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Calls to action
Digging a deeper hole: The way to find out if governments are serious about climate change is to ask, have they decided to leave most of their fossil fuel reserves in the ground?
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Nuclear power will suffer much more from the shale gas boom than renewable energy. But this complicates the supposed environmental benefits of the increasing use of the fossil fuel
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Fossils recovered from 73 sites around the world show that the Earth is warmer today than it has been for most of the last 11,300 years, with further temperature rises also predicted
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The biggest threat to America’s security environment isn’t a foreign military power. It’s the upheaval related to climate change. Just ask one of America’s top military commanders
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The chances of the world holding temperature rises to a ‘safe’ level appear to be fading fast with scientists reporting the second-greatest annual rise in CO2 emissions in 2012
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Global CO2 levels jumped by 2.67 parts per million last year. It might not sound like a dramatic leap, but it’s the second highest one-year increase since record-keeping began
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The Arab Spring – the popular uprisings against oppressive regimes. Surprisingly, climate change also played a part in precipitating this massive socio-political upheaval
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Scientists use proxies to measure past temperatures. If these can be related to modern temperature measurements, it would provide independent confirmation of recent global warming
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To boldly go where no space agency’s been before? NASA scientists are turning Los Angeles into a climate laboratory to finally get an empirical measure on a city’s carbon footprint
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In this era of global warming and ever-expanding human populations, no place can escape profound change. Even in once–pristine Tibet, the transformation is transparent
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In the ‘good’ old days, they’d burn heretics. Now, they just don’t re–elect them – as a Republican found to his cost when he admitted to the ultimate sin: Belief in climate change
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The study of wave–like weather systems that encircle the planet adds to understanding of extremes that have killed thousands of people and driven up food prices in the past decade
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The old adage, ‘if you can’t stand the heat’ applies to more than just kitchen work, with climate scientists predicting heat stress–related labor problems to double globally by 2050
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A thaw in Siberia's permafrost could have severe consequences for climate change, releasing hundreds of gigatonnes of carbon dioxide and methane. And it might so readily happen
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It is easy to dismiss him as a hypocritical blowhard. The trouble is, he makes a worryingly convincing case. Perhaps Al Gore’s Future is to be philosopher–king of a ruined Earth
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At climatedebatedaily.com, we're somewhat old fashioned – so, in an effort to reach out to the next generation (not Star Trek!), here’s something called a climate change ‘infographic’
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It’s okay to be skeptical, but skepticism has to come within the framework of what’s already understood. We're at the point where every rational person must accept climate change
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Both the scant snowfall over the past few years and the recent blizzard in the US Northeast have been blamed on global warming. How? The answer lies in atmospheric physics
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Eau de toilette: Scientists track the scent of climate change by digging into ancient layers of dried urine left by the rock hyrax, a guinea pig–like creature common in Africa and Asia
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Uncovered: Hardcore conservatives funding a vast network of think–tanks and activists working to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to polarized ‘issue’
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US President Obama’s climate and energy legacy will be the dual policy he’s been pushing for years: Reduce fossil fuel consumption and increase fossil fuel production
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Green Pontiff(ication): While the departing Pope was well-known for his conservatism, Benedict was actually progressive when it came to the environment and climate change
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More bikes. Fewer Humvees. And even insurance for nursery plants. Just some of the ideas to deal with the risks of future climate change mooted by the new Obama administration
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The unmentionable ‘s’ word at conferences on renewable energy. But while wind energy still relies on subsidies, nuclear, gas or coal are even more dependent on government handouts
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Bonjour! Have a nice day. If Americans adopted Western Europeans' more relaxed attitude to work, it could reduce up to 50% of the global temperature rise expected by 2100
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The UN talks a great game on reducing carbon emissions, while encouraging the industrialized world to use carbon offsetting. Trouble is, it’s not actually carbon neutral itself
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What’s 69 feet high and terrifying? The sea level rise from Greenland's melting glaciers. As one expert says: ‘These giants are awake and they seem to have a bit of a hangover.’
