Archive for December, 2006

I guess bears are in on the climate change hoax too… Source: The Independent Published: 21 December 2006  Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world. In a December in which...
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STEVE LILLEBUEN Canadian Press A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada’s Arctic, leaving a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake. The mass of ice broke clear from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometres south of the North Pole. Warwick Vincent of Laval...
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WASHINGTON – Polar bears are in jeopardy and need stronger government protection because of melting Arctic sea ice related to global warming, the Bush administration said Wednesday. Pollution and overhunting also threaten their existence. Greenland and Norway have the most polar bears, while a quarter of them live mainly in Alaska and travel to...
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Everyone, public and private, must act to avoid a catastrophe (Source: Mercury News Editorial) Global warming is the greatest environmental threat that humanity has ever faced. Caused mainly by the unprecedented levels of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by automobiles and industries, the rise in temperature is already starting to melt the polar...
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Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Carl Sagan, he would have been 72. Carl was in my opinion, one of the greatest Americans that ever lived, certainly one of the greatest Americans of the 20th century. He was an extremely intelligent, generous, passionate, compassionate, articulate, and devoted man and scientist. He...
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NASA has produced an animated map that illustrates changes in global temperatures between meteorological years 1891 and 2006. This animated map is an .mp4 file that can be viewed using a QuickTime player. Each frame in the animation represents a one year increment of the ten year mean temperature anomaly. This animation begins with...
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By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 19th December 2006 I suppose I should be flattered. In a speech to fellow airline bosses a few days ago, Martin Broughton, the chief executive of British Airways, announced that the primary challenge for the industry is to “isolate the George Monbiots of this world”. That shouldn’t...
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By Alex Morales Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) — Arctic sea-ice retreat is likely to accelerate so rapidly that the Arctic Ocean will be nearly ice- free in summer by 2040, atmospheric scientists said. Here’s a few extracts: This October, temperatures across much of the Canadian Arctic were as much as 9.3 degrees centigrade warmer than...
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Some good news on the green technology front. A tiny solar cell doubles the efficiency of common photovoltaics’s conversion of sunlight to electricity by capturing the energy from a broader spectrum of light. This new cell can achieve efficiency over 40% and will be available within 12 months. Read the full story here…  
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By Veronika Oleksyn, AP, Tuesday Dec 5   VIENNA, Austria – Europe’s Alpine region is going through its warmest period in 1,300 years, the head of an extensive climate study said Tuesday. “We are currently experiencing the warmest period in the Alpine region in 1,300 years,” Reinhard Boehm, a climatologist at Austria’s Central Institute for...
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