Tag: catastrophic climate change
Am I an activist for caring about my grandchildren’s future? I guess I am
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – I have long admired James Hansen as a person who cares for the future of all that we share our fragile planet with. The answers to all of the significant challenges we face in the imminent future is in OUR hands.
We need to accept this moral responsibility. The following article [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points.
Tags: activism, activist, activists, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, climate negotiations, CO2 levels, coal, glacial melt, global warming, International negotiations, Obama administration, Oil Industry, Tipping Points, United States
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The Caribou and us.
Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening.
That comment in a recent article along with the following adaptation (from the French) of a story sent to me by a colleague in Quebec Canada made me reflect on why the global community is not focused and active on pushing for immediate reductions in greenhouse [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, Ice free Arctic, methane, permafrost
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Greenland ice sheet faces ‘tipping point in 10 years’
Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level
The entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists told [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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Massive ice island breaks off Greenland
August 7th — A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S.
The 260 square-kilometer (100 square miles) ice island separated from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland early on Thursday, researchers based at the University of Delaware said.
The [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: #BREAKING NEWS, arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, greenland, Ice free Arctic, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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An evil atmosphere is forming around geoengineering
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment – In the series Letters from 2030, we wrote about geoengineering in the piece Man’s folly – The Hail Mary Clouds. A visitor commented this must be fiction – until she researched the issue. This tampering with the planet must not be allowed to take place. As you read through the [...]
Posted: July 24th, 2010 under Action Needed, Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Nature, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, geo-enginineering, global warming, scientists, World News
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The permafrost methane problem.
In 2008 when I wrote ZERO Greenhouse Emissions, I included a chapter ‘Mother Natures Super Salesman’ to attempt to get the point across that unless we decarbonise our activities in the short term Mother Nature would kick in some of her stores of carbon and methane. Many other facts were revealed and I would encourage [...]
Posted: July 14th, 2010 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General, Nature, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, CO2 levels, global warming, Ice free Arctic, natural systems, Tipping Points
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Arctic Climate May Be More Sensitive to Warming Than Thought, Says New Study
A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about significant, irreversible shifts in Arctic ecosystems.
Led by the University of Colorado at Boulder, the international study indicated that while the mean [...]
Posted: July 6th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, Ice free Arctic, Tipping Points
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Sea Ice in the Arctic Not Recovering: Another Critical Minimum Forecast
A critical minimum for Arctic sea ice can again be expected for late summer 2010, according to researchers.
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association (AWI) in Bremerhaven and from KlimaCampus of the University of Hamburg have now published data in this context in the annual issue of [...]
Posted: July 6th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Tipping Points.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, global warming, Ice free Arctic, Tipping Points
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Ocean Changes May Have Dire Impact on People
The first comprehensive synthesis on the effects of climate change on the world’s oceans has found they are now changing at a rate not seen for several million years.
In an article published June 18 in Science magazine, scientists reveal the growing atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are driving irreversible and dramatic changes to the [...]
Posted: June 30th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Nature, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, natural systems, Ocean Acidification, science, species extinction, Tipping Points, World News
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Climate change could make half the world uninhabitable
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment: – Looking forward further into the future Scientist have suggested the upward movement of rising temperatures won’t just stop at the current upper levels suggested by the IPCC but will continue. As suggested by Mother Natures Supersalesman in his closing remarks in the book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – excerpt
“Now just one [...]
Posted: May 24th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, Tipping Points.
Tags: catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, global warming, science, Tipping Points
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