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A (woolly) mammoth of a task. Pleistocene ‘rewilding’ is under way in Siberia as large herbivores are reintroduced to encourage grass growth and stop permafrost thawing out
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As Congress dithers on climate change, expanding wind, solar, hydro and geothermal energy, plus less oil and coal use, bring US carbon emissions to the lowest levels since 1994
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It’s like something from a spy movie, with American billionaires funding a secretive organization to undermine the science of global warming. James Bond, anyone?
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By flying less, you limit your carbon footprint. Right? Actually, you'd do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by insulating your home, driving fewer miles and eating less meat
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A Stern Warning. The author of Britain’s 2006 review on climate change admits he was wrong about the dangers of global warming. It’s actually far, far worse than he realised
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Urban footprint: Heat released into the atmosphere from buildings, cars and factories could play a major role in the warming (and the cooling) of places hundreds of miles away
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Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them who trespass against us. Not so easy for many climate conscious travellers, for whom air travel is their most serious environmental sin
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‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn’. That’s the message that governments are sending by exploiting tar sands, one of the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fuels on the planet
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Saving the planet. How’s that for something to tell the grandkids? It’s something that President Obama could achieve: The lasting legacy of protecting us from global warming
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Carbon-capture technology. It’s not risky geo-engineering to prevent further climate change. It’s simply cleaning up after ourselves, and repairing the damage we’ve already done
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Guns, gay rights … and global warming. Barack Obama begins his second term as US President with an inauguration speech emphasising the need for action on climate change
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Soot is second only to carbon as a cause of climate change – and ‘black carbon’ produces a double whammy by warming up the air directly, then magnifying its effects
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Each year of the 21st century has ranked among the 14 hottest since 1880, with 2012 consolidating a pattern of global warming by being among the 10 warmest years on record
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Can wind, water, and solar technologies provide all of the world’s energy in the near future? Or is this the environmental equivalent of belief in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy?
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Some good from Doha? For the first time, there’s acknowledgement that developing nations are particularly vulnerable to climate change and that they might have a right to redress
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions won't avoid the impacts of climate change but it will buy time to make transport systems and agriculture more resilient to climate change
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The climate debate is now a fight between leftist greens seeing evil corporations gambling away the planet’s future and rightist skeptics blinding themselves to basic scientific truths
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As a new report shows, if the US, world's greatest economy, is already feeling the strain of global warming, then other nations face a worrying future as temperatures continue to rise
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It sounds like a plot from a James Bond movie, but it's possible that the world's climate could be hijacked by a rouge country's or wealthy individual's criminal geoengineering
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Catastrophic heat: After the last ice age it took 10,000 years for the average global temperature to rise 4 °C. Now we’re on course to warm this much in less than 200 years
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Perhaps things are really heating up: The latest research reveals that over a long enough time scale, sustained warmer temperatures may lead to increased frequency of volcanic activity
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A gold medal winning performance: We need to harness the world’s amazing Olympic spirit annually to tackle the unbelievable and increasing rise in global greenhouse gas emissions
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Where fact meets fiction. For writers, the great issues of the past – slavery, say, or child labor – possessed an essential humanness. Climate change, though, does not engage most readers
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Water, water everywhere … well, maybe not. As a result of climate change, fresh water – a resource crucial to human existence – may become increasingly scarce in the future
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Forget Mayan prophecies: We’re really on a steady billion–tonne by billion–tonne march to the edge of the carbon cliff, beyond which lies a fateful fall to catastrophic climate change
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A burning issue: In five years, the amount of coal burned every year will increase by 1.2 billion metric tons. It’s hardly good news for anyone concerned about carbon emissions
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Misinformation misfire: Climate changes skeptics are in a hot spot after (mis)reading the latest UN report to ‘prove’ that global warming is caused by the sun, not human activity
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In theory, it’s easy to be skeptical about climate change. In practice, when you’re faced with extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy, it’s difficult to remain indifferent
