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Court decision clears way for climate change controls

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 in Climate Change

By Judy Fahys Cleaner air and less of the pollution blamed for climate change will be among the benefits Utahns and other Americans can expect as a result of a federal appeals court ruling on Tuesday. That was the consensus of environmental groups reacting to a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Distri...

Federal court upholds Obama EPA's climate change regulations

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 in Climate Change

By Ben Geman A federal appeals court has upheld Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations, a victory for the Obama administration that’s also sure to inflame election-year political battles over the White House green agenda. Environmentalists heralded the three-judge panel’s...

Aspen Environment Forum: Living in the new abnormal

Posted by bchristo on Sunday, 24 June 2012 in Climate Change

Aspen Environment Forum panel says life as we know it already is changing Scott Condon Living in a world where the population is topping 7 billion and temperatures are rising is going to be anything but normal. A panel Saturday morning at the opening session of the Aspen Environment Forum painted...

Carpet of lush flora once ringed icy Antarctica

Posted by Aaron on Monday, 18 June 2012 in Climate Change

Plant life thrived about 15 million to 20 million years ago, new research finds The few plants that live in Antarctica today are hardy hangers-on, growing just a few weeks out of the year and surviving poor soil, lack of rain and very little sunlight. But long ago, some parts of Antarctica were alm...

THE troubled coastline of Jimmys Beach

Posted by Wolf on Friday, 15 June 2012 in Climate Change

THE troubled coastline of Jimmys Beach has again been swallowed by king tides and massive swells."We had swell over seven metres on a two metre plus tide which was not pretty," Great Lakes Council's manager of parks and recreation David Bortfeld said. Mr Bortfeld said during the worst...

Warming Arctic Tundra Producing Pop-Up Forests

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 05 June 2012 in Climate Change

By ANDREW C. REVKIN Even as insect infestations and other factors accompanying warming have led to the “browning” of some stretches of boreal forest between temperate regions and the Arctic tundra, the tundra appears to be greening in a big way, various studies have shown. The newest such work, foc...

Global Warming and Changes We Can Already See In The World

Posted by amir on Monday, 28 May 2012 in Climate Change

Photograph by Paul Nicklen Over the last 100 years, global temperatures have warmed by about 1.33 degrees Fahrenheit (0.74 degrees Celsius) on average. The change may seem minor, but it's happening very quickly — more than half of it since 1979, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C...

Mexico Passes Climate Change Law

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 in Climate Change

A law recently passed by the Mexican legislature will reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 30 percent below business-as-usual levels by 2020, and by 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2050, reported Nature. By 2024, Mexico will also derive 35 percent of its electricity from renewable resources, accord...

Climate Change is causing Greenland's ice to slide into the ocean

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 in Climate Change

In Greenland Ice is melting fast. New Studies find temperatures rising. Like snow sliding off a roof on a sunny day, the Greenland Ice Sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder-b...

The crisis of global warming

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 in Climate Change

Last Thursday, the Express ran the first in a series of columns submitted by Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS). This is the second column in the series. These articles seek to highlight not just local environmental issues, but those which affect the population on a global scale. ...

Students Demand Answers about Climate Change from Science Teachers

Posted by voice on Saturday, 21 January 2012 in Climate Change

Prior to taking Mr. Visco's high school science class, Keith Hogan did not believe humans had had any hand in climate change. "I thought the media had just picked that up and blown it out of proportion," he said. Hogan remembers the day the "lightbulb went off," about four years ago. He'd ...

Global Warming Could Delay Next Ice Age

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 10 January 2012 in Climate Change

The next ice age could be delayed by tens of thousands of years due to excessive amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which disrupts Earth’s natural cycle of warming and cooling, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. analyzed ice core and marine sediment data from one mil...

Bullying the EU on Global Warming

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 in Climate Change

It's been obvious for some time now that the Obama administration's promises to fight global warming are in mothballs. But it's still shocking to see Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attack the 27 European countries that are actually trying to do something about the greatest environmental challeng...

Can a hot day persuade people that global warming is real?

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 02 December 2011 in Climate Change

Weather isn’t the same thing as climate. Just because it’s sunny or chilly on a given day doesn’t tell us all that much about long-term temperature trends. Even so, plenty of research suggests that local weather does heavily influence how people think about climate change. Back in 2009, survey data ...

Global warming: winners and losers

Posted by Angel on Thursday, 01 December 2011 in Climate Change

Global warming has brought a new normal to the Arctic, with warmer air and ocean temperatures, thinner and less expansive summer sea ice, and greener vegetation in coastal regions abutting the open water. In addition, longer periods of open water during the annual sea-ice melt season is allowing th...

Heat wave Hits UN Climate Summit

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 in Climate Change

Despite non-record temperatures this year, the Earth's surface is continuing to get warmer, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In its annual briefing to the UN climate summit, the agency says 2011 is so far the 10th warmest year on record. But continued warming was masked by...

Another Letter to Obama about Climate Change

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 27 November 2011 in Climate Change

Dear President Obama, Two years ago, I wrote you a letter. I talked about climate change, and hope, and about a generation pulling together. I did not tell you that I myself was falling apart. The gory details are not important– life can break your heart, and sometimes it conspires to break i...

South Africa Could See Enormous Climate Change Cost

Posted by amir on Friday, 25 November 2011 in Climate Change

JOHANNESBURG — Imagine the savannas of South Africa's flagship Kruger Park so choked with brush, viewing what game is left is nearly impossible. The Cape of Good Hope without penguins. The Karoo desert's seasonal symphony of wildflowers silenced. Climate change could mean unthinkable loss for South...

Carbon Emissions are Much Worse Than Predicted

Posted by Aaron on Thursday, 17 November 2011 in Climate Change

The U.S. Department of Energy recently released calculations stating that the total global carbon output in 2010 was the biggest increase ever recorded. The world pumped about 564 million more tons of carbon into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009, an increase of 6% with China, and the U.S. respons...

Can We Blame Philly's Extreme Weather on Global Warming?

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 04 November 2011 in Climate Change

photo by http://www.jamescornette.com/misc.html It is unbelievable! The chance of it happening by chance is microscopically small! But there’s a simple, easy explanation it happening. We’re talking about the many all-time records of extreme weather we’ve seen in Philadelphia in less than three...