to "slavery, genocide, colonialism, racial segregation and the denying of women and minorities the right to vote." Whew.</p><p>We also heard from Guy Dauncy, self-described green activist, author and "sustainable communities consultant" who warned of the collapse of human civilization, wars, planetary chaos, death and disaster from imminent global warming.</p><p>The global warming-hype crowd seems to have ratcheted up its fear mongering to red-line levels. Maybe it's to get us really panicked as Copenhagen gets going or it's a desperate Hail Mary pass amid growing revelations from "climate-gate" at East Anglia University's climate research unit, where documents and e-mails suggest someone has been cooking the books on global warming.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.thestarphoenix.com/opinion/Global+warming+hysteria+heats/2328092/story.html">thestarphoenix.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/global-warming-hysteria-heats-up">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6890032699272138298?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-41115032102052313842009-12-11T15:23:00.003-08:002009-12-11T15:23:59.195-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to carry California's climate change story to a conference in Copenhagen next week, a move that will burnish his international image as a leader in the war on global warming.</p><p>He'll also take an entourage of 20 administration officials to Denmark. Three nonprofit organizations are picking up the tab.</p><p>Administration officials say the trip and a speech Schwarzenegger will deliver on Tuesday at the United Nations conference will underscore how he has fought a political guerrilla war to cut greenhouse gas emissions – often against naysayers in his own Republican Party – as a state executive acting on what is usually considered a national or international issue.</p><p>"This matters because it's the governor following through on his leadership," said Dan Pellissier, Schwarzenegger's deputy secretary for energy and development. "He's established (environmental issues) as a key part of of his tenure."</p><p>Schwarzenegger and other state officials will meet with more than 100 international leaders and 15,000 participants at the COP 15 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which started Monday and ends Dec. 18. World leaders have gathered there to work out international agreements to curtail fossil-fuel emissions that many scientists believe are speeding up global warming. </p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/1148/story/1744087.html">fresnobee.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/schwarzenegger-to-take-state-climate-story-to">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4111503210205231384?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-31461152534191691062009-12-11T15:23:00.001-08:002009-12-11T15:23:48.593-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div>--&gt;<p><span></span>Tom Creegan's letter to the editor of Nov. 24 prompted me to write this response. In today's political environment and media bias, it's difficult to find the truth, but I believe with global warming we have real data and thoughtful analysis that might surprise you.<span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span>American scientists with university degrees totaling 31,486 - including 9,029 Ph.D.s - have signed a petition essentially stating the U.S. government should reject the global warming agreement signed in Kyoto in 1997 and any other similar proposals. They further state there's no convincing scientific evidence that human generated CO2, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.<span></span></p><p><span></span>How and why would so many scientists come together on any issue? They believe one of the three most important molecular substances that make life possible - atmospheric carbon dioxide (the other two being oxygen and water) - is denigrated as an atmospheric "pollutant" in a widely circulated movie. The search for truth is the essence of science. When science is misrepresented, scientists are naturally incensed.<span></span></p><p><span></span>In fact, these scientists believe there is substantial evidence that increases in atmospheric CO2 produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.<span></span></p><p><span></span>Don't take my word for it, check out <a href="http://www.petition">www.petition</a> project.org and see the data, the analysis, the conclusions and the credentials of this vast group of scientists ... and, as Creegan suggests, make up your own mind<span></span></p><p><span></span><b>Steve Betros,</b><span></span></p><p><span></span><b>Fort Collins</b><span></span></p></div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20091210/OPINION03/912100326/1014/OPINION/Scientists+support+global+warming+data">coloradoan.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/scientists-support-global-warming-data">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-3146115253419169106?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-48094873647339867762009-12-08T21:13:00.013-08:002009-12-08T21:13:44.275-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">The Environmental Protection Agency released a historic finding Monday that greenhouse gases are endangering public health and welfare. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), an outspoken critic of the theory of climate change and of congressional attempts to cut carbon, responded by <a href="http://bit.ly/6Pz0Wv">issuing a statement</a> headlined, "Why the Rush? What's to Hide?"<p /> We have a different question for the EPA: Why has it taken so long?<p /> In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases were pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act, and it directed the EPA to determine whether they represented a health threat that would require federal regulation. Thus began more than a year and a half of foot-dragging by the Bush administration, which had reams of data pointing out the clear dangers of climate change but refused to take action. The EPA is hardly rushing to judgment by finally obeying the law and acknowledging the overwhelming worldwide consensus that carbon-fueled climate change threatens human health. Global warming is expected to cause deaths related to adverse temperatures, greater incidence of disease, worsened air quality, rising sea levels, more intense weather events and food and water shortages, among other things. These are not the conclusions of a handful of conspiracy-minded scientists at a British university, as <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/24/the_fix_is_in_99280.html">climate skeptics</a> would have people believe; the EPA's finding was based primarily on the work of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Research Council.</blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-epa8-2009dec08,0,1899561.story">latimes.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/the-epas-long-overdue-climate-change-ruling">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4809487364733986776?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-49583057397987664772009-12-08T21:13:00.011-08:002009-12-08T21:13:43.323-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6753253/Copenhagen-climate-summit-the-climate-sceptics-QandA.html"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/FgcGBydgIECEIbqmdmgnidkuibsdoGaAtDAuoawxFIhrdqdxjqpGCdhttmgJ/media_httpitelegraphcouktelegraphmultimediaarchive01538ccs111538669cjpg_HfnGGAAckDcnwBE.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="287"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6753253/Copenhagen-climate-summit-the-climate-sceptics-QandA.html">telegraph.co.uk</a></div> <p>How can scientists claim to predict climate change over 50 or more years when they can’t even get next week’s weather forecast right? </p><p>They can’t tell us in detail. But forecasting climate change is more like forecasting the seasons than the weather. We know winters are cold and summers are warm. Always. And it’s like that with greenhouse gases. Physicists have known for 200 years that gases like carbon dioxide trap heat. These gases are accumulating in the atmosphere, thanks to our pollution. They will heat up the atmosphere just as certainly as the summer sun heats us. </p><p>But surely it’s the job of scientists to deal in irrefutable evidence rather than predictions? </p><p>Nothing is absolutely certain or irrefutable. We could be hit tomorrow by an asteroid or a mega-volcano that wipes out warming for centuries. But I’d say climate science is a good deal more reliable than most economic predictions, because it is based on natural laws rather than how markets behave. </p><p>Anyway, how can they be sure that the earth has warmed in the last few centuries? </p><p>It hasn’t. Evidence from tree rings, the pollen in the bottom of lakes, gas bubbles in ice cores and a lot else, all suggests strongly that it was warm 800 or 900 years ago; then cooler during the little ice age; then warmer again in the 19th century. All this was due to explainable natural cycles. But during the second half of the 20th century there was fast global warming for which there are no known natural explanations. Only the known physics of our soaring emissions of greenhouses gases can explain events.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/copenhagen-climate-summit-the-climate-sceptic">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4958305739798766477?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-74044772163354148462009-12-08T21:13:00.009-08:002009-12-08T21:13:35.586-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.panda.org/wwf_news/news/?uNewsID=182942"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/iqnIdjltjkxHFkdDxognyoEijIrdbHkvweFjoBvplFgxBwhiJJHIzcDmhEea/media_httpassetspandaorgimgweb2074051264041jpg_ymAGEGnhCEdICxl.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="300" height="175"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.panda.org/wwf_news/news/?uNewsID=182942">panda.org</a></div> <p>Copenhagen, Denmark – The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare, setting the stage for regulation of global warming pollution under the Clean Air Act. </p><p>“This is great news and shows that the Administration is committed to enforcing the Clean Air Act and addressing dangerous climate change," said Keya Chatterjee, Director of WWF-US’s Climate Change Program. </p><p>The finding recognizes the clear scientific basis for regulating carbon pollution as a threat to public health and welfare and clears the way for the EPA to require remedial moves by large scale carbon emitters and industries. </p><p>Under the former Bush administration, the EPA resisted such a finding during continuous court battles with community and environmental groups seeking toughening of notoriously lax vehicle emissions standards. Ultimately, the US Supreme Court narrowed the EPA's choices with an April 2007 ruling that it should either regulate carbon emissions as a pollutant or come up with a convincing explanation of why it wouldn't..</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/wwf-welcomes-us-epa-finding-on-greenhouse-gas">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-7404477216335414846?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-89818757576895296012009-12-08T21:13:00.007-08:002009-12-08T21:13:30.301-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8394886.stm"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/kBHveHstFFjhsICagHbfoiDIifcEtwnDvGfjtydfEyklxlbHaGllBgAmvcJz/media_httpnewsimgbbccoukmediaimages46856000gif4685678500540766x511gif_wsuarCpzHwACjAf.gif.scaled1000.gif'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/kBHveHstFFjhsICagHbfoiDIifcEtwnDvGfjtydfEyklxlbHaGllBgAmvcJz/media_httpnewsimgbbccoukmediaimages46856000gif4685678500540766x511gif_wsuarCpzHwACjAf.gif.scaled500.gif" width="500" height="334"/></a> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8394886.stm">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/global-warming-maps-a-glimpse-into-the-future">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8981875757689529601?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-49445666538437243042009-12-08T21:13:00.005-08:002009-12-08T21:13:18.163-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.tuftsdaily.com/copenhagen-s-climate-conundrum-1.2116082"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/qapFkIGEFkltgiGnBjcIxuiAzaqfxtvzmFloojfjgCmfflesfpadzIqJrkrB/media_httpwwwtuftsdailycompolopolyfs1211608321image139507393jpggenderivativeslandscape240139507393jpg_jpFwkiHsHdvGrhh.