Methane Gas - starts a rapid escape…
Methane is another of the gases that are found in the atmosphere naturally. However, like CO2, Methane is being released into the atmosphere far faster then the norm - and with potentially very sever impact!
Methane similar to CO2 can capture heat/energy as it is reflected from the earth back into space. The problem with [...]
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What is more dangerous, climate change or terrorism?
We are all too familiar with the consequences of terrorism and few deny the earth’s climate is changing. In today’s social discourse both ideas are loaded and politicized. Neither phenomenon is universally defined and the approach to each is emotional and controversial.
Consider the causalities of each to determine which is more dangerous. As expected there [...]
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Weekly Mulch: ‘Global Weirding’ and Climate Skeptics’ Slushy Logic
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Climate skeptics found plenty of reasons to dig out their dreary critiques this week, between the continuing controversy over erroneous reports from the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and the record-breaking snowfall on the East Coast. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and his family built an igloo which Inhofe then [...]
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Climate Change - and lots of snow….
So the weather has been cold.
So there is no climate change, no global warming? Come on….
The past week or so have been very hard on the mid west and mid Atlantic parts of our nation. And not surprisingly there are folk running(or sliding) around ready to declare an end to the discussion on climate change.
Well, [...]
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Hacking the Environment
In mid-November 2009 hackers accessed a significant amount of data from a world-renowned climate research institute, the University of East Anglia in England. When stolen emails were leaked it sent the climate change-denying community into a frenzy. The emails that contained open dialogue between climatologists using lab slang quickly became fodder for pundits to spin. [...]
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Weekly Mulch: What’s Missing from the New Clean Energy Agenda?
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
Nuclear power, biofuels, clean coal: These are the Obama administration’s answers to climate change. The 2011 budget, released this week, promised new loans for the construction of nuclear power plants, and on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House, and other departments detailed steps to encourage ethanol and clean [...]
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Global energy and the issues we face…
Here is a pretty interesting clip on energy and the issues we face….
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Climatologist - Gavin Schmidt
NASA Climatologist - Gavin Schmidt - gives an interview about Climat Change, a warmer earth, annual heat records - and other very interesting topics.
Teachers - this is worth reading and givng to your students. The NASA web site is excellent!
Check it out…. NASA
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Getting hot! Check out this NASA press release….
Jan. 21, 2010
Steve Cole
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0918
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov
Leslie McCarthy
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York
212-678-5507
leslie.m.mccarthy@nasa.gov
RELEASE: 10-017
NASA RESEARCH FINDS LAST DECADE WAS WARMEST ON RECORD, 2009 ONE OF WARMEST YEARS
WASHINGTON — A new analysis of global surface temperatures by NASA
scientists finds the past year was tied for the second warmest since
1880. In the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was [...]
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