Archive for August, 2007
Rapley Gets Specific - Sea Likely to Rise 1 Meter by 2100, 1% Chance It Will Be 2 Meters
This is the third time in as many days that the Climate Seminar in Ny Alesund, Norway has made the headlines; and I still don’t see the sponsor named in any of the articles; but I think I have cracked this mystery. I just discovered that the Ny Alesund Seminars are frequent occurrences and appear to be referred to […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2007 under Climate Change, Quotes, West Antarctic, Sea Level Rise.
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Scientists Call For New Cold War Against Global Warming
Today’s headlines from the summit in Nyland, Norway claim that Climate Change is the biggest Security Challenge since the Cold War.
I still can not find out the sponsor of this mini-summit of 40 scientists and policy makers, nor can I find a list of the participants, but every report that comes out of this conference shows […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2007 under Climate Change, Quotes, Global Warming.
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IPCC Accused of Being “Seriously Misleading” about Melting Antarctica
Dr. Christopher Rapley, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, told a seminar being held in Ny Alesund, Norway on August 20 that the IPCC was “restrained to the point of being seriously misleading” with regard to the risk posed by a melting Antarctica.
Dr. Rapley has repeatedly warned that the IPCC has seriously underestimated the impact that […]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under West Antarctic, Sea Level Rise.
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Hurricane Dean Inflicts Heavy Damage On Jamaica & Dominican Republic
News on Jamaica
It’s just past 10 AM and Dean is still pummeling parts of Jamaica. Dean passed just south of Jamaica but Category Four winds were recorded in Kingston.
Here is the latest MSNBC video from Jamaica, Hurricane Dean wallops Jamaica, which was made this morning in the capital of Kingston.
Caribseek, Caribbean News, ran this story which was last updated […]
Posted: August 20th, 2007 under Extreme Weather.
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A New Focus
I began my blog in the hope of convincing people of the urgent need to spend as much time and effort on adapting to global warming as we are spending on mitigating (or fighting) global warming. I may try to kid around a little, calling myself Count Doom and creating my 4 horsemen of Global Warming; but […]
Posted: August 20th, 2007 under Extreme Weather, Global Warming Insurance.
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Today’s News - August 17, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - I have written repeatedly about problems with the CDM, the Kyoto carbon offset trading mechanism, which has been plagued with allegations of fraud and waste in the projects it is supposed to oversee and certify. Now the European Union’s trading program is […]
Posted: August 18th, 2007 under CO2 Emissions, Beyond Kyoto, Sustainable Development, CCS, CSS, Renewable Energy, Today's News, Carbon Trading.
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Today’s News - August 16, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Time to focus on another of my horsemen, Heat, which is causing havoc in the U.S. and Japan with record breaking temperatures.
First, the US: 37 Die In South, Midwest Heat Wave.
Unrelenting heat that has baked the Midwest and South for the past […]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 under Three Strikes Analogy, Health, Diseases, Extreme Weather, Record Temperatures, Sea Level Rise, Greenland, Today's News, Uncategorized.
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Today’s News - August 15, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - The Small Island Nations of the Pacific are at extreme risk due to sea level rise. Most of the time I concentrate on the most dramatic effects of sea level rise - the more powerful storms and storm surges - so it is […]
Posted: August 16th, 2007 under Extreme Weather, Disaster Planning, Saltwater Intrusion, Flooding, Permafrost, Greenland, Small Island Nations, Today's News, Sea Level Rise.
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Today’s News - August 14, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Although it might seem like the top story should be something about floods with all the breaking news, I thought I have covered floods enough to make my major points clear; that we need to prepare for similar problems here, that we have […]
Posted: August 15th, 2007 under Carbon Sinks, CO2 Emissions, Energy Conservation, Sustainable Development, Three Strikes Analogy, Green Building, Polls, China, Renewable Energy, Today's News, Coal, Global Warming.
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Today’s News - August 13, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Time recently blasted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the problems in preparing New Orleans for Katrina and the repair effort afterwards, and now the Corps is firing back: Response to Aug. 13 Time Cover Story: “The Threatening Storm”.
TIME magazine’s […]
Posted: August 14th, 2007 under Flooding, Extreme Weather, Disaster Planning, Climate Change, Today's News, Sea Level Rise, Renewable Energy, Global Warming.
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