Archive for the ‘Global Warming’ Category

• The North Pole could be ice-free in just five years

  Last week the ice at the North Pole melted at an “unprecedented rate.” And that has some scientists worrying that the Arctic could become ice-free during the summers as early as 2013, the Guardian reports. The storms over the Alaska’s …

• 100 Months Left Until Climate Change Runs Out of Control

  In 100 months it will be too late to stop climate change. Then we have passed the “tipping point” where climate change will run out of control and leave us powerless to intervene. The message comes from the new campaign …

• Orwellian Australian “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme” will DOUBLE Greenhouse Gas Pollution by 2050

  Only a few weeks after the release of the Draft Report of the seriously flawed, pro-coal, Australian Garnaut Climate Change Review (4 July, 2008; see my critique on Green Blog, “Pro-Coal, Australian Garnaut Climate Review Damns Coral, Australia & World”), …

• What Top World Scientists Say About the Climate Emergency

  We are familiar with the notion of getting an expert second opinion when an expert medical specialist has diagnosed life threatening circumstances. However a second opinion that is a bit more optimistic simply decreases the perceived odds of death somewhat …

• Leading Scientist John Holdren Says the Term Global Warming is “Misleading”

  In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now leading scientist John Holdren says the term “global warming” is wrong. He rather prefer to use the term “global disruption.” “I don’t like the term “global warming,” because it’s misleading. It …

• Pro-Coal, Australian Garnaut Climate Review Damns Coral, Australia & World

  Ross Garnaut in Adelaide during the launch of the latest draft of the Garnaut Review. Photo by Carbon Planet. Prominent Australian academic Economist Professor Ross Garnaut was commissioned by the right-wing, pro-Coal, State and Federal Governments of Australia to review …

• The ice melts so fast that scientists had to abandon their polar station

  A group of Russian scientists had to abandon their polar station near Svalbard when the ice their station was standing on started to melt away, three months too early. The polar station was placed on a huge flake of ice …

• “5,000 Aussies make CLIMATE EMERGENCY!” Human Sign in Melbourne, Australia

  Panorama picture of the Climate rally, July 5 2008. Photo: Peter Campbell. On July 5, 2008 about 5,000 citizens of Melbourne gathered in the City Square to protest man-made Climate Change and then marched through the City Centre to make …

• EU told to prepare itself for millions of climate change refugees

  Refugee children waiting with their family for a food distribution. Photo by Nicolas Rost. Two senior foreign policy officials from the European Union says in a new report that the EU should “brace itself” for a new and much larger …

• Dr James Hansen says we should prosecute climate change liars

  Dr James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and one of the worlds most prominent climate scientist, says in an article on the WorldWatch Institute website that climate change liars “should be tried …