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Getting steamy in the South Pole. A special hot water drill boring through to a lake deep under the Antarctic ice could help revolutionize what we know about past climate change
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Having your cake, and eating it: Some corporations are minimizing waste, using renewable energy, and lowering their carbon impact – all while turning a profit and growing their business
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From the land of ‘The Hobbit’: We can emulate Gollum and clutch ‘our precious’ car–intensive, deep sea oil drilling, old polluting economy – or we can create a greener planet
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Indian burn: A number of new initiatives in India are helping farmers cope with unpreditable weather as climate change brings fresh urgency to the need for sustainable agriculture
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Forget ‘The Hobbit’ or the latest James Bond movie, catch this instead: ‘Chasing Ice’ – an Oscar-nominated documentary showcasing the disappearance of the world's glaciers
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The blocking tactics of oil–rich countries have long been a feature of climate negotiations like those in Doha. Now there are signs that they’re (literally) beginning to feel the heat
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Great Expectations. The world’s been anticipating a new voice from America about climate change. But it’s the same old message: The US is unwilling to make major concessions
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It’s ironic that the UN talks on climate change are being held in a region with a massive carbon footprint. The question is, will the Arab World lead the way on climate change?
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Some of the major industrial players (and heaviest polluters), like Russia, Canada and Japan, have made known that they’ll sidestep climate deals, as will the USA. So what hope Doha?
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As almost 200 countries gather in Doha, Qatar, to try and agree a global deal on cutting carbon emissions, the latest report suggests that greenhouse gas levels are set to rise
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One of the biggest wild cards in climate change has been figuring out how much the melting of the massive sheets of ice at the two poles would add to the seas. It’s not good news
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She sells seashells by the seashore. But for how much longer? Shellfish are in decline as growing CO2 emissions dissolve into the world’s oceans and increase the sea’s acidity
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The UN admits that a massive threat to the climate is not included in models of global warming: The powerful greenhouse gas methane that is released from thawing permafrost
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Global warming is hard to make into a disaster movie. Even disasters like Hurricane Sandy are difficult to tie in to a global phenomenon. How about a time lapse of a melting glacier?
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Doha is a byword for stalemate and failure (think stalled trade talks dragging on for years). So what should we expect from the climate talks now under way in the Qatari city?
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Hey – this is an interesting question: Can the renewable energy sources designed to mitigate the effects of cimate change cope with the extreme weather caused by climate change?
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It’s been dogged by fundamental disagreements between countries and exacerbated by the financial crisis, but an international agreement on tackling climate change is still worth it
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Raus! Raus! German experts are stressing – yet again – that to halt climate change we need nothing less than a new industrial revolution. But many politicians aren't listening
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The latest report, ‘Turn Down the Heat’, makes it clear that we’ll never end poverty if we don't tackle one of the single biggest challenges to social justice today: Climate change
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No more equatorial ice? Scientists now warn it’s no longer a question of whether Kilimanjaro's glaciers will disappear, but when – with some predicting they'll be gone by 2060
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Forget the industrial producers of greenhouse gases: Deforestation in tropical rainforests adds more CO2 to the atmosphere than the sum total of cars and trucks on the world’s roads
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Unlike fossil fuels, biomass is renewable – basically, you replant any vegetation that you burn. But things are never that simple, and biomass might actually be fuelling global warming
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The notion of peak oil might be dead, but this just means leaving most of the world's coal, oil and gas in the ground. Or else facing a destabilised climate’s heatwaves, floods and storms
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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, with the U.S. public increasingly accepting the reality of climate change, President Obama has an unprecedented opportunity to take bold action
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It’s no longer business as usual. If the results of a new study are correct, global warming will come on faster, and be more intense, than many current predictions suggest
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Like abortion rights, gay marriage or assisted dying, climate change is treated as a moral or ideological question. That is simply idiotic. Sadly, it’s no longer a matter for informed debate
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Is climate change back on the political agenda? And will an Obama presidency with no concern over re–election in four years be able to shine a light on the issue at last?
