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Delayed for nearly a decade by the Bush Administration, as soon as Obama came into office the EPA went back to work. The Ruling states: “This finding confirms that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations… In both magnitude and probability, climate change is an enormous problem." The press…
It’s from an article on Yahoo. "Ask 15 Republicans the same questions about climate change and you get 20 different answers!" The author, Lisa Lerer says: in March, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told a national conservative radio program that the Earth is “cooling,” not warming. After the EPA CO2 Endangerment Ruling, the article…
A new mega report by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations states the obvious. Persistent drought, insect infestations and disease have increased just as the scientists predicted they would over 20 years ago. These problems have already had enormous impacts on the forests of the world and those impacts are increasing in severity and…
What James Hansen, the most important climate modeler in the world, has said about CO2 concentrations: that we need to reduce our CO2 levels to 350 ppm. How are we going to do that with CO2 reductions? With a CO2 tax? With cap and trade? Taxes, caps and trades, increasing efficiency, using less energy to…
We don’t know more about our climate than we do know. I just read a paper about the Arctic in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that says that basically the albedo feedback and an ice free summer in the Arctic could and eventually will lead to an ice free winter too. The…
Only 10% of Arctic Sea ice is is older than two years old. The maximum coverage of sea ice this winter was the fifth lowest ever recorded (The six lowest winter ice coverage totals have all occurred in the last six years.) First year ice, ice that melts every summer, makes up 70% of Arctic…
Over 97% of climate scientists understand that humankind has been a significant contributor to rising temperatures across the planet yet 42% of Americans believe there is a lot of disagreement between climate scientists. Polls and surveys tell us a lot of things. They all do not tell us the same things, but they often do…
Kyoto Required the U.S. to reduce GHGs by 7% below 1990 levels by 2012. Since the Clinton Administration did not ratify Kyoto, the task has become harder, not easier. Climate is changing faster, the impacts are greater, the warming in the pipeline is greater and future impacts will be greater and last much, much longer…
Part of Dr. Walters research involves winter time excursions to frozen over permafrost melt lakes to measure the trapped methane beneath the ice. She recently returned from her Siberia project and reported that the size of the melt lakes had increased five times in her two years absence. Make sure to see her research videos….
So much going on… A great paper slipped past in February – It has been 14 million years since the Arctic has been ice free in summer. The National Snow and Ice Data Center has declared the arctic sea ice maximum for the winter. It is the 5th lowest on record, and the lowest 6…
From the Guardian, the UKs third largest daily, the Sunday edition of the Guardian is called the Observer and is the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper. (March 30, 2009) Lord Stern’s background can be found here. The following quote references Lord Sterns report in October 2006: "When it came out, people thought I’d over- egged the…
The 2009 United Nations Environment Program Yearbook 2009 confirms some astonishing things that happened in climate science last year. The following is straight from the report: The changing climate is pushing many Earth systems towards critical thresholds that will alter regional and global environmental balances and threaten stability at multiple scales. Alarmingly, we may have…
March 26, 2009 How many times can global warming end? Swanson and Tsonis are reporting what’s happening with global ocean dynamics. Yep, temperature has flattened out since the turn of the century. The top 10 hottest years ever recorded have all occurred since 1997. 2008 was the 9th or tenth hottest year depending on whehter…
These reporter are criminal. They influence people who do not know better. Yep, the last time a global average winter was as cold as this one was in a different century all right, I guess to some people that means coldest in a century. These contrarians Blogs are frustrating, because I know a lot of…
Two degrees are in the bag. Now the EPA acts… We don’t get those two degrees back back even if we stopped emitting all greenhouse gases today. We should have acted when Kyoto said. The scientist new what they were up too, even though it seems that everything they do these days is conservative. Three…
March 23, 2009 Just a little known fact here to make your life a little more accurate. Recent studies have found that the ocean’s pH has changed from 8.16 to 8.05 since the Industrial revolution. This is 100 times faster than normal, but it just doesn’t look like much until one understands the significance of…
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan research has shown. Even with the significant ice coverage this year. Lake Michigan is near normal to a bit above average this year, Superior has more ice than in the last six years. The U.S. December – Feb temp was 0.58 degrees above normal even though…
The West Antarctic ice sheet is the single most remote and inhospitable region on the surface of Earth. Because of its remoteness and hostility, research there is scarce. On our rapidly warming world today, and considering the possible climate threshold we have just crossed, collapse of the WAIS is a very important thing to understand….
A study in Science on the 13th shows a 12% average decline in ocean productivity along the western Antarctic Peninsula in the last 30 years. Temperatures have increased here 4.6 times the global average. In the last few years of the study (beginning about the time the Big Melt began in Greenland – about 2004)…
March 14, 2009 The stern report was the second most important report after the IPCC 3rd Assessment in 2001 and likely the most important political report on climate change ever written. It was commissioned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and was published in the middle of the Bush reign It could not have made…
