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Hot history points to drastic global warming
Earth's hot past suggests future Climate Change might be far more pronounced than expected, say scientists. Experts are warning that if Carbon Dioxide emissions continue at their present rate beyond the end of the century, atmospheric conditions will mirror those of 35 million years ago. Temperatures then averaged about 31C, which is 16C higher than pre- industrial levels, they claim. Such a temperature rise would far outstrip current predictions of a 2C to 4C warming by the end of the centur...

Frustration on global warming deepens for supporters of climate change bill
Frustration among lawmakers backing Climate Change Legislation is palpable in the wake of the latest evidence of Global Warming. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Wednesday announced that 2010 was tied for the Hottest year on record, yet Democrats in Congress said the nation is not getting any closer to taking action on greenhouse Gas Emissions. “How many times do we have to be smacked in the face with factual evidence before we address global climate change? Rep...

Climate a factor in Rome’s rise and fall: study
OSLO - Climate Change seems a factor in the rise and fall of the Roman empire, according to a study of ancient tree growth that urges greater awareness of the risks of Global Warming in the 21st century. Good growth by oak and pine trees in Central Europe in the past 2,500 years signalled warm and wet summers and coincided with periods of wealth among farming societies, for instance around the height of the Roman empire or in medieval times. Periods of climate instability overlapped with politic...

EPA exempts biomass from climate rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given Biomass power generation a three-year exemption from new rules that require reporting of greenhouse Gas Emissions. Last May the EPA said it did not have reason to exclude wood and farm waste burning Power Plants from greenhouse gas regulations under the Clean Air Act. The Associated Press reports that EPA’s reversal was triggered by pressure from Congress. More than two-dozen members of Congress had asked the agency late last year to recon...

Science stunner: On our current emissions path, CO2 levels in 2100 will hit levels last seen when the Earth was 29F (16C) hotte
The disinformers claim that projections of dangerous future warming from greenhouse Gas Emissions are based on computer models.  In fact, ClimateProgress readers know that the paleoclimate data is considerably more worrisome than the models (see Hansen: ‘Long-term’ climate sensitivity of 6°C for doubled CO2).  That’s mainly because the vast majority of the models largely ignore key amplifying carbon-cycle feedbacks, such as the Methane emissions from melting tundra (see Ar

El Nino seen triggering next world warmth record
Oslo (Reuters) - Last year tied with 2005 as the warmest on record, according to U.S. agencies, but is likely to be overtaken soon by the next year with a strong El Nino weather event, experts said on Thursday. A gradual build-up of Greenhouse Gases from human activities is heating the planet but natural events such as El Nino, which every few years warms the surface of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean, can have a far bigger immediate impact. "It will take an El Nino year to break the reco...

Global Warming: Dire Prediction for the Year 3000...
Even if humans stop producing excess Carbon Dioxide in 2100, the lingering effects of Global Warming could span the next millennia. The results? By the year 3000, Global Warming would be more than a hot topic - the West Antarctic Ice sheet could collapse, and global Sea Levels would rise by about 13 feet (4 meters), according to a new study. Using a computer model, researchers looked at two scenarios - an end to humans' industrial Carbon Dioxide emissions by 2010 and by 2100 - stretched out...

EPA 3, Texas 0
How many times will the courts have to bench-slap our Governor and Attorney General before they get the message that Texas must comply with the same laws as every other state? It’s three and counting. Texas had asked the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to block a program that awards construction permits to major sources of greenhouse Gas Emissions, such as cement kilns and oil refineries. Every other state has begun the permit program or allowed EPA to award permits...

Sustainability a Vague Fad
Sustain is a word.  It is used in legal court room cases.  Sustainable?  Sustainability?  Are these words?  What do they mean?  If you were to take a poll of Americans you would find nobody knows was sustainable means, if they have even heard of it.  The Environmental Movement is so out of touch with the Average American it is a disgrace.  The Climate Change movement was a fad that is already gone.  I do not see any Shell or BP Clean Energy commercial...

Green journalists lament the lack of overwhelming coverage of global warming in the liberal media
Green Journalists and partisan Bloggers are baffled about the lack of sufficient coverage of the “2010 Hottest year ever” — and utter failure to ram through Climate Legislation in the 111th Congress.  After scratching your head in amazement at the conundrum these Journalists find themselves, something about pots, kettles, and a mirror comes to mind. Guardian UK (warning Bob Ward, palaeopiezometry):  Why have UK Media ignored Climate Change announcements? I’ll gi...

Tale of the Global Warming Tiger
Guest Post by Ira Glickstein. Once upon a time, long ago and far away, three brave warriors decided to do something about the tiger that was terrorizing their village. The first approached the tiger’s head and whacked it with a stick. The tiger ate him! The second struck the tiger’s middle with a knife. It clawed him to death. The last brave young man decided to sneak up from behind. He managed to snip a piece out of the tiger’s tail. Of course, nipping the tiger’s tail d...

What Sarah Palin and Global Warming share
You'd think that outside of a "Drill, baby, Drill!" reference Sarah Palin and anthropogenic Global Warming would be otherwise unrelated topics. But one thing they do have in common is the ability to be interjected into tragedies even as experts admit neither was involved in any way. Stockholm (AP) -- Though you can't make a direct link between Australia's killer floods and Climate Change, they do hold a warning for the future: Scientists predict such Extreme Weather events will increase both i...

