John Kerry

Poznan, Poland, UN Climate Summit -and- Southern Ocean Acidification Ahead of Schedule 40 to 70 years

By Bruce Melton PEOceans, The Unexpected

Senator John Kerry said that president-elect Obama would lead world in the negotiations of a successor agreement to Kyoto in the coming year. The BBC News had this to say about Kerry’s comments: The senator said that none of the numbers on the table – the EU’s 20% by 2020, the US return to 1990…

December 11, 2008

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

Poznan, Poland, UN Climate Summit -and- Southern Ocean Acidification Ahead of Schedule 40 to 70 years

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