Global...Cooling Posted: 2 years ago by Hoosker
The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.
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Polar Bear: Kodiak, Grizzly, Panda - BearPlanet.org Posted: 3 years ago by sharoncreech
Bear Planet is fabulous site (better to say planet) about bears, wild predators, that covers all aspects and attributes for all species of bears with a lot informations and some beautiful and unique cubs photos. You will find all species of bears including Polar Bear along with Grizzly, Brown Bear, Kodiak, Big Bear, American Black bear, Asiatic black bear, Malayan Sun Bear, Sloth Bear, Spectacled Bear and Panda Bear.
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USA is a global catastrophe!? Posted: 3 years ago by Jon77
The most powerful storm in the past 20 years, bringing it down to New York and New Jersey, filled reservoirs, water supply both the state. At the same time, he has brought many problems for thousands of motorists and homeowners who threatens to destroy coastline Long-Island and New Jersey and has increased the long debate over climate change.
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Oh No! Ozone Will Kill Us All Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Remember the previous world climate scare? The one after Global Ice Age, but before Global Warming? The loss of the Ozone and the ozone hole over Antarctica was going to result in man's doom. Now that we are on our way to correcting the problem there are worries that the ozone will increase global warming and change wind patterns warming Antarctica even faster.
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Bonfires May Be Banned In The Name of Global Warming Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Seattle is considering banning the ancient tradition of bonfires, of lying on the beach at night, lounging around a fire because they contribute to global warming or cooling or climate change or something.
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Blame for global warming placed firmly on humankind Posted: 3 years ago by hazelly
The most authoritative scientific report on climate change says with 90% certainty that the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are driving climate change.
As if it wasn't obvious before...
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How to talk to a global warming skeptic Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Below is a complete listing of responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by:
Stages of Denial, Scientific Topics, Types of Argument, and Levels of Sophistication. BBC has similar site with less info.
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Global warming - 55m years ago Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
A period of intense global warming 55 million years ago was caused by massive volcanic eruptions that split apart Greenland and north-west Europe, scientists believe.
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Global Warming: Rush To Judgement? Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
a non existent article in a non-existent learned journal was dangled as bait. The article reported to scientifically proved that "concerns about manmade global warming are unfounded." Rush and several Blogs ate it up, despite obviously gibberish math and such reference works as "Miocene, Pliocene and Plasticine fossil records for eukaryotic mass on the West African continental shelf."
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Global Cooling Alert Posted: 2 years ago by snuffleupogus
Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.
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Global warming not so global Posted: 3 years ago by Inc0m
Global temperature fluctuations mostly stable since 1979
with only regional warming and cooling trends.
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Amazing discovery of green algae which could save the world from global warming Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Melting icebergs, so long the iconic image of global warming, are triggering a natural process that could delay or even end climate change, British scientists have found.
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Bye bye black sheep – climate change making sheep change colour Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Global warming is not only making the wild sheep of Soay to shrink but it is also making them change colour, claim scientists.
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Warming Climate Is Changing Life On Global Scale Posted: 2 years ago by karenben
A vast array of physical and biological systems across the earth are being affected by warming temperatures caused by humans, says a new analysis of information not previously assembled all in one spot.
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Satellites Shed Light On Global Warming Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
As climate change continues to make headlines across the world, participants at the 2007 Envisat Symposium this week are hearing how Earth observation satellites allow scientists to better understand the parameters involved in global warming and how this is impacting the planet.
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Paint cities white to tackle global warming, scientist says Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Roads and buildings should be painted white in order to tackle global warming, according to a scientist.
Hashem Akbari believes that whitening 100 of the world's largest cities could wipe out the effect of the expected increase in emissions over the next decade.
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Global Warming Responsible for Western Droughts Posted: 2 years ago by mahler87
Next in series: Global warming responsible for results of 2008 election.
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Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites Posted: 4 months ago by shuallyo
Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.
*had to post this cause his name was "Plimer"*
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Professor Steven Chu: paint the world white to fight global warming Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
As a weapon against global warming, it sounds so simple and low-tech that it could not possibly work. But the idea of using millions of buckets of whitewash to avert climate catastrophe has won the backing of one of the world’s most influential scientists.
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First Comes Global Warming, Then An Evolutionary Explosion Posted: 4 months ago by 2manyusernames
In a matter of years or decades, researchers believe, animals and plants already are adapting to life in a warmer world. Some species will be unable to change quickly enough and will go extinct, but others will evolve, as natural selection enables them to carry on in an altered environment.
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To slow global warming, install white roofs Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Such roofs and reflective pavement in the world's 100 largest cities would have a massive cooling effect, according to data released at California's annual Climate Change Research Conference.
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