Global Warming Is a Threat? It Just Ain`t So!
... carbon dioxide: 1 percent per year, compounded annually. But this number is dead wrong and has been known to be wrong for years. According to NASA’s climate modeler James Hansen (who started much of the ballyhoo about global warming back in 1988), increases in the last three decades are barely a per ...
... carbon dioxide: 1 percent per year, compounded annually. But this number is dead wrong and has been known to be wrong for years. According to NASA’s climate modeler James Hansen (who started much of the ballyhoo about global warming back in 1988), increases in the last three decades are barely a per ...
Useful Approaches in Dealing with the Public Provide Solid Science
... Complex Systems Research Center University of New Hampshire [email protected] ...
... Complex Systems Research Center University of New Hampshire [email protected] ...
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... To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war. We shall have regional conflicts and use of force, but world conflicts I do not believe will happen any longer. But the environment, that is a creeping danger. I’m more worried about global warming than I am of any maj ...
... To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war. We shall have regional conflicts and use of force, but world conflicts I do not believe will happen any longer. But the environment, that is a creeping danger. I’m more worried about global warming than I am of any maj ...
Climate change and Australia - The Australian Collaboration
... Following the September 2010 federal election, as part of an agreement with Independent and Greens to allow the ALP to form a government, a high level climate change committee was formed and chaired by Prime Minister Gillard. The committee consists of Government Ministers, Australian Greens, indepen ...
... Following the September 2010 federal election, as part of an agreement with Independent and Greens to allow the ALP to form a government, a high level climate change committee was formed and chaired by Prime Minister Gillard. The committee consists of Government Ministers, Australian Greens, indepen ...
Press release - Mission 2020
... Professor John Schellnhuber, Founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU): “Each and every scientific assessment demonstrates that limiting global warming to well below 2°C - as envisaged by the Paris Ag ...
... Professor John Schellnhuber, Founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU): “Each and every scientific assessment demonstrates that limiting global warming to well below 2°C - as envisaged by the Paris Ag ...
cairns_imprinting.
... troublesome or unwanted they may be. We have to incorporate those powers into our thinking at a fundamental level and learn how, forever after, to live as a species that can destroy itself, but, has chosen, through an enduring act of political will, not to. Humankind is now faced with three major th ...
... troublesome or unwanted they may be. We have to incorporate those powers into our thinking at a fundamental level and learn how, forever after, to live as a species that can destroy itself, but, has chosen, through an enduring act of political will, not to. Humankind is now faced with three major th ...
Science, Politics and Action by Dr Sharachchandra Lele
... • We cannot afford to cut back • We have a right to pollute in order to develop • We are anyway doing a lot • We need a lot of financial and tech transfer • Best way to adapt is to develop • We will not make binding commitments but we are willing to make some money out of trading (?!) ...
... • We cannot afford to cut back • We have a right to pollute in order to develop • We are anyway doing a lot • We need a lot of financial and tech transfer • Best way to adapt is to develop • We will not make binding commitments but we are willing to make some money out of trading (?!) ...
cutting-edge climate science and services
... lot of skill in forecasting – and what we do have is probably due to tropical forcing. Whereas, in the tropics, short term predictability is low. Forecasters rarely beat persistence on 1 - 3 day time-scales unless there is a major synoptic event like a tropical cyclone. However, on longer timescales ...
... lot of skill in forecasting – and what we do have is probably due to tropical forcing. Whereas, in the tropics, short term predictability is low. Forecasters rarely beat persistence on 1 - 3 day time-scales unless there is a major synoptic event like a tropical cyclone. However, on longer timescales ...
Professor Neville Nicholls Presentation from the March
... Unprecedented hot temperatures: a few examples • Adelaide (March, 2008): 15 consecutive days above 35C – seven days more than the previous record heatwave duration. • The Melbourne temperature on three successive days at the end of January 2009 exceeded 43C; never previously seen three days in a ro ...
... Unprecedented hot temperatures: a few examples • Adelaide (March, 2008): 15 consecutive days above 35C – seven days more than the previous record heatwave duration. • The Melbourne temperature on three successive days at the end of January 2009 exceeded 43C; never previously seen three days in a ro ...
Climate Change
... World leaders gathered in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 to consider a world treaty restricting emissions of ''greenhouse gases,'' chiefly carbon dioxide (CO2), that are thought to cause ''global warming'' severe increases in Earth's atmospheric and surface temperatures, with disastrous environmenta ...
