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10:47:44 PM Ice age study delivers blow to global-warming skeptics
Christian Science Monitor - USA

The findings contrast with previous studies, which skeptics of human-triggered global warming said showed that CO2 levels weren't an important factor. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer / April 5, 2012 Changed patterns of deep sea circulation resulted in . [more]

10:47:44 PM Global Warming: Earth's Orbit Blamed For Ancient Hot Spells
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

By Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer: About 55 million years ago, an intense heat wave hit the planet. Earth's surface temperature surged by 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius). Then, after a relatively short time, the heat subsided, ... [more]

10:47:44 PM The Utter Desperation of Global Warmists
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - USA

By Alan Caruba In the "glory years" of the global warming hoax, you had Al Gore picking up Oscars and Nobel Prizes (shared with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and government employees like James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute [more]

9:13:46 PM Study: Carbon Dioxide Increase Caused End of Ice Age
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

surrounding the global warming debate for years: Around 10000 years ago, increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere caused the end of the last Ice Age. Scientists have known for decades that an increased level of carbon dioxide gas in the ... [more]

8:10:32 PM Five Iconic Mountains Threatened By Climate Change
Think Progress - Yorba Linda,CA,USA

Climatologists and Glaciologists say Cotopaxi has lost 40% of its ice cover in the last 35 years: Mathias Vuille, a climatologist from New York State University at Albany, says “yearly variations can be best explained by the El Nino/La Nina cycle, .. [more]

8:05:34 PM Weather forecast accuracy versus skill: skill is what matters
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

In simple terms, without getting into mathematics or the actual comparisons used for calculating the scores, skill measures how much better a forecast was compared to a “no-brainer” forecast, such as using persistence or climatology. [more]

6:45:12 PM Climate Contrarian Case Wilts as More Studies Confirm Warming Trends
Insurance Journal - USA

Now the role of CO2 in driving the global climate change seems clearer. Separately, scientists publishing in Nature estimated sea levels were rising by about 4 meters a century at one point around 15000 years ago. Examining the Earth's more recent .. [more]

6:45:12 PM Cancer in the Ransom Note
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Global climate change is quickly siphoning away that slim amount, putting us on track for widespread water shortages. Meanwhile, millions of gallons of water are required for each horizontally fracked well. And fracking is under way or under ... [more]

5:58:15 PM Global Warming Hysteria: Beaucoup Polar Bears!
First Things

Polar bears and their supposed decline are the mascots of global warming hysteria. As a consequence, we hampered our prosperity in the USA by legally restricting energy creation based on the apparently very wrong notion that polar bears are “threaten [more]

5:58:15 PM Satellite shows giant ice loss in Antarctic - Global Warming
North Denver News - Denver,CO,USA

As ESA's Envisat satellite marks ten years in orbit, it continues to observe the rapid retreat of one of Antarctica's ice shelves due to climate warming. One of the satellite's first observations following its launch on 1 March 2002 was of break-up o [more]

5:58:15 PM Environmental group says global warming causing disasters
WLDS-WEAI News

That's according to environmentalists who say global warming is behind the increased level of severe weather. Over the last six years, much of Illinois has been affected by droughts, floods and tornadoes, says Max Muller of the group Environment ... [more]

5:24:57 PM Corn producers lend ear to reasons for planting early
Tri-State Neighbor

A second but more qualified message was delivered by Dennis Todey, SDSU Extension state climatologist. Erwin focused his presentation about crop stress on a rarely emphasized factor: the ill effects of clouds. “Sunlight is the most limiting factor in [more]

2:02:27 PM Carbon dioxide caused global warming at Ice Age's end, pioneering
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

PhysOrg.com Scientists hope amassing knowledge of the causes of natural global climate change will aid understanding of human-caused climate change. "We constructed the first-ever record of global temperature spanning the end of the last ice age base [more]

12:03:16 PM Climatologist: Unseasonably warm spring to linger
WNDU-TV - South Bend,IN,USA

But state climatologist Dev Niyogi also says cold air could bring Indiana a frost or freeze at any time, threatening flowers and trees lured into early bloom by recent 70- and 80-degree readings. who've taken advantage of the warmth and planted their [more]

11:56:53 AM Global warming 55m years ago 'triggered by changes in Earth's orbit'
Daily Mail - UK - UK

