This is a nice report on global warming and renewable energy, produced by Greenpeace. It is about 12 minutes long.
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New Jersey Showing Leadership on Global Warming
New Jersey enacts anti-global warming law By ANGELA DELLI SANTI, Associated Press Writer Fri Jul 6, 8:55 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – New Jersey became the third state in the nation to enact a comprehensive greenhouse gas reduction law Friday, requiring the Garden State to significantly cut emissions of global-warming gases. Al Gore, the former vice president turned environmental activist, was on hand as Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed the “Global Warming Response...
Hard hitting video
Here’s a very hard hitting video produced by Greenpeace. That is one angry looking kid, and he has all the reasons in the world to be angry.
Are we coming up to a climate tipping point?
In this article, George Monbiot discusses the fact that three recent scientific papers point out that climate change is accelerating and that we may be on the brink of a “flip” in the climate that will bring much faster warming and sea level rise than the IPCC predicted in its latest report. He also talks about the need for a similar “flip” in public opinion and in government courage before we can actually do...
A dire warning from eminent scientists
The Earth today stands in imminent peril… …and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change. Those are not the words of eco-warriors but the considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists writing in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. By Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independent Published: 19 June 2007 Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued...
Want to know more about climate change?
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.
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...
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...