Archive for September, 2006

Global Warming from a Cow’s perspective

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Hillarious and insightful. A man in a cow suit explains the impact that global warming is having on cows, and by extension people. — DS

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Bloomer study reveals global warming proof

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Sent in by email. Thanks Tor. — DS

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Melting Glaciers

Friday, September 8th, 2006

The website SwisInfo.org is hosting an exhibition Melting Glaciers.
An exhibition of old and new photographs at the Swiss Alpine Museum in Bern documents the gradual disappearance of Switzerland’s glaciers.
The photo shows the Rhone glacier with the Hotel Belvédère in the foreground and the Furka pass, Canton Valais circa 1906 and 2003. (Pictures: Gesellschaft für ökologische [...]

Canadians Concerned About Climate Change: poll

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

The Canadian radio station is telling us Canadians Concerned About Climate Change: poll.
Global warming is now second only to air quality on the scale of Canadians’ worries.
An environmental poll by McAllister Opinion Research found global warming was cited with the second-greatest frequency when people were asked to name the most important environmental issue in July.
We [...]

Lowered Global Warming Forecasts? Not So Fast

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

There’s a post in today’s Scientific American blog reinforcing something I said the other day, Lowered Global Warming Forecasts? Not So Fast.
When science news reporters take their cues from other news reporters rather than from the scientific literature itself, problems often result. Those problems are only compounded by the brevity of most wire reports.
The author [...]

Deep ice tells long climate story

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

The BBC is reporting Deep ice tells long climate story.
Carbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at any time in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of Antarctica confirms.
The in-depth analysis of air bubbles trapped in a 3.2km-long core of frozen snow shows current greenhouse gas concentrations are unprecedented.
Not [...]

10 years to make a difference.

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

The UK’s The Guardian has a story Energy review ignores climate change ‘tipping point’.
The UK must embark on a strategy to reduce energy use by insulating homes better and encouraging more micro-generation schemes, such as solar panels or biomass, Peter Smith, a professor of sustainable energy at the University of Nottingham, told the British Association [...]

Warning: act now on climate

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Today The Australian is saying Warning: act now on climate.
AUSTRALIA needs to adapt now to a warmer, drier climate for the rest of the century while working to cut greenhouse emissions, the nation’s major fossil fuel industries have warned.
Australian Industry Greenhouse Network chief executive John Daley said more confident scientific projections of climate change reinforced [...]

Bobbing for evidence

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

When a newspaper needs to trot out a counter-point to the overwhelming amount of peer-reviewed scientific data that supports the case that human activity is causing global warming, they often turn to a man called Bob Carter. Bob has a well documented history of climate change denial and as such has carved himself out quite [...]

Cameron seeks binding CO2 targets

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

The UK’s Independent has a story Cameron seeks binding CO2 targets.
David Cameron ratcheted up his claim to the “green vote” as he shared a platform with the environmental group Friends of the Earth to demand that the Government impose legally binding targets to slash Britain’s carbon emissions.
The Conservative leader called for a Climate Change Bill [...]