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="240" height="152"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.tuftsdaily.com/copenhagen-s-climate-conundrum-1.2116082">tuftsdaily.com</a></div> <p>The talks that began yesterday in Copenhagen have been heralded by many around the world as a defining moment in the huge debate over climate change. These high expectations may soon be crushed as leaders at the conference are becoming increasingly pessimistic as to their ability to reach an agreement. </p><p>The evidence of climate change is everywhere, from rising sea levels to melting glaciers to increasing temperatures right here at Tufts. On Dec. 3 the people of Boston warmed themselves in record−high temperatures that reached 69 degrees. The warm spell was brief, followed within 48 hours by a winter storm that dumped between three and five inches of snow on the city. The timing of the weather swings provided the perfect backdrop for a conference on climate change. </p><p>“Copenhagen is upon us, or we are upon it,” said Professor William Moomaw, director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the energy and climate director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment. </p><p>The inflated optimism surrounding the summit was due in large part to the election of President Obama. Countries around the world that had been disheartened by the United States’ refusal to accept the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon emissions guidelines hoped that Obama would change direction.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/tufts-daily-copenhagens-climate-conundrum">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4944566653843724304?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-81259692658397265922009-12-08T21:13:00.003-08:002009-12-08T21:13:05.661-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/12/08/ipcc.climategate.emails/"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/sBsDDqhithqlnBuFzHrjHdGbzAHzcIvvJHwcrdExdDhwulkEsJkksHFkxpwI/media_httpeditioncnncomvideoworld20091207pachauriipccandersonintvcnn576x324jpg_qEsafxjxaBgplpw.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/sBsDDqhithqlnBuFzHrjHdGbzAHzcIvvJHwcrdExdDhwulkEsJkksHFkxpwI/media_httpeditioncnncomvideoworld20091207pachauriipccandersonintvcnn576x324jpg_qEsafxjxaBgplpw.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="281"/></a> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/12/08/ipcc.climategate.emails/">edition.cnn.com</a></div> <p>One of the world's leading authorities on climate change has dismissed the contents of controversial e-mails leaked from the University of East Anglia as nothing more than friends and colleagues "letting off steam." </p><p>"Well, I can tell you, privately when I talk to my friends, I use language much worse than that. This was purely private communications between friends, between, colleagues, they were letting off steam. I think we should see it as nothing more than that," Rajendra Pachauri, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) told CNN. </p><p>In late November, a substantial file including more than 1,000 e-mails either sent from or to members of the University's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in eastern England were allegedly hacked and leaked on the Internet. </p><p>They contained language seized upon by climate skeptics who say they offer evidence that scientists have manipulated climate data to exaggerate the threat of global warming.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/climate-chief-dismisses-e-mail-outrage">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8125969265839726592?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-62379792575708262112009-12-08T21:13:00.001-08:002009-12-08T21:13:00.409-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">Britain on Tuesday released data from hundreds of monitoring stations worldwide showing that the global <a href="#" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important;" target="undefined"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue ! important; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px;">surface </span><span class="kLink" style="color: blue ! important; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px;">temperature</span></a> has risen significantly over the last 150 years.<p>The statistics are being made public as countries from around the world are locked in UN climate change talks in Copenhagen which could lead to a new deal to cut emissions blamed for global warming.</p><p>Perhaps the most striking finding is that the rise in global surface temperature has averaged more than 0.15 degrees Celsius per decade since the middle of the 1970s.</p><p>Britain's Met Office released millions of records from over 1,500 of 5,000 stations worldwide which monitor land surface temperatures.</p><p>The records, which it has only just received permission to release, date back to 1850 and the Met Office eventually hopes to publish all 5,000.</p><p>"Global average temperature has increased over the past century and this warming has been particularly rapid since the 1970s," said the Met Office climate scientist Peter Stott, commenting on the findings.</p><p>The data is a subset of the so-called HadCRUT record which is used by top UN body the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC).</p><p>The Met <a href="#" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important;" target="undefined"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue ! important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px;">Office</span></a> works alongside two centres in the US to calculate monthly global temperature averages -- the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which is part of NASA, and the National Climatic Data Center.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.spacedaily.com/2006/091208114924.to0uwzzx.html">spacedaily.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/british-data-shows-global-warming-over-150-ye">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6237979257570826211?