Greenhouse Gas Protocol. National Climate Assessment. Climate Efforts Falling Short, U.N. Panel Says. Photo BERLIN — Delivering the latest stark news about climate change on Sunday, a United Nations panel warned that governments are not doing enough to avert profound risks in coming decades.
But the experts found a silver lining: Not only is there still time to head off the worst, but the political will to do so seems to be rising around the world. In a report unveiled here, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that decades of foot-dragging by political leaders had propelled humanity into a critical situation, with greenhouse emissions rising faster than ever. Though it remains technically possible to keep planetary warming to a tolerable level, only an intensive push over the next 15 years to bring those emissions under control can achieve the goal, the committee found.
Coati-house-carbon-visual_960.png (960×540) Keystone XL oil pipeline – everything you need to know. What is Keystone XL?
The Keystone XL project would expand an existing pipeline from the vast tar sands of Alberta to refineries in the US Midwest, nearly doubling the initial capacity and transporting crude oil deeper into America to refineries on the Gulf coast of Texas. Its proposed route would stretch about 1,660 miles, connecting Hardisty, Alberta to Port Arthur, Texas. It was first proposed in 2008. Tar sands protest group appeals to Obama after 3 members jailed.
President Barack Obama traveled to Michigan's Ingham County on Friday to sign the recently passed farm bill at Michigan State University, less than an hour's drive from the site of a major inland tar sands oil spill.
A group of local environmentalists hopes to use the president’s visit to warn him of the potential dangers of tar sands oil ahead of his final decision on Keystone XL and other proposed pipeline projects. Three members of the group — the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MICATS) — were arrested last July 22 and face up to two years in prison for locking themselves to excavators at a construction site of the Calgary-based company Enbridge near Stockbridge, Mich. The group said the action was aimed at stopping work on Enbridge's Line 6B — the same pipeline that ruptured in 2010 near the Kalamazoo River. 2013 Mayflower oil spill. The 2013 Mayflower oil spill occurred on March 29, 2013, when an ExxonMobil pipeline carrying Canadian Wabasca heavy crude from the Athabasca oil sands ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, about 25 miles northwest of Little Rock.
Approximately 12,000 barrels (1,900 m3) of oil mixed with water had been recovered by March 31. Twenty-two homes were evacuated.[1] The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classified the leak as a major spill.[2] A reported 5,000−7,000 barrels of crude were spilled.[3][4] Exxon's Pegasus pipeline carries 95,000 barrels per day (15,100 m3/d) of crude a distance of 850 miles (1368 km) from Patoka, Illinois to Nederland, Texas. The pipeline is twenty inches in diameter and is buried an average of twenty-four inches below ground.[5] On April 2, 2013, PHMSA, the federal pipeline regulator, issued a corrective action order until repairs have been completed and all safety concerns addressed.[6] What was spilled?
Response[edit] China's oil pipelines riddled with defects. C-38 factsheet.pdf. Mann et al 1999 Northern Hemisphere Temperature Reconstruction. Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations Michael E.
Mann and Raymond S. Bradley Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Malcom K. Hughes Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. HockeyStickHSCW.png (PNG Image, 1159 × 826 pixels) World Issues - Revolution. Our Earth is the only planet with water and life.
Forests and oceans are key players in balancing the atmosphere that helps support life. However, Earth has been experiencing devastating changes, such as global warming, and the cause of this problem is human consumption. Stop talking. Start planting. Skip to main content Why do the trees have to be registered?
We children have pledged the goal to plant one million trees in each country of the world and since 2007, we are taking over the responsibility together. Stop talking start planting. Historical CO2 Records from the Law Dome DE08, DE08-2, and DSS Ice Cores. Graphics Data Investigators D.M. Etheridge, L.P. Steele, R.L. J. V.I. Period of Record Methods. Historical CO2 Records from the Law Dome DE08, DE08-2, and DSS Ice Cores. Untitled. Northern Gateway pipeline president confident they can meet B.C.’s “high standard” Crude Awakening: 37 years of oil spills in Alberta. Alberta's Tar Sands Will Now Be Regulated By Fossil Fuels-Funded Group. By Katie Valentine "Alberta’s Tar Sands Will Now Be Regulated By Fossil Fuels-Funded Group" The Alberta government is handing over the regulatory responsibility for the province’s tar sands industry to a corporation that’s funded entirely by Canada’s oil, coal and gas industry.
