Archive for the 'Global Warming' Category
Changing Arctic Affecting Air, Ocean, And Everything In Between
Posted on November 7, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
Despite the fact that summer 2009 had more sea ice than in 2007 or 2008, scientists are seeing drastic changes in the region from just five years ago and at rates faster than anticipated. The findings were presented October 22 in the annual update of the Arctic Report Card, a collaborative effort of 71 national [...]
Global Warming Cycles Threaten Endangered Primate Species
Posted on October 30, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
Two Penn State University researchers have carried out one of the first-ever analyses of the effects of global warming on endangered primates. This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and Associate Professor of Biology Eric Post examined how El Niño warming affected the abundance of four New World monkeys over decades.
Wiederholt and Post decided [...]
EU Urged to Raise Bar on Climate Financing
Posted on October 28, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
European Union leaders were told they have to find 15 billion euros a year to help developing countries fight global warming if this week’s summit is to be deemed successful.
Leaders from the EU’s 27 member countries are split into three camps going into a summit starting Thursday at which they will try to agree a [...]
Climate Change May Mean Slower Winds
Posted on October 16, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming, Renewable Energy, Wind Engergy | Leave a Comment
The wind power industry requires stiff gusts. Global warming may not deliver.
This summer scientists published the first study that comprehensively explored the effect of climate change on wind speeds in the U.S. The report was not encouraging. Three decades’ worth of data seemed to point to a future where global warminglowers wind speeds enough to handicap [...]
A Tree’s Response To Environmental Changes: What Can We Expect Over The Next 100 Years?
Posted on October 15, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Environmental Problem, Global Warming, environment, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
The many environmental issues facing our society are prevalent in the media lately. Global warming, rainforest devastation, and endangered species have taken center stage. Our ecosystem is composed of a very delicate network of interactions among all species and the non-living environment. Predicting how each component of this complex system will respond to the many [...]
Green Roofs Shown to Offset Warming
Posted on October 10, 2009 - Filed Under Environmental Friendly, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
Filling rooftops with plants and dirt can help pull a modest amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, found a new study.
While green roofs certainly won’t solve the global warming problem, their ability to sop up greenhouse gases — even just a little bit — bolsters the case for planting them on city buildings, [...]
Climate Pact Must Include Forest Scheme: WWF
Posted on September 29, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
A leading environmental group urged delegates at UN climate talks in Bangkok to include plans to reward nations for saving their forests in any deal on global warming.
WWF International released a survey saying that investors showed “significant support” for a carbon market mechanism, which would address the estimated 20 percent of global carbon emissions due [...]
UN Chief Urges Leaders to ‘Get Moving’ on Climate Change
Posted on September 16, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said negotiations have stalled over a climate change deal, and urged world leaders to “get moving,” ahead of a crucial meeting on the issue.
Before a summit of almost 100 heads of government in New York next week to discuss climate change, the UN secretary general told the Guardian that leaders held in their hands “the future [...]
Scientists Expecting Huge Iceberg from Glacier Crack
Posted on May 10, 2009 - Filed Under Climate, Global Warming | 1 Comment
A massive iceberg with enough freshwater in it to fill Sydney Harbour 135 times over is about to break off the Mertz glacier in Antarctica.
The iceberg will be 75 kilometres long and contains 750,000 gigalitres of ice which is apparently quite a lot.
Scientists are not sure if it is a natural event or if global [...]
US Climate Change Denier James Inhofe Joins Al Gore in Fight Against Soot
Posted on May 6, 2009 - Filed Under Air Pollution, Climate, Global Warming, environment | Leave a Comment
In a surprise U-turn, the Republican senator has put forward a bill to review the dangers of black carbon to health and the environment.
He has called global warming a hoax, compared the Environmental Protection Agency with the Gestapo, and over the years dismissed Al Gore as desperate and “full of crap”. So it was startling [...]