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When it comes to climate change, responsible leaders do not play politics. Like all prudent business people, they must instead consider 'what if' and construct a variety of models
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The world will have to cut the rate of carbon emissions by an unprecedented rate to stop global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees this century, a new report suggests
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Not just clutching at straws? By constructing giant plastic tubes that extend 100m deep into the ocean, marine engineers hope to reduce the threat from deadly tropical storms
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The impacts of climate change on agriculture will profoundly alter the way we grow and produce food: Less rice and maize, and fewer potatoes (but maybe more bananas)
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Hurricane Sandy has whipped up a whirlwind of climate debate, with the storm’s destructive power stemming from factors that include, but are not limited to, global warming
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Sandy Storm1: Policymakers in hurricane regions should worry about levees, storm-shelters and evacuation procedures, and mitigating the effects of climate change
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Nothing to be skeptical about. How do we know that global warming is real and primarily human caused? There are numerous lines of evidence that converge to this conclusion
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Necessity is the mother of invention – and with climate change being THE mother of a menace to our planet, perhaps we could invent our way out of danger. (It could even be fun)
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The most powerful nation on the planet, the United States, denies what the rest of the world can clearly see: Climate change. Unfortunately, only disaster is likely to open their eyes
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Poles apart. As Arctic sea ice cover shrinks to record lows, the opposite is happening in Antarctica. But the Southern growth rate is not nearly as large as the decrease in the North
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Made to measure. Forget one–size–fits–all solar geoengineering – a better approach would be careful tailoring by region or to manage specific risks like the loss of Arctic sea ice
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Does my butt look big in this catalytic–converter? They’re the latest must–haves for the fashion conscious and environmentally aware: Jeans that neutralise harmful pollutants
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A typical carbon capture system requires a great deal of electricity, which thus saps power from power plants. Now there’s a new way to overcome the problem of ‘parasitic load’
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There’s only weeks to go in the 2012 presidential race, with no mention of global warming. Here are three potential climate change debate questions that could break the climate silence
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It’s a subject that’s been hotly debated over the past decade, but there’s growing support for the controversial idea that global warming is causing more frequent and destructive hurricanes
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So, just how do you work out the arcane economic calculations necessary for a functioning ‘cap and trade’ carbon emissions scheme? In California, you start by measuring trees
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It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good – and the regrettable downturn in investment in renewable energy has one positive cause: A fall in the cost of wind and solar technology
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What’s worse – the threat of global warming or that from organised crime? Both, as research suggests that organised crime has a deleterious effect on the environment
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Global warming forecast: Wind, rain, fire and ice. New research links changing wind patterns with thawing Arctic ice, unusually wet European summers and Rocky Mountain wildfires
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There’s a stash of gas buried under the Arctic seafloor whose heat-trapping power is greater, molecule for molecule, than the CO2 people usually worry about. Meet the Methane Bomb
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Forget the doom and gloom of climate change: If we want individuals to share the vision of a low-carbon society, let’s emphasize the need to inspire people – it’s what the EU are doing
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Washing away bad memories. Rising oceans, the result of climate change, are having a detrimental impact on Ghana’s coasts – and destroying evidence of former slaving forts
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The most drastic melting of Arctic sea ice to date is bringing together previously separated species, with biologists fearing that this will promote interbreeding and loss of diversity
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Environmentally friendly goods are a winner for consumers wanting greener products and for producers wanting to sell them. But only if marketers' claims are truthful and substantiated
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The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef ecosystem, is big enough to be seen from space. But for how much longer, as new research shows it is now in steep decline
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Reason to change: The perilous loss of Arctic ice and the imminent threat of irreversible climate change pose an ultimatum to the economic system that's pushing us over the brink
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Unfortunately, the one thing that rivals the misinformation spewed by the climate change skeptics and spinmeisters is the distorted science of the radical anti–GMO campaigners
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Fishing tales about how big ‘the one that got away’ was will soon be more exaggerated as global warming is likely to shrink fish by as much as a quarter in coming decades
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Take the news with a pinch of salt: Recent research suggests that sea grasses found in coastal marshes may soak up excess CO2 in a warming world. Only it’s more complicated than that
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Research suggests up to five million deaths occur annually as a result of climate change and carbon–intensive economies – a toll likely to rise if current patterns of fossil fuel use continue
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Getting the wind up the nay-sayers. It can now be conclusively shown that skeptics who lobby against wind simply have their facts wrong: Wind turbines do reduce carbon emissions
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It’s a non–toxic material made from aluminium nitrate salt, cheap organic materials and water – and it could solve the problems holding back projects to combat global warming
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Why are Americans so disengaged from climate change – arguably, one of the most critical problems of our time? Is it because denial is embedded in their cultural DNA?
