Home Featured Archives Search Subscribe PDA-Friendly News Feeds
News From Thursday, October 27, 2011
10:39:21 PM Discovering Climate Change near Rochester, NY
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

To get and idea of this trend read a series of scientific thought since 1900 on Climate Change from Bill McKibben: The Global Warming Reader, by Bill McKibben “This is a book for all of us: students, activists, Earthlings. Edited by perhaps the most  [more]

8:58:22 PM Climate change a colossal waste of time
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

The handful of people self-described experts who think we should ignore global climate change have, to a person, vested interest in businesses that benefit from the practises that contribute to global climate change. So, again, let's see. ... [more]

7:41:01 PM Inch of rain welcome but won't end Okla. drought
Times Record News - Wichita Falls,TX,USA

Up to an inch of rain had fallen in parts of the state by Thursday, with areas in western and central Oklahoma getting the most precipitation, said Gary McManus, an associate state climatologist with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. ... [more]

6:00:16 PM Environmental group president stresses impact of climate change
Northern Iowan

Will Schwartz, a senior biology major, realized that he's not "as informed on global climate change as (he) thought." "I also thought this (talk) would be more about how Iowa's wildlife is depleting, not about the entire world," Schwartz said. ... [more]

5:38:13 PM Former climate change skeptic finds global warming during independent review
MLive.com - MI,USA

By Saulius Mikalonis "Global warming is real. Perhaps our results will help cool this portion of the climate debate. How much of the warming is due to humans and what will be the likely effects? We made no independent assessment of that. ... [more]

5:38:13 PM For liberals, income inequality is the new global warming
AMERICAN.COM

And, of course, global warming poses an existential threat to civilization and humanity. Make that an “undeniable” threat. You can now add “income inequality” to the list, thanks to New York magazine's Jonathan Chait. In a column headlined “The ... [more]

5:29:44 PM Texas drought continues to shrink, more rain needed
Reuters - NY,USA

Recent rainfall, including showers moving through parts of the Plains this week, helped replenish thirsty soils and barren ponds and reservoirs, though climatologists warned that it will take significant rainfall to overcome this summer's record heat [more]

4:05:57 PM We should be alarmed about global warming
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

In response to Richard Haddad's recent op-ed piece ("Get past alarmism on global warming," Oct. 26), I wish I could understand why he thinks that a growth in world population of 6 billion people in only 207 years when it took all of time to reach 1 . [more]

4:05:57 PM Jon Stewart Rips Media For Ignoring 'Climategate' Debunking, Covering
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post (satire) On Wednesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart picked up on a story that rocked the science world in 2009: the email hacking that exposed hundreds of exchanges between global warming scientists known as Climategate. If you re [more]

3:33:00 PM Weather Talk: Now, the other side of story of climate change, flooding
In-Forum

However, no study yet has actually proven a cause between our recent floods and global climate change. In fact, such a thing will be very hard to prove because of the difficulty in isolating a direct link above the general noise of natural climate .. [more]

1:40:05 PM Snow in the Rockies
WOOD-TV (blog)

Here's Colorado snow climatology. At the height of the storm, 140000 customers were without power in Colorado as the wet snow brought down trees and power lines. The snow will melt quickly as temperatures climb to 60 in Denver on Saturday. ... [more]

1:16:29 PM White roofs are not a global warming silver bullet, study finds
Guardian - UK

Then, they ran two 20-year-long simulations to see how much heat islands contributed to "gross global warming" (warming before cooling factors) – and what impact a lot of white paint might have. Overall, "the urban heat island (UHI) effect may ... [more]

4:38:24 AM How to get the message across on climate change
MIT News - MA,USA

For many scientists working in the field of climate research, one of the most alarming trends has nothing to do with the climate itself: It's the poll numbers showing that even as scientific projections of global climate change get ever more certain, [more]

2:16:24 AM Man-made global warming: Why many of us are skeptical [Part 1]
The Jewish Journal - Los Angeles,CA,USA

By “global warming” I am referring to the claims of Al Gore that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are causing dramatic increases in the Earth's temperatures; increases that will devastate much of the Earth. 1. There are thousands of scientists in .. [more]



Reference all of your social networks from one place with Social.me