... World leaders gathered in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 to consider a world treaty restricting emissions of ''greenhouse gases,'' chiefly carbon dioxide (CO2), that are thought to cause ''global warming'' severe increases in Earth's atmospheric and surface temperatures, with disastrous environmenta ...
climate change - Bucketts Radio
... controls our climate • When energy from the Sun enters the Earth's atmosphere, about a third of it is reflected back to space. • Of the remainder, most is absorbed by the Earth’s surface. Some also stays in the atmosphere, absorbed by water vapor and green house gases. • This natural Greenhouse Effe ...
... controls our climate • When energy from the Sun enters the Earth's atmosphere, about a third of it is reflected back to space. • Of the remainder, most is absorbed by the Earth’s surface. Some also stays in the atmosphere, absorbed by water vapor and green house gases. • This natural Greenhouse Effe ...
Climate Change - American Museum of Natural History
... What’s the difference between weather and climate? Weather describes the conditions today, tomorrow, or in the days to come. Climate is the average weather over years or longer. ...
... What’s the difference between weather and climate? Weather describes the conditions today, tomorrow, or in the days to come. Climate is the average weather over years or longer. ...
Understanding Global Warming through - SERC
... if understanding of it allowed us to analyze their messages about global warning to see if they carry truth or fall into the category of enlisting us into supporting their causes? When receiving two conflicting messages on a polarizing issue, how do we know what to believe? One way is to go to the p ...
... if understanding of it allowed us to analyze their messages about global warning to see if they carry truth or fall into the category of enlisting us into supporting their causes? When receiving two conflicting messages on a polarizing issue, how do we know what to believe? One way is to go to the p ...
Using change through time to evaluate global warming.
... if understanding of it allowed us to analyze their messages about global warning to see if they carry truth or fall into the category of enlisting us into supporting their causes? When receiving two conflicting messages on a polarizing issue, how do we know what to believe? One way is to go to the p ...
... if understanding of it allowed us to analyze their messages about global warning to see if they carry truth or fall into the category of enlisting us into supporting their causes? When receiving two conflicting messages on a polarizing issue, how do we know what to believe? One way is to go to the p ...
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... projections or information about suitable crop and livestock alternatives to help farmers increase production efficiency. Governments can encourage agronomic research for the development (by either traditional breeding or biotechnology) of new varieties better able to withstand the effects of global ...
... projections or information about suitable crop and livestock alternatives to help farmers increase production efficiency. Governments can encourage agronomic research for the development (by either traditional breeding or biotechnology) of new varieties better able to withstand the effects of global ...
The Greenhouse Effect
... Global Warming Scientists say the temperature of the earth could rise by 3°C over the next 50 years. This may cause drought in some parts of the world, and floods in others, as ice at the North and South Poles begins to melt and sea level rise. It´s normal for temperatures to sometimes be cooler for ...
... Global Warming Scientists say the temperature of the earth could rise by 3°C over the next 50 years. This may cause drought in some parts of the world, and floods in others, as ice at the North and South Poles begins to melt and sea level rise. It´s normal for temperatures to sometimes be cooler for ...
Antartic penguins moving southward
... southwestern Yukon. As treeline advance, the reflectance of the land surface declines because coniferous trees absorb more sunlight than the tundra. This light energy is then re-emitted to the atmosphere as heat. This sets up a positive feedback, the same process that is associated with the rapidly ...
... southwestern Yukon. As treeline advance, the reflectance of the land surface declines because coniferous trees absorb more sunlight than the tundra. This light energy is then re-emitted to the atmosphere as heat. This sets up a positive feedback, the same process that is associated with the rapidly ...
- Centre for Climate Change Research (CCCR)
... Other modeling efforts within WCRP (Seasonal-to-internannual, Decadal, Regional-CORDEX) could likely follow similar schemes in the future ...
... Other modeling efforts within WCRP (Seasonal-to-internannual, Decadal, Regional-CORDEX) could likely follow similar schemes in the future ...
How will this impact people in the USA?
... ecosystems and on many Earth processes, including climate change, have been underestimated, according to a new report. "We've estimated that deforestation due to burning by humans is contributing about one-fifth of the human-caused greenhouse effect -- and that percentage could become larger," said ...
