A neat graphic from the IPCC, describing what will happen with increasing global warming. IPCC Thermometer
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Monthly Archives: April 2007
IPCC Warning Bleak Despite Political Interference
(source) By Richard Littlemore, DeSmogBlog, 6 Apr 07 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its bleakest ever report on climate change today (April 6, 2007) – overcoming a pitched round of political interference in the process. The worst fears of those who would deny climate change were confirmed in a marathon session of the IPCC’s Working Group II: agenda driven politicians are indeed trying to overwhelm the efforts of impartial scientists. But...
“SOUND SCIENCE†debate dismissed as a bunch of smoke
DeSmogBlog challenges Heartland Institute to argue tobacco rather than climate change. Here’s the press release: VANCOUVER – Yesterday, the Chicago-based Heartland Institute launched an ad campaign calling former vice president Gore to a public debate on global warming. In response, the DeSmogBlog challenges the Heartland Institute to a debate on the harmful effects of second-hand tobacco smoke. “The Heartland Institute has a history of trying to create scientific confusion where there is none,†DeSmogBlog.com...
Climate Change Denial: Delusion or Malevolence?
(source) By John Lefebvre, DeSmogBlog, Â 6 Apr 07 Climate change deniers may be slotted into either of two categories. Whether fossil fuel executives, fossil fuel workers, PR people, lobbyists or members of Congress, they all fit in either one category or the other. One consists of those who actually believe, against the vast preponderance of the peer-reviewed scientific evidence, that humans are not driving climate change. The remainder say what they will, careless or...
James Randi on Global Warming
There is a nasty rumor circulating aroud the net that James Randi has endorsed the controversial film “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Nothing could be further from the truth, and here is what he had to say about it: http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-04/040607mi.html#i8Â
The looming water crisis
The water crisis has already begun, and it is not confined to sub-Saharan Africa. As many as 20 million people in the USA are at risk of not having enough water within 5 years. This is caused by a combination of rapid population growth, overdrawing water from the rivers and aquifers, and increasing evaporation and reduced snowpacks as a result of global warming. Many areas will run out of water within a few years. Here’s a...
What’s Happening to the Bees?
This is a good article that discusses the sudden dye-off of the bees, which is puttung one third of North American agriculture at risk because famers have come to rely on this single specie of pollinators. Suddenly, the bees farmers and growers rely on are vanishing. Researchers are scrambling to find out why. By Moises Velasquez-Manoff What’s Happening to the Bees?
Overexploitation of our planet
We humans are so stupid we keep overexploiting all of our precious resources. We are rapidly depleting oil resources and causing Global Warming in the process; we are destroying our forests, the lungs of our planet; we have decimated most of the medium to large species of mammals; we are doing the same thing to sea-life, our most precious source of food, and most people don’t even realize it since those poor sea creatures...
Justices Rule Against Bush Administration on Emissions
This is a minor step forward, but a huge precedent! The Supreme Court told the EPA it can legislate CO2 emissions, going right in the face of the Bush Administration. Read the New York Times Article.
Was 2006 a quiet year for Hurricanes?
Many Climate Change deniers point out the fact that 2006 ended-up being a very quiet year for Atlantic hurricanes. While that is true and was probably due to some local conditions, the fact is that globally 2006 was a record year for hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. The Pacific ocean generated an unheard of number of strong storms last year. And in the last few months, there has been many category 4 and 5 storms....