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10:51:52 PM Beyond Denial: The Next Frontier in Climate Change
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

A few weeks ago an independent team of scientists funded by a prominent foundation announced to great twitter, "Global warming is real." The news itself wasn't surprising to anyone close to the problem; this is something the rest of the scientific .. [more]

9:11:30 PM The Year in Texas Weather (Yes, it was Awful).
StateImpact Pennsylvania

But Texas did have the hottest June and hottest August, according to state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon. 90: The number of days over 100 degrees in Austin this summer, 27 of them consecutive. Dallas had 71 (40 of them consecutive) and Houston ha [more]

8:59:20 PM Is global warming slowing down? A new study says no.
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

That allows skeptics to say things like, “Hey, global warming has stopped since 1998!” So, in their paper, Foster and Rahmstorf tried to separate the signal from the noise. Using statistical techniques (detailed further by Foster here), they factored [more]

8:19:09 PM Brazilian bill weakens Amazon protection
Nature.com - London,England,UK

The Brazilian Senate passed a bill yesterday that could affect global climate change as well as Brazil's credibility as a nation committed to reducing deforestation. The Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve a new forest code, which eases regulation [more]

7:01:27 PM Frozen Planet: David Attenborough on global warming
Radio Times

Last year, for the first time in my life, I went to the North Pole. Together with a Frozen Planet film team, I flew to a Russian camp, set up on the sea ice 70 miles south of the Pole. After several days of bad weather, we took off again, ... [more]

6:32:57 PM White Christmas unlikely in much of Canada
CTV.ca

Well, your dreams may be dashed, climatologist Dave Phillips says. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS) The chances of a white Christmas increase as you head north in Canada, with Yellowknife, Whitehorse and Iqaluit all but guaranteed to see some . [more]

3:42:01 PM Australia, New Zealand look to link carbon markets by 2015
EcoSeed (blog)

Mr. Combet had previously expressed doubt that the climate change talks in Durban would result in a global climate change agreement and stated that talking to his contemporaries about linking emission trading schemes would be a priority. ... [more]

3:42:01 PM UPS No. 1 Shipper on 'Climate Counts' Scorecard for Third Year in a Row
MarketWatch - USA

Climate Counts, an organization that works to bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change, ranks the world's largest companies based on 21 criteria that focus on measuring and reducing climate impact, ... [more]

3:36:42 PM Taylorsville students set world record with marshmallow fight
ABC 4 - Salt Lake City,USA

... to cover the cost of marshmallows and to donate to the Utah Food Bank and the American Red Cross. This event is just one of the many world record events Eisenhower Junior High has set with the help of former ABC 4 Chief Climatologist Clayton Brou [more]

2:39:03 PM GLOBAL WARMING Just 2 degrees, a prescription for disaster according to
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Sky Valley Chronicle He says the target set by nations in global warming talks about ways to prevent disaster – 2 degrees – will not prevent the devastating effects of global warming and in fact 2 degrees is indeed a prescription for disaster. ... [more]

2:39:03 PM Essential to bridge 'emissions gap'
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

“Bridging the emissions gap” to achieve the 2°C maximum global warming target is scientifically essential and achievable in economic terms – but, politically, climate change negotiators are not moving fast enough. That is the key message of a report  [more]

12:46:23 PM State yearly rainfall record broken at 4 separate locations on same day
NewsNet5.com - Cleveland,OH,USA

All Neiss needed was for the state climatologist to certify the results. Since Neiss' rain gage is part of the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) , certification would have been easy. So much for records. ... [more]

12:11:01 PM Deployment to the future
Industrial Fuels and Power

There are many difficulties involved in deploying renewables effectively to mitigate global climate change. The IEA now estimates that renewables are now the fastest-growing sector of the energy mix, and offer great potential to address issues of ... [more]

11:14:11 AM Warming to lead to global sea-level rise
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO – Ice-age geologic records suggest Earth's climate will warm faster than expected, pushing the global sea level perhaps more than 3 feet higher within this century, a panel of scientists warned Tuesday. ... [more]

11:14:11 AM Global Warming: Meat Production Impact Challenged
ThePoultrySite.com - Sheffield,UK

US - The American Meat Institute (AMI), in conjunction with the American Meat Science Association (AMSA), are taking on the environmental lobby over the global warming effects of livestock production. The challenge comes in the fourth installment of  [more]

9:35:53 AM Energy balance points to man-made climate change
physicsworld.com - Bristol,England,UK

"The energy-balance method provides further independent evidence for the anthropogenic origin of the majority of 20th-century global climate change." This study comes less than two months after the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project announced [more]

8:50:42 AM The Latest Global Warming Articles Featured at Life-Sciences.net
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

The most recently featured articles deal with Global Warming including the impact of North Atlantic evaporation hot spots on southern Alpine precipitation and the effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration on methane emissions from  [more]

6:00:10 AM Spreading the global warming gospel
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

one older man asked — the latest insult after a string of anonymous emails asserting that she and other climatologists were corrupt liars. Most climatologists refuse to answer skeptics, preferring to let the research speak for itself. ... [more]

5:42:55 AM Global Warming Trend Not Slowing Down
PlanetSave.com - Portland,ME,USA

Researchers have combined five separate leading temperature datasets to prove that global warming is not showing any signs of slowing down in the near future. The researchers, statisticians, and climate experts came from Tempo Analytics and the Potsd [more]

5:06:53 AM Recent temperatures in Oklahoma are cold even for December
NewsOK.com - Oklahoma City,OK,USA

Thanks to cloud cover and gusty winds, the morning low temperatures across the rest of the state stayed in the 20s for the most part, said Gary McManus, associate state climatologist with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. “The clouds help trap heat [more]

3:16:40 AM Two-Degree Global Warming Limit Is Called a “Prescription for Disaster”
NASATweetup

By Mark Fischetti | December 6, 2011 | SAN FRANCISCO—A mantra that has driven global negotiations on carbon dioxide emissions for years has been that policy-makers must prevent warming of more than two degrees Celsius to prevent apocalyptic climate . [more]

2:56:59 AM Five International Development Banks Partner On Climate Change
AOL Energy

The World Bank has been trying for some time to tackle the issue of global climate change from the angle of cities. Early this June, World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced the group would be officially partnered with C40 Cities Climate ... [more]

1:21:35 AM 2 Degrees of Warming a Recipe for Disaster, NASA Scientist Says
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA

SAN FRANCISCO — The target set by nations in global warming talks won't prevent the devastating effects of global warming, according to climate scientist James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. ... [more]



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