By JR Minkel, Scientific American Known variations in the sun’s total energy output cannot explain recent global warming, say researchers who have reviewed the existing evidence. The judgment, which appears in the September 14 Nature, casts doubt on the claims of some global warming skeptics who have argued that long-term changes in solar output, or luminosity, might be driving the current climate pattern. The evidence for human-induced global warming is neatly captured in a...
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Defending the “hockey stick” graph
Fiddling While the Planet Burns Will the Wall Street Journal’s editorial writers accept a challenge to learn the truth about the science of global climate change? By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scientific American Another summer of record-breaking temperatures brought power failures, heat waves, droughts and tropical storms throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Only one place seemed to remain cool: the air-conditioned offices of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. As New York...
U.N. nations reach deal to cut emissions
The U.N. is making some progress, but they are still draggin their feet despite the urgency. Things are not happening nearly fast enough, and the longer we wait, the tougher it’s going to get. ————————– NAIROBI, Kenya – More than 180 nations at the U.N. climate conference agreed Friday on the next steps toward negotiating deeper future cuts in global-warming gases, after conceding to China that developing nations won’t be pressed immediately to reduce...
Signs of Warming Continue in the Arctic
November 17, 2006 — By Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Signs of warming continue in the Arctic with a decline in sea ice, an increase in shrubs growing on the tundra and rising concerns about the Greenland ice sheet. “There have been regional warming periods before. Now we’re seeing Arctic-wide changes,” James Overland, an oceanographer at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, said Thursday. Read the full story…
Polar Bear Survival Rate Falls as Climate Warms
November 16, 2006 — By Yereth Rosen, Reuters ANCHORAGE — Polar bear cubs in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea are much less likely to survive compared to about 20 years ago, probably due to melting sea ice caused by global warming, a study released Wednesday said. The study, published by the U.S. Geological Survey, estimated that only 43 percent of polar bear cubs in the southern Beaufort Sea survived their first year during the past five...
Ice-Melt Isolates Remote Communities in Canada
November 14, 2006 — By Jonathan Spicer, ReutersTORONTO — Aboriginal communities in Ontario’s far north are becoming increasingly isolated as rising temperatures melt their winter route to the outside world and impede their access to supplies. Read the full story…
Mr. Cool: Nurturing doubt about climate change is big business
Here is an excellent article by Charles Montgomery that appeared in The Globe and Mail on August 12th, 2006. In this article Montgomery debunks the junk science being publicized by Tim Ball and his “Friends of Science” foundation. Mr. Ball uses a lot of falsehoods, inaccurate data, and manipulated graphs to make his case. Montgomery also shows how the “Friends of Science” are funded mostly by the energy industry. The article is well worth...
Canada named top “fossil” at Kenya climate talks
The Conservative Government of Stephen Harper is getting slapped in the face at the Kenya climate talks. This government is doing a really good job at sucking up to the Bush administration and shaming Canada in front of the world. The so-called “Made-in-Canada” plan to tackle the environment and global warming issue is taken right out of the Bush agenda, and influenced by the oil industry. I guess it’s not that surprising given that...
U.N. sees ‘far more robust’ global warming evidence
By Laura MacInnis (Source: Reuters UK) GENEVA, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Scientific evidence that human activity is heating the Earth has become “far more robust” in the last five years, the head of the United Nations climate change panel said. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said an increase of research on global warming had added weight to the group’s upcoming report, which is considered a mainstay for environmental...
Climate Change Inaction Will Cost Trillions
While the global warming deniers predict a huge economic downside to trying to stop climate change, it has always been pretty clear to me that inaction will cost a lot more. It is not only a matter of dollars. How do you put a price on human lives and on the loss of complete ecosystems and thousands of species? But nonetheless, this study from Friends of the Earth from the Global Development and Environment...