Most Americans Say Global Warming is Man Made - MPO Research Group. Aug 14th, 2013 | Category: World According to a recent Media and Public Opinion research poll, most Americans believe that global warming is man made.
Will global warming lead to more war? It’s not that simple. Last week, various news outlets were publishing all sorts of dire headlines about climate change and war.
Like so: The occasion? A big new study published in the journal Science, led by Princeton's Solomon Hsiang and Berkeley's Marshall Burke, which examined the link between higher temperatures and violence. After analyzing 60 previous studies on the topic, the paper found "strong causal evidence linking climatic events to human conflict across a range of spatial and temporal scales and across all major regions of the world. " A Republican Case for Climate Action.
Climate scientists must not advocate particular policies. As a climate scientist, I'm under pressure to be a political advocate.
This comes mainly from environmentalists. Dan Cass, wind-farm director and solar advocate, preferred me not to waste my time debating "denialist morons" but to use political advocacy to "prevent climate catastrophe". Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist, urged climate scientists to sound a "more desperate note … Be arrested if necessary.
" A concerned member of the public judged my efforts at public engagement successful only if they showed "evidence of persuasion".
Update on BC’s Effective and Popular Carbon Tax. Posted on 25 July 2013 by Andy Skuce Stewart Elgie and Jessica McClay of the University of Ottawa have a peer-reviewed article in press in a special issue of the journal Canadian Public Policy.
The article is summarized in the report BC’s Carbon Tax shift after five years: Results. An environmental (and economic) success story. The report can be downloaded here and is summarized here. Energy companies are paying a heavy price for shunning renewables. No wonder the big energy companies are spooked by the green dream.
Have you seen their share prices lately? Witness npower last week, which warned that green policies will drive a 20% rise in energy bills by 2020. Npower is owned by the German utility RWE. In 2008, RWE's shares traded at a whopping €100 each. Climate change: some reasons for our failures. Twenty five years ago, scientists with an interest in the climate were moving towards a consensual understanding, that primarily through the burning of fossil fuels human beings were responsible for potentially catastrophic global warming.
At present, at least 97% of climate scientists have reached that conclusion.
Economics, politics and policy. Follow the money. Religious Interpretation. Denialists. Science and Environmental Policy Project. Global warming: Bill Nye teaches “Climate 101” (VIDEO). Izo Responds to Global Warming Activism by Group Funding Donation to The Sierra Club Foundation. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) July 16, 2013 Izo Brands utilizes its group funding platform Groupizo to bring positive attention to issues surrounding global warming with a Protect the Arctic fundraiser for non profit the Sierra Club Foundation.
The Sierra Club Foundation provides financial support to the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations reflecting the Club’s core values: that all people have a right to a safe and healthy environment including clean air, clean water, open space, wild lands, and a healthy and diverse ecosystem. The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots organization and supports programs seeking to decrease dependency on fossil fuels, in addition to researching green alternatives. Global Warming Questions for the Chinese. China is now the world’s number one emitter of carbon dioxide, so other countries are trying to browbeat it to fall into line with the CAGW (catastrophic anthropogenic global warming) theory.
So the the Chinese Academy of Sciences is taking up the global warming debate, which is more than you can say for similar professional organizations in the U.S. and Europe. The Science and Environmental Policy Project reports on what is going on in China; we can only hope that China will not choose to cripple its economy for the sake of purported climate benefits. Anthropogenic contributions to Australia's record summer temperatures of 2013 - Lewis - Geophysical Research Letters.
Media Still Overlooks 90% Of Global Warming, Washington Post Still Won't Fact Check Columnists. By Climate Guest Contributor "Media Still Overlooks 90% Of Global Warming, Washington Post Still Won’t Fact Check Columnists" Decadal global combined surface-air temperature via World Meteorological Organization.
Energy Department: Global warming made Hurricane Sandy worse. EarthTalk / New global warming threat: Mosquito-borne diseases. Dear EarthTalk: Is there a link between the recent spread of mosquito-borne diseases around the world and environmental pollution?
Meg Ross Lantana, Fla. If by pollution you mean greenhouse gas emissions, then definitely yes. Australian heatwaves 'five times more likely due to global warming' Global warming has increased five-fold the probabilities that Australians will bake in record hot summers, according to new research from the University of Melbourne. And human activities - including greenhouse gas releases from fossil fuels - must account for at least half of these extreme summer temperatures of the future, the scientists say. Sophie Lewis and David Karoly report in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, that they used climate observations and more than 90 climate model simulations to deliver their verdict, and to highlight the unexpected nature of the events of the first months of 2013, the hottest in the country's observational record.
Australians are used to summer heat, drought and periodic bush fires as part of the continent's natural cycle, and these are often linked to a Pacific Ocean temperature phenomenon known as El Niño, dubbed "the Child" in Peru because it tends to occur around Christmas time. Climate change: More nonsense by The Mail on Sunday. Gee, has it been a week since The Mail on Sunday posted a climate change denial article by David Rose? Time flies. Last week, Rose wrote an error-laden article about global warming, which was immediately debunked by many people.