Alberta transitions environmental regulation to industry-backed group. Alberta, Canada has begun to shut down one of its energy and environmental regulators, replacing it with a group tasked with many of the same powers but completely funded by the oil, gas and coal industries.
At least 75 environmental officers formerly employed by Alberta's government left this fall, and another 75 or so are expected to leave in the coming months and join the new regulator, according to the Edmonton Journal. The government also began handing over thousands of pages of regulations to the new Alberta Energy Regulator, which is now charged with overseeing the conservation of water and land in Alberta, while also promoting the economic benefits associated with oil, gas and coal production. Oil and gas permits used to be doled out by two regulators, including the Energy Resources Conservation Board. The new organization will get all of its funding from levying fees on oil and gas companies.
Protti isn't the only one drawing skepticism.
Scientists Find 7,300-Mile Mercury Contamination 'Bullseye' Around Canadian Tar Sands. By Emily Atkin "Scientists Find 7,300-Mile Mercury Contamination ‘Bullseye’ Around Canadian Tar Sands" Oilsands development in northern Alberta, Canada.
National Forestry Database (NFD) 793-Canada's-Emissions-Trends-2012_e_01.pdf. Top 10 facts about Alberta's Oil Sands. Scientists Find 7,300-Mile Mercury Contamination 'Bullseye' Around Canadian Tar Sands. 9 Incredibly Important Things That Happened In 2013 That Most People Aren't Talking About. By Judd Legum "9 Incredibly Important Things That Happened In 2013 That Most People Aren’t Talking About" In a media environment increasingly dominated by celebrity, scandal and the political horserace, many of the most important stories receive scant coverage. Here are nine hugely important things that happened in 2013 that are rarely discussed: 1. Human rights abuses in North Korean prisons reached a level not seen since the Nazi atrocities. A new report from the U.N. released in January found that hundreds of thousands of North Koreans are being subjected to historic human right abuses. Climate Change Devastating Ocean Fisherman: 'Sometimes We'll Catch 5,000 Pounds Of Jellyfish'
By Katie Valentine "Climate Change Devastating Ocean Fisherman: ‘Sometimes We’ll Catch 5,000 Pounds Of Jellyfish’" CREDIT: AP/Eric Risberg For many U.S. fisherman, there’s no debate about climate change. It’s here, and already majorly impacting their industries. Berkeley Earth. Some features on berkeleyearth.org require javascript. Please turn on javascript for a better experience. If you need to contact an administrator, please email admin at berkeleyearth dot org Read our new Skeptic's Guide to Climate Change, and learn the facts about Global Warming Regional Climate Change: Northern Hemisphere High Resolution Version | Data Table Mean Rate of Change ( °C / Century ) Regional Climate Variability.
Berkeley Earth. Berkeley Earth. Some features on berkeleyearth.org require javascript. Berkeley Earth. Extracting Plain Text Data from NetCDF Files. Many users cannot work with NetCDF data directly and need to extract data for a small region (perhaps a single grid cell) in plain text (ASCII) format. Management effectiveness of the world's fisheries management. New Study Predicts Year Your City's Climate Will Change. As temperatures rise, cities are getting hotter, faster. Apocalypse Now: Unstoppable man-made climate change will become reality by the end of the decade and could make New York, London and Paris uninhabitable within 45 years says new study. Research from the University of Hawaii claims that man-made global warming is now inevitable The Earth is going to dangerously heat up over the next 50-yearsThe tropics will bear the brunt of the disastrous temperature increases of as much as seven-degrees-centigradeMillions of people will be displaced, millions of species will be threatened with extinctionMajor cities such as New York and London will fight to survive the rise in temperatures the likes of which humans have never experienced before.
By 2047, Coldest Years May Be Warmer Than Hottest in Past, Scientists Say. World temperatures go off the chart by 2047, study says - North. New Study Predicts Year Your City's Climate Will Change. Mora Lab - Press.