By MERAIAH FOLEY, Associated Press Writer SYDNEY, Australia – The rate at which humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere has more than doubled since the 1990s, according to Australian research, the latest report warning about the high rate of emissions accumulating in the atmosphere. Findings published by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization also showed that 2005 marked the fourth-consecutive year of increased carbon dioxide emissions. “To have four years in...
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Scientists: Climate change clues in the sky
This article talks about some of the research being done on arctic clouds and how they may be affecting global warming. It also talks about the already dramatic effects of climate change on this fragile area. By BETH DUFF-BROWN, Associated Press Writer, November 26, 2006 EUREKA, Nunavut Territory – Scientists are peering into the clouds near the top of the world, trying to solve a mystery and learn something new about global warming. The...
World Has Under a Decade to Act on Climate Crisis
November 22, 2006 — By Jeremy Lovell, Reuters LONDON — The world has less than a decade to take decisive action in the battle to beat global warming or risk irreversible change that will tip the planet towards catastrophe, a leading U.S. climate scientist said on Tuesday. And the United States, the world’ biggest polluter but major climate laggard, has a vital role to play in leading that fight, James Hansen, director of NASA’s...
Mysterious Stabilization of Atmospheric Methane May Buy Time in Race to Stop Global Warming
By David Biello, Scientific American, November 21, 2006 Since 1978 chemists at the University of California, Irvine, have been collecting air in 40 locations from northern Alaska to southern New Zealand. Using gas chromatography, the scientists have measured the levels of methane in the lowest layer of our atmosphere. Although not nearly as abundant as carbon dioxide methane remains the second most important greenhouse gas, both because each molecule of in the atmosphere traps...
Global warming said to be killing some species
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer, November 21, 2006 WASHINGTON – Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends. These fast-moving adaptations come as a surprise even to biologists and ecologists because they are occurring so rapidly. At least 70 species of frogs, mostly mountain-dwellers that had nowhere to go to escape the creeping heat, have gone...
Methane Escaping Five Times Faster Than Previously Thought
WASHINGTON – Global warming gases trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb. Methane — a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide — is being released from the permafrost at a rate five times faster than thought, according to a study being published Thursday in the journal Nature. The findings...
A Guide to Facts and Fictions about Climate Change
It has become fashionable in some parts of the UK media to portray the scientific evidence that has been collected about climate change and the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities as an exaggeration. Some articles have claimed that scientists are ignoring uncertainties in our understanding of the climate and the factors that affect it. Some have questioned the motives of the scientists who have presented the most authoritative assessments of the...
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
Here is a review by Science magazine that looked at 928 abstracts, published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and listed in the ISI database with the keywords “climate change.” Not one of these studies disagreed with consensus view on climate change. ————- By Naomi Oreskes Policy-makers and the media, particularly in the United States, frequently assert that climate science is highly uncertain. Some have used this as an argument against adopting...
Myth: Glaciers are advancing, not retreating.
This is a myth that is repeated frequently by the likes of David Bellamy and Dr. Fred Singer, two of the biggest PR “scientists” battling against the climatologists. Depending on which documents, reports, or lectures you look at, they either say that according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich 55% or 555 out of 625 glaciers being monitored are actually advancing, not retreating. This is completely false and Dr. Frank Paul of...
Half-Baked Smears against Climatologists
This Scientific American blog entry discusses some of the recent lame attempts from the global warming denial machine to discredit the science. Well worth the quick read.