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Other NewsEditorialsClimate science stung by doubt.To hear the 24-hour news establishment and conservative pundits and bloggers tell it, the concept of manmade global warming is melting under scientists' feet. But Americans should not be fooled. Nashville Tennessean 14 Mar Global warming challenge.The possibility of suspending California's Global Warming Solutions Act, a law unlikely to change temperatures but certain to wreak economic havoc, appears to have increased dramatically. Orange County Register 12 Mar Climate of fear.The integrity of climate research has taken a very public battering in recent months. Scientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight. Nature 11 Mar Is global warming cooling as an issue?One cold, miserable winter won’t end the debate about global warning, but the fact is the climate change issue lost its edge when scientists were found to be anything but unanimous about the world’s fate in a future global furnace. Sioux City Journal 10 Mar Climate change is not a matter of faith.The science of global warming has taken a severe hit in terms of the public's credulity. Yet as the latest scientific research makes clear, the evidence is, if anything, stronger than it ever was about the role of humans in the observable increase in global temperatures. London Independent 05 Mar Getting global warming right.Sen. Inhofe and others are waging a calculated misinformation campaign, seizing on every error or gap in scientific knowledge to cast doubt on research findings and portray scientists as villains. Los Angeles Times 03 Mar A climate of inquiry.So far, the climate-change establishment's efforts at damage control in the wake of the climategate email leak have left much to be desired. Wall Street Journal 03 Mar Rebuilding the trust.Lately, things are not looking too rosy for the fight against global warming. In fact, it has suffered heavy blows, especially with the Copenhagen failure. Jakarta Post 01 Mar OpinionTexas suing for responsible scientific conclusions.The EPA recently concluded that man-made greenhouse gas emissions — including carbon dioxide — are harmful pollutants and must be regulated. The lawsuit I filed challenging that finding does not address the disputed science surrounding global warming. Houston Chronicle 14 Mar Grandaddy of green, James Lovelock, warms to eco-sceptics.We should have more respect for uncertainties and learn to live with possibilities rather than striving for the 95% probabilities that climate scientists have been trying to provide. London Times 14 Mar The front line of climate justice.We cannot hold our health, the health of our communities, the health of future generations, nor the health of our economy hostage to the greedy interests of the parade of polluters. States can lead the way toward climate justice. And it is with hope that New Mexico becomes the first. High Country News 14 Mar Climategate was an academic disaster waiting to happen.Last fall, emails revealed that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and colleagues in the U.S. and around the globe deliberately distorted data. What does this scandal say about the intellectual norms at our universities? Wall Street Journal 14 Mar When a scientist becomes an activist.NASA climatologist James Hansen believed that solving climate change was about solving money issues in politics, and that the future of democracy depended on addressing both. High Country News 14 Mar Report: The case for global warming stronger than ever.The fact that climate change evidence that was "very likely" a few years ago has now been declared likelier still by the comprehensive Met Office report suggests that the evidence for human-caused climate change is getting better all the time. Time Magazine 13 Mar What’s in a (wrong) word?Let’s not confuse real mistakes with the normal progress of science. Climate Central 13 Mar A message for climate change skeptics.Is global warming happening? The likelihood is more than 90 per cent that elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are heating the planet. Can we know for certain? No. But playing Russian Roulette with nine of 10 chambers loaded with live bullets is a fool's game. Canwest News Service 12 Mar |
Climate science agencies create snapshot.The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO) and weather bureau are keen to regain the upper hand in the climate change debate, combining to produce an easily accessible snapshot of Australia's climate. Australian Associated Press 14 Mar Prof lays out scientific community's view on climate change.There is often a lot of confusion about the topic of climate change. Texas Tech University professor Katharine Hayhoe, who has served on United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), gives us the basics. Austin News 8 14 Mar AB 32 foes are slick - and predictable.California must stay on the front lines of a clean energy future, just as it was on the vanguard of air pollution laws, coastal protection and efforts to preserve ancient redwoods. There will always be naysayers to a healthy environment, but their hot air can't stand the test of time. Sacramento Bee 14 Mar Getting to the bottom of methane.Scientists have discovered the permafrost beneath the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is melting, releasing large amounts methane into the atmosphere. Some say it could mean serious climate consequences, others say C02 is still the bigger problem. Living On Earth 13 Mar Farmers urged to adjust to changing weather patterns.The government has called on farmers to adjust to changing weather patterns and become more scientific in their approach to agriculture. Harare Herald 13 Mar Chatham plans for natural hazards.You can be skeptical of climate change and still advocate that Chatham County plan for rising sea levels and increased flooding. Wilmington Island resident Marianne Heimes made that point at a workshop sponsored by NOAA to help the county develop a road map for coastal risk. Savannah Morning News 13 Mar Pelicans won't flow south.