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-41681185656945204202009-12-08T21:12:00.007-08:002009-12-08T21:12:46.765-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&amp;sid=axqsAEyw7U.A"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/izEwIpzzzCxHluwGGGzyFhkCkHcaBIfCwziAIsCAEamvgiuFaCevkFDFusEI/media_httpwwwbloombergcomappsdatapidavimageiidiLgkHRGzF170_jGmxdECEGsBtBel.appsdata.scaled500.jpg" width="488" height="366"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&amp;sid=axqsAEyw7U.A">bloomberg.com</a></div> <p>Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- This decade is set to be the warmest on record though 2009 won’t be the hottest year, meteorologists said today, lending fuel to both skeptics and supporters of a global warming agreement being negotiated in Copenhagen. </p><p>Data from the U.K. Met Office and the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization show this year will be the fifth- warmest. The global average temperature was 0.44 degrees Celsius above the 1961 through 1990 average temperature of 14 degrees (57 degrees Fahrenheit), the WMO said in the Danish capital. </p><p>“This tells us that global warming is still rising,” Vicky Pope, head of climate change advice at the Met Office, said in a telephone interview in Copenhagen, where two weeks of United Nations talks began yesterday to draft a climate deal. “Greenhouse gases continue to increase, and it’s clearly important we reach an agreement in Copenhagen to reduce them.”</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/this-decade-is-warmest-on-record-2009-ranks-f">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-4168118565694520420?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-73307892378743496402009-12-08T21:12:00.005-08:002009-12-08T21:12:34.979-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">The wide differences between developed and developing countries yesterday threatened the ongoing negotiations at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark as the European Union (EU) and China as well as Group 77 trade words over responsibility.<br />This is coming even as&nbsp; French and Brazilian governments have indicated their common interest in the framework that includes financial support for developing nations in Africa vis-a-vis climate change. According to them, “We are ready to work with the Nigerian authorities in order to get a fair and ambitious agreement in Copenhagen.”<br />A joint statement signed by both governments through their Embassies in Abuja and made available to THISDAY, said that the two countries recognise that climate change is an imperative “that must be fully compatible with sustainable economic growth and the fight against poverty.”<br />The EU earlier yesterday accused developing countries of not doing enough to<br />justify new climate treaty, proposing that countries like China and India whichare more advanced than other developing nations, should partly share the climate change adaptation and mitigation financial burden in developing countries. <br />While admitting that developing countries need 100 billion euro annually for climate change adaptation by 2020, the EU challenged China and India to share the international public financing of 22-50 billion euro a year with developed c ountries. The commission explained that it would contribute between 2 to 15 euro, adding that the rest should come from domestic sources and carbon markets in developing countries. </blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=161525">thisdayonline.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/climate-change-eu-china-g77-trade-words">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-7330789237874349640?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-63902989433498457052009-12-08T21:12:00.003-08:002009-12-08T21:12:16.060-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://globalwarming.change.org/blog/view/china_and_the_eu_collaborate_on_carbon_capture_and_storage"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/plncwgiBlHraqzHkjoHDBdIamhodqHsEEeimwGqgFCyCkBAbikGtqezeoHjF/media_httpchangeproductions3amazonawscomphotoswordpresscopiesglobalwarming200912411530250x188jpg_vfupfmaFpbAqFtx.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="250" height="188"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://globalwarming.change.org/blog/view/china_and_the_eu_collaborate_on_carbon_capture_and_storage">globalwarming.change.org</a></div> <p>Last week, China and the European Union signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in China, according to SciDevNet. CCS involves taking carbon dioxide from industrial smokestacks and storing it in deep geological formations, like empty reservoirs and saline aquifers. </p><p>The Near Zero Emission Coal Project (NZEC) will take place in either the Daqing and Jilin oilfields and saline aquifers of the Songliao Basisn or the oilfields of the Jiangsu Depression in the Subei Basin, and is scheduled to be completed by 2015. Representatives of the two parties agreed on the specific at the 12th EU–China summit in Nanjing, and the European Commission pledged up to $86 million to the project. </p><p>China's interest in undertaking serious CCS efforts is a response to encouragement from US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and to two reports published this autumn that point out China's ability to store massive amounts of carbon dioxide — 3,000 gigatonnes — in saline aquifers, which is ten times as much as was previously thought. Additionally, over 80 percent of China's carbon dioxide is emitted within 50 miles of a possible storage area.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/china-and-the-eu-collaborate-on-carbon-captur">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6390298943349845705?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-86111627872462367512009-12-08T21:12:00.001-08:002009-12-08T21:12:12.191-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <embed name="photoviewer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/photo/templates/photoviewer970.swf?datafile=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/gallery/091203/GAL-09Dec03-3257/captions.xml&amp;playad=yes" flashvars="startat=" allowscriptaccess="always" height="268" wmode="transparent" quality="high" style="" width="500" /> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/12/08/GA2009120803738.html">washingtonpost.com</a></div> <p>Australia's Lake Hume, a man-made body of water near Albury used for irrigation, has been devastated by drought. Eucalyptus tree trunks that were once covered by lake waters now dot the lakebed. </p><p>Linda Davidson-The Washington Post</p></embed></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/global-warming-plagues-australias-outback">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8611162787246236751?