Global warming is degrading permafrost in the north polar regions, thawing frozen organic matter, which will decay to release CO2 and methane into the atmosphere. This will only exacerbate future warming in a positive feedback loop. [more]

11:42:03 AM John Young urges vigilance during projected slow hurricane season
NOLA / Associated Press

The 2012 hurricane season is forecast to have 10 named storms, including four hurricanes, two major, according to climatologists at Colorado State University. The average season sees 12 named storms, including six hurricanes, three major. [more]

9:55:57 AM Past global warming caused by thawing permafrost
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Global warming millions of years ago was fuelled by a massive release of carbon from the polar regions as permafrost melted, according to a new study, that suggests man-made climate change could cause similar patterns. Past climate change suggests th [more]

9:55:57 AM Global warming: Polar regions changing faster than expected
Summit County Citizens Voice

By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — Global warming is changing Earth's polar regions faster than expected, according to the US National Research Council. Ice sheets around the poles are showing evidence of serious retreat, which is expected to continue,  [more]

5:55:08 AM On global warming, cherry picking and publishing
Concordiensis

While his presentation was objectionable on several levels (see below), it did raise the level of interest in global warming to a greater degree than I could ever have hoped for. I suppose we all like a heated debate! One of Monckton's main arguments [more]

5:55:08 AM Global warming? Try global 'cooling' instead
Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,NJ,USA

Letter writer Marilyn Chapman fears that we have only five years to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions else “global warming will spiral out of control” (“Global warming threat is real and urgent”, April 3). Perhaps I can help calm Marilyn's fear [more]

5:55:08 AM Did Melting Antarctic Permafrost Drive Ancient Global Warming?
Science Now

A sudden global warming 55 million years ago might have been fueled by carbon dioxide released from permafrost, as happened in Alaskan fires in 2007. Fifty-five million years ago, the world abruptly warmed by a scorching 5 degrees Celsius, ... [more]

4:47:16 AM Global climate change debate continues
Concordiensis

Developing our students' scientific literacy so that they can engage with the research on the causes and consequences of global climate change is a difficult task. Presentations like Monckton's, which distort the scientific process or attack the ... [more]

4:44:21 AM Jakarta's heavy rains called 'transitional'
Jakarta Post - Indonesia

Jakarta can expect rain to continue for the next two months, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has forecast. However, the agency offered some comfort to Jakartans, predicting that residents would be less likely to experience t [more]

3:18:58 AM Increasing carbon dioxide levels ended the last ice age
Christian Science Monitor - USA

In a finding that offers a response to those skeptical about human-caused global warming, researchers from Harvard University, Oregon State University and other institutions reported in the journal Nature that rising temperatures followed increases i [more]

1:36:13 AM Action urged to cope with climate change
Summerland Review

By John Arendt - Summerland Review Okanagan residents will be affected by global climate change, experts at the Climate Action Exchange in Kelowna said. The one-day exchange on March 29 brought together elected officials, business and community leade [more]

1:09:08 AM NOCO5 – News, Weather, and Sports for Northern ColoradoCSU
Northern Colorado 5

Northern Colorado 5 Entertainment News from AP Entertainment News from AP FORT COLLINS - Despite the cooler weather coming in, Colorado State University climatologists have officially confirmed for the US Drought Monitor what many people in Colorado  [more]

12:36:40 AM What affects monsoon onset over Kerala
Frontline - Chennai,India

He has recently lead-authored a paper on the onset vortex which has been published in the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Climatology. Earlier studies by others have shown that the North Indian Ocean warms rapidly from March onwards. [more]

12:24:59 AM Rising CO2 levels linked to global warming during last deglaciation
Science Codex

Many scientists have long suspected that rising levels of carbon dioxide and the global warming that ended the last Ice Age were somehow linked, but establishing a clear cause-and-effect relationship between CO2 and global warming from the geologic . [more]

12:24:59 AM 'The Island President' battles global warming
Mother Nature Network - Atlanta,GA,USA

At an average elevation of a mere 1.5 meters above sea level, it is a nation in danger of being swallowed by the sea that surrounds it due to global warming and the elevated sea levels it causes. One man's efforts to save his country from environment [more]

12:24:59 AM Global, climate - what's the difference
Fiji Times - Fiji

There is always much confusion between the terms Global Warming and Climate Change (CC). Many a times, people young and old, find it difficult to define these terms and use it interchangeably. But to tackle the devastating impacts of the changing ... [more]



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