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In January, scientists were stunned to see hundreds of brown pelicans that normally fly south before winter lingering on the Oregon coast. Now it's March and dozens are still here. They think climate change may be the reason. Portland Oregonian 13 Mar Report: Climate change would hurt coastal birds.To a long list of predators and threats, the western snowy plover, a sparrow-sized bird that nests in sandy beaches on the Sonoma coast, has a new nemesis: climate change. Santa Rosa Press Democrat 13 Mar Birds are losing the climate change battle.A new report is confirming the fears many conservationists and wildlife experts have been warning about for years: Climate change is seriously harming our nation's bird population. Bay Area NBC 13 Mar Shifting ice a problem for Antarctica penguins.Shifting sea ice around Antarctica is already disrupting penguin colonies as the world's climate warms, according to a new report by a team of polar scientists. San Francisco Chronicle 13 Mar Forest carbon counts: Flannery.Prominent climate change scientist Professor Tim Flannery last night sent out a message to Tasmania's three major political parties one week out from a state election: that forest carbon is precious. Launceston Examiner 13 Mar Violent backlash against climate scientists.Climate-change science has come under full-scale attack in a last-ditch effort to delay or prevent action by the US government against global warming, experts warn. Inter Press Service 13 Mar Scientists need to do better job of explaining climate change science, NOAA's director says.Climate change is here and scientists need to do a better job of explaining it to the public, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday. Associated Press 13 Mar Climate change threatens migratory birds, report says.Global climate change poses a significant threat to migratory bird populations, which are already stressed by the loss of habitat and environmental pollution, according to a report released Thursday. Associated Press 12 Mar Searching for the wildest strawberries to save crop diversity .Climate change is expected to negatively affect agriculture, with crops in parts of the world having to deal with warmer temperatures, droughts and rising salinity of water. ClimateWire 12 Mar More Americans say global warming exaggerated - poll.A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated, as more people also doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll. Reuters 12 Mar Battle over climate science spreads to US schoolrooms.Efforts in the past have been thwarted when courts ruled them unconstitutional, but those advocating the teaching of sound science may find it harder to fight misrepresentations concerning climate change. New Scientist 12 Mar NASA salvages vintage data.
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Once forgotten or erased, 1960s-era satellite images are being salvaged to aid climate science. Science 12 Mar No room for women.A new group overseeing financing for a United Nations climate effort has 19 members - none women. New York Times 12 Mar Ocean acidification: Another path to EPA rules on carbon emissions?Move over global warming. Ocean acidification is getting its day in court. Christian Science Monitor 12 Mar Interior Secretary talks about birds and wildlife refuges in Austin.U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar unveiled the 2010 State of the Birds report, which warned that climate change threatens the habitat and survival of many birds, including those in Central Texas. Austin American-Statesman 12 Mar Coastal and ocean birds most at risk from global warming.Birds that rely on oceans and live on coastlines are more vulnerable to climate change than birds found in any other habitats in America, according to a new report released Thursday by federal biologists and other researchers. San Jose Mercury News 12 Mar Mapping out the future of Alpine glaciers.The Alps are known as “Europe’s water tower”. Their glaciers provide 40 percent of Europe’s fresh water. But these glaciers are facing an uncertain future, as studies show that temperatures in the Alps are increasing at a rate that’s more than twice the global average. Euronews 12 Mar Scientists propose naming electricity savings after physicist.A group of prominent scientists propose "the Rosenfeld," a unit for electricity savings, be named after Bay Area physicist Arthur Rosenfeld who is widely known as the "godfather" of energy efficiency and served on the California Energy Commission. San Jose Mercury News 12 Mar A different route to corn-based fuel.Jack Huttner, the executive vice president of Gevo, would like to take over an ethanol plant and, using the same base ingredients that go into corn-based ethanol - corn and natural gas for fuel - manufacture a different molecule: isobutanol. New York Times 12 Mar China unsure on warming cause, to stick with CO2 cuts.China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Reuters 12 Mar Arctic ocean methane.New research indicates the Arctic seabed is releasing methane at a rate higher than all the other oceans of the world combined - raising concerns about the pace of global warming. Environment Report 12 Mar BBC defends journalist over climate email claims.The BBC says ABC chairman Maurice Newman was wrong to criticise BBC climate journalist Paul Hudson, who Mr Newman alleged sat on emails related to the so-called Climategate affair. Sydney Australian 12 Mar |