global warming

Global Warming is the most contentious environmental issue today and the blogsphere is alive with arguments between those who agree that it's a threat and those who don't.

The Kyoto Accord, or Protocol, to establish a schedule for countries to reduce the greenhouse gases that cause Global Warming, was negotiated in 1992 at The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, but major countries, including the United States, have refused to ratify it. Opponents of the Kyoto Accord worry about the impact it will have on local economies.

Global Warming is believed to be responsible for the climate changes responsible for crop failures, famine, drastic changes in the weather, and the polar ice cap melting. Those who disagree with idea of Global Warming argue that climate change is a natural occurrence and examples can be found through out Earth's history of previous instances.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “global warming”

• US Temperatures: Yup, Still Rising

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Image via Climate Central Even though many Americans dont think its a critical problem , and that a few fact-denying loudmouths keep trying their damnedest to dominate climate news, temperatures are still indeed continuing their alarming warming trend. Climate change is still happening , and its happening right ...
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• How Sweeping Are the ‘Global Warming’ Bills?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 805
  So, now that we’ve opened this can, just how sweeping is the “global warming” bills’ curiously identical Sec. 707? At risk of getting into a peeing match which my time budget may not allow me to finish, I believe that the dispute between Ed Morrissey over at  Hot Air and the folks at the Washington ...
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• More Record Highs and Far Fewer Lows

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Researchers find cold records declining and hot ones on the upswing in a warming United States climate.
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• What Would Failure at Copenhagen Mean for Climate Change? - Scientific American

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  This is the consequence of failure at Copenhagen: A marked shift in scientific effort from solving global warming to adapting to its consequences, a hodge-podge of uncoordinated local efforts to trim emissions - none of which deliver the necessary cuts - and an altered climate. [More]
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• Time to change, no time to waste

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Next month, 192 countries will meet to set targets on carbon emissions. The summit will pit the developed world against the developing world in a last-ditch bid to limit warming to 2CThe world’s first global treaty to combat climate change, the Kyoto Protocol, was agreed in December 1997 after exhausting,…
  10 hours ago

• Were Feeling the Heat

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 737
  The warming climate is making itself felt in the daily weather across the United States, tilting the odds in favor of a daily record high temperature to two-to-one over a record low. In a world without a warming climate, the ...
  10 hours ago

• The Honorable Richard Church, WI Delegate to OUR New Continental Congress

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 427
  The following was submitted to The Liberty Tree Lantern by Mr. Richard Church, Wisconsin Delegate to OUR New Continental Congress that convened for the first time yesterday November 11, 2009: I will try to post an update from the Continental Congress 2009 each evening. The first day’s post is there now. I will ...
  11 hours ago

• 2012 - The Psychology of Living Underground - Community, Social Interaction & Quality of Life

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By Nick Poulios Community Social Interaction After a natural disaster, and while living underground in a survival mode, successful social interaction can be achieved by putting together a plan that recognizes the need to address any issues that may arise during daily activities. In many instances, the perception ...
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• Bacteria in Sewage - Does Chlorination Reduce Bacteria in Wastewater?

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By Richard Runion Disinfection by chlorination: is it a viable technology to reduce the quantity of bacteria in sewage? The chlorination of sewage by the addition of chlorine or chlorine compounds is required to achieve the following purposes:- (a) To disinfect sewage, especially where the effluent is to be ...
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• The Armageddon Bug

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By Paul D Maher In Michael Creighton’s 1969 best selling thriller, "The Andomeda Strain" a satellite crashes back to Earth carrying with it an extraterrestrial pathogen that threatens all human life. For genetic researchers in Canberra Australia no such dramatic entrance was needed to come face to face with a ...
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• 50% Of The Warming Caused By Land Use Changes?

  
  Pirate's Cove — Authority: 571
  So says a press release from the University Of GeorgiaGeorgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation and urbanization on climate change, in ...
  13 hours ago

• Country Stars Come Out Against Mountaintop Removal

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 645
  Nashville is "Music City", the home of country music -- but the heart and soul of this celebrated American musical genre lies a few hundred miles east in the Appalachian Mountains.  Yes indeed, Appalachia is where country music was born.  And more and more country stars are starting to wake up to the destruction ...
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• Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-ino, S.C.) censured by GOP for "undermining Republican leadership and party solidarity".

  
  Serr8d's Cutting Edge — Authority: 536
  A bit of good news on a slow news day...the Charleston County GOP has censured Lindsey Graham.Senator Lindsey Graham didnt just sneak over the line and dart back, hes a serial RINO who supported TARP, the envirowhacko-enabling Cap and Trade; he positioned himself on the wrong side of the illegal immigration debate ...
  14 hours ago

• Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?

  
  2012. The big wobble — Authority: 141
  On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN on the subject of global warming. In this 4-minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty that is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009. A draft ...
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• Predictions of climate change induced natural disasters falling flat

  
  The Invisible Opportunity: Hidden Truths Revealed — Authority: 488
  Manmade climate change is said to present humankind with some of its greatest challenges in the planet’s history, not the least of which is an alarming increase in frequency and intensity of natural disasters. Massive flooding, super-powered hurricanes, endless tornado seasons and more have all been said to be the ...
  15 hours ago

• The Importance of Carbon Dioxide (Co2) for Healthy Plant Growth

  
  The Invisible Opportunity: Hidden Truths Revealed — Authority: 488
  SAMPLE RESULTS FROM CO2 ENRICHMENT STUDIES BIBB LETTUCE By adding CO2 to the atmosphere around the plant, a 40% crop increase was achieved. Whereas previous crops averaged 22 heads per basket, lettuce grown in the increased CO2 atmosphere (550 ppm) averaged 16 heads of better quality per basket. ...
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• Al Gore Admits CO2 Does Not Cause Majority Of Global Warming

  
  The Invisible Opportunity: Hidden Truths Revealed — Authority: 488
  Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, November 4, 2009 In a new development that is potentially devastating to the agenda to introduce a global carbon tax and a cap and trade system, Al Gore admits that the majority of global warming that occurred until 2001 was not primarily caused by CO2. Before we get ...
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• Al Gore Ducks Warming Debate (Updated)

  
  The Invisible Opportunity: Hidden Truths Revealed — Authority: 488
  Otis A. Glazebrook IV In an article in today’s Wall Street Journal, John Fund reports that Al Gore has refused to appear with Czech President Vaclav Klaus: Once again Al Gore has ducked the chance to debate critics of his global warming doomsday predictions. The former vice president loves to lecture ...
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• Goodbye Dotty Prince Charlie

  
  Blue Like You — Authority: 494
  I’ve been trying to ignore the Royal visit under the principle of if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all, but my patience has been sorely tried.Prince Charles, who can’t even keep the present day straight in his own mind can somehow hone in on the exact month of impending environmental ...
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• Greenpeace Sends President Obama an Urgent Call to Action from Heart of South East Asia’s Rainforests

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 534
  Press release from Greenpeace. “Indonesia is climate change’s ‘ground zero’” Jakarta, 12 November 2009 - As Barack Obama arrives in Asia for his first visit to the region as President and while the United States continues to block progress ahead of the critical UN climate negotiations at Copenhagen next ...
  15 hours ago

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