Hurricanes have grown significantly more powerful and destructive over the last three decades due in part to global warming, says an MIT professor who warns that this trend could continue. “My results suggest that future warming may lead to an upward trend in [hurricanes'] destructive potential, and–taking into account an increasing coastal population–a substantial increase… [Read more…]
July 23, 2009
Source: www.stopglobalwarming.org Take Action! There are many things you can do in your daily life that can have an effect on your immediate surrounding, and on places as far away as Antarctica. Here is a list of things that you can do to make a difference. There are many things you can do today to… [Read more…]
June 30, 2009
Gordon Brown will tomorrow outline Britain’s blueprint for a new international deal on global warming, which world leaders are pushing to be agreed at December’s critical UN talks in Copenhagen. In a speech at London Zoo, the prime minister is expected to call on all developed countries, including Britain and the US, to show greater… [Read more…]
June 23, 2009
Because we can’t know the future for certain, scientists use computer-based climate models to project plausible scenarios for the coming century and beyond. Recently, the IPCC developed a series of 24 future climate change projections, a much broader set than previously considered. This elaboration was intended to convey a broader range of possibilities while accounting… [Read more…]
June 19, 2009
Air pollution occurs when the air contains gases, dust, fumes or odor in harmful amounts—aerosols are a subset of air pollution that refers to the tiny particles suspended everywhere in our atmosphere. These particles can be both solid and liquid and are collectively referred to as ‘atmospheric aerosol particles.’ Most are produced by natural processes… [Read more…]
June 15, 2009
Climate change is a serious challenge to humanity and sustainable development, which requires both proactive responses and concerted effort by the international community. Xie Zhenhua, President Hu Jintao’s Special Representative on Climate Change and Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission of China 26/05/2009 China attaches great importance to tackling climate change. In… [Read more…]
June 10, 2009
Mark Twain might as well have been talking about global warming when he famously remarked, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it.” For years we have heard so much about the causes of climate change, that we’ve missed the fact that there are simple, practical solutions that can slow this… [Read more…]
June 8, 2009
Tropical deforestation produces more global warming pollution than the total emissions of every car, truck, plane, ship, and train on earth. It accounts for about 20 percent of the world’s heat-trapping emissions, an amount equivalent to the emissions from China or the U.S. Tropical forest trees, like all green plants, take in carbon dioxide and… [Read more…]
May 28, 2009
WASHINGTON — NASA will hold a media teleconference on Thursday, May 28, at 1 p.m. EDT, to present the first-ever global views of the health of marine plant life. Using a new measure of the health of phytoplankton in the world’s oceans made possible by data from NASA’s Aqua satellite, scientists have discovered new regions… [Read more…]
May 26, 2009
The statement issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to pave the way for new regulations of cars, power plants, building sites and factories by identifying carbon dioxide and five other gases as pollutants. Environmental groups applauded it as a landmark decision that would allow Barack Obama to meet his call for a… [Read more…]
August 17, 2009
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