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-9076969565555690242009-12-08T21:11:00.001-08:002009-12-08T21:11:44.881-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B735X20091208"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/tizzfxzaAJlJxsvGArzhuJIxgnAuBkaCpHfcrFsfCbBmJkqmaJvurIzhbjoy/media_httpwwwreuterscomresourcesrm02d20091208t2i28374938w460r20091208T153327Z01BTRE5B7177V00RTROPTP0UNWONDER_JfgFjbCJtxqqnEB.resourcesr.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="329"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B735X20091208">reuters.com</a></div> <p>"Nothing that has come out in the public as a result of the recent email hackings has cast doubt on the basic scientific message on climate change and that message is quite clear -- that climate change is happening much, much faster than we realized and we human beings are the primary cause," he said. </p><p>Ban was reacting to a row over leaked emails from Britain's University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, which showed some scientists' efforts to boost the credibility of climate change at the expense of skeptics. </p><p>Speaking about U.N. climate talks in Denmark that began on Monday, Ban said he expected the meeting would be successful, despite widespread expectations it will fail to yield a legally binding agreement on global targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. </p><p>"I am encouraged and I am optimistic," he told reporters. "I expect a robust agreement at the Copenhagen summit meeting that will be effective immediately and include specific recommendations on mitigation (of the effects of climate change), adaptation, finance and technology." </p><p>"This agreement will have an immediate operational effect, as soon as it is agreed," he added. </p><p>A key sticking point in the talks is the debate over providing financial aid to poor and developing nations to help them make their economies environmentally friendly and withstand the impacts of a warming climate.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/human-role-in-climate-change-not-in-doubt-uns">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-907696956555569024?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-29039272642150314332009-12-07T13:30:00.001-08:002009-12-07T13:30:03.457-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>In an unprecedented display of uniformity, 56 newspapers in 45 countries carry the same editorial, urging politicians to forget their differences and work together to forge an agreement. </p><p></p> <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/66a.gif" border="0" height="12" alt="" align="left" width="15" /> The politicians in Copenhagen have the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/06/copenhagen-editorial" class="inlineText">power to shape history's judgment</a> on this generation: one that saw a challenge and rose to it, or one so stupid that we saw calamity coming but did nothing to avert it. We implore them to make the right choice. <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/99a.gif" border="0" height="12" alt="" width="15" /><br /> <p><br /></p><p>An <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6946613.ece" class="inlineText">editorial in the UK's Times newspaper</a> recognises that a legally binding agreement will not be reached in Copenhagen but a commitment can be made, provided rich countries cut the right deal with poorer ones: </p><p></p> <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/66a.gif" border="0" height="12" alt="" align="left" width="15" /> But Copenhagen needs to provide a deal that permits the developing world its ascent to prosperity. The main risk to success is that the developing world rejects the deal or that the mutual suspicion between the United States and China on the verification procedures scuppers the plan. <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/99a.gif" border="0" height="12" alt="" width="15" /></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8399236.stm">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/bbc-news-media-mixed-on-climate-change-summit">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2903927264215031433?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-28880147301340555792009-12-05T12:00:00.003-08:002009-12-05T12:00:48.084-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579373,00.html?test=latestnews"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/psiCoCsHppHDkfrlEetnmElrrFzGygmfdrmiganxslpyfzwBAEFoImEwmHra/media_httpwwwfoxnewscomimages590838061petroleumresearchjpg_jyvByECjoCyoDEj.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="320" height="240"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579373,00.html?test=latestnews">foxnews.com</a></div> <p>1. Spray It Away </p><p>The Idea: Remember how we all had to stop spraying ozone-depleting aerosols into the atmosphere? Maybe it's time to re-think that. </p><p>A proposal known as stratospheric aerosol insertion suggests that chemicals — sulfur dioxide, in this case — sprayed into the Earth's nearest atmospheric levels could bind with other chemicals to reflect sunlight from the Earth. Helium balloons or high-flying planes could disperse the sulfur dioxide. The gas would oxidize and reflect back some (but not all) of the sunlight that would otherwise hit the planet's surface. Less sunlight hitting the surface means a cooler earth. </p><p>The sulfur would be cheap; it's a common industrial pollutant. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, one kilogram of the stuff could offset the effect of hundreds of thousands of kilograms of carbon dioxide. </p><p>Potential Problems: It could end up working too well, causing catastrophic weather changes in certain areas (such as sudden droughts). One scientist proposed trying it over the Arctic first, just in case things got a little too chilly.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/8-extreme-solutions-to-global-warming">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2888014730134055579?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-11257711869417134882009-12-05T12:00:00.001-08:002009-12-05T12:00:19.547-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6732011/Scientists-may-re-examine-temperature-data-to-prove-climate-change.html"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/rbxhiFApibBftpJyGvdfEHIydxmCopDdghHlGHFqytACeejudzEslxJaprEJ/media_httpitelegraphcouktelegraphmultimediaarchive01532ice1532496cjpg_wcosFHqaoagnqrC.