Another overhyped global warming claim bites the dust
Now it appears that assertion of a link between Global Warming and penguin deaths is dying  faster than the penguins themselves. In what appears to be a manifestation of the observer effect problem in science (the act of observing changes the outcome) we have this article from the science journal Nature that says the act of tagging pengiuns so they can be tracked by researchers, seems to have a significant side effect on their life expectancy (mortality) and ability to reproduce. The articl...

Australia's floods a glimpse of warmer future
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Though you can't make a direct link between Australia's killer floods and Climate Change, they do hold a warning for the future: Scientists predict such Extreme Weather events will increase both in intensity and frequency as the planet warms. Raging floodwaters have swamped thousands of homes and businesses in Queensland, leaving at least 25 people dead and dozens more missing since late November. Rail lines and highways have been washed away in what is shaping up to become...

Study: Climate change contributed to fall of Roman empire
Some House Democrats blamed their defeat in November’s mid-term Elections partly on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to force a vote on a Climate Change bill. A new study suggests that Climate Change has claimed bigger political Victims in the past. Much bigger. The study published in the journal Science suggests Climate Change contributed to the rise and fall of the Roman empire. “Climate change seems a factor in the rise and fall of the Roman empire, according to a study of ancient tree g...

Australia's floods a glimpse of warmer future
STOCKHOLM -- Though you can't make a direct link between Australia's killer floods and Climate Change, they do hold a warning for the future: Scientists predict such Extreme Weather events will increase both in intensity and frequency as the planet warms. Raging floodwaters have swamped thousands of homes and businesses in Queensland, leaving at least 25 people dead and dozens more missing since late November. Rail lines and highways have been washed away in what is shaping up to become Austral...

News Bites: Did climate change bring down the Roman Empire? Plus, Toyota moves away from rare earths for hybrids, and more
There was a lot of discussion after last November’s mid-term Elections about whether votes for cap-and-trade fueled the defeat of some House lawmakers. A new study suggests that Climate Change has claimed bigger political Victims in the past. Much bigger. “Climate change seems a factor in the rise and fall of the Roman empire, according to a study of ancient tree growth that urges greater awareness of the risks of Global Warming in the 21st century,” Reuters reports. The study notes that

Prof. S. Fred Singer speaks to San Diego Lynceans on climate change
San Diego Lyncean Group hosted Dr. S. Fred Singer, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia and Chairman, NIPCC (Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change) on January 12 at the Fleet Science Center.  Prof. Singer's work on climate change added to science perspectives presented previously to the group. Dr. Singer stuck to the science, as the Lynceans requested.  After all, the Lynceans are scientists, researchers, and engineers int...

Another year, another hottest year on record, another round of denial
Global Warming deniers have established three basic defensive positions. 1.) Global warming isn’t happening. 2.) Global warming is happening, but mankind is not to blame. 3.) Global warming is happening, mankind is to blame, but there’s nothing much that we can or should do about it except adapt. For a long time, Position One — the planet isn’t warming — was the preferred position, but as the years roll by and the data roll in, it has become increasingly awkward t...

Last year wettest on record, say US figures
NEW YORK: US government figures for the global climate show that last year was the wettest on record, matching 2005 as the Hottest year since record-keeping began in 1880. The new figures confirm that 2010 will go down as one of the more remarkable years in the annals of Climatology. It featured prodigious snowstorms that broke seasonal records in the United States and Europe; a record-shattering summer Heat Wave that scorched Russia; strong floods that drove people from their homes in places li...

2010 Temps Tied for Warmest on Record
(Wall Street Journal) - The year 2010 tied 2005 as the Earth's warmest on record, according to an assessment Wednesday by US government scientists. Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the combined global land and ocean annual Surface Temperature for 2010 was 1.12 degrees Fahrenheit (0.62 degrees Celsius) above the 20th-century average. It was the 34th consecutive year that the Global Temperature was above last century's average. Nine of the 10 warmest y...

It's Getting Hot in Here: 2010 Temperatures Hit Record High
Global temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 for the warmest on record, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Wednesday. Last year's average temperature was about 1.34 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the average global Surface Temperature from 1951 to 1980, NASA said. The next warmest years on record were 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007. NASA's findings will likely further stir debate over whether human activity is increasing temperatures and jeopardizing global habitats. Some ...

China sets goals to reduce emissions of pollutants
BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday it would cut emissions this year by rejecting construction projects that pollute too much and developing new technologies that curb Greenhouse Gases. The Ministry of Environmental Protection set a target to cut emissions of major pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, ammonia nitrogen and nitrogen oxide by 1.5 percent in 2011 compared to last year, a report on the ministry’s website said. China is the world’s largest Polluter, with energy demands gr...

China sets goals to reduce emissions of pollutants
BEIJING - China said Friday it would cut emissions this year by rejecting construction projects that pollute too much and developing new technologies that curb Greenhouse Gases. The Ministry of Environmental Protection set a target to cut emissions of major pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, ammonia nitrogen and nitrogen oxide by 1.5 percent in 2011 compared to last year, a report on the ministry's website said. China is the world's largest Polluter, with energy demands growing sharply eve...

Study tracks salmon coping with warming river
Scientists working with sockeye salmon struggling to cope with warming temperatures in British Columbia's Fraser River have identified broad genetic traits that can predict which fish will live or die before spawning a new generation. Oregon State University salmon geneticist Michael Banks, who did not take part in the study, says it represents a breakthrough in tracking how salmon are surviving new stresses from Global Warming. The study combined radio tracking of fish in the ocean and river wi...