Archive for 2007

U.K. House of Commons, discussion on the Bali Climate Change Negotiations

Prepared: 16:49 on 18 December 2007, 12.33 pmThe Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Hilary Benn): With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement on last week’s international climate change negotiations in Indonesia.The

Report: Troubles rise with temps, sea level

The Times - Picayune Louisiana could be ahead of other states Sunday, December 16, 2007 By Mark Schleifstein Louisiana's coastal parishes and other Gulf communities from Houston to Mobile should build higher and more resilient roads, bridges and other

Kevin Conrad Haripem

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=C1fwrWc-g_A&feature=related"And there is an old saying, 'If you are not willing to lead, then get out of the way.' And, I would ask the United States: We ask for your leadership. We seek your leadership. But, if for

Peter Riggs' report on the final day at Bali

From Dot Earth, a blog set up by Andrew Revkin of the New York Times.http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/voices-on-bali-and-beyond/Comment 4. December 16th, 2007, 8:46 am The Trade Policy Expert This note was circulated widely

Doppler Radar Map, U.S., December 12, 2007

This is a captured image of a doppler radar map of the United States on December 12, 2007, from the Weather Channel site (www.weather.com) showing the absolutely enormous front that stretched from the Rio Grande in Texas all the way to Mai

Year 2007 Temperatures: January through November

Link to Dr. James Hansen's publication on the recorded temperatures this year so far:http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/20071210_GISTEMP.

Konrad Steffen: Greenland Melt Accelerating

Original article can be found here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071211233433.htmScienceDaily (Dec. 12, 2007) — The 2007 melt extent on the Greenland ice sheet broke the 2005 summer melt record by 10 percent, making it the largest ever

Missing From the Political Debate

It's always frustrating when something you predict doesn't happen. But it's worse when it's something that really matters. And global warming is just not as big of an issue as it should be. I thought it would out drive everything by now, even the

The Future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Exploring ice thickness, melting and global climate changeBy Marc Airhart, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at AustinPolar ice experts once thought Antarctica's ice sheets were mostly immune to climate change. Research findings

The Clean, Green Economy

�Peak Oil� is the time when half of the oil in the world has been harvested, and all harvests thereafter will be harder, slower, and more expensive. It�s a place where the price of oil has nowhere to go but up. Many people think we�re there. A few

Scarcity

We had as much trouble finding LED lights as we had finding a Wii. Being tenacious people, we found both, but I was really happy to see the climate change friendly lights be in such demand. The small signs of fundamental change in thinking are nice

Expanding tropics 'a threat to millions'

By Steve Connor, Science Editor Published: 03 December 2007, The Independenthttp://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article3218026.ece

Cape Lisburne, Alaska, December 1, 2007

UPDATE DECEMBER 26, 2010:hmm, I find myself travelling back to this entry again, for some reason.  Cancún brought little change. The oil and coal plutocrats have intensified their campaign to manipulate and confuse the American public (and the Australian,