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="460" height="296"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6732011/Scientists-may-re-examine-temperature-data-to-prove-climate-change.html">telegraph.co.uk</a></div> <p>A number of climate models, based on information from weather stations around the globe, show the world has been warming gradually since the 1850s. </p><p>But the figures have been called into question following the ‘climategate’ affair at the University of East Anglia. </p><p>Sceptics alleged that emails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the university show scientists were willing to manipulate data to show global warming. </p><p>They also complain that the raw data for the climate models was not made available to the public. </p><p>To try to restore public confidence the Met Office is talking to other meteorological organisations around the world about recreating the model using the same raw data but more modern computers.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/scientists-may-re-examine-temperature-data-to">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-1125771186941713488?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-61062324813929377712009-12-05T11:59:00.003-08:002009-12-05T11:59:56.937-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-27231-Cultural-Trends-Examiner%7Ey2009m12d4-As-Obama-heads-for-Copenhagen-Americans-cooling-on-global-warming"><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/BrkzlknhebcoBGvhHkbEBnDdzBmyrlEHCECdEwjCJBedtihuvgcagmjjpbDd/media_httpimage3examinercomimagesblogEXID27231imagesObamajpg_oBuImjarcFoyrgI.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/BrkzlknhebcoBGvhHkbEBnDdzBmyrlEHCECdEwjCJBedtihuvgcagmjjpbDd/media_httpimage3examinercomimagesblogEXID27231imagesObamajpg_oBuImjarcFoyrgI.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="356"/></a> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-27231-Cultural-Trends-Examiner%7Ey2009m12d4-As-Obama-heads-for-Copenhagen-Americans-cooling-on-global-warming">examiner.com</a></div> <p>The proportion of Americans who say they believe in global warming has slid 20 points in two years. </p><p>Just 51% of Americans now say they believe that the release of carbon dioxide and other gases causes global warming. That's down from a high of 75% who said so in 2001 and down from the 71% who linked CO2 to global warming as recently as 2007, according to a Harris Interactive poll released this week. </p><p>The 51% who believe emissions lead to global warming is the lowest number recorded in any Harris poll since the company started asking these question 12 years ago. </p><p>What's the reason for the change? Uncertainty is growing. Former Vice President Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, premiered to critical and box office success in 2006. In 2007, seven in 10 Americans were sure emissions caused global warming and just 6 percent said they were unsure. Today, 21 percent say they are unsure about global warming.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/as-obama-heads-for-copenhagen-americans-cooli">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-6106232481392937771?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-53302983847761022582009-12-05T11:59:00.001-08:002009-12-05T11:59:34.288-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business/2009/12/091203_halloran_coal_carboncapture.shtml"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/aaFvcDxBbhAflisczAlhawzvmyvsacymzGIDiJxsIlahAHJjvrxyAGtdtuIF/media_httpwwwbbccoukworldserviceassetsimages20091203091203170335mountaineerplant226jpg_fiGEspDHjsDdeoD.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="226" height="170"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/business/2009/12/091203_halloran_coal_carboncapture.shtml">bbc.co.uk</a></div> <p>The world has a dilemma when it comes to coal, 40% of our electricity comes from coal-fired power stations - 70% in the case of China. </p><p>It is a cheap and abundant fuel, and it is also one of the main sources of the carbon dioxide which is clogging up the atmosphere. </p><p>World leaders meeting in Copenhagen are wrestling with how to create cheap fuel with higher living standards - but also how to engineer a slow-down - or even a halt to global warming. </p><p>One answer might be in new technologies that capture waste greenhouse gases like the CO2 emitted by coal-fired power stations and simply bury it. </p><p>If that worked, it might be a way of minimising disruption to our living standards as we try to clean up the planet.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/bbc-carbon-capture-and-global-warming">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-5330298384776102258?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-72936911724965621172009-12-05T11:58:00.001-08:002009-12-05T11:58:02.684-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>COPENHAGEN, Denmark — For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads.</p><p>The world looks to Copenhagen "to witness what I believe will be an historic turning point in the fight against climate change," says Yd vo de Boer, United Nations organizer of the two weeks of talks opening Monday.</p><p>It may witness, instead, history put on hold.</p><p>The change in U.S. administrations a year ago had aroused hopes the long-running climate talks might finally produce an all-encompassing package in 2009 to combat global warming and help its victims.</p><p>Too little time and too little agreement, however, especially between rich and poor countries, mean the 192-nation Copenhagen conference is likely to produce, at best, a framework — a basis for continuing talks and signing internationally binding final agreements next year.</p><p>Two key building blocks for that framework may take shape here:</p><p>_Setting targets for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases, including by the leading contributors, China and the United States.</p><p>_Agreeing on how much rich countries should pay for poor nations' clean energy technology and for seawalls, irrigation and other projects to counter a changing climate.</p><p>Under the grand roof of Copenhagen's modern Bella Center, delegates will also deal with a heavy agenda of other issues: the technicalities of protecting forests, measuring emissions, setting rules for "carbon credits," enforcing an eventual treaty, and other concerns.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jOGKTMT2IhbK2xXC_PxyUWtrKpDwD9CD7CD80">google.