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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Original Technorati articles tagged “global warming”

• in Film
  Big Oil and the Greedy Lying Bastards That They Are
  Greedy Lying Bastards exposes big oil-- the filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh chats with Bryan Cain-Jackson about the film
  by makingsense / on Mar 27, 2012
• in Green
  From White to Green - Greenland's Glaciers are History
  New paper suggests Greenland is already well on its way to be glacier-free, and truly green, from warming already 'locked in'
  by wyrdways / on Mar 13, 2012
• in Green
  Manhattan-sized Glaciers Break off at Both Ends of the Globe
  Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, is this a normal cycle or the effects of global warming ?
  by azraiel / on Feb 3, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “global warming”

 

• Man did pretty well during the last Carbon dioxide peak of 400 parts per million

  
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  HOW bad is the  carbon  peak? The BBC : Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have broken through a symbolic mark. Daily measurements of CO2 at a US government agency lab on Hawaii have topped 400 parts per million for the first time. The station, which sits on the Mauna Loa volcano, feeds its numbers ...
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• Now we know where the Glaciers went.

  
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  Must be all that “Global Warming” they keep talking about. Still waiting for spring in Minnesota … Continue reading →
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• Do Hybrid Cars Live Up To The Hype?

  
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  When it comes to getting around on four wheels, there’s no shortage of options. Used or new? Mid-sized or mini? Hybrid or plug-in? While not the headlines grabbers that all-electric cars have been, hybrids are still a relatively new technology. When it comes down to it, most people still don’t really know what ...
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• Charles: ‘Climate change sceptics are turning Earth into dying patient’

  
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  Heir to throne intervenes on issue dividing coalition, making outspoken criticism of attempts to tackle global warming . . . → Read More: Charles: ‘Climate change sceptics are turning Earth into dying patient’ Related Posts: Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics Rick Perry criticises UK ...
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• Russian Scientists say period of global cooling ahead due to changes in the sun

  
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  Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may give way to global cooling. Read more here…
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• Australia’s Climate Change Minister Greg Combet Sweats In Hot Climate, Abusing Everyone But Himself

  
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  By Andrew Bolt ~ Greg Combet (Australian Government Minister For Climate Change And Energy Efficiency) The Climate Change Minister sounds under pressure: Senior cabinet minister Greg Combet has attacked some of his Labor Party colleagues as ‘’whingers’’ in an angry and expletive-laden speech to ...
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• Top 8 Animated Satellite Images Of The Changing Earth (Gallery)

  
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  It is said that , “ A picture is worth a thousand words ,”  . This saying is particularly true for recently launched Google project called   “timelapse” . The time-lapse satellite images of the past 28 years have been used to show how the expansion and development of the human race is ...
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• Planting trees to combat rising temperatures ... and then theres Louisville.

  
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  Heres your takeaway line: Aggressive tree planting and maintenance programs are actually one of the most cost-effective measures a city can take to deal with rising temperatures, which pose the most significant immediate public health threat related to climate change. And heres the rest of the story. There Are ...
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• Atmospheric CO2, 400 PPM

  
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  Atmospheric CO2 hit 400 PPM on Thursday, April 9, 2013, as measured at the Koana Loa observatory. This is why Bill McKibben, of 350.org , calls our planet Eaarth . It’s weather, climate, and ecology are different than the one those of us who are over 30 – or over 12 – were born on. “Greenhouse gas highest ...
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• “Incontrovertible” is it, Rodney?

  
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  I wonder if many politicians, or in this case ex-politicians, are capable of seeing the irony and contradictions in their public statements. Or perhaps porkies are just the stock in trade of politicians so irony doesn’t even come into it. But hows this for irony – Rodney Hide is lecturing scientists about the ...
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• Carbon dioxide passes 400 parts per million for the first time in 3 million years

  
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  China is worst offender now, but over the years the US put a greater amount of CO2 in the atmosphere than China. Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears The average carbon dioxide reading surpassed 400 parts per million at the research facility atop the Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii for the ...
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• Al Gore et al - oil sands ignorami

  
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  E zra further examines Al Gore’s war against Canada’s oilsands and reveals an egregious comparison made by Obama’s anti-oil supporters. More .
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• Arctic Will Be Ice-Free, Warm, And, Green — New Research Shows What The Arctic Was Like The Last Time That CO2 Levels Were This High

  
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  The future of the Arctic is now almost set in stone now — warmer, wetter, ice-free, and greener. The last time that CO2 levels were this high, the Arctic temperatures stabilized at temperatures quite a bit warmer than they are now, according to new research done by an international team of researchers led by the ...
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• If We Love Our Children, Why Are We Dooming Them? by Ed Ciaccio + The Campaign to Mislead the Public on Climate Change

  
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  by Ed Ciaccio Writer, Dandelion Salad May 10, 2013 Environmentalist/Climate Catastrophe activist Bill McKibben’s campaign and web site www.350.org has a very specific, vital mission: “350 means climate safety. To preserve our planet, scientists tell us we must reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from its ...
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• A step in the right direction? Major shift in the UK’s government attitude to climate change

  
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  Story submitted by D.McNeil I’d like to bring some points to the attention of your readers that were raised in an article in the Independent published on 11th May 2013  It would appear to indicate a major shift in the … Continue reading →
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• New Carbon Data May Spell Doom For USA East Coast

  
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  What nobody wants to talk about, for fear of being labeled an "alarmist" or chicken-little-of-the-sea ("The waters rising, the waters rising!") is that where we might be headed, and sooner rather than later, is something so amazingly awful, its just better not to think about it at all. Yep, its going to get to be a ...
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• 400! do I hear 450? Sold — global warming

  
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  Well, were now officially at 400 parts per million of atmospheric carbon dioxide, a level not seen since before the genus Homo evolved from the Australopithecines. At that time, global average temperatures were 3 or 4C higher than todays and 8C warmer at the poles. Reef corals suffered a major extinction while ...
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• Fearmongering and the 400ppm CO2 level

  
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  Relax CO2 has been much higher in Earths History By Albert N. Milliron The headlines are comparative to Y2K and other end of the world predictions.  If the right-wing were pushing an issue with such data, the left would be pointing out that in earths history, carbon dioxide has surpassed 1000ppm. I guess those ...
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• Via Dolorosa

  
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  Corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows.by George MonbiotThe records go back 800,000 years: that’s the age of the oldest fossil air bubbles extracted from Dome C, an ice-bound summit in the high Antarctic. And throughout that time there has been nothing like this. At no point in the ...
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• 400 ppm

  
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  I wont be around when it hits 1,000 come the end of the century - wonder how many Republicans will be around then living in their gated hill top communities watching the peasantry float by in the valleys below and, of course, blaming them for their woes...
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