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Posts Tagged ‘global warming’
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Aug 29th, 2012,
Remember climate change? Yeah, it didn’t go away. In fact it’s worse than ever. However, the media (and therefore the public) have largely lost interest. No more Amazon? More extreme floods and droughts? Bo-ring! The Right in the US and Europe have succeeded in sewing enough doubt as to the reality of climate change that many people are just “confused” or “skeptical” so no large countries are really doing anything significant. The more sane elements in the governments of these nations still try to make money out of any “solution” to climate change. The free market will solve everything, apparently….
Tags: amazon, arctic, Climate change, global warming
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Videos & Documentaries, Jul 4th, 2012,
The recent heat waves and extreme storms in the eastern United States, the numerous wildfires in Colorado and other Western states, flooding elsewhere in the country… Since 1988 climate scientists have associated these kinds of extreme weather events, though not specific weather events, to climate change or global warming. What we’ve been seeing in different parts of the US this summer is what scientists say will occur more frequently as the planet heats up. According to Princeton University geosciences and international affairs professor Michael Oppenheimer, droughts, floods, wildfires, extreme storms and other environmental disasters are “what global warming really…
Tags: Climate change, extreme weather, floods, global warming, scientists, storms, wildfires
Climate Change, Politics, Science & Technology, May 10th, 2012,
By Michael D. Lemonick It’s just two weeks since a paper in Nature flagged an ominous thinning of ice shelves along parts of the Antarctic coast lying due south of the Pacific Ocean. The ice appears to be melting from below, as changing ocean currents are bringing relatively warm water to bathe the shelves’ undersides — and as the ice shelves lose mass, they also lose their ability to slow land-based ice in its slide toward the sea. Now there’s something new to worry about. A pair of brand-new studies published today, one in Nature and one in its sister…
Tags: Antarctica, Climate change, climate science, climatecentral.org, global warming, ice melting
Climate Change, Natural disasters, Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Apr 19th, 2012,
By Michael D. Lemonick For years, we who communicate about climate change have been wringing our hands over how to make people understand the problem at a gut level. Endangered polar bears? Too far removed. Island nations like the Maldives sinking beneath the waves? Too far away. Hot temperatures by 2100? Too far in the future. But like the first, outlying squalls from an oncoming hurricane, the first effects of climate change are already here, in the form of heat waves, droughts, intense rainstorms and more, and people are evidently noticing. Not just the extremes themselves: you couldn’t have missed…
Tags: Climate change, climatecentral.org, extreme weather, global warming, natural disasters
Climate Change, Natural disasters, Nature, Science & Technology, Apr 12th, 2012,
By Andrew Freedman Severe thunderstorm season is upon us, with the array of threats it brings, from tornadoes to flash flooding. On Tuesday, tornadoes grabbed most of the headlines, as several strong tornadoes struck the Dallas-Ft. Worth metro area, tossing tracker trailer trucks into the air, and damaging dozens of homes. But the large hail the same supercell thunderstorms dropped caused major impacts as well, largely because they fell on top of one of the world’s busiest airports. A passenger aboard a flight preparing to depart DFW International Airport when the storm hit described the sounds of the hail hitting…
Tags: big hail, changes due to climate change, Climate change, climatecentral.org, global warming, hail, hailstone climate change, supercell thunderstorms, tornadoes
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Dec 22nd, 2011,
Sometimes, covering climate science feels like playing a neverending game of whack-a-mole, since the same dubious arguments — often put forward by the same people — pop up again and again, only to be repeatedly debunked. Today is no different. Over at the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang blog, I have a column responding to a press release issued late last week marking the 33rd year of temperature data from the lower atmosphere, as detected by satellites. The release, from John Christy and Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, made several claims that were misleading at best, including the…
Tags: Climate change, climatecentral.org, global warming, man-made climate change, temperature rise
Climate Change, Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Dec 15th, 2011,
When it comes to global warming, humans have certainly felt the effects, and this year more than ever. With one weather disaster after another hammering the globe (there were a dozen in the U.S. alone that topped the billion-dollar mark for damages), there’s no denying that the natural course of the climate has been altered due to the many greenhouse gas emissions we spew into the air courtesy of industry and transport. And the results of our pollution are not only affecting us, but also the many species of wildlife that call this planet home. The question is: how is…