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/ap-climate-drama-climax-looks-elusive-in-cope">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-7293691172496562117?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-84473063138621506332009-12-05T11:57:00.001-08:002009-12-05T11:57:28.975-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pm-to-attend-climate-change-talks-in-copenhagen/106539-11.html"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/rqobzHHdFryafvhugcFbddjBIAkvAzIhrjumbrBdlBwHIhwiykrJxFJAJzkc/media_httpstaticibnlivecompixsitepix122009manmohansinghportofspain3jpg_JgtaBibpsFlIsjf.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="313" height="234"/> </a> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://ibnlive.in.com/news/pm-to-attend-climate-change-talks-in-copenhagen/106539-11.html">ibnlive.in.com</a></div> <p>Mumbai: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the end of the UN climate summit, joining dozens of leaders including US President Barack Obama, in the latest sign of growing momentum toward a new global accord. </p><p>Singh will go on December 17 to the Copenhagen talks which are due to end the following day, a spokesman in the Prime Minister's office said on Saturday. </p><p>India, the world's fourth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, said this week that it would aim to cut carbon intensity by 20-25 per cent by 2020 compared with 2005 levels. </p><p>Carbon intensity is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted for each unit of economic output. </p><p>The White House said on Friday that Obama would attend the end of the Copenhagen summit, rather than on December 9 as originally planned, and the US administration has been encouraged by announcements by India and China setting targets to rein in emissions.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/pm-to-attend-climate-talks-as-momentum-grows">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8447306313862150633?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-59379588229134315352009-11-19T16:10:00.001-08:002009-11-19T16:10:23.990-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/prepare-for-catastrophic-climate-change-scenario-scientists-say/story-e6freuy9-1225799930104"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/liFImFqAIkGkAiGxurvHcywkIbsoAHCwbfravJsvcEkngEFAlzDeIoqqcAzb/media_httpresources0newscomauimages200911191225799934796climatechangejpg_puAawhBpJgJajuB.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="316" height="211"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/prepare-for-catastrophic-climate-change-scenario-scientists-say/story-e6freuy9-1225799930104">dailytelegraph.com.au</a></div> <p>An increase of 6C would have irreversible consequences, rendering large parts of the globe uninhabitable and destroying much of life on Earth. </p><p>The study by Professor Corinne Le Quere of the British Antarctic Survey and East Anglia University is the most comprehensive so far of how economic changes and shifts in the way people have used land over the past 50 years have affected CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. </p><p>It also claims the Earth's natural ability to absorb CO2 into soil, forests and oceans is declining. </p><p>The nightmarish possibility of a 6C temperature rise was made public by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, when it was then only a worst-case scenario. But according to Professor Le Quere it is now all but inevitable. </p><p>"We're at the top of the IPCC scenario," she told Nature Geoscience, a respected science journal which published the study yesterday.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/prepare-for-catastrophic-climate-change-scena">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-5937958822913431535?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-22791658405662636532009-11-19T16:09:00.001-08:002009-11-19T16:09:24.225-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26375158-401,00.html"><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/globalwarmingnews/ijCvlCCbgqpJIpqwqIpvhIjhwlkbCxhvujvcGghcdjzFHxGdcctJoEgpFDww/media_httpwwwnewscomaucommonimagedata0719305700jpg_lrxavmrakBklbhg.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="316" height="237"/> </a><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26375158-401,00.html">news.com.au</a></div> <p>THE world is spinning toward a catastrophic climate change scenario, with temperatures now far more likely to rise by 6C by the end of the century, a leading international team of scientists has warned. </p><p>An increase of 6C would have irreversible consequences, rendering large parts of the globe uninhabitable and destroying much of life on earth. </p><p>The study by Professor Corinne Le Quere, from the British Antarctic Survey and East Anglia University, is the most comprehensive so far of how economic changes and shifts in the way people used land over the past 50 years have affected CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. </p><p>It also claims the Earth's natural ability to absorb CO2 into soil, forests and oceans is declining. </p><p>The nightmarish possibility of a 6C temperature rise was made public by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, when it was then only a worst-case scenario.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/catastrophic-climate-change-inevitable-scient">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-2279165840566263653?