February 15, 2010 – 7:46 am
With a snowstorm blanketing the Northeast and much of the country this winter, deniers of global warming jumped at the opportunity to disprove Al Gore. A large number of these deniers were over at Fox News. And those deniers found themselves the butt of jokes by Stephen Colbert, on his show over the weekend. After [...]
February 14, 2010 – 8:01 am
Oh the irony when art and reality collide… The plants which Henry David Thoreau catalogued around Walden Pond in Massachusetts more than 150 years ago, and the information which he gathered, is helping to illustrate the effects of invasive species and global warming on the area today. Climate change has given invasive and nonnative species [...]
January 24, 2010 – 1:17 pm
Business mastermind and software revolutionary turned full-time philanthropist, Bill Gates gave his two cents on a very hot button issue when he posted on his sort-of-blog “Gates Notes”, about cutting green house emissions. The name of the article is “We Need Productivity and Sustainability.” He opined that cutting emissions by 30% by 2025 is unrealistic, [...]
January 19, 2010 – 1:41 pm
Anthony Watts runs a Web site that has become the most popular portal for climate news and opinions of interest to people aiming to rebut insistent claims that humans are poised to disrupt the climate. James E. Hansen of NASA has long been the most prominent scientist advocating sharp and prompt cuts in emissions of [...]
January 11, 2010 – 9:52 am
Ocean Fertilization The idea of Ocean Fertilization is based on the ability of ocean plankton to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the atmosphere. If you feed plankton with nutrients and minerals, like iron, they’ll grow, meaning they can take up more carbon dioxide. Manmade Volcanoes Massive volcano eruptions can serve to cool down [...]
December 23, 2009 – 5:46 pm
Evo Morales Evo Morales President of Bolivia, presented what is possibly the most ambitious rhetoric, to come out of Copenhagen thus far, when he made the demand that world leaders not only agree to limit the global temperature increase over the next century to 1 degrees Celsius, but further that rich countries should pay for [...]
December 21, 2009 – 10:15 am
The President of Israel, Shimon Peres arrived in Copenhagen and delivered a speech on Thursday at the high-level portion of the UN sponsored climate conference. He declared that Israel is setting forth a goal to lower their green-house gas emissions by 20% by the year 2020. That is not to reduce the country’s levels 20% [...]
December 14, 2009 – 6:11 pm
UPDATE The EU environment spokesman Andreas Carlgren says informal talks at Copenhagen resolved the impasse. The European Union says poor countries have stopped their boycott of climate change negotiations at Copenhagen and have found a solution to their dispute with rich nations. ============================================================================================= China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Monday, [...]
December 9, 2009 – 12:05 am
On Wednesday, Google Inc. launched a new feature in its Google Earth Web site, which is designed to let Californians see the risks of climate change. The feature is called CalAdapt and it illustrates the workings of warming temperatures, rising sea levels, precipitation shifts and the impact which intense wildfires have on the environment. The [...]
December 7, 2009 – 5:11 pm
In 1975 the United States government pushed something which they called “the coming ice age.” “The Weather Conspiracy” was a book published by Random House and written by 18 authors who lived a spitting distance away from Washington. Newsweek fell in line shortly after the release of the book and did a cover issue on [...]
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