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June 25, 2010

Atlantic surface circulation qualifies as ‘tipped’ element

On the road today. But check out the joint press release by the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany: 06/25/2010 Atlantic surface circulation qualifies as...

Antarctic Ice / Climate Change / Cultural Studies / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming

April 26, 2010

Energy to Melt Glaciers

Via friend John Maas, who saw it on the Grist site, this add from 1962 for the Oil company that would soon merge with Standard to create Exxon:

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Uncategorized

April 22, 2010

Earth Day — Green Brain?

Check out this piece in the New York Times (published a year ago, but still a useful reminder on Earth Day 2010): Why Isn’t the Brain Green? By JON GERTNER Two days after Barack...

Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming

March 24, 2010

Hackin' Earth?

A big conference coming up with scientists trying to see how to geoengineer the climate of the planet — below links to a few articles on these matters in the current issue of Wired....

Climate Change / Global Warming / Man-made Disaster

March 10, 2010

Weakening Sun would hardly slow global warming

Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: 03/10/2010 Weakening Sun would hardly slow global warming A new Grand Minimum of solar activity would decrease the rise of global mean temperature caused...

Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Permafrost

March 4, 2010

Undersea Release of Methane

The New York Times today reports on a study that says that “Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way.” Below, the opening paras of Cornelia Dean‘s article. You can read the whole piece here....

Antarctic Ice / Climate Change / Environment

February 27, 2010

An Iceberg the Size of Luxembourg

As I am from Luxembourg, I well know how small a country it is — and yet, it is a country with all that entails, and so it has a size that is both...

Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Man-made Disaster

February 12, 2010

“Global Sustainability – A Nobel Cause”

I haven’t read the book, as it isn’t out yet, but it looks worthwhile, even if Angela Merkel wrote the preface and maybe because Ian McEwan wrote the prologue (both of which you can...

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Permafrost

December 12, 2009

How Stable is the Contemporary Environment?

Via the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Tipping Elements in the Earth System: How Stable is the Contemporary Environment? 12/08/2009 – A Special Feature of the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”...

Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas

December 8, 2009

Juan Cole's Top Ten Questions for Copenhagen

Via Juan Cole’s Informed Comment blog: Top Ten Questions about Climate Change on the Eve of Copenhagen Is the earth’s climate warming? Indisputably. Has the pumping of vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the...