Tags: global warming, NRDC, wildlife
Climate Change, Green living, Science & Technology, Weird Stuff, ,
If you’re interested in staving off climate change without trying too hard, painting your roof white seems like a complete no-brainer. It’s far cheaper than trading in your SUV for a Prius, and it turns the laws of physics to best advantage. Dark roofs absorb sunlight that heats up your house, office tower, or apartment building. That means you’re bound to crank up the energy-intensive air conditioner to keep pace in the summer months — and since electricity in the U.S. comes largely from fossil fuels, the net result is more heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, and more global warming. But…
Tags: climate central, climate change white roofs, global warming, white roofs global warming, white rooftops
Nature, Science & Technology, Weird Stuff, Dec 1st, 2011,
Apart from being a really cool video that shows you quite clearly how massive the amount of carbon dioxide trapped under the permafrost is, this video should be an eye-opener for anyone concerned about climate change. As cool as it may be to see the gasses trapped under the permafrost burning up; the sad thing is this is happening at an extremely high rate all over lakes and ice packs in the frozen Arctic ground. According to Katey Walter Anthony (the scientist playing with greenhouse gasses and fire in the video) the amount of greenhouse gasses that will emerge from…
Tags: carbon dioxide, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, Katey Walter Anthony, permafrost
Climate Change, Green living, Nature, Videos & Documentaries, Aug 30th, 2011,
Nick de Wannemaeker, Belgian windsurfing champion and O’Neill rider who – I’m very proud to say – is my cousin (well actually my husband’s cousin but who’s counting), stars in a dark, epic surf movie highlighting the ecological disasters at hand if we don’t evaluate and change our approach to and relationship with nature. The movie called Planet Blow is a small independent film, produced and directed by Sylvain Demercastel (artist, musician, director and also an O’Neill rider), about the adventures of a group of riders (surfing, windsurfing and kitesurfing) who, in their quest for surfing excitement and idyllic spots…
Tags: Climate change, environment, global warming, Nick De Wannemaeker, O'Neill riders, Planet Blow, surfing, surfing riders, Sylvain Demercastel, windsurfing
Climate Change, Nature, Weird Stuff, Aug 9th, 2011,
Natural disasters are unpredictable and can traumatize any individual irrespective of their caste, creed, sex, age or gender. It has various forms like flood, lightening, earthquake, volcanic eruptions etc. It can damage or totally annihilate your immediate environment and its effects can be evident for a much long time after it passes away. A natural disaster can damage the whole community as well. The children who undergo these disasters experience their effects for a long time. It many a times causes relocations of the families and communities as well. Thus people living in more disaster prone areas should learn the…
Tags: Climate change, floods, global warming, Google Earth, hurricanes, natural disasters, wildfires
Climate Change, May 9th, 2011,
As the climate changes and parts of the Earth get hotter, drier summers, while others flood, what really worries me is how this heat will affect my wireless internet connection. Death, destruction, crop failures, horrible diseases and sinking islands will not matter if I can’t get a good wi-fi signal. This is the spin given in a piece for the Telegraph regarding a recent speech by UK Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman: She warned of intense rainfall, droughts and heatwaves in the next 50 to 100 years because of man-made global warming. The signal from wi-fi cannot travel as far when…
Tags: Caroline, Climate change, Europe, global warming, IPCC, report, Spelman, UK, wi-fi
Climate Change, Nature, Science & Technology, Jan 4th, 2011,
2010 was a record-breaking year for natural disasters. According to Insurance ERM, a website dedicated to enterprise risk management, this makes 2010 the second-highest year of natural catastrophes since 1980. With a current yearly average of 785 natural catastrophes, 2010 saw in increase of more than 20% in occurrences of natural disasters. Furthermore, the high number of weather related natural disasters like storms and floods, about 90% of all reported catastrophes in 2010, is a further indication of advancing climate change. Several major catastrophes in 2010 resulted in substantial losses and an exceptionally high number of fatalities. The overall picture…
Tags: 2010, 950 natural disasters in 2010, Climate change, earthquake, flooding, global warming, great natural catastrophes, hurricanes, insurance ERM, natural catastrophes, natural disasters
Climate Change, Nature, Science & Technology, Dec 2nd, 2010,
