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Is global warming all over?
The recent fall in global temperatures has led to increasing speculation that global warming is a thing of the past. Despite this fall, a look at global average temperatures reveals a different picture. It shows large variability in our climate year-on-year – warmer some years, cooler in others - but what is very clear is an underlying rise over the longer term, almost certainly caused by ...
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Giant teach-in to focus the nation on global warming
Global warming is being explored at more than 1,500 universities, colleges and high schools across the country this week in what organizers are calling the largest teach-in in American history. The problems posed by Earth's warming climate and the best possible solutions are the subject of classes, seminars, panels, debates, teleconferences, workshops, roundtable discussions, expos, concerts and ...
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Climate Change at The Movies
Research published in the International Journal of Sustainable Development suggests that purportedly entertaining films that feature global warming and climate change can affect public understanding. But films are often bound up in problematic and limiting identity politics, which commonly reiterate racial, gender and sexual stereotypes positioning as they do white men as being the decision ...
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Polls: American Public Believes Global Warming Exists
SAN FRANCISCO, California (ENS) - A majority of Americans agree with most scientists that the Earth is getting warmer, but they are divided over the seriousness of the problem, according to surveys conducted by Jon Krosnick, professor of communication and of political science at Stanford University. Their uncertainty is based on a belief - shared by two-thirds of the population - that ...
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UN panel: Global warming human-caused, dangerous
A new international draft report says global warming is here, human-caused and can already be considered dangerous. The report warns that it is increasingly likely that climate change could be irreversible. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday sent governments a draft of its final synthesis report, which combines three earlier, gigantic documents by the Nobel ...
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Gore issues challenge for electricity without global warming within 10 years
In a major effort to move America to a clean energy future, former Vice President Al Gore has called on our nation to produce electricity from sources free of global warming pollution, a move that would put us on a path to a stronger US economy, protect jobs and dramatically reduce dangerous air pollution. Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, is calling on the nation to do this within ten ...
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Grundfos helps combat global warming
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University research could contribute to global warming
Add university research to the long list of human activities contributing to global warming. Hervé Philippe, a Université de Montréal professor of biochemistry, is a committed environmentalist who found that his own research produces 44 tonnes of CO2 per year. The average American citizen produces 20 tonnes. Hervé Philippe“I did my PhD on nucleotide sequencing in the hope of advancing our ...
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EU weighs pros and cons of tougher emissions targets
Study shows cost of responses to global warming is lower today than in 2008, when the EU adopted its climate change ...
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Despite attacks from critics,climate science will prevail
The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledges it has been a rough few months for his organization. But, he argues, no amount of obfuscation and attacks by conspiracy theorists will alter the basic facts — global warming is real and ...
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Climate change: research suggests it is not a swindle
New research has dealt a blow to the skeptics who argue that climate change is all due to cosmic rays rather than to man-made greenhouse gases. The new evidence shows no reliable connection between the cosmic ray intensity and cloud cover. Lauded and criticised for offering a possible way out of the dangers of man made climate change, UK TV Channel 4's programme 'The Great Global Warming ...
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More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows
A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts: Q. Is global warming to blame? A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there will be more or fewer twisters as global warming increases. Tornadoes arise from very local conditions, and so they're not as influenced by climate change as much ...
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Bush final address too little, too late for climate change
In his final State of the Union address, President Bush missed his last opportunity to confront America's global warming challenge and commit to enacting binding climate legislation by the end of his term. The president called upon American researchers and entrepreneurs 'to pioneer a new generation of clean energy technology,' and asked the nation to reduce its addiction to oil as a matter of ...
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Personal experience with global warming drives mitigation behaviour
A number of studies have shown that the public misunderstand global warming. Taking a fresh approach, this study investigated the willingness of the public to take part in activities that mitigate climate change. An international survey of 24 countries revealed that this is strongly related to personal experiences with global warming. The authors say linking actions to benefits could encourage ...
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Carbon markets not likely to keep global warming in check
IETA annual carbon market survey shows traders’ patience wearing thin with market and regulatory ...
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NOAA Climate Change Claims Reinforced
Temperature and salinity data measured from Argo floats are playing a critical role in disproving misinformation being promoted by climate change skeptics, who had previously claimed that the ocean warming trend had slowed down between 1998 and 2012 (popularized as the "Global Warming Hiatus"). NOAA received some much needed backup from scientists at UC Berkley on January 4th, when they published ...
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World Economic Forum focuses on climate change
Climate change was among key global issues that government, business and civil society leaders discussed at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, which ended on 27 January at Davos, Switzerland. Japan’s Prime Minister unveiled a five-year, US$10 billion fund to support efforts in developing countries to combat global ...
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The Barton Plan: No alternative to real climate and energy solutions
As momentum builds in the Energy and Commerce Committee behind comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation (the American Clean Energy and Security Act), Congressman Joe Barton (R-Texas) has released an alternative plan that would set back progress toward a clean energy future, according to experts at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “This is not the time to crash the party with a ...
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Study Links California Drought to Global Warming
A new study is asserting a link between climate change and both the intensifying California drought and the polar vortex blamed for the recent harsh winter. Usually, researchers make those links years later, but this study does it in real time. Utah State University scientist Simon Wang who wrote the study say he hopes what he found can help researchers predict the next big weird winter. The ...
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Mangroves counter impacts global warming
Coastal belts of mangroves contribute to security by reducing the impacts of severe storms and cyclones, provide food and building materials, and are essential habitats for a large number of animal species, in particular several commercially important fish species. Listen to a radio interview with Wetlands International in French on mangroves, fisheries, coastal defence and aquaculture on La Voix ...
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