US Cutting Carbon Pollution With Fracking. The United States has made more reductions in greenhouse gas emission than any other nation over the past six years, according to the International Energy Agency. This year, cheap natural gas helped the United States reduce carbon dioxide emissions to an estimated 5.2 billion metric tons, a level not seen since 1992. Gas from the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, wells in the eastern U.S. has flooded the market and slashed the price of natural from $7-$8 down to $3 per unit over the past four years, reported the AP. That made gas cheaper to use than coal. Since natural gas produces less carbon dioxide and other pollutants when it is burned as compared to coal, more natural gas use has resulted in less environmental contamination.
ANALYSIS: Fracking Graves for Natural Gas “There’s a very clear lesson here. However, the move towards an energy economy inflated with cheap gas has environmental costs. ANALYSIS: Groundwater Fouled by Fracking ANALYSIS: Man-Made Earthquakes A Fracking Big Deal? Associated Press On Global Warming: No Fact Checks, Please! Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming. PICKET: Al Gore blames Hurricane Sandy on 'global warming' Watts Up With That? | The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change. Antarctic ice shelves not melting at all, new field data show. High performance access to file storage Twenty-year-old models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been compared with reality for the first time - and found to be wrong, so much so that it now appears that no ice is being lost at all.
"Previous ocean models ... have predicted temperatures and melt rates that are too high, suggesting a significant mass loss in this region that is actually not taking place," says Tore Hattermann of the Norwegian Polar Institute, member of a team which has obtained two years' worth of direct measurements below the massive Fimbul Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica - the first ever to be taken.
According to a statement from the American Geophysical Union, announcing the new research: It turns out that past studies, which were based on computer models without any direct data for comparison or guidance, overestimate the water temperatures and extent of melting beneath the Fimbul Ice Shelf. Please Don’t Print this Blog. …You’ll be a tree killer and global warming enabler or something if you do. While we’re talking about environmental murder, it is with great pleasure that I take on global warming with today’s episode of Stutistics.
In case you missed the debut a few weeks ago, Stutistics is my new series on GBTV that gives you a shareable, digestable, and understandable way to absorb stats that will help defeat your annoying friends in arguments. All in 3 minutes or less. That’s plenty of time to debunk a fantastic fail of a prediction by global warming darling, Dr. The debate about global warming is always stuck on trying to prove whether the future predictions of doom from global warming alarmists are correct or not. Luckily, these same people have been whining about the same thing for so long, we can check their guesses from the past. As we show in Stutistics, his predictions and the actual temperatures don’t really match up. Climate scientist Dr. He’s not just some guy. Christy: Now, he’s no Dr. No. ‘Green is the New Red:’ GBTV Discusses Global Warming and Radical Factions of Environmentalism.
The U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development closed Friday in Rio de Janeiro after having brought 100 world leaders and more than 45,000 people to Brazil to discuss reconciling economic and environmental aspirations. While the global summit itself has already cost tens of millions of dollars, world-wide adoption of far-reaching policy to address global warming may end up costing more. Glenn Beck sat down with several authors and analysts during his broadcast Friday who are skeptical of global warming and the effects of policy aimed at advocating green jobs. Twenty years ago the U.N. held the same summit in Rio that would give birth to a renewed enthusiasm in environmentalism and global warming awareness. The panel on GBTV Friday broke down the views and policy advocated by activists coming out of Rio in 1992, and how their predictions have proven to be inconsistent and extremely expensive.
“It is not a present reality, it’s a hoax” said Beck Friday. 'Gaia' scientist James Lovelock: I was 'alarmist' about climate change. Jacques Demarthon/ AFP/Getty Images British environmental guru James Lovelock, seen on March 17, 2009 in Paris, admits he was "alarmist" about climate change in the past. By Ian Johnston, msnbc.com James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being “alarmist” about climate change and says other environmental commentators, such as Al Gore, were too. Lovelock, 92, is writing a new book in which he will say climate change is still happening, but not as quickly as he once feared. He previously painted some of the direst visions of the effects of climate change. However, the professor admitted in a telephone interview with msnbc.com that he now thinks he had been “extrapolating too far.
" Climate's 'usual tricks'It will also reflect his new opinion that global warming has not occurred as he had expected. “The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. NYT: Most link extreme weather to warming, poll says - US news - The New York Times. Text: We're sorry. The text content of this page is no longer available. Photos: Tornadoes rake Midwest Open in new window Sara Shogren, left, is hugged by Zoey Patrick as friends sort through the rubble of the Patrick's home, April 15, in Marquette, Kan. People begin to pick up the pieces after the town was hit by an apparent tornado April 14, in Thurman, Iowa. Discuss: Most active discussions votes votes votes votes.
James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years - Commentators - Opinion. Whatever the response, the bringers of such bad news rarely become hardened to their task and some dread it. We have relieved judges of the awesome responsibility of passing the death sentence, but at least they had some comfort from its frequent moral justification. Physicians and the police have no escape from their duty. This article is the most difficult I have written and for the same reasons. My Gaia theory sees the Earth behaving as if it were alive, and clearly anything alive can enjoy good health, or suffer disease. Gaia has made me a planetary physician and I take my profession seriously, and now I, too, have to bring bad news. The climate centres around the world, which are the equivalent of the pathology lab of a hospital, have reported the Earth's physical condition, and the climate specialists see it as seriously ill, and soon to pass into a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years.
So what should we do? James Lovelock, Father of Gaia Theory, Endorses Natural Gas Fracking. BREAKING: James Lovelock backs down on climate alarm. MSNBC reports that the lack of temperature rise in the last 12 years has convinced environmentalist James Lovelock ( The Gaia Hypothesis) that the climate alarmism wasn’t warranted. From his Wikipedia entry: Writing in the British newspaper The Independent in January 2006, Lovelock argues that, as a result of global warming, “billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable” by the end of the 21st century.
He has been quoted in The Guardian that 80% of humans will perish by 2100 AD, and this climate change will last 100,000 years. According to James Lovelock, by 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine. Indeed “[t]he people of Southern Europe, as well as South-East Asia, will be fighting their way into countries such as Canada, Australia and Britain”. What he has said to MSNBC is a major climb down. This won’t sit well with many. Like this: James Lovelock - Heroes of the Environment. Jim Lovelock has no university, no research institute, no students. His almost unparalleled influence in environmental science is based instead on a particular way of seeing things. It is a way of seeing things as systems of connections, responses and feedback that applies both to experiments and instruments (of which he is a gifted inventor), and to the world itself. Studying the earth in the 1960s, Lovelock saw a system that was, in terms of atmospheric chemistry, utterly unstable — and yet it had persisted for hundreds of millions of years.
The control needed to combine such power and such stability, he decided, must have something to do with life. At the suggestion of his neighbor, the novelist William Golding, he called the living-system-as-self-regulator Gaia. Lovelock has been my subject, friend and inspiration for 20 years. His Gaian thinking has led Lovelock to be pessimistic about the current carbon/climate crisis, which he expects to be harsher than most people do.