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Antarctic sea ice reaches a record high for this day of the year. Arctic sea ice breaks the all-time record for lowest sea ice extent. Guess which news the skeptics focus on
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While Arctic sea-ice extent has reached a record low, at the opposite pole, Antarctic sea ice seems to be more than making up for the losses. Does this debunk claims of global warming?
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Explosive evidence of global warming: As Italy sweltered through another boiling summer, a cache of rusted WW1 munitions emerged from beneath a melting glacier in the Dolomites
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From coffee to coral reefs, bilberries to Arctic foxes, even a moderate rise in world temperatures due to climate change could cause lasting harm to the world’s flora and fauna
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No time to waste: Climate change is no longer something we can aim to do something about in a few decades' time – we must urgently examine any means of slowing global warming
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Cool Britannia? No way! Over the coming century, on-going climate change might mean a massive increase in heat related deaths, plus the looming threat from exotic tropical diseases
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The ice-free Arctic Ocean has absorbed the 24-hour sun over the short polar summer. Now the heat must be released if the ice is to re-form, affecting the all-important jet stream
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The reason for crime hotspots? While correlation doesn’t prove causation, the striking relationship between monthly weather patterns and crime rates is surely no coincidence
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From space, the amount of Artic sea ice melt looks worrying. But satellites tend to see more ice than there actually is – at surface level, the real question becomes, ‘Where is the ice?’
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Not just hot air. Two new studies show that wind power has the potential to supply much more of the world’s energy needs. The problem isn’t capacity or technology – it’s money
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Last summer’s London riots? A sudden rise in violence in Chicago? Don’t blame it on the sunshine – blame climate change instead. When temperatures go up, crime often does, too
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They’re one of the world's most colorful, vivid and productive ecosystems, but now Caribbean coral reefs are verging on collapse, with only 8% showing live coral cover
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Climate science is obviously faked, along with the Moon landings and the JFK cover-up. Now climate skeptic bloggers the world over have a shiny new conspiracy to obsess about
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In increasingly hot water. White ice acts like a parasol, reflecting much more sunlight than open water. So, with Arctic ice at its lowest level for years, the seas are now taking the heat
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Climate change is one of the most serious public health threats facing the United States, with meteorological and ecological shifts posing many unique and unpredictable challenges
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Something to put a bit of backbone into those campaigning to combat habitat loss, pollution and climate change: One in five (spineless) invertebrates species face possible extinction
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Dissenting voices
Did you hear the one about the lawyer, the diplomat, the politician and the skeptical environmentalist? They all got together to debate the rationality of climate change
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Should the environment come first? Or should it be renewable energy uber alles? In Germany, both issues are coming into conflict, with the Green movement in ideological disarray
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Climate false alarm: The modest temperature rise in the 1980s and ’90s launched the greatest, most expensive scare in history, with terrifying political and economic results
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The need for ‘clean’ energy was predicated on the belief that fossil fuels were running out, and on the threat of catastrophic man–made climate change. Oh how wrong we can be
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Sunstroke. Can it really be true that solar radiation, which supplies Earth with the energy that drives our weather and climate, is no longer the principal influence on climate change?
