January 13, 2007 – 2:35 pm
If McCain wants, desperately, to be President, why does he keep doing all those wacky things that annoy Conservatives, such as this WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Six U.S. senators, including potential 2008 presidential contenders from both major parties, unveiled legislation on Friday that would force power plants and industry to curb heat-trapping greenhouse gases, seeking to […]
January 9, 2007 – 9:09 pm
The LA Times takes on global warming in the past Foreshadowing potential climate chaos to come, early global warming caused unexpectedly severe and erratic temperature swings as rising levels of greenhouse gases helped transform Earth, a team led by researchers at UC Davis said Thursday. The global transition from ice age to greenhouse 300 million […]
January 7, 2007 – 3:00 pm
Major guffaws! (via the NY Times) Hundreds of tourists and locals packed the ice-skating rink at Rockefeller Center yesterday, pretending that it really was a cold, snowy day in early January as they circled the ice beneath the giant Christmas tree. In Brooklyn, eight members of a cold-water-braving organization known as the Coney Island Polar […]
January 1, 2007 – 6:33 pm
Coulda, shoulda, mighta, maybe(a) Global warming could spell the end of the world's largest remaining tropical rain forest, transforming the Amazon into a grassy savanna before end of the century, researchers said Friday. Jose Antonio Marengo, a meteorologist with Brazil's National Space Research Institute, said that global warming, if left unchecked, will reduce rainfall and […]
December 28, 2006 – 3:49 pm
The question is, is this something President Bush is pushing personally, has been involved, or just something pushed by those long term workers in the Executive Office beauracracy? The Bush administration wants to add polar bears to the endangered species list as a result of the ice melting in the Arctic. Global warming is being […]
December 28, 2006 – 12:20 pm
Surprisingly, this AP article doesn't take a "man is causing global warming" position, which is very wise Using fire scars on nearly 5,000 tree stumps dating back 450 years, scientists have found that extended periods of major wildfires in the West occurred when the North Atlantic Ocean was going through periodic warming. With the North […]
December 27, 2006 – 5:07 pm
Oh, goodness, the enviro-nuts have truly outdone themselves this time Researchers at the University of Washington say all that holiday baking and eating has an environmental impact — Puget Sound is being flavored by cinnamon and vanilla. "Even something as fun as baking for the holiday season has an environmental effect," said Rick Keil, an […]
December 23, 2006 – 12:06 pm
Roaming through the BBC, I found a humorous article on global warming, er, climate change, which is all freaked out about this The steady rise in atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gases blamed for climate change shows no signs of abating, a UN agency has announced. The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide rose by about […]
December 20, 2006 – 8:58 pm
I like this guy WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ — Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, has sent an open letter to Senators Rockefeller (D- W.Va.) and Snowe (R-Maine) in response to their recent open letter telling the CEO of ExxonMobil to cease funding climate-skeptic scientists. ( http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20061212_monckton.pdf ). Lord Monckton, former policy adviser to Prime […]
December 18, 2006 – 4:42 pm
That would be "Global Warming As Caused By Man." MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica (Reuters) – The first Adelie penguin chicks of the season — black fluffballs small enough to hold in the hand — started hatching this month, and the simple fact that there are more of them in the south and fewer of them further […]
