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Why Should We Care about Global Warming? A Moral Call to Action

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 26 February 2010 in Climate Change

By Dr. Jonathan Harrington, author of The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs and Save the Planet (Earthscan 2008). Virtually all religions embrace once central moral tenet, do no harm. In America parents, preachers and teachers endlessly drum this age old mantra into our heads. You wou...

J. Harrington, "Climate Diet" - Creating a Cooler Climate: You Can Make a Difference

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Climate Change

Global warming. The subject seems to be coming up a lot these days. Extreme weather events are becoming more common. Fertile land is morphing into desert. Each year seems hotter than the next. In fact, global mean temperatures increased significantly during the past century and scientists predict th...

Our Lifestyles—Her Life

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Climate Change

Different Actions=Different Futures Dr. Jonathan Harrington Journal Entry, July 1, 2030: My wife Kathy and I are having a wonderful time at Glacier National Park. Yesterday, my daughter Kela, her seven-year-old daughter Maria, Kathy, and I rode in a hydrogen-powered tour bus along Lake McDonald. W...

Charting the Future: Young People Act on Climate Change

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 08 February 2010 in Climate Change

Welcome to "Charting the Future: Young People Act on Climate Change." This is the US project associated with the upcoming International Children and Youth Conference on the Environment, which will take place in Brasilia from 5-10 June 2010. The International Conference is hosted by the Brazilia...

Concern About Global Warming Continues to Drop in the U.S.

Posted by ekeith on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 in Climate Change

27 JAN 2010: Concern about global warming among U.S. adults has dropped significantly, a new poll says, with fewer than 50 percent of Americans saying they are “somewhat” or “very worried” — a 13 percent decrease from a poll taken in October 2008. The percentage of Americans who believe global warm...

Is the Earth even more sensitive to CO2 levels than we thought?

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 08 January 2010 in Climate Change

One of the more common arguments from skeptics of anthropogenic climate change is that the Earth has experienced periods during which atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were much much higher than they are today -- as much as 10 times higher. Why worry about a mere 30% increase over pre-industrial lev...

Global Warming Equals Stronger Hurricanes

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 08 January 2010 in Climate Change

Meteorologists Find That Increased Ocean Temperatures Cause Increasingly Intense Hurricanes Climate change experts studying hurricanes documented a 35-year warming trend in ocean surface temperature and linked it to larger hurricanes. The increase has been 1 degree Fahrenheit, resulting in four per...

Global Warming Equals Stronger Hurricanes

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 08 January 2010 in Climate Change

Contrary to conventional belief, as the climate warms and growing seasons lengthen subalpine forests are likely to soak up less carbon dioxide, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. As a result, more of the greenhouse gas will be left to concentrate in the atmosphere. "Our fi...

The Unfrozen North

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 28 December 2009 in Climate Change

There is increased evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future. This has happened before. Scientists have documented evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm ...

Science vs politics at Copenhagen

Posted by davebishop on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

India, Dec. 11 -- At stake: WHY: Scientists from every nation have produced data that points towards a steady increase in the global temperatures. According to their estimates the global mean temperature has seen an increase in 0.6 to 1.0 degree centigrade. The reason for this rise is the way we are...

Copenhagen Talks Collapse, Developing Countries Walk Out?

Posted by davebishop on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

My sense of these things is that this will happen five or six times before what will be termed as an “historic agreement” is signed, but this one does sound fairly serious: Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam put out this statement: Africa has pulled the emergency cord to avoid a train crash...

COP 15: Wong says deal 'salvagable' despite African walkout

Posted by davebishop on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

A MAJOR group of developing nations, including China and most African nations, have walked out of working groups, triggering a major stalemate between developed and developing countries at the Copenhagen climate change negotiations. LUCY KNIGHT IN COPENHAGEN The stalemate comes as more than 120 wo...

What are the chances of a deal at Copenhagen?

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Climate Change

'Get to work', urges climate head By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News, Copenhagen The president of the UN climate summit has urged delegates to "get to work" after protests from developing nations forced a suspension of several hours. Talks resumed late on Monday after the presi...

Copenhagen climate summit: Blindfolds are hiding the crucial issues at Copenhagen

Posted by davebishop on Monday, 07 December 2009 in Climate Change

As we are engulfed from all sides by suffocatingly one-sided coverage of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, three hugely important issues have been largely stuffed away from sight. The first of these is the matter of cost: the scarcely believable bill our politicians wish to land us with ...

No doubt: The earth is warming

Posted by ekeith on Monday, 07 December 2009 in Climate Change

The British Met Office has released world-wide temperature data into the public domain to give evidence that the globe is warming. The British Met Office has published station temperature records for over 1,500 of the stations that make up the global land surface temperature record. The data shows ...

Copenhagen's baby step on climate change: More electric cars?

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 29 November 2009 in Climate Change

China and US cooperation in promoting such vehicles is a concrete step against global warming. But how to measure claims in miles "per gallon"? As the two largest carbon polluters, China and the US have yet to agree on much before the international conference on global warming in Copenhagen next wee...

Climate Change: Too Much At Stake

Posted by ekeith on Sunday, 29 November 2009 in Climate Change

The climate change talks in Copenhagen this month may be our last chance to agree to a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol--and perhaps to get authentic commitments from nations around the world to cutting greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming. Experts have declared the search for a ne...

Singapore to reduce emissions from a "business-as-usual" level

Posted by davebishop on Saturday, 28 November 2009 in Climate Change

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Commonwealth leaders have thrown their full support behind the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen next month. At their summit in Trinidad and Tobago, all 53 member states pledged their commitment to seal a legally binding agreement, aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emiss...

Deals rushed on climate gab

Posted by davebishop on Saturday, 28 November 2009 in Climate Change

Written by Estrella Torres / ReporterSunday, 29 November 2009 21:45 With the Philippines experiencing the harshest impact of climate change after three devastating typhoons, the British envoy to Manila gave assurances that his government will push for a clear timetable to a legally binding agreemen...

Obama to vow greenhouse emissions cuts in Denmark

Posted by davebishop on Saturday, 28 November 2009 in Climate Change

By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press Writer Wed Nov 25 WASHINGTON – Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. He wil...