Higher energy consumption and warmer weather drove up total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 3.3 percent to 6.866 billion tons between 2009 and 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in its latest emissions inventory report released Monday. [Reuters]
Showing posts with label Global Temperature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global Temperature. Show all posts
2.28.2012
2.24.2012
2011 Was Ninth Warmest Year in Decades, NASA Finds LiveScience.com
LiveScience.com -
Average temperatures around the globe in 2011 were 0.92 degrees Fahrenheit (0.51 degrees Celsius) warmer than the baseline in the mid-20th century.
2.13.2012
Arctic warms to highest level yet as researchers fear tipping points Mongabay.com
Mongabay.com -
Last year the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth due to global climate change, experienced its warmest twelve months yet.
2.12.2012
2.09.2012
1.25.2012
NASA'S HANSEN: We'd have to reduce CO2 emissions at six percent a year if we began next year. sci am
Scientific American -
Hansen, who has directed NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies for 31 years, earned the sobriquet "father of global warming" after testifying before Congress in 1988 on the dangers of global warming. He appeared again in 1989.
1.24.2012
1.22.2012
US military: Global warming is real Lincoln Journal Star
US military: Global warming is real
Lincoln Journal Star - 3 hours ago
By the time the Defense Department's Center for Naval Analyses released its landmark 2007 report, "National Security and the Threat of Climate Change," the Bush/Cheney Administration had officially acknowledged the reality of global warming - although ...
A loud and ignorant climate-change denier The Nation
1.21.2012
1.19.2012
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record NASA
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record
NASA - 2 hours ago
(Data source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Visualization credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio) "We know the planet is absorbing more energy than it is emitting," said GISS Director James E. Hansen.
NASA Finds 2011 Ninth Warmest Year on Record MarketWatch (press release)
1.11.2012
Record Warm Weather In 1000+ US Cities Spells GLOBAL WARMING Civilians News
Civilians News -
Record high temperatures swept over 1000 US cities this week, leading to increased consensus about the reality of global warming. Congruently, current temperatures could end up making 2012 the warmest year in American history, beating the previous high ...
1.06.2012
12.28.2011
US Sets Extreme Weather Records in 2011 Voice of America
Voice of America -
December 28, 2011 US Sets Extreme Weather Records in 2011 Events consistent with long-term global warming trends Rosanne Skirble Extreme weather cut a path of destruction across the United States in 2011.
12.05.2011
At least 74 percent of current warming caused by us Mongabay.com
Mongabay.com -
A new methodology to tease out how much current climate change is linked to human activities has added to the consensus that behind global warming is us. The study, published in Nature Geoscience found that humans have caused at least three-quarters ...
12.01.2011
Federal report: Arctic much worse since 2006 USA Today
Federal report: Arctic much worse since 2006
USA Today - 5 minutes ago
The recent changes in the Arctic are from both man-made global warming and localized weather shifts. BJOHN MCCONNICO, AP An iceberg floats off Ammassalik Island in eastern Greenland in 2007.
US report: Arctic much worse since 2006 The Associated Press
11.29.2011
World temps maintain the heat of global warming CBS News
CBS News -
It provided a bleak backdrop to negotiators who are seeking ways to limit pollution blamed for global warming. 2011 has been a year of extreme weather, the weather service said.
11.15.2011
Scientists from 22 Iowa colleges challenge Perry, GOP field to acknowledge ... Houston Chronicle
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Rick Perry has been the most vocal critic of climate change science in the GOP field. (AP photo) A group of scientists in the nation's first caucus state urged Republican presidential hopefuls today to acknowledge man-made global warming as real and to ...
11.05.2011
Global Warming in Antarctica: Glaciers accelerating, West Antarctic Ice Sheet losing mass | Indymed indymedia.org.au
indymedia.org.au
Scientists have been studying the climate change impact on ice shelfs and glaciers for some time in Antarctica, and particularly around the Antarctic Peninsula where there is substantial warming occurring increasing ice shelf melt and the speed and discharge of glaciers. The most recent studies
11.03.2011
Researchers say climate change is changing Pacific Northwest forest structure as well www.oregonlive.com
www.oregonlive.com
The study predicts "large scale disturbances" in Pacific Northwest forests as temperatures rise 5 to 9 degrees by 2080.
10.20.2011
A skeptical physicist ends up confirming climate data www.washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com
Last year, a prominent critic of global warming claims decided to reanalyze the data. To his surprise, the data held up.
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