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Population - The True cause of Climate Change

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 13 October 2010 in Climate Change

BOULDER—Changes in population growth and composition, including aging and urbanization, could significantly affect global emissions of carbon dioxide over the next 40 years, according to a new study out next week. The research, appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy...

My first-hand view of global warming

Posted by davebishop on Monday, 11 October 2010 in Climate Change

By: Stephen Hesterberg, Posted: 10/12/10 The peak was an off-white color, a mixture of dirt and ice. The thin layer, which followed the contour of the mountainside, was much smaller than I had imagined, nothing like the glaciers seen on National Geographic. At the time, the view from th...

2010: A Hot Year Indeed

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 19 September 2010 in Climate Change

Weather is always an easy topic of conversation. The first eight months of 2010 tied the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land and ocean surface temperature on record worldwide. Meanwhile, the June—August summer was the second warmest on record globally after 1998, and last month was the...

Arctic sea ice: the Great Recession continues

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 03 September 2010 in Climate Change

Just as the U.S. economy began a dramatic nosedive in 2007, so did the Arctic’s summertime sea ice. That September, the ice’s minimum seasonal extent shattered previous records. The minimums in 2008 and 2009 were somewhat less extreme, but still well below those observed in the 1980s and 1990s. Thi...

Why Has Extreme Weather Failed to Heat Up Climate Debate?

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 28 August 2010 in Climate Change

We've had so much record heat around the world lately that the records themselves are setting records: 17 nations have reached new temperature highs, a new record for records in a year. Pakistan hit (129F) 54C, a new record for all of Asia. Moscow had never hit 100F (38C) before; lately it's...

Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 25 August 2010 in Climate Change

Nikola Tesla once dreamed of being able to harness electricity from the air. Now, research being conducted at Brazil’s University of Campinas (UC) is indicating that such a scenario may indeed become a reality. Professor Fernando Galembeck, a UC chemist, is leading the study into the ways in which e...

Green House of Denial - by Scott Adams

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 in Climate Change

Scott Adams, creator of “Dilbert”, recently wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled: How I (Almost) Saved the Earth. As I type, it is making the rounds on social networks, emails, and probably being talked about around the water coolers that Adams portrays in his iconic comic strip. Why is...

Giant "ice island" 4-times the size of Manhattan breaks off of Greenland

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 09 August 2010 in Climate Change

A large mass of ice broke off of Greenland's Petermann glacier on August 5th, 2010; the largest ice island to calve off Greenland since 1962. The ice island is immense; 4-times the size of Manhattan or over 100 square miles of surface area. The ice island is likely to break down to smaller ice bergs...

Ten key indicators show global warming 'undeniable'

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 08 August 2010 in Climate Change

Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said on Wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of climate data. Without addressing why this is happening, the researchers said there was no doubt that every dec...

2010: The year nature struck back?

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 06 August 2010 in Climate Change

Will 2010 be remembered as the year when nature struck back? We’ve witnessed the devastating Earthquake in Haiti, the toxic oil gusher in the Gulf, and now, historic floods in Pakistan that have killed over 1,000 people and displaced millions more. And those are just the international headlines. Di...

Climate change to blame for hottest summer ever?

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 20 July 2010 in Climate Change

The first six months of 2010 brought a string of warmest-ever global temperatures, but connecting these dots to long-term climate change patterns remains frustratingly difficult, experts say. Not only was last month the hottest June ever recorded, it was the fourth consecutive month in which t...

From NASA - Ice Break the Size of New York

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 09 July 2010 in Climate Change

NASA-funded researchers monitoring Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier report that a 7 square kilometer (2.7 square mile) section of the glacier broke up on July 6 and 7, as shown in the image above. The calving front – where the ice sheet meets the ocean – retreated nearly 1.5 kilometers ...

Ice Watchers, Satellites Track Ice Melt

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 09 July 2010 in Climate Change

The surest sign of a warming Earth is the steady melting of its ice zones, from disappearing sea ice in the Arctic to shrinking glaciers worldwide. Now, scientists are using increasingly sophisticated satellite technology to measure the extent, thickness, and height of ice, assembling an essential p...

Climate Researchers Not Guilty of Tampering

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 08 July 2010 in Climate Change

For the third time, investigations by independent investigators have found that climate researchers at University of East Anglia did not slant their findings. You will recall their hacked emails had some imprudent statements last year.The report said the scientists' honesty and rigor were not in dou...

May 2010 Global State of the Climate

Posted by davebishop on Wednesday, 23 June 2010 in Climate Change

Is it getting hotter or is summer has come early? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a report recently about the state of the global climate, and the results were not pretty. It turns out the combined global land and ocean surface temperatures set a record in May. In...

What Will it Take to Avert Disastrous Climate Change?

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 22 June 2010 in Climate Change

For nearly any major disaster—natural, economic, or military—there was a moment when tragedy could have been prevented. In just the last decade, experts warned that a subprime mortgage bubble could lead to financial collapse and that a hurricane could devastate New Orleans. But our leaders fail...

Cyclone Aila in Bangladesh, photo by Jonathan Munshi

What is Biodiversity?

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 14 June 2010 in Climate Change

Biodiversity is starting to be become another buzz word like green products and carbon footprints. Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem or on the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems. The biodiversity found on Earth...

20 Days To The G20…20 Reasons The Youth Climate Movement Must Get Organized!

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 07 June 2010 in Climate Change

With 20 days to go to the G8 and G20 summits in Toronto, here are 20 reasons that the youth climate movement needs to get mobilized. Every day you can become increasingly motivated to get organize, get mobilized, and know just why we need to have our voices heard. The G8 and G20 are a self-select...

A Great Carbon Dioxide Burp

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Climate Change

There are many earth cycles. One is a cycling between warmer and colder periods which are commonly called ice ages. The causes of these cycles are complex and are related to how much sun radiation we get as well as some slight variation in the sun itself. Scientists have recently found a pos...

Emissions-based climate deal 'not possible'

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 21 May 2010 in Climate Change

Current climate policy of emissions targets and trading will not suceed and should be replaced by a 'politically attractive' one based on providing cheap, non-carbon energy, says new paper An international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions is doomed to failure and must ...