Global Warming
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MNN's week in review: 1 noble pirate, 4 climate-conscious snowboarders and more
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary &bull Feb 3, 2012
The name William Dampier may not mean anything to you, but this swashbuckling pirate was one of the world's most influentual naturalists. A new book about him may change his place in history. Those who play in the snow for… Full Story »
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EU Climate Commissioner Wants to Double Renewable Energy Share by 2030
Inhabitat &bull Feb 3, 2012
The Climate Commissioner for the European Union, Connie Hedegaard, told reporters today in New Delhi that she believes the European Union should pledge to double their renewable energy supply by 2030 and spoke of hopes that the rest of the world would follow suit. She was speaking in advance of this year's United Nations Conference on Sustainable… Full Story »
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Economics alone should drive countries away from crude oil
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 29, 2012
In the latest issue of Nature, two scientists take peak oil head-on, analyzing crude oil production over the past several decades and conjecturing where it is headed. And the top line? Worldwide oil production is in decline, and commonly cited replacements - new oil sources, coal, natural gas, and tar sands - won't be able to make up the… Full Story »
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Climate change gives gardeners new options
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary &bull Jan 28, 2012
The USDA has updated its planting-zones map for the first time in 22 years, reflecting a warmer U.S. where many southern crops are expanding north. If you're planting a spring garden in the U.S. this year, you may want to… Full Story »
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MNN's week in review: Blizzards, bargain wines and Lego toys that make us mad
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary &bull Jan 27, 2012
This winter's weather couldn't be weirder. Here at MNN headquarters, we're still waiting for the first snowstorm of the season, while some areas have already been clobbered. We put together this gallery to get in the spirit: 6 cool images… Full Story »
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Insurance against sunsets: Munich Re steps in if your solar panel provider goes bust
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 26, 2012
With solar panel manufacturers dropping like Arkansas blackbirds, Germany's Munich Re is coming to the rescue. It is now selling insurance that protects solar park operators in the event that their panel provider goes bankrupt. In partnership with Deustsche Bank, Munich Re will indemnify the operator after the manufacturer… Full Story »
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Global Survey Reveals Most Companies Naive When it Comes to Energy Management
webitpr &bull Jan 26, 2012
Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, today announced the results of its first ever global carbon accounting survey, which offers insight into the fact that despite forthcoming legislation mandating carbon accounting, most companies are still lagging in their comprehension of carbon accounting as a whole, and in the execution of said carbon accounting initiatives. With Australia introducing the new tax legislation on carbon emissions, and new regulations soon being introduced in California, the momentum behind requiring corporate energy… Full Story »
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Book Review: The Insatiable Bark Beetle
Sierra Club: The Green Life &bull Jan 25, 2012
Dr. Reese Halter's The Insatiable Bark Beetle(Rocky Mountain Books, 2011) concerns yet another terrible consequence of global warming. The bark beetle - an umbrella term for several species of beetle that are killing coniferous trees by the millions - used… Full Story »
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The future of LEED
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 25, 2012
There is a drum set on stage left, and as Horst speaks, masked actors walk behind him, carrying two-dimensional props: a palm tree, a rowboat, a few painted men in tights. In the audience, some people are wondering if they're in the right room. After all, it's the U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild conference. And Horst is the executive ultimately responsible for the standards and procedures that make up LEED, the national ratings system for more efficient buildings. But there he was, last November, telling the story of Prospero and his enemies, of magic and monsters. It was a curious… Full Story »
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Climate News Recap: Weaker Sun Won't Slow Warming; Plus, More on Leaking Siberian Methane
TreeHugger &bull Jan 24, 2012Need to get up to speed on what's going on with methane leaking from the Siberian seafloor? The effect of weakening solar output on global warming? Declining US greenhouse gas emissions? Why it's a bad idea to move NOAA from… Full Story »
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NASA video shows global warming is real
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 24, 2012
If there were any doubt that a real warming trend is upon us, NASA has produced a visualization that depicts the recent rise in global temperatures as felt over a span of 130 years. While the video shows a clear pattern of… Full Story »
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Throwing rocks at CO2
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 24, 2012
Last week's column discussed research into the development of materials that could pull carbon dioxide out of the open air, and their limitations in helping to avert global warming. The compounds being developed in those projects were typically inexpensive polymers. Some readers, most notably the science journalist Elmar Veerman of the Netherlands, subsequently reminded me of a different approach to removing atmospheric carbon dioxide that I had not discussed - one that involved completely natural materials and emulated the planet's own processes for removing the gas from the air. The idea deserves some follow-up discussion of its own. Carbon dioxide… Full Story »
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New Study Predicts Increased Use of Natural Gas Will Make Climate Change Worse, Not Better
TreeHugger &bull Jan 23, 2012"The large GHG footprint of shale gas undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over coming decades, if the goal is to reduce global warming." Full Story »
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A Comprehensive Review Of What's Causing Global Warming
TreeHugger &bull Jan 21, 2012At Skeptical Science, we have several recent studies which have used a number of diverse approaches to tease out the contributions of various natural and human effects to global warming. Here we will review the results of these various studies, and a few others which we have not previously examined, to see what the scientific literature and data have to say about exactly what is causing global warming. All of these studies, using a wide range of independent methods, provide multiple lines of evidence that humans are the dominant cause of global warming over the past century, and especially over… Full Story »
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The Friday 5: Scaled-Up, Scaled-Down Version
Ecosalon &bull Jan 20, 2012
Oh, and reminding people that just because it's cold it doesn't mean global warming is nonsense. That too. Finally, since those posts probably kept you so busy that your Facebook Wall went to hell, our editor has a handy and… Full Story »
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Chinese Climate Change Report Says Environmental Future "Grim"
TreeHugger &bull Jan 19, 2012In short: "China faces grim ecological and environmental conditions under the impact of continued global warming." Full Story »
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New post submission - move to design comp site
Inhabitat &bull Jan 19, 2012
This is a call to artists: "The only way to prove with 100% certainty that humans are responsible for global warming would be to run an experiment with two identical Earths - one with human influence and one without. That… Full Story »
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How global warming is actually helping the swan community
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary &bull Jan 18, 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Outside Alaska's largest city, where wildlife is more common than pigeons, locals bearing field glasses turn out every year to watch blazingly white trumpeter swans stop to feed on their way south for the winter. WorldShares lets… Full Story »
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Modern Mayans More Concerned About Environmental Problems Than Calendar Ending
TreeHugger &bull Jan 17, 2012IPS News has some insight and it turns out that the descendants of the ancient Mayans are far more concerned about current environmental problems than they are about their old calendar. There are leaders who let themselves be carried away… Full Story »
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Limiting climate change improves human and agricultural production
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 16, 2012
In a NASA study, scientists used computer models to determine the impact of emission reductions. The scientists found that by reducing black carbon and methane, which are pollutants that affect air quality and global warming, they can improve human health… Full Story »
