Sunday, January 31, 2010
UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation - NewsTrust.net
UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation - NewsTrust.net The United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain tops on a student's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine. Shameful!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Kivalina, Alaska: Eroding Village Appeals Lawsuit's Dismissal, Blames Corporations For Climate Change
Kivalina, Alaska: Eroding Village Appeals Lawsuit's Dismissal, Blames Corporations For Climate Change: "ANCHORAGE, Alaska — One of Alaska's most eroded villages wants to revive a lawsuit that claims greenhouse gasses from oil, power and coal companies are to blame for the climate change endangering the tiny community."
Friday, January 29, 2010
Observations: Environmental ills? It's consumerism, stupid
Observations: Environmental ills? It's consumerism, stupid: "So are the world's environmental ills really a result of the burgeoning number of humans on the planet—predicted to reach at least nine billion people by 2050? Or is it more due to the fact that although the human population has doubled in the past 50 years, we have increased our use of resources fourfold?"
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Youth Advocates for Renewable Futures, Sustainability and Social Change | SocialEarth
Youth Advocates for Renewable Futures, Sustainability and Social Change | SocialEarth: "The Green Guerrillas plan on getting down to the nitty gritty on what it means to be “green” in 2010 with the fourth film in their documentary series, Green Guerrillas Blockumentary v.3 HD in 3G: Ganonyonk | Gye Nyame | Generation. They are looking to chop away at inconsistent environmental policies and contradictions, to focus on personal and family carbon footprints and work to make their immediate communities healthier and greener—a pretty big agenda for a group of teens from upstate New York"
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Methane Causes Vicious Cycle In Global Warming | 89.3 KPCC
Methane Causes Vicious Cycle In Global Warming | 89.3 KPCC: "Carbon dioxide usually gets most of the blame for global warming, but a dramatic increase in methane gas emissions is worrying scientists. Global warming is causing the world's wetlands to produce more methane gas - which in turn is causing more global warming."
Monday, January 25, 2010
The Hindu : Front Page : BASIC bloc to inform U.N. of voluntary mitigation steps
The Hindu : Front Page : BASIC bloc to inform U.N. of voluntary mitigation steps: "NEW DELHI: The group of four major emerging economies — Brazil, South Africa, India and China — on Sunday expressed their intention to communicate information on their voluntary mitigation actions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by January 31."
Friday, January 22, 2010
NASA - NASA Research Finds Last Decade was Warmest on Record, 2009 One of Warmest Years
NASA - NASA Research Finds Last Decade was Warmest on Record, 2009 One of Warmest Years: "WASHINGTON -- A new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA scientists finds the past year was tied for the second warmest since 1880. In the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year on record."
Brendan Demelle | Climate Denial Industry Blowing Hot Air On Himalayan Glaciers
Brendan Demelle | Climate Denial Industry Blowing Hot Air On Himalayan Glaciers: "The climate denial industry is once again trying to make a huge to-do about a tiny error by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The contrarians are questioning a single reference to Himalayan glaciers included in a 2007 IPCC report that does not meet the IPCC’s well-established evidentiary standards."
Thursday, January 21, 2010
“Dooms Day” Global Warming Prediction Based on “Journalistic Assumption”
Now that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has expressed regret over its report on melting and disappearance of Himalayan glaciers, the climate denial band wagon has found another stick to beat global warming experts with. How reliable are the ‘catastrophe’ predictions of IPCC and other global warming scientists?
Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain, a Senior Fellow at the Energy and Resources Institute run by the IPCC Chairman Dr. R. K. Pachauri, now denies that he had ever predicted the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers by 2035. He explains that this prediction, given in the IPCC report, was based on a ‘journalistic assumption’ extrapolated from 20 years of his work, arrived by Fred Pearce, in the article “Flooded out” published in the New Scientist in 1999. The reality may be so. But the question is why he, probably one of the authors of the controversial IPCC report, and others involved remained silent when such dooms day predictions were propagated by IPCC? Ulterior motives?
Coming to ulterior motives, it is evident that scientists, in general, and those from developing countries, in particular, have a tendency to make a ‘mountain out of the mole-hill’ of their research findings in order to secure project funding and higher positions, as well as for getting awards and rewards. How many awards have been garnered by resourceful scientists, from professional bodies, often under their control, or government agencies advised by such bodies? But who cares about their “inventions or findings”? Such aberrations result from the lack of a true scientific spirit and curiosity to know the truth, coupled with greed for power and position, seen in many such pseudo-scientists.
As regards Himalayan glaciers which provide water to nearly 40 % of the world’s population, very little scientific study has been carried out. In a report in the Guardian, Isabel Hilton states that there is a striking lack of useful data and available field work on the thousands of Himalayan glaciers spread over a number of countries and in a very difficult terrain to approach. A lack of crucial skills needed for collection of such data may also be there. However, the people of the Himalayan region are well aware of the consequences of global warming on their glaciers and its consequences on water supply, power supply, and agriculture in the region. Generation of scientific data and action to mitigate global warming based on actual data are very essential to prevent the possible disappearance of the Himalayan glaciers in a not-far distant future.
What is needed is not a denial of global warming but a concerted action to collect relevant data and take appropriate action to mitigate global warming and its consequences.
Reference
1. IPCC expresses regret over glacier melting conclusion, The Hindu, January 21, 2010
2. Vested interests have targeted my research, says Hasnain, The Hindu, January 21, 2010
3. Very little research on Himalayan glaciers, Isabel Hilton, Guardian Newspapers Ltd., 2010, The Hindu, January 21, 2010
4. U N to review claim, Adam Vaughan, Guardian Newspapers Ltd., 2010, The Hindu, January 21, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
UN climate body to review Himalayan glacier forecast - Yahoo! News
UN climate body to review Himalayan glacier forecast - Yahoo! News The head of the UN's top body on climate change said Monday the panel would investigate claims its doomsday prediction for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers might be mistaken.
Global Warming: Is making carbon 'SAFE' the answer?
Global Warming: Is making carbon 'SAFE' the answer?: "Mandating fossil fuel producers to sequester (bury) a steadily increasing fraction of the carbon they extract would be a simple, effective, and fair way of sharing out the pain of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a leading group of climate researchers."
Climate Change: News
Climate Change: News: "The continent of Antarctica has been losing more than 100 cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of ice per year since 2002."
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
What Would Failure to Combat Climate Change Quickly Mean?: Scientific American
What Would Failure to Combat Climate Change Quickly Mean?: Scientific American: "Failure to set and meet strict targets for greenhouse gas emissions cuts over the next 40 years could put long-term goals – such as limiting planetary warming to 2ºC by 2100 – permanently out of reach."
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