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Study: Climate change slowed over last decade but may speed up again
A global warming “pause” over the past decade may invalidate the harshest climate change predictions for the next 50 to 100 years, a study said Sunday — though levels remain in the danger zone. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, an international team of climate scientists said a slower rate…
CO2 Is A Greenhouse Gas, Not A Sin You Commit In Your Heart
This is an amazing story, for those who missed it, one that I’m adding to my growing list of evidence for my theory that a lot of politicians—especially politicians—got where they are because their status as privileged white men prevented so many people from noticing they’re dumb as rocks. A…
Climate scientists predict future with lower average rainfall
Climate scientists said Wednesday they found evidence to back predictions for a future with lower average rainfall, even though Earth’s past warming episodes had led to more precipitation, not less. Writing in the journal Nature, researchers said they had found proof that global warming caused by Man’s greenhouse-gas emissions has…
Appeals court affirms EPA regulation of greenhouse gases
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided not to reconsider a decision that allows the Environmental Protection Agency to continue to regulate greenhouse gases, reported The Hill. In June, the appeals court affirmed the EPA’s reading of the Clean Air Act, which gives the government agency…
Humans added plenty greenhouse gases before industrialization: study
PARIS — Humans were big emitters of greenhouse gases long before the Industrial Revolution, a finding that raises worrying questions about the benchmark for measuring global warming, a study published on Wednesday said. For 1,800 years before industrialisation took off in the 19th century, emissions of methane rose in line…
U.S. greenhouse gases back up after decline
WASHINGTON — US emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change rose in 2010, ending a brief downward turn as the world’s largest economy gradually recovers from recession, official data showed Monday. In a submission to the UN climate organization, the United States said that its greenhouse gas emissions grew…
Greenhouse gases rise to record high in 2010: UN
The amount of global warming-causing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rose to a new high in 2010, and the rate of increase has accelerated, the UN weather agency said on Monday. Levels of carbon dioxide – a greenhouse gas and major contributor to climate change – rose by 2.3 parts per million between 2009 and 2010,…
Living, and coughing, downwind of Texas smoke stacks
When the black smoke pours out of the Texan oil refinery across the road in yet another unplanned discharge, Erma Lee Ellas has just one way to try to keep the cloud of chemicals from reaching her asthmatic lungs: “I close the door.” Port Arthur, Texas has some of the…
Romney suddenly morphs into a climate change skeptic
Speaking to a crowd in Philadelphia yesterday, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) suddenly changed his position on whether humans contribute to climate change, insisting that “we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet.” He added that “the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try…
Chris Christie: ‘Climate change is real’
Add another prominent figure to the short list of Republicans believing in climate change . According to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, governor Chris Christie joined Presidential candidate Jon Hunstman in coming out in full support of the issue. “Climate change is real,” Christie told reporters. “Human activity plays a role…
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