With the COP16 Climate Conference going on in Cancun right now, temperature increase reports due to climate change make headlines all over the Internet. On Monday the Guardian reported that climate change scientists warn of a 4 degrees Celsius global temperature rise by 2060, that is to say within our lifetime. Of course 4 degrees Celsius is a global average. Europe now warns that the situation could be even worse in the Mediterranean Sea region. A temperature increase of 7 degrees Celsius is predicted before the end of the century. Although it sounds like science-fiction climate change is something we…
Tags: 4 degrees increase, 7 degrees increase, Climate change, european union, global warming, Italy, Mediterranean Sea, natural disasters, Spain
Climate Change, Politics, ,
Earlier this week I told you about the European position towards the COP16 Climate Conference and the important steps the EU is trying to make in order to fight climate change and it’s consequences. I also told you that since the U.S. as been more of a blocking factor than anything else during the previous climate talks, it might be better if they would not participate in the conference at all, especially considering that even if they would agree on any of the proposed measures the U.S. Senate would never allow president Obama to sign a worldwide climate treaty. Anyway,…
Tags: cancun mexico, Climate change, climate conference, cop16, Europe, global warming, U.S. delegation, united nations
Climate Change, Politics, Nov 29th, 2010,
Fifteen climate activists from Climate Justice Action are currently holding a sit in of protestation at the offices of the IETA (International Emissions Trading Association) in Brussels. They entered the carbon lobby group’s offices peacefully around 2 pm local time while others stayed outside to protest in front of the building. While COP16 is starting in Cancun (Mexico) today, the climate activists from Climate Justice Action are gearing up to raise awareness about climate change. As many others, the members of the group fear that no binding agreement will come out of this new round of United Nations Climate talks….
Tags: Climate change, climate justice action, cop16, emissions trading, global warming, IETA, International Emissions Trading Association, peaceful protest
Climate Change, Nature, Science & Technology, ,
According to the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization in the U.S.) there is no doubt the Earth’s climate is warming up. The data the NOAA and other organizations gather, process and combine to produce a time series of global average temperature change provides undisputable proof of a warming trend in global temperatures. This temperature change is then in turn confirmed by other observations of natural phenomena all over the world, such as rising sea levels, earlier blooming of plants in spring, melting glaciers, warming surface temperatures of lakes and reduced arctic ice (just to name a few). To come…
Tags: Climate change, global climate change indicators, global warming, NOAA, warming climate
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Nov 26th, 2010,
News items about carbon emissions, global warming and heating trends of our planet are hot these days. No surprise there, as scientists and world leaders are getting ready for the next round of United Nations climate talks next week in Cancun. Unfortunately, as I already pointed out before, nobody is expecting anything remotely exciting to come out of COP16. With a little bit of luck, some regulations about deforestation and some REDD financing schemes will see the light at the end of yet another useless gathering. In the meantime scientists are feeding us with more and more alarming numbers about…
Tags: 2010 hottest year on record, Climate change, climate conference, climate talks, cop16, global warming, UN, united nations, warming temperatures
Climate Change, Politics, Science & Technology, Nov 25th, 2010,
According to the WMO (the United Nation’s weather agency) greenhouse gas concentrations reached 386,8 parts per million in 2009 – a record level. This increased concentration could in turn set off even greater methane (the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide) emissions from the Arctic. In a recent article we pointed out that the economic slowdown of the last couple of years did not stop greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to increase at a rapid pace. This increase will undeniably lead to climate change and rapid and dangerous warming up of our planet. Climate scientists now warn…
Tags: Cancun Climate Conference, Climate change, CO2 levels, cop16, global warming, greenhouse gas concentrations, united nations, WMO
Climate Change, Nature, Science & Technology, ,
In a global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, a first of it’s kind, NASA researchers have found that the Earth’s largest lakes have warmed up in the past 25 years in response to climate change. For the study, researchers at NASA measured and monitored the surface temperatures of 167 large lakes worldwide. Per decade, an average warming rate of 0,45 degrees Celsius (0,81 degrees Fahrenheit) was reported, with some exceptions where surface temperature warm-up reached as much as 1 degree Celsius (1,8 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade. The overall warming of lakes is not local trend but of global…
Tags: Climate change, global warming, lake surface temperature, NASA, warming of lakes
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