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Article:	Exclusive: The methane time bomb	View Article
Published:	9/23/2008 by The Independent	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 6 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Climate & Global Warming

Article Details: Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide. Researchers have seen areas of sea foaming with gas bubbling up through "methane chimneys" rising from the sea floor. They believe that the sub-sea layer of permafrost, which has acted like a "lid" to prevent the gas from escaping, has melted away to allow methane to rise from underground deposits formed before the last ice age.

Article:	Land, Water and Conflict	View Article
Published:	7/7/2008 by Newsweek (Jeffrey Sachs)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 94 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Food & Global Warming

Article Details: The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million people, with most of the increase in impoverished regions already facing environmental stress. Climate change, water scarcity and tighter oil supplies will add to the stresses. The tendency might be to look to the military for solutions. We'll need to keep in mind that engineers and doctors will be the only ones who can truly keep us safe.

Article:	G-8 Climate Scorecard Puts US in Last Place	View Article
Published:	7/3/2008 by Huffington Post (Patrick McGroarty)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 93 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Climate & Global Warming

Article Details: The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found. The G-8 Climate Scorecards 2008, released Thursday ahead of next week's gathering of the Group of Eight, also found that none of the eight countries are making improvements large enough to prevent temperature increases that scientists think would cause catastrophic climate changes.

Article:	Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole	View Article
Published:	6/27/2008 by The Independent -UK (Steve Conner)	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 99 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Climate & Global Warming

Article Details: It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet.

Article:	Carbon Dioxide, Methane Rise Sharply in 2007 - National Ocean and Atmospheric Adminstration	View Article
Published:	4/28/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 165 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Climate & Global Warming

Article Details: Last year global levels of atmospheric CO2, the primary driver of global climate change, increased by 0.6 pct, or 19 billion tons. In addition methane rose by 27 million tons after nearly a decade with little or no increase. The burning of coal, oil, and gas, is the primary source of increasing CO2 emissions. Oceans, vegetation, and soils soak up half of these emissions. The rest stays in the air for centuries.

Article:	Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say - Juliet Eilperin (Washington Post)	View Article
Published:	3/10/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 210 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Global Warming & Fossil Fuels

Article Details: The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades.

Article:	Skeptics on Human Climate Impact Seize on Cold Spell - Andrew Revkin (NYT)	View Article
Published:	3/2/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 211 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Climate & Global Warming

Article Details: The extraordinary winter conditions over the past year: snow in Johannesburg and Baghdad, Arctic sea ice returning with a vengeance, blizzards in China, and a sharp drop in the globe’s average temperature, have stimulated more debate on global warming. However, a host of climate experts say it is mostly good old-fashioned weather, along with a cold kick from the tropical Pacific Ocean, which is in its La Niña phase for a few more months.

Article:	Ice Cold Bunk - Patrick J. Michaels (CATO Institute)	View Article
Published:	8/7/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 232 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Global Warming

Article Details: The author points out the inconsistencies between political rhetoric and the actual statements of the IPCC on global warming. While Senator Bernie Sanders states that "melting Greenland ice would cause a 23-foot rise in sea levels worldwide," the IPCC on the other hand, “projects that the melting of Greenland will cause a rise in sea levels of between half an inch and 4.5 inches by 2100.”

Article:	Findings of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report - B. Ekwurzel (Union of Concerned Scientists)	View Article
Published:	7/9/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 211 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Climate & Global Warming

Article Details: For those that don't want to wade through pages and pages of the IPCC's 4th Assessment Report, this article in the UCCS website summarizes the key points. One of those points is that it is “very likely” that emissions of heat-trapping gases from human activities have caused “most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century.”

Article:	Climate Change and Trace Gases - James Hansen et al	View Article
Published:	5/18/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 234 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Global Warming

Article Details: Palaeoclimate data show that the Earth’s climate is remarkably sensitive to global forcings. Positive feedbacks predominate. This allows the entire planet to be whipsawed between climate states. One feedback, the ‘albedo flip’ property of ice/water, provides a powerful trigger mechanism. A climate forcing that ‘flips’ the albedo of a sufficient portion of an ice sheet can spark a cataclysm.

Article:	Plugging the Ozone Hole Cut Global Warming Too - Catherine Brahic (New Scientist)	View Article
Published:	3/5/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 211 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Global Warming & Ozone Layer

Article Details: Global warming would be much worse if the world had not put a halt to the destruction of the ozone hole above Antarctica, say researchers. The 1987 Montreal protocol, which restricts the use of CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals, will cut warming by five or six times more than the Kyoto protocol.

Article:	Unmasking "An Inconvenient Truth" - William Kininmonth, Australian Climate Research	View Article
Published:	2/1/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 211 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Climate & Global Warming

Article Details: Much of Al Gore’s evidence lacks credibility. The presentation of the science is superficial, erroneous and misleading. CO2 is almost exhausted as an agent for greenhouse global warming. Water vapour is the primary greenhouse gas. The ocean and atmosphere circulations transfer excess heat from the tropics to the polar regions and so regulate surface temperatures over middle and high latitudes. And more...

Article:	A "Manhattan Project" for Climate Change? - Chi-Jen Yang and Michael Oppenheimer	View Article
Published:	1/10/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 234 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Global Warming

Article Details: The authors, Chi-Jen Yang and Michael Oppenheimer, argue that using the symbolism of the Manhattan Project to take on global warming might make sense as a rallying point, but good politics is not equivalent to wise policy. Such a metaphoric alternative to the Kyoto Protocol is likely to deflect policymakers in counterproductive directions. Adopting a Kyoto-style approach is a more effective way to develop climate-friendly technologies.

Article:	Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric CO2 - Arthur B. Robinson (Oregon Inst of Science & Medicine)	View Article
Published:	1/1/2007	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 197 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Climate & Global Warming

Article Details: A review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th and early 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects upon Earth's weather and climate. Increased carbon dioxide has, however, markedly increased plant growth. Predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases in hydrocarbon use and minor greenhouse gases like CO2 do not conform to current expe