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Neither party adequately addresses climate change

Posted by henryfool on Sunday, 04 November 2012 in Climate Change

The climate will continue to change, whether or not we believe it, or are prepared for it, or are willing to do anything about it.In the near future of our planet ignorance will not be bliss. As much as some voices in the political sphere would like us to believe that the science is muddled and inco...

Campaign ignores climate change behind Sandy

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 04 November 2012 in Climate Change

By Darrell DelamaideWASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — An absolute monarchy can find it easier to implement enlightened policy than a democracy in hock to vested interests, so it was only mildly surprising when a Saudi Arabian prince said the world’s largest oil producer intends to rely 100% on renewable en...

Climate Change: More people believe in warming

Posted by henryfool on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 in Climate Change

A Yale University study found that a growing number of Americans – 70 percent – believe that global warming is occurring. That belief grew by 13 percentage points between January 2010 and September 2012. Those who say global warming is not happening declined by half, from 20 percent in 2010 to 12 p...

Climate Change In The United States

Posted by acox on Monday, 15 October 2012 in Climate Change

If there were any climate change denialists located in the United States, over the last nine months, their arguments have been shattered by rising temperatures and the highest average over nine months with severe drought conditions disabling many economic sectors and livelihoods....

IGSD: Climate Change Could Kill More Than 100 Million People by 2030

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 29 September 2012 in Climate Change

Without fast action, accelerating climate change impacts will cause more than 100 million deaths and knock off more than 3 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) by 2030, according to a report released today by the humanitarian organization DARA. The report, commissioned by 20 governments in the C...

A Letter to Your Grandchildren

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 06 September 2012 in Climate Change

by Jeffrey BennettOn average, we are all about 50 to 60 years older than our grandchildren are or will be. That is, if you are a high school student today, your grandchildren are likely to be high school students somewhere around the year 2065. If you are in your prime career years today, your grand...

Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral

Posted by Angel on Monday, 03 September 2012 in Climate Change

This year has predictably and deservedly received a fair amonut of media attention. Jonathan Leake of the Sunday Times recently penned an article on the impending sea ice record. The bulk of the article was quite good, but at the end succumbed to the standard mainstream media practice of...

Another Record Melt For Artic Melt

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 23 August 2012 in Climate Change

Sea ice extent in the Arctic is very near to beating the previous record low set in 2007, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center. Researchers told Reuters that they expect the record to be beaten by the end of month, well over a week before the melt season ends in the frozen north. ...

Mississippi River Shows Signs of Drought

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 22 August 2012 in Climate Change

These images show a stretch of the Mississippi River just south of Memphis, Tennessee. The top one was taken by a NASA satellite on August 8, 2012, and the bottom one by a different NASA satellite on August 14, 2011. See how there are huge patches of light tan along the river in the i...

TV Media Ignore Climate Change In Coverage Of Record July Heat

Posted by Aaron on Friday, 17 August 2012 in Climate Change

by Jill Fitzsimmons & Max Greenberg of mediamatters.org Scientists say that human-induced climate change made this year's record heat more likely, and project that extreme heat will become more common in the United States. But a Media Matters analysis of media coverage of record-breaking heat i...

What Can We Do Now? Face the facts about our climate

Posted by henryfool on Saturday, 11 August 2012 in Climate Change

When the electricity goes off, we find ourselves checking to see if it is really off — flipping a couple of switches, looking at the second hand of the electric clock, trying to turn on the TV, etc. We are accustomed to fact-checking the many experiences of our lives. And so it goes with the recent ...

Antarctic Speeds Ice Loss

Posted by amir on Friday, 10 August 2012 in Climate Change

Scientists from the U.K. have uncovered a 1.6 kilometre-deep rift valley under the ice in West Antarctica, a feature which they say may explain why that part of the continent is losing ice so rapidly. Detailed in the journal Nature, experts from the University of Aberdeen and British Antarctic Surv...

July 2012 - The Hottest Month of Record for the US

Posted by amir on Friday, 10 August 2012 in Climate Change

Drought expands to cover nearly 63% of the Lower 48; wildfires consume 2 million acres The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during July was 77.6°F, 3.3°F above the 20th century average, marking the hottest July and the hottest month on record for the nation. The previous warmest July for...

Significant U.S. Climate Events for July 2012

Severe weather renews climate-change talks in Washington, Annapolis

Posted by henryfool on Thursday, 02 August 2012 in Climate Change

By Scott Dance Policies to change building codes in flood plains and on shorelines, construct offshore wind turbines and manage suburban sprawl could gain political traction, officials hope, as recent extreme weather renews a conversation on climate change in Maryland and nationally. State efforts...

Understanding Climate Change: Powerpoint and Propaganda

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 25 July 2012 in Climate Change

By Chris Eberhardt When asked what Chinese youth think of when they hear the words climate change (气候变化), common answers included rising temperatures and sea levels, the disappearance of island nations, or that the winters in his or her hometown were getting warmer. In response to an online Chines...

A preview of Our Changing Climate

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 19 July 2012 in Climate Change

Earth Protect is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch's How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming (Dawn Publications, 2008), a book on climate change aimed at readers in grades 4 through 8. The preview consists ...

Climate change in action: Weird weather continues across U.S.

Posted by Jen on Sunday, 15 July 2012 in Climate Change

by Dorsi Diaz Notable climate anomalies began in March when more than 15,000 warm weather records across the country were broken. Many people are starting to ask the same question: As the climate changes, can we expect more of this? The answer is yes, according to climate change scientists...

U.S. Abrupt Climate Change 2012

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Sunday, 15 July 2012 in Climate Change

by Glen Barry Where Will You Be the Day Earth's Death Became Unavoidable? The world’s and especially America’s environment has gone mad during the summer of 2012. Abrupt climate change is clearly upon us, and life-giving ecosystems are visibly failing, portending doom for our shared biosph...

Catastrophic Climate Change can Happen in an Instant

Posted by amir on Sunday, 15 July 2012 in Climate Change

by Dale Allen Pfeiffer Large bodies of water — particularly the oceans and seas — have a moderating effect upon the weather. As anyone living on an island or near the seashore is well aware, the summers in such an area tend to be cooler than farther inland, and the winters tend to be warmer. As a r...

Colorado fires, severe storms, floods and record-setting heat: The summer of hellfire and brimstone?

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 14 July 2012 in Climate Change

By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite “They will be tormented with fire” (Revelation 14:10) and burn (Revelation 19:20). Those are the biblical images of hellfire and brimstone that best describe the burning heat and violent storms this country is experiencing. They also describe the hellish cond...