sduford on Feb 24 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming
How global warming goes against the grain
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
The place where most of the world’s people could first begin to feel the consequences of global warming may come as a surprise: in the stomach, via the supper plate.
That’s the view of a small but influential group of agricultural experts who are increasingly [...]
sduford on Feb 19 2007 | Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, Scientists
The world’s largest tropical glacier is in danger of disappearing within five years, according to international researchers meeting this week in San Francisco.
Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson and a team of scientists said they have found evidence the Qori Kalis glacier of the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes could lose half its mass [...]
sduford on Feb 14 2007 | Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, Politics, The Denial Machine
Well it looks like ExxonMobil’s CEO is still clinging on the little percentage of doubt that remains as to how climate chage will play out in order to continue his policy of denial. This is sad, and shows a lot of shortsightedness. I guess he doesn’t want his stock price to to go down just [...]
sduford on Feb 12 2007 | Filed under: Politics, The Denial Machine
Exxon-Mobil, the most active and biggest funder of climate change denial organizations has now changed its mind. In the face of the latest IPCC repot, they no longer deny that anthropogenic climate change his happening. I guess this explains why the White House has also stopped denying climate change. However, they both are now denying that they ever [...]
sduford on Feb 12 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, The Denial Machine
I’ve long thought that literal and unconditional beliefs in the truth of scriptures was a dangerous thing. That’s how you get things like witch hunts, people flying airplanes into buildings, and political leaders justifying their wars in the name of god.
But here’s a new twist on this danger, one of potentially global impact (thanks to [...]
sduford on Feb 11 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics
From the DeSmogBlog
It was deeply disappointing in the last week to see the contrast between the state of climate science in the world and the state of climate policy in Canada.
While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was telling the world that global warming is undeniable and that the implications for humankind may be severe, [...]
sduford on Feb 10 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics, Scientists, The Science
There is an excellent new resource explaining the science behind the IPCC report, and debunks the mythsassociated with it.Â
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) brings together hundreds of the world’s leading scientists to study the effects of human activity on the Earth’s climate, the impacts of climate change on environment and society, and options for [...]
sduford on Feb 09 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, Politics
This article describes how Spain is already being severely affected by Global Warming Woes. In fact, it appears to be the country that is showing the most negative effects so far.
By Anthony Ham, The Age
February 10, 2007
IF LAST week’s damning report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was a wake-up call to the world [...]
sduford on Feb 08 2007 | Filed under: Global Warming, The Science
The IPCC summary for policymakers definitively proclaimed the globe to be warming as a result of human activity, now the science shifts to impacts and solutions
By David Biello, Scientific American
The debate over whether the Earth’s climate is changing and whether humanity is responsible for that change closed in Paris on February 2. The Intergovernmental Panel [...]
sduford on Feb 07 2007 | Filed under: Politics
Sierra Club of Canada News Release
Friday, January 19, 2007
(Ottawa) The Conservative government’s commitment to a five fold expansion of tar sands oil production is totally inconsistent with promises this week to take the climate crisis seriously.
“Canada’s regulatory processes are already heavily biased in favour of promoting oil production and export and fail to consider impacts [...]