The excellent RealClimate website has just published an excellent compilation of resources for those who want to educate themselves on the science of climate change. You can find the post here, and it is well worth exploring those resources.
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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Landmark Program to Reduce Energy Use in Buildings
President Bill Clinton today announced the creation of a global Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program, a project of the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), which will assist cities in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. This program brings together four of the world’s largest energy service companies (ESCOs), five of the world’s largest banks and sixteen of the world’s largest cities in a coordinated effort to significantly reduce energy use in buildings. Read the...
eXXon caught with fingers crossed, new report
www.DeSmogBlog.com 17 May 07 Despite ExxonMobil’s denials, a report released today by Greenpeace’s ExxonSecrets.org project, reveals that the largest oil company in the world continues to spend millions on a stealth public relations campaign aimed at discrediting global warming science. According to the report, Exxon provided $2.1 million in 2006 to 41 “think” tanks and associations that actively sow doubt about the realities of climate change. Since 1998, ExxonMobil has spent a staggering $23...
Southern Ocean already losing ability to absorb CO2
17 May 2007 NewScientist.com news service Catherine Brahic One of the world’s largest carbon sinks has stopped soaking up the carbon dioxide that humans are pumping into the atmosphere, according to a new study. Global warming has caused the Southern Ocean to become windier, churning up the waters so that they are unable to absorb CO2 at the rate we produce it, the researchers say. The implications are far-reaching, and once more imply that...
Climate change: A guide for the perplexed
NewScientist just published an excellent special report on Global Warming. In it you will find 26 articles that debunk the main myths being spread around by the climate change deniers. There is also a guide to assessing the evidence. In the articles they’ve included lots of links to primary research and major reports for those who want to follow through to the original sources. Here are links to all 26 articles. • Human CO2 emissions are too...
Tobacco vs Global Warming
Here’s some excellent video footage showing the Tobacco lobby’s use of tactics to create an impression of confusion around the science. The same PR organizations and so-called scientists (like Fred Singer) are using the very same tactics today to make it look like there is no scientific concensus. Â
Scientists Back Off Theory of a Colder Europe in a Warming World
By WALTER GIBBS, The New York Times. Published: May 15, 2007 OSLO — Mainstream climatologists who have feared that global warming could have the paradoxical effect of cooling northwestern Europe or even plunging it into a small ice age have stopped worrying about that particular disaster, although it retains a vivid hold on the public imagination. Read the full article…
Panel: Climate change will hurt Africa
By BRANDON REED, Associated Press Writer Mon May 14, 4:40 PM ET JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Global warming isn’t just a matter of melting icebergs and polar bears chasing after them. It’s also Lake Chad drying up, the glaciers of Mt. Kilimanjaro disappearing, increasing extreme weather, conflict and hungry people throughout Africa. According to a landmark effort to assess the risks of global warming, Africa — by far the lowest emitter of greenhouse gases...
Fun with Statistical Correlation
The excellent RealClimate.org website is poking fun at The Great Global Warming Swindle and their manipulation of solar activity vs warming graphs. It’s an entertaining read.
Combating Climate Change: Scaling Back Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Keeping the Lights On
If controlling global warming is a priority, then a transformation of how the world produced, transports and uses electricity will be required, IPCC report reveals. By David Biello , Scientific American Read the story here.