Posts from ‘February, 2010’

via climate.nasa.gov Each year, scientists at NASA’S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instrumental temperature records began 130 years ago. Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57°C (1.03°F) warmer than the 1951-1980 base period. And January 2000 to December 2009 came [...]

via washingtonpost.com BONN, Germany — The United Nations says formal negotiations on an international treaty to control global warming will resume in Bonn in April, four months after the failed climate change summit in Copenhagen. U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said Tuesday the negotiating schedule is being intensified in order to secure a global [...]

via vancouversun.com Whatever your thoughts about global warming, you have to feel a little sorry for Phil Jones. First, the formerly private e-mails of the former director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England were hacked, leading to the so-called climategate scandal. And now, media everywhere are putting words [...]

via weblogs.marylandweather.com A survey of more than 1,000 Americans suggests that we have increasing doubts about the nature of global climate change and the urgency of acting on the science. Even the group identified as the most “alarmed” among those surveyed – those convinced that global warming is happening, is caused by humans and is [...]

Scientists who believe global sea levels are going to rise even more than now predicted have scored a victory with the retraction of a less-alarming report from a scientific publication. That’s bad news for the global warming deniers and Climategate believers. Here’s what happened: Several scientists published a 2009 study in Nature Geoscience, predicting sea [...]

BEIJING (Reuters) – President Hu Jintao said on Tuesday China was committed to fighting climate change, both at home and in cooperation with the rest of the world, but stopped short of offering any new policies. Britain, Sweden and other countries have accused China of obstructing December’s Copenhagen climate summit, which ended with a non-binding [...]

WASHINGTON %u2014 Facing wide criticism over their recent finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public welfare, top Environmental Protection Agency officials said Monday that any regulation of such gases would be phased in gradually and would not impose expensive new rules on most American businesses. Skip to next paragraph –> A blog about energy, the [...]

WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Climate change is melting the floating ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula, giving scientists a preview of what could happen if other ice shelves around the southern continent disappear, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said on Monday. The ice has retreated so far from the land mass that Charcot Island, [...]

Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. said it wants to reach a legally binding climate-change agreement at a summit in Mexico in December, a sign President Barack Obama hasn’t given up the fight for a global accord to limit greenhouse gases. The pact should cover “all major economies,” and include elements from the non-binding Copenhagen [...]

via chicagotribune.com Here’s a recent headline that caused a few double takes in Washington, D.C.: “Global warming hearing postponed because of snow.” Yes, nothing gives an unearned boost to global warming skeptics like back-to-back snowstorms variously nicknamed “snow-pocalypse” and “snow-mageddon,” among other less-charitable labels in the nation’s capital. Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe, an outspoken [...]