... ecosystems and on many Earth processes, including climate change, have been underestimated, according to a new report. "We've estimated that deforestation due to burning by humans is contributing about one-fifth of the human-caused greenhouse effect -- and that percentage could become larger," said ...
Climate change and health: information to counter the White House
... Assessment Report is being published in mid-2001,6 has been and remains a crucial source of up-to-date information and well-documented assessments in this international policysetting arena. We epidemiologists must also get on, even more urgently, with the task of elucidating how climate change and o ...
... Assessment Report is being published in mid-2001,6 has been and remains a crucial source of up-to-date information and well-documented assessments in this international policysetting arena. We epidemiologists must also get on, even more urgently, with the task of elucidating how climate change and o ...
Congress Declaration
... It is therefore essential that in the future resource inputs into science and technology are seen primarily as an investment in forest-related socio-economic development and in preserving forests as natural life-support systems for present and future generations. Driven by the desire to provide rele ...
... It is therefore essential that in the future resource inputs into science and technology are seen primarily as an investment in forest-related socio-economic development and in preserving forests as natural life-support systems for present and future generations. Driven by the desire to provide rele ...
Climate-change-worksheet
... The amount of energy reaching the top of Earth’s atmosphere each second on a surface area of one square meter facing the Sun during daytime is about 1,370 Watts, and the amount of energy per square meter per second averaged over the entire planet is one-quarter of this (see Figure 1). About 30% of t ...
... The amount of energy reaching the top of Earth’s atmosphere each second on a surface area of one square meter facing the Sun during daytime is about 1,370 Watts, and the amount of energy per square meter per second averaged over the entire planet is one-quarter of this (see Figure 1). About 30% of t ...
Impact on GDP of climate change / low carbon
... entail a limited loss of GDP of -2,5% on average by 2050 - thus around -0,05% per annum from now on. Intuition: higher energy prices weigh on growth ceteris paribus, at least in the sort/medium run. ...
... entail a limited loss of GDP of -2,5% on average by 2050 - thus around -0,05% per annum from now on. Intuition: higher energy prices weigh on growth ceteris paribus, at least in the sort/medium run. ...
IS GLOBAL WARMING A THREAT?
... oil, nuclear, gas) power plant, would require about 833 square kilometers of wind turbines. That's the area of a mile-wide swath of land extending from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Multiply that by about 30 and you have California's electricity.” - Dr. Howard C. Hayden, ...
... oil, nuclear, gas) power plant, would require about 833 square kilometers of wind turbines. That's the area of a mile-wide swath of land extending from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Multiply that by about 30 and you have California's electricity.” - Dr. Howard C. Hayden, ...
Fred Singer
Siegfried Fred Singer (born September 27, 1924) is an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia. Singer trained as an atmospheric physicist and is known for his work in space research, atmospheric pollution, rocket and satellite technology, his questioning of the link between UV-B and melanoma rates, and that between CFCs and stratospheric ozone loss, his public denial of the health risks of passive smoking, and as an advocate for climate change denial. He is the author or editor of several books including Global Effects of Environmental Pollution (1970), The Ocean in Human Affairs (1989), Global Climate Change (1989), The Greenhouse Debate Continued (1992), and Hot Talk, Cold Science (1997). He has also co-authored Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years (2007) with Dennis Avery, and Climate Change Reconsidered (2009) with Craig Idso.Singer has had a varied career, serving in the armed forces, government, and academia. He designed mines for the U.S. Navy during World War II, before obtaining his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1948 and working as a scientific liaison officer in the U.S. Embassy in London. He became a leading figure in early space research, was involved in the development of earth observation satellites, and in 1962 established the National Weather Bureau's Satellite Service Center. He was the founding dean of the University of Miami School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences in 1964, and held several government positions, including deputy assistant administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, and chief scientist for the Department of Transportation. He held a professorship with the University of Virginia from 1971 until 1994, and with George Mason University until 2000.In 1990 Singer founded the Science & Environmental Policy Project to advocate for climate change denial, and in 2006 was named by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as one of a minority of scientists said to be creating a stand-off on a consensus on climate change. Singer argues there is no evidence that global warming is attributable to human-caused increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and that humanity would benefit if temperatures do rise.He is an opponent of the Kyoto Protocol, and has claimed climate models as not based on reality, and not evidence. Singer has been accused of rejecting peer-reviewed and independently confirmed scientific evidence in his claims concerning public health and environmental issues.