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China emits more carbon dioxide than all the nations in the Western Hemisphere combined, so how come global warming alarmists throw love at China on energy and climate issues?
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The Gaia Theory’s James Lovelock has moved from an alarmist position on global warming to one of greater scepticism about whether climate change is really such a significant threat
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To help tune out the cries of doom and gloom about the future of polar bears and to celebrate their current success, here are ten reasons not to be too worried about Ursus maritimus
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Down in Antarctica, ice cover remains stubbornly above average, while Arctic ice is also making a comeback. It just ain’t easy being a climate change doomsayer these days
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Workers of the world unite! You’ve nothing to lose with global warming claims! If you fancy taking it easy at work, just tell your boss that your output is down due to climate change
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For peat’s sake! Left alone, peat bogs lock in harmful greenhouse gas emissions. So what do the Scottish Greenies plan to do? Build wind farms that damage the peat and release CO2
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It’s a characteristic of global warming doom–meisters never to look on the bright side. They are convinced that any environmental change always results in losers, never winners
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions: Global warming legislation is the biggest threat to our energy security and the biggest boon to most of the West’s geopolitical foes
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ‘Who will guard the guardians?’ It doesn’t matter: When the global warming ‘crisis’ is resolved by an authoritarian government, nobody will have a choice
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The climate alarmists’ carbon ‘greenhouse’ has no roof – it’s something only an academic would design. Anyone with practical experience would know immediately it could not work
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What do we know of ice? ‘Some say the world will end in fire / Some say in ice’, writes poet Robert Frost. ‘I think I know enough of hate / To say that for destruction ice / Is also great’
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Green on the outside, red on the inside? It’s no coincidence that the majority of scientists calling for concerted action on climate change are vehemently and outspokenly left–wing
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The only thing that will happen if carbon taxes are inflicted on the US is that American jobs, economic growth, living standards, health and lives will be sacrificed. For nothing
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The State of the Union is the fate of us us all when the most powerful man in the world succumbs to the dissembling and mendacity of blatant climate change falsehoods
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Okay, as climate skeptics so often point out, science is based on evidence not consensus. Even so, the growing scientific consensus is now that global warming isn’t occurring
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Want to play the climate game? Well, there are plenty of tricks you can play. For example, if there’s a glaring anomaly in your simulation, explain it away as ‘natural variability’
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You’d expect that people who believe science is on their side would relish the opportunity to participate in, and decisively win, debate. But not so with cowardly hypocritical warmists
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The Invasion of the Giant Jellyfish. A Plague of Pulsating Many–Tentacled Monsters. Not B–grade horror movies – just the latest hysteria from the global warming fraternity
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Record cold snaps are a consequence of the weather’s unpredictable natural variability. Severe storms and heat waves, though, are the result of anthropogenic global warming
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The public’s belief in climate change is as fickle as the weather. In polls on global warming, data shows a swing of almost 10% for each degree Celsius that one year differs from another
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When cooler heads prevail: There has been quiet recognition that global temperatures are not rising as fast as expected, despite greenhouse–gas emissions galloping upwards
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He’s a founding father of the Green movement, famous for inventing Gaia Theory, but James Lovelock believes that wind turbines will become monuments to a failed civilisation
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We’re asked to suffer wind power’s unreliability, its intermittence, its aesthetic impact on the landscape, and the noise that torments the lives of residents. And we answer: “Why?”
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Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? The IPCC acknowledges the sun’s role in climate change, but it still fails to include this in its predictions about global warming
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Fact vs Fiction: Yet another alarming climate report has been released – and, as usual, the doomsday scenario is long on Hollywood entertainment but short on believability
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Exaggerating the fear. The IPCC claim they’re 90 percent sure that humans have 'contributed to' observed global warming. Hell, who wouldn’t agree with that innocuous statement?
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Taking advