Kenneth Burridge articles and comments about: Climate Change, Global Warming and Climate Crisis reposted from various syndicated websites and blogs.
Natural gas, Methane, fracking and Global Warming are featured in National Geographic Magazine December 2012 issue. Good Gas Bad Gas was written by Marianne Lavelle, and features some great photographs by Mark Thiessen (can be found on Page 90). At issue is not only can natural gas do a fine job of warming your house [Continue]
Coral reefs are like the rainforests of the oceans they are home to the largest percentage of species in that environ. 25% of all ocean species call coral reefs home. Many of these species are responsible for a host of important industries on which millions of humans depend, directly or indirectly (examples include fishing, tourism [Continue]
Activist and photographer Kenneth Burridge was told by a coffee shop and art gallery owner Rick Caspersen that his art exhibition featuring shots of Occupy Brisbane and Climate Change protesters were not welcome on their gallery walls. The owner of the Loading Dock Espresso coffee shop and gallery located at 2 Edmondstone Street, in South [Continue]
FRANKFURT – Munich Re, the world’s biggest reinsurer, says that reinsurers should take into account the fact that climate change has boosted natural catastrophes when they price weather disaster insurance. Many World Disasters blamed on Climate Change, largest reinsurer to increase rates based from Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) study. The [Continue]
350.org and Bill McKibben will be touring 20 cities using a sustainable bus starting on November 7th to help alert and educate the population to the terrifying math that now indicates that worldwide fossil fuel corporations have 2,795 gigatons of carbon in their reserves with every intent on selling and burning it all. That amount [Continue]
Forbes Fuels Climate Change and Global Warming Denial The editors of Forbes magazine decided to recently print an article on Forbes.com by James M. Taylor a senior fellow for environment policy at the Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News that pointed out that the amount of sea ice in the Antarctic [Continue]
A serious indictment that Global Warming is actually worse than most people realize was the extent of the 2012 annual loss of Arctic Sea Ice, which probably was reached on September 16th. This year exceed the previous record loss of 2007 and sets a new record for the lowest summer coverage of ice ever since [Continue]
American Meteorological Society Informational Statement: “observed warming will be irreversible for many years into the future, and even larger temperature increases will occur as greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere.” The American Meteorological Society statement gives an overview of the reasons for climate change over the last century and is based on peer-reviewed [Continue]
It is certainly a good idea to look at trends, try to connect the dots and to formulate a theory that can be reviewed by peers in-the-know. Obviously one should always resist the urge to jump to conclusions, especially when only looking a single piece of information from a single source. When looking at a [Continue]
Stephen Hawking famous quote on Global Warming from ABC News interview, August 16, 2006 “The danger is that global warming may become self-sustaining, if it has not done so already. The melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps reduces the fraction of solar energy reflected back into space, and so increases the temperature further. [Continue]
