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- reanimate6
Despite its efforts for nearly two decades to raise doubts about the science of climate change, newly discovered company documents show that as early as 1977, Exxon research scientists warned company executives that carbon dioxide was increasing in the atmosphere and that the burning of fossil fuels was to blame.
- reanimate2
Elon Musk, co-founder of electric carmaker Tesla Motors, warned on Thursday that climate change will spark a refugee crisis of catastrophic proportions if no action is taken.
In a speech in Berlin, the Tesla chief executive said Europe's current wave of people seeking asylum, prompted mostly by political violence, will be dwarfed as fresh water becomes scarce, food supplies become insecure and weather changes in the coming decades.
"Today's refugee problem is perhaps a small indication of what the future will be like if we do not take action with respect to climate change," Musk told an audience at Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. "Today, the challenge is in terms of millions of people, but in the future, based on what the scientific consensus is, the problem will be in the hundreds of millions and much more severe."
- utopian5
For just the third time on record, scientists say they are now watching the unfolding of a massive worldwide coral bleaching event, spanning the globe from Hawaii to the Indian Ocean. And they fear that thanks to warm sea temperatures, the ultimate result could be the loss of more than 12,000 square kilometers, or over 4,500 square miles, of coral this year — with particularly strong impacts in Hawaii and other U.S. tropical regions, and potentially continuing into 2016.
- utopian2
Sea level rise will swallow Miami, New Orleans.
Miami (AFP) - Say goodbye to Miami and New Orleans. No matter what we do to curb global warming, these and other beloved US cities will sink below rising seas, according to a study Monday.
- utopian4
2015 might have seen hottest summer in 4,000 years
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/22/we…- hey let's upvote without reading the article. but deniers are fools they sayGeorgesII
- GeorgesII-7
be weary of article that use words like "might have been" then when you read the article nowhere does it explains where they have pulled the 4000 years of,
in the sidebar it reads
"It was the hottest June-July-August since detailed record-keeping began in 1880"
then clickbaiter proceed to say
"Planet Earth has definitely experienced its hottest summer since detailed records have been kept, and according to scientists, it might have been the hottest in more than 4,000 years."
so it's 4k years or not, cnn is really reaching with the clickbait
here's the noaa report, which isn't too hard to understand,
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/gl…
so noaa states
In Canada, Ontario had a record warm September. Temperatures were above average by up to 5°C (9°F) across the province.
[no time period given]The United States had its second warmest September on record, with a temperature 2.1°C (3.7°F) above the 20th century average. Record and near-record warmth spanned most of the country, with nine states in the Northeast, Midwest, and Southwest record warm.
[no time period given]The September temperature for Norway was 2.2°C (4.0°F) higher than the 1961–1990 average. This marks the sixth warmest September for the country since national records began in 1900. Parts of northern Norway and Trøndelag were 3–4°C (5–7°F) warmer than average.
[115 years record, nowhere near alarmist]It was the coldest September in Spain since 1996, at 0.8°C (1.4°F) below the 1981–2010 national average. Some areas of northern Spain were 1.5‐2.5°C (2.7–4.5°F) cooler than their monthly averages.
[so it was the coolest in spain, in 20 years]The United Kingdom also had a September temperature that was 0.8°C below the 1981–2010 average. England and Wales each observed their coolest September since 1994.
[coolest again]so they are reporting anomalies, but anomalies will only stay that, anomalies. if you can't give a timespan longer than 120 years, how can we honestly say these are anomalies?
- Are you drinking swamp gas again?utopian
- I noticed that global warming accepters don't ever read the article they link, so so sad. but it's ok, to say this was the hottest summers sinceGeorgesII
- the pyramid were being built, it's so ludicrous it hurts, this is why I linked to the actual source the article was based onGeorgesII
- btw how do you drink gas utopian? ehehheGeorgesII
- Don't let the warmists get to you Georges. There socialist agenda will be exposed soon enough. Upvoted.rouncey
- *Theirdetritus
- you lost my respect george... there I was thinking you were a proper Candadianhotroddy
- it's all a ploy to put pressure on china who is currently going trough an industrial revolution. it is a very convenient stance to take considering we don't relgilgamush
- rely on coal anymore. not sure where these indignant lemmings get off trying to make it a partisan issue thoughgilgamush
- reanimate0
Temperature rise due to climate change may radically damage the global economy and slow growth in the coming decades if nothing is done to slow the pace of warming, according to new research.
The researchers behind the study, published in the journal Nature, found that temperature change due to unmitigated global warming will leave global GDP per capita 23% lower in 2100 than it would be without any warming. “We’re basically throwing away money by not addressing the issue,” said Marshall Burke, an assistant professor at Stanford University. “We see our study as providing an estimate of the benefits of reducing emissions.”
- yuekit2
Indonesia’s palm oil fires are emitting more greenhouse gases every day than the entire US
http://qz.com/528160/indonesias-…
- what? no? but, but it's all the conservative american's faultgilgamush
- Isn't the US simply used here for comparison, rather than to ignite the chip on your shoulder?MrT
- that is correct, the shoulder chip is in response to the never ending party politics that worm their way into scientific debategilgamush
- "Hero of the stupid" - gilgamushutopian
- "derp herp derhur dee durp" - utopiangilgamush
- My perception is that the gop has wound the science debate into their own politics and are ferverous about it.monospaced
- lowimpakt2
It lacks pretty pictures but this speech by the Governor of the Bank of England is fairly important
- utopian2
Climate change blamed for putting Belgium beer business at risk
http://www.theguardian.com/world…
- uan1
is it just in my perception of media scape that there is absolutely no media coverage at all from the climate conference in paris.
Last time I read or heard about it was when it started. since then silence. must be not spectacular enough...and listening into 1 live stream from the website, it's pretty boring.
the webpage has some live streams:
http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en/we should probably talk more about it in social media space...
- sureshot0
13c today.
- uan1
- utopian1
The attack on climate change scientists continues in Washington
While 150 world leaders continue their efforts outside Paris to hammer out an agreement to address climate change, the concerted attack on scientists by conservatives in Congress has continued apace. We've reported on this campaign in the past, but recent developments warrant an update.
Ground zero for the attack on climate change scientists is the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. It's headed by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the most assiduous climate change deniers on Capitol Hill. For several months, Smith has been throwing a conniption fit over a report published by several government climate experts in the June 26 issue of the widely respected journal Science.
- utopian1
Local water agencies plead for relief from California drought cutbacks