Apparently it’s raining in Washington. In the opinion section of the Yahoo News, Gregg Easterbrook is asking, was the Washington Deluge Foretold by Global Warming Book?.
A spate of extraordinary precipitation does not prove climate change, any more than a long frigid spell would disprove global warming. Individual weather events can be just random fluctuation, […]
Nova, the Australian Government’s science website, has published an overview of carbon credits and climate change. They explain, in layman’s terms, what the problems with our climate are, and how carbon credits help to alleviate those problems. It’s great that the Australian Government is making such an effort to educate the general public. The […]
The Mercury News ran a story on the weekend, Greenland’s slip-sliding glaciers offer chilling evidence of warming.
By all accounts, the glaciers of Greenland are melting twice as fast as they were five years ago, even as the ice sheets of Antarctica — the world’s largest reservoir of fresh water — also are shrinking, researchers at […]
International standards body IEEE has launched a New Standard [that] Identifies Eco-friendly Computers and Monitors
It’s not easy buying green, especially for those purchasing desktop and laptop computers and monitors for large organizations. Generally, purchasing agents who buy millions of dollars worth of electronic equipment do not have the technical knowledge to sift through complicated product […]
The Australian science site NOVA, in a topic sponsored by the Australia Government’s Department of the Environment and Heritage, has a brilliant article headlined Impact of global warming on biodiversity that explains in quite some detail the known facts about climate change and looks at the effects of global warming on several species of Australian […]
The Financial Times is letting us know, Climate change adviser attacks US stance
In his second day as the foreign secretary’s special representative for climate change, John Ashton, who has worked as both a diplomat and an environmentalist, set out his agenda for bolstering the government’s efforts to convince other nations to sign up to a […]
The Environment News Service has just announced Expert Panel Concludes Earth’s Temperature Warmest in 400 Years.
The Earth is hotter today than it has been in four centuries and likely warmer than it has been in the past 1,000 years, according to a review of surface temperature research released Thursday by the U.S. National Academies of […]
From KLTV, via the US’s ABC News, Is Global Warming Fueling Western Wildfires?
This year, [in the USA] wildfires have already burned more than 3 million acres - more than three times the average at this time of year.
Many scientists say that these fires fit exactly into the pattern predicted for global warming and that it’s […]
Seen the The Register, UK admits just half of methane emissions.
Methane emissions in the UK could be twice as high as government estimates, new European research suggests.
The findings, reported in today’s New Scientist magazine, come from Peter Bergamaschi of the European commission joint research centre at Ispra in Italy.
Rather than taking countries’ own internal estimates […]
Jim Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, has written three marvelous book reviews for The New York Review of Books.
“The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth” by […]