Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

In a surprise announcement the USA and China agree to cap Carbon emissions with ambitious plans to mitigate Climate Change. Chinese President Xi Jinping and USA President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday November 12, 2014 to reduce greenhouse emissions. China and the USA are the two largest carbon and greenhouse gas polluters on the planet [Continue]

That’s a good question in addition to others: Why have electric cars been absent from most showrooms in the USA, when they were being sold in California and Arizona more than a decade ago? Why are they just now starting to arrive in small numbers? Because of the slow introduction of electric cars, more and [Continue]

Scary stories are not just for Halloween…. Rapid evidence of climate change such as Sea Level Rise is compelling: NASA Global Climate Change Reference NASA sea level satellite data has been collected since 1993 http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/ CSIRO coastal tide gage data goes back to 1870 the trend is quite obvious. Sea level [Continue]

Southern Florida politicians say that the state government located in the Capital, which is in the Northern part of the state (Tallahassee) “isn’t doing enough to deal with global warming” and “”We have to be able to deal directly with this environmental concern and we can’t really get it done in Tallahassee,” “I [Continue]

Sarah Palin might be able to see Russia, but refuses to look in her backyard to see Exit Glacier making an exit. Exit Glacier is one of 38 glaciers in the Harding Icefield (the largest icefield entirely contained within the United States) and is part of the Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska.  Exit Glacier [Continue]

The basic message of the 1 hour and 27 minute special program “Global Warming, What You Need To Know, with Tom Brokaw” is that Global Warming is real and the Earth will continue to warm. The Documentary film originally aired in 2006, and featured a host of respected scientists. At the time some conservative blogs [Continue]

Can Thorium Energy Fight Climate Change & Solve the World’s Energy Needs Simultaneously? The short and the long answer is YES. Not only is switching to Thorium (See TH #90 on Periodic Table of Elements and Chemistry) power greener, cheaper and an over-all better idea for humanity than using fossil fuels and solid fuel nuclear [Continue]

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. Re-insurance companies such as Munich Re and others like Swiss Re help the insurance industry to cover the cost of major damage claims like [Continue]

  What exactly is the scientific (peer-reviewed) evidence that best represents the current scientific consensus about Climate Change and Global Warming? I have collected this information in response to some persistent media coverage to the contrary of many facts that have been previously reported by the scientific community. This project [Continue]

Two Climate Change videos: One short and one long that explains the basic science behind climate change and global warming. The first video is narrated by Bill Nye the well known Science Guy and the second was a public event which was part of the Comparative Climatology conference held in Boulder Colorado in 2012 that [Continue]