Archive for March 5th, 2010
Climate change human link evidence ’stronger’ Reports the UK Met Office
From the News desk at the BBC – A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change.
It says the evidence is stronger now than when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carried out its last assessment in 2007.
The analysis, published in the Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 levels, glacial melt, global warming, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, science, sea level rise, Tipping Points, World News
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Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way
This report fron the New York Times follows up on other reports posted this week by the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation.
Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of the greenhouse gas methane that are frozen into the Arctic permafrost, setting off potentially significant increases in global warming.
Now researchers at the University [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenhouse emissions, methane, methane clathrates, natural systems, science, Siberia
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Lawmakers From Coal States Seek to Delay Emission Limits
WASHINGTON from the New Your Times — Coal-country lawmakers moved Thursday to impose a two-year moratorium on potential federal regulation of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering gases.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, said theEnvironmental Protection Agency should refrain from issuing any new rules on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General.
Tags: Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, coal, Coal Fired Power Stations, coal lobby, Coal mining, global warming, Obama administration, United States
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What Do We Know About Climate Change?
Here Peter Sinclaire puts a case for ‘Climate Denial – Crock of the Week’
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Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature.
Tags: Antarctica, arctic, Climate Change, global warming, greenhouse emissions, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, natural systems, science, sea level rise, West Antarctic
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