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”

 

• The Earth Gets A Reprieve From Global Warming, For Now

  
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  Climatologists are breathing a collective sigh of relief. New data suggests that over the coming decade, the Earth will warm more slowly than previously thought. However, scientists stress that this is not a long-term reprieve – and temperatures are currently rising faster than they have been for the past 11, 000 ...
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• Why Global Warming’s Effects Will Be Worse Than You Were Thinking

  
  Greg Laden's Blog — Authority: 603
  The story of climate change has always been more of worst-case, or at least, worser-case scenarios developing and less about good news showing up out of nowhere and making us unexpectedly happy. A few decades ago, it became clear that the release of fossil Carbon into the atmosphere primarily as CO2 was going to ...
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• Nenana Ice Classic – All time record latest ice-out?

  
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  Every winter since 1917, people in Nenana, a village 55 miles southwest of Fairbanks, have wagered on the exact moment that the ice breaks up on the nearby Tanana River. Down the memory hole to 2008. The Ice Classic has given them a rare, reliable climate history that has documented to the minute the onset of ...
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• The Week: Kepler Telescope’s Troubles, a Maya Pyramid in Ruins and More

  
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  Recent developments in health and science news. This week: A Maya pyramid in Belize ruined by a construction crew, and evidence of scientific consensus on climate change.        
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• Observatory: Oyster Shells Are an Antacid to the Oceans

  
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  Decomposing oyster shells, made of calcium carbonate, act like an antacid pill and help generate alkalinity in the increasingly acidic oceans, a study finds.        
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• Haute 100 Miami Update: Pitbull Performs At Billboard Music Awards

  
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  Pitbull was both a nominee and performer at last night’s 2013 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, and he did not disappoint. The Cuban-American singer and rapper first took the stage in one of his signature suits alongside Christina Aguilera to perform their hit song, “Feel This Moment.” Towards the end of ...
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• 32.4 Million People Were Displaced in 2012 Due to Climate and Weather Events

  
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  Photo by Ritu Raj Konwar via IDMC A new report released last week by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center  (IDMC) shows that a whopping 32.4 million people were forced to flee their homes last year, and 98% of that displacement was due to climate and weather related events. While displacement ...
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• Climate Weather Report

  
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  JustOneMinute: Another Beautiful Sunday Rain again? When does the global warming Al Gore promised us kick in? When hell freezes over.
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• Scientists Optimistic About Temperature Rise Rates

  
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  Lower rates of global warming over the past few years do not indicate slower increase in temperatures in a long-term, according to a recent study in Nature Geoscience. An international team of scientists conducted a detailed study, which indicates that the lower rates are associated with the absorption of  heat by ...
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• Hah — Can’t Stop The Truth

  
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  Look lets face some facts .. . the why of the Tea Party scandal is so the Obama administration could scare off the Republican and Conservative candidates. So you guys with your $5 and %$0 dollar donations are more important than ever. Keep donations under $25, and the IRS won’t have anyway to know. Like we did with ...
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• Ventus: The Computer Game that Uses Crowd-Sourced Info to Map Global CO2 Emissions

  
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  While not everyone can become a full-time climate activist, it is still possible to contribute to the battle against global warming. Researchers from Arizona State University have created an online computer game called Ventus that serves as a repository that maps the world’s CO2 emissions from power plants. Led ...
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• ‘We Would All Like Climate Sensitivity To Be Lower But It Isn’t’ Says Lead Scientist Of New Study

  
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  It would be good news if the climate’s sensitivity to carbon pollution were on the low side. No, that wouldn’t save us from catastrophic global warming — 7°F warming or higher — if we stay anywhere near our current emissions path (as I explain here ). But a low sensitivity would mean that aggressive action ...
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• ‘We Would All Like Climate Sensitivity To Be Lower But It Isn’t’ Says Lead Scientist Of New Study

  
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  It would be good news if the climate’s sensitivity to carbon pollution were on the low side. No, that wouldn’t save us from catastrophic global warming — 7°F warming or higher — if we stay anywhere near our current emissions path (as I explain here ). But a low sensitivity would mean that aggressive action ...
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• Dont let the facts change the meme

  
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  Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming not as likely By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. Since 1998, there has been an unexplained "standstill" in the heating ...
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• Dot Earth Blog: Whos Escaping Climate Change Mire and Muck?

  
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  A radio show tries to find a route around conventional thinking on global warming.        
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• THE ONE AND ONLY WAY

  
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  Group Think as might be expected is the way of corporations, as is propaganda. When these two characteristics combined with money as political influence, the mere semblances of democracy process are cast into disrepute. That seems a summary of what is happening in the United Kingdom and the United States, and now ...
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• Oh, Canada: 5 Reasons Canada’s Prime Minister is Bad News for the Arctic

  
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  The Harper government has wreaked havoc on the Canadian environment, and now theyre pushing their dirty oil-pushing agenda on the Arctic Council.
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• Clean energy in Colorado needs Governor Hickenloopers leadership

  
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  Noah Long, Legal Director, Western Energy Project, Energy & Transportation Program; and Clean Energy Counsel, Land & Wildlife Program, San Francisco   Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s signature on SB 252 to improve and expand the amount of renewable energy that utilities must ...
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• Who’s Escaping Climate Change ‘Mire and Muck’?

  
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  A radio show tries to find a route around conventional thinking on global warming.
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• The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania

  
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  There is a book called “The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania” produced by the Heartland Institute. The Heartland Institute is famous for doing all that work to prove that smoking is not bad for you, and more recently, that climate change is not real or is not important or…
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