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-9275401325375913402009-11-19T16:08:00.001-08:002009-11-19T16:08:29.718-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p /> <p class="first"><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111609-two-rival-supercomputers-duke-it.html">Supercomputing</a> technology, according to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2006/anniversary/032706-where.html">Al Gore</a>, will help the human race reverse climate change, both by aiding the expansion of renewable energy use and by creating models that help people understand the severity of global warming. </p> <p><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/021209-how-to-build-your-own-super-computer.html"><b>How to build your own supercomputer</b></a></p> <p>Speaking Thursday morning at the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111709-intel-3d-web.html?fsrc=netflash-rss">SC09 supercomputing conference</a> in Portland, Ore., the former vice president and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/100709-bell-labs-nobel.html">Nobel</a> Peace Prize winner told researchers that their expertise can help convince the public and politicians that action is needed to reduce <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46498?t51hb=&amp;hpg1=mp">carbon emissions</a>. </p> <p>"Supercomputing has given us the most powerful tool in the history of civilization," Gore said. "It has become a third basic form of knowledge creation, alongside inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning. Computational science, in some ways a blend of the first two, allows us to vastly extend our ability to understand phenomena and complex realities, and investigate new complex realities that would never be possible except for the ability conferred upon us by supercomputing." </p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111909-al-gore-supercomputers.html">networkworld.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/al-gore-supercomputers-can-reverse-climate-ch">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-927540132537591340?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-50061522037803284302009-11-19T16:07:00.003-08:002009-11-19T16:07:27.699-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The U.N. environmental chief called on rich nations on Thursday to pledge $10 billion a year for three years at next month's Copenhagen summit to help poor states begin to tackle the impact of climate change.<p /> Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told a news conference that was a short-term figure and that in 10 or 20 years hundreds of billions of dollars would be needed annually to cope with global warming.<p /> The Dec. 7-18 meeting in Copenhagen had long been billed as the time when a new treaty to cap greenhouse gas emissions would be signed, but the United Nations has admitted that a legally binding deal will not come until later.<p /> The slippage has been partly blamed on delays in the United States in pushing new climate change legislation through Congress, a move now anticipated early next year.<p /> De Boer listed the $10-billion-a-year pledge as one of his three goals for the summit, along with the submission of emission targets for 2020 by rich countries and of planned actions by developing countries.<p /> He said Copenhagen must clarify how short- and long-term finance was going to be provided to help developing countries mitigate the effects of climate change and adapt to it.<p /> "To my mind rich countries must put at least $10 billion on the table in Copenhagen to kick-start immediate action," he said.</blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN19180690">reuters.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/un-climate-chief-seeks-10-bln-rich-nations-pl">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-5006152203780328430?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-86646910500248085152009-11-19T16:07:00.001-08:002009-11-19T16:07:03.326-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's government demanded on Thursday that conservative rivals stop opposing carbon trade laws, citing a heatwave searing the country's biggest cities as evidence of Australia's vulnerability to climate change.</p><span></span> <p>With Australia on bushfire alert, the government said record temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) across three states this week showed the need to act urgently against climate change.</p><span></span> <p>"November this year has seen a long and intense heatwave across much of southern and eastern Australia. The trend is absolutely clear, the climate is warming," Assistant Climate Change Minister Greg Combet told parliament.</p><span></span> <p>The opposition is negotiating changes to the government's carbon trade laws, which will be voted on next week in parliament's upper house Senate, but some opposition members are not convinced that human activity is driving climate change.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5AI1AG20091119">reuters.com</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/australian-heatwave-in-carbon-trade-battle-re">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-8664691050024808515?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3096796117722360007.post-2523590113688315972009-11-19T16:06:00.001-08:002009-11-19T16:06:21.885-08:00<div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>Global temperatures will increase by an average of 6 degrees C by the end of the century as CO2 emissions continue to outstrip the ability of the world's natural "sinks" to absorb carbon, a group of scientists said Tuesday in calling for drastic action to combat such emissions.</p> <p>By studying 50 years of data on carbon emissions, an international team of 30 climate specialists with the Global Carbon Project deduced that the natural sinks soaking up dangerous greenhouse gases are becoming less efficient, absorbing 55 percent of the carbon now, compared with 60 percent half a century ago.</p> <p>Carbon emissions from fossil fuel rose 2 percent in 2008, year-on-year, to an all-time high of 8.7 billion tons, leaving Earth on a worst-scenario tract for global warming, the report said.</p> <p>"The only way to control climate change is through a drastic reduction in global CO2 emissions. The global trends we see with CO2 emissions from fossil fuels suggest that we're heading toward 6 Celsius of global warming," said Corinne Le Quéré of the University East Anglia, who led the study with colleagues from the British Antarctic Survey.</p> <p>According to the "A1F1" scenario by the United Nation's Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Earth's surface will warm by around 4 degrees C by 2100, compared with 2000, a rise that would likely bring widespread hunger, flooding, drought and home-lessness.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/www/english/sci-edu/world/2009-11/486230.html">globaltimes.cn</a></div> <p></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://globalwarmingnews.posterous.com/climate-change-seen-turning-deadly-by-2100">Global Warming News</a> </p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3096796117722360007-252359011368831597?l=globalwarmingmexico.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Global Warminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058564285190506931noreply@blogger.com0