Posts Tagged ‘global warming’

A hundred years of data from the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology supports the idea that Australia is getting warmer (see graphic from the BBC). Disclaimer: This post is for informational and entertainment purposes only— it is not financial advice or is in anyway intended to provide any financial recommendation. “Independent [Continue]

Chasing Coral (2017: 1+33 min) was partly inspired by the documentary film Chasing Ice, after it was discovered that a situation was happening below the surface of the world’s oceans that was just as dramatic as what was being witnessed by receding glaciers globally. The film was beautifully shot in HD and captures for the [Continue]

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) after blocking a resolution that would have acknowledged the reality of climate change gets PWND by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) with a reality check. It is so distressing that there are still such a large number of government representatives in the US Senate and House of Representatives that wish to continue to [Continue]

Human caused Global Warming proof published. Scientists confirm by direct observation Carbon Dioxide’s Green House Effect with 11 years study conducted in both Alaska and Oklahoma. The scientists were able to link rising CO2 levels with human activity-primarily the burning of fossil fuels. By using archival records similar to those provided [Continue]

NASA’s new Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) can for the first time help identify and visualize carbon sources (emitters) and sinks (absorbers), and takes 100 times more measurements (100,000 per day) than the previous best instrument in space the Japanese GEOS-5 satellite launched in 2009. The ocean and plants on land emit more than 20 [Continue]

The City Council of Berkeley California in the San Francisco Bay area passed a citywide ordinance (November, 18, 2014) to require Climate Change Warning labels at fuel dispensing facilities. The new Climate Change and Global Warming law is the first to go in effect in the USA. The warning labels for fossil fuel pumps are [Continue]

The Rockefeller family-the heirs of Standard Oil divest from fossil fuels due to climate change. The Rockefellers released a Divestment statement for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), with assets of $860 million in assets is a private charitable foundation established in 1940. The board of trustees in 2010 made a commitment up to 10 percent [Continue]

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]