Carbon Footprints

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today’s Sydney Morning Herald is saying Climate change not to blame for Larry’s force
TROPICAL cyclones will become more intense as the planet heats up, although the ferocity of individual storms such as Cyclone Larry cannot be blamed on global warming, say Australian scientists.
The scientific consensus, however, was that global warming was expected to increase cyclone [...]