Science Daily, May 15, 2013 — A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles on the topic of global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that recent warming is human-caused. The study is the most comprehensive yet and identified 4000 summaries, otherwise known as abstracts, from papers published …
New research from Europe predicts a 4ºC global temperature rise is well within the range of possibility this century, and that even if the worst predictions of climate change disasters do not materialize the cost of this global change will mean “human disaster” for the planet. As The Guardian‘s Fiona Harvey reports, …
Citing a new study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent, The Guardian, reported [1]: Global warming would lead to catastrophe across large swaths of the Earth, causing droughts, storms, floods and heatwaves, and drastic effects on agricultural productivity leading to secondary effects such as mass migration. …
A three-year assessment from a team of international scientists will detail how the phenomenon dubbed “climate change’s evil twin” is shaping up to be a global problem. The rapid acidification of the Arctic Ocean will have widespread impacts to be felt for “tens of thousands of years” even if we stop …
If the planet’s atmosphere hits a milestone of 400 ppm of green house gases and hardly anyone notices, does it still count? Uhhh…..yes says David Turnbull, Campaigns Director for International Oil Change. We’ll hear why this parts-per-million threshold better be a pivot point or else. And a wake-up call in the …
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If ever there was a time for activist networks and the body politic to cooperate and unite forces, it’s now. Global warming, driven in large part by the reckless business-as-usual practices of multi-billion-dollar fossil fuel and agribusiness corporations, has brought us to the brink of a global calamity. Greenhouse gas (GHG) …
As you may know, we’ve restarted our climate crisis writing here at La Maison, beginning with this piece, a global warming picture “from 10,000 feet”: The climate crisis in three easy charts There we took the long view and noticed that the big temperature spike in the early days of the Cambrian, some …
The author of “Overheated; The Human Cost of Climate Change” will join us. UC Berkeley Law professor Andrew Guzman will tell us why global warming is so much more than an environmental problem! Author and longtime eco- activist Jayni Chase will check in from the U.N. Conference on Happiness and share …
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Guest Luis de Amechazurra speaks about: Poverty and Charity in the Philippines; Potential for military conflict between China and her neighbors; Global Warming. Related articles A Woman’s Perspective – Bartenieff Fundamentals – 04/06/13 Mindful Living – 04/06/11 All Together Now – Tony Blair Faith Foundation – 04/11/13 Podcast: Play in new …
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This past summer, the media broadcast cries of alarm from farmers suffering through the worst drought in decades. Large swaths of genetically engineered and chemical-intensive crops literally burned in the fields. And what didn’t burn, was ravaged by disease and superweeds. What the mass media and most non-organic farmers and …
We are all seeing less of the Sun. If you were born before the 90s, you may remember a deep blue sky above the Earth, however those pristine clear skies are now only a memory. The amount of solar energy reaching the Earth’s surface has been gradually falling partly due …
We are facing a $6 trillion carbon “bubble” over the next decade unless regulators, governments and investors re-evaluate our carbon-dependent energy business model and, finally, take seriously the great climate threat, says a new report published Friday. According to the report—”Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted Capital and Stranded Assets (pdf)— researched and …
A global goal for limiting climate crisis is slipping out of reach and governments may have to find ways to artificially suck GHG from the air if they fail to make deep cuts in rising emissions by 2030, a draft UN report said. [1] A 25-page draft summary, by …
The rate of global warming is speeding up, say scientists, despite the apparent stagnation in the rise of global surface air temperatures that may have prevented people from recognizing “the danger of the climate problem we face.” A new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters says that in the past …
OCTOBER 2012 was the 323rd consecutive month for which the global temperature was above average. The odds of this happening randomly are literally astronomical: one in ten to the hundredth power. For comparison, there are ten to the eightieth power atoms in the known universe. So if all the …