The Greening Campaign - Lord Stern Speaks. Lord Stern speaks Children starting infant school this year could experience global temperature rise of 5 degrees. Lord Stern, former Cheif Economist of the World Bank, who revolutionised our world politics and started an international governmental green agenda when the Stern Review was published in 2006 . . . . . . . speaks again to YOU here This has never been experienced by humans before We do not know what will happen but it is unlikely to be good.
We can easily alter this and keep money in our pockets, create jobs and give the environment a chance. The most important things we can do is foster political will to reduce our CO2 output: Write to your MP now asking for a new law - see below for details Insultate our property - look at The Green Deal which makes it affordable Behave sensibly - dont waste energy Generate Cleaner Energy That is all it will take to stop this - please realise if we are ready it is easy!
Write to your MP Go to the Blog and have your say - we want to hear from you. Climate Change: The Evidence and Our Options - Perspectives on Ocean Science. Livestock is Responsible for 51% of Green House Gas Emissions. 119 One-Liners to Respond to Climate Science Myths. Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong by William D. Nordhaus.
The threat of climate change is an increasingly important environmental issue for the globe. Because the economic questions involved have received relatively little attention, I have been writing a nontechnical book for people who would like to see how market-based approaches could be used to formulate policy on climate change. When I showed an early draft to colleagues, their response was that I had left out the arguments of skeptics about climate change, and I accordingly addressed this at length. But one of the difficulties I found in examining the views of climate skeptics is that they are scattered widely in blogs, talks, and pamphlets.
Then, I saw an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal of January 27, 2012, by a group of sixteen scientists, entitled “No Need to Panic About Global Warming.” This is useful because it contains many of the standard criticisms in a succinct statement. . • Is the planet in fact warming? • Are human influences an important contributor to warming? What has global warming done since 1998?
No, it hasn't been cooling since 1998. Even if we ignore long term trends and just look at the record-breakers, that wasn't the hottest year ever. Different reports show that, overall, 2005 was hotter than 1998. What's more, globally, the hottest 12-month period ever recorded was from June 2009 to May 2010. Though humans love record-breakers, they don't, on their own, tell us a much about trends -- and it's trends that matter when monitoring Climate Change.
Trends only appear by looking at all the data, globally, and taking into account other variables -- like the effects of the El Nino ocean current or sunspot activity -- not by cherry-picking single points. There's also a tendency for some people just to concentrate on surface air temperatures when there are other, more useful, indicators that can give us a better idea how rapidly the world is warming. Climate change warnings should put the heat on all of us. I TRUST THE scientific process. I think it is humanity’s best way of understanding the natural world, for acquiring new knowledge and integrating or correcting previous knowledge in a logical way. I trust the scientific theory of anthropogenic climate change. Just like the theory of evolution or the theory of gravity, the scientific theory of climate change has a robust and convincing body of scientific evidence behind it. Dating back nearly two hundred years and drawing from multiple lines of scientific research, scientists have been monitoring our planet’s climate and informing us of the rapid changes that are occurring, in large part, because of human activities.
The scientific conclusions supporting climate change have been thoroughly examined, tested, and supported by so many independent observations and results that the likelihood of them being found wrong is now inconceivable. Climate change denial Unfortunately a small minority of readers will not agree with this synopsis. This year. Rob Dunbar: The threat of ocean acidification. Infographic: The politics of climate change - Interactive. Sea Levels Rising 60% Faster Than Expected. US Fish and Wildlife Service/CC BY 2.0 New research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows that global sea level rise is happening 60% faster than IPCC projections, even though temperatures are rising much as expected.
Potsdam's Stefan Rahmstorf: It contrast to the physics of global warming itself, sea level rise is much more complex. To improve future projections it is very important to keep track of how well past projections match observational data. The new findings highlight that the IPCC is far from being alarmist, and in fact in some cases rather underestimates possible risks. So how fast are sea levels actually rising? This latest research, based off satellite data so as to get more accurate readings and greater global coverage, shows that sea levels are rising on average 3.2mm each year—and not because of any temporary event like ice discharges from the ice sheets of Greenland or Antarctica, or because of internal variability in the climate system. Climate/Weather Infographic | Connect the Dots. [sociable]Check out the infographic below — it’s big, so you might need to give it a minute or two to load!
You can also download it as a JPG or PDF. Global Warming Effects Map - Effects of Global Warming. Letters to a heretic: An email conversation with climate change sceptic Professor Freeman Dyson - Climate Change, Environment. From: Steve Connor To: Freeman Dyson You are one of the most famous living scientists, credited as a visionary who has reshaped scientific thinking. Some have called you the "heir to Einstein", yet you are also a "climate sceptic" who questions the consensus on global warming and its link with carbon dioxide emissions. Could we start by finding where we agree? Would you also accept that CO2 levels have been increasing as a result of burning fossil fuels and that global temperatures have been rising for the past 50 years at least, and possibly for longer (4)? From: Freeman Dyson To: Steve Connor First of all, please cut out the mention of Einstein. Answers to your questions are: yes (1), yes (2), yes (3), maybe (4), no (5), no (6), no (7).
There are six good reasons for saying no to the last three assertions. That will do for the first set of questions. No thank-you! You ask me where the extra trapped heat has gone, but I do not agree with the models that say the extra trapped heat exists. Climatechange.ie. Exclusive: Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science - Climate Change - Environment. A secretive funding organisation in the United States that guarantees anonymity for its billionaire donors has emerged as a major operator in the climate "counter movement" to undermine the science of global warming, The Independent has learnt. The Donors Trust, along with its sister group Donors Capital Fund, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is funnelling millions of dollars into the effort to cast doubt on climate change without revealing the identities of its wealthy backers or that they have links to the fossil fuel industry.
However, an audit trail reveals that Donors is being indirectly supported by the American billionaire Charles Koch who, with his brother David, jointly owns a majority stake in Koch Industries, a large oil, gas and chemicals conglomerate based in Kansas. Millions of dollars has been paid to Donors through a third-party organisation, called the Knowledge and Progress Fund, with is operated by the Koch family but does not advertise its Koch connections. ThinkOrSwim (the Climatechange.ie Blog) | Climate Change, Sustainability and Global Warming. Climatechange.ie.