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11:44:13 PM Environmentalists Caused Recent Global Warming Trends And Need To Do It
Glob smacked

Discover Magazine (blog) by The Intersection This is a guest post by Jamie L. Vernon, Ph.D., a research scientist and policy wonk, who encourages the scientific community to get engaged in the policy-making process While many of us were howling about [more]

11:44:13 PM Making Environmental Issues Easier To Understand
The Business Insider - New York,NY,USA

In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore famously outlined evidence of global warming and the impact it was going to have on us unless we stopped it. It has been 5 years since the movie debuted, and it has spawned hundreds of thousands of blogs, tweets, ... [more]

11:41:51 PM Stevens Pass has latest "melt out" date of last 30 years
KOMO News - Seattle,WA,USA

Our chilly spring and early summer have added up to the latest snow melt date at Stevens Pass in the past 30 years, according to State Climatologist Mark Albright. Defined as the last day with 2" of more snow water equivalent on the ground, ... [more]

8:32:45 PM An Era of Tornadoes: How Global Warming Causes Wild Winds
Atlantic Online - USA

Since the 1950s, the world's oceans have accumulated close to 95 percent of all the additional heat related to global warming. Because warm ocean surfaces evaporate faster than cool ones and the warmed atmosphere holds more water vapor, the warming a [more]

8:32:45 PM Climate Change Hoaxers Add to the Official 'Stupid Things Used to Fear
Big Government (blog)

Big Government by Jeff Dunetz Once again, its time to add to the official “Stupid Things Used To Fear Monger About Global Warming” list. Recently, global warming moonbats have blamed each of the following “calamities” on global warming, climate chang [more]

8:32:45 PM Gray whales survived global warming, cooling by changing diets
DigitalJournal.com - Canada

Scientists now believe California gray whales survived global warming and cooling cycles over millions of years, because they are not picky eaters, or stubborn migrators. Flexibility may allow the species to win a new round of climate changes, ... [more]

7:58:49 PM Let's change our ways before it's too late
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA

While the United Nations' prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a dire warning that we had maybe two or three years to turn things around by making dramatic changes, many climatologists — not scientists who study the behavior o [more]

7:36:37 PM Report Shows Climate Change Impacts To Rogers City Deep Water Port
Interlochen Public Radio

By Peter Payette A new report names Rogers City as a hot spot for the impacts of global climate change. The report from the Union of Concerned Scientists says lower lake levels could harm shipping in the city's deep water port. ... [more]

7:36:37 PM Seattle Times Bombs on Climate Change
The Daily Score - San Mateo,CA,USA

Here's what comes at the very end of the article: There's no simple explanation for the overall changes in Seattle or nationally — or even a consensus as to whether they're a big deal, given the often polarizing debate surrounding global climate ... [more]

5:55:51 PM WW2 bombing raids impacted England's climate
CBS News - USA

Coincidentally, climatologists had another opportunity to study the impact of contrails in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, when most aviation was grounded in the United States. Research published by David J. Travis, an atmospher [more]

5:55:51 PM Central Texas drought roundtable convenes in Austin
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

Meteorologist, climatologists and government leaders gathered in Austin Thursday to discuss implications of the current drought, so far the third worst on record. Officials discussed the possible causes of the unusually dry conditions, as well as wha [more]

5:54:56 PM No Global Warming: Due to China Burning “Extra Coal”!
Energy Tribune - Houston,TX,USA

According to the study's lead author Robert Kaufmann the “lack of global warming” may well be due ... to the Chinese burning “extra coal”. So there it is. Hot off the presses is the suggestion that not only is man's burning of coal a chief cause of . [more]

4:04:39 PM Is China's coal pollution helping slow down global warming?
WJLA - Washington,DC,USA

A few years back, I wrote a series on the science of climate change and, yes, the third rail some meteorologists refer to as “global warming.” Well, a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences really got the ... [more]

11:44:41 AM Drought will have lasting impact on cattle industry
CattleNetwork.com - Stanley,KS,USA

And climatologists see a continuation of the trend for the next two weeks. The drought has also expanded northward, encompassing nearly all of Oklahoma and much of Kansas. Hooker, Okla., a small town in the Panhandle, has gone 71 days with less than  [more]

11:40:38 AM Global Warming Tales and Tails
American Spectator

In 2009, hardly ancient history, Peter Ward published a peer-reviewed paper entitled "Sulfur dioxide initiates global climate change in four ways." In short, Ward argues that primarily by changing the way gases react with each other in the atmosphere [more]

11:36:52 AM Florida adapting to changing temperatures
Brandon News and Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA

That's because the same forces pushing up long-term temperatures also make it harder to forecast the weather from year to year, said David Zierden, the state climatologist. "It's not necessarily a one- to two-degree change in average temperature wher [more]

10:48:09 AM Allied bombers changed the weather
The Mirror - UK

The team from the Environment Agency, who have published their research in the Climatology journal, found the raid caused a 0.8C drop in temperature under the flightpath. This may now help scientists understand climate change. Prof MacKenzie said: “B [more]

8:27:32 AM Climate change: UK exceeds emission targets but experts still foresee
International Business Times

International Business Times By Alastair Stevenson | July 8, 2011 8:58 AM GMT While announcing that the UK had exceeded its target to reduce its carbon emissions, Energy Secretary Chris Huhne warned that global warming and its effects could reverse t [more]

6:58:19 AM Dust Storm Tied to Housing Market?
MyFox Phoenix - Phoenix,AZ,USA

... of the valley with no landscaping may have contributed dust to the storm. The huge storm may have kicked up a lot of dust from the yards of those vacant homes. BIG INTERVIEW | ASU climatologist Randy Cerveny joined us live to explain his theory. [more]

5:18:00 AM Sulfur Smoke Slowed Global Warming Slightly
Discovery News

... the Earth long after the sulfur is no longer blocking the sunlight. This isn't the first time industrial booms have masked the greenhouse effect. After World War II, industrial production soared, and sulfur slowed global warming, Kaufmann said. [more]

4:07:42 AM Our Climate Future
ABC Online - Australia

Paleo-climatologist Curt Stager has. He takes the really long view of the future of our climate. What will the world look like in a hundred thousand years? Will humans exist? And what is 'climate whiplash'? Curt needs to study the data; the cooling i [more]

4:07:42 AM Loud, violent, routine: Storms hammer NJ, but not unusual
Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,NJ,USA

“It seems that things are a little locked in right now” with the weather pattern, said David A. Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist at Rutgers University. But thunderstorms in summer often go hand-in-hand with the hot, humid weather. ... [more]

3:21:57 AM Murdoch's American Sins: Less Sensational, But More Dangerous
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

A majority of Republicans now believe that climate change theories endorsed by 90 percent of the world's leading climatologists are a hoax, ... [more]

12:45:35 AM Thunderstorms pound Central Jersey, but it's not unusual, experts say
Scarlet Scuttlebutt - East Brunswick,NJ,USA

And we might get more of the same this summer, according to David A. Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist at Rutgers University. “It wouldn't surprise me,” Robinson said. “It seems that things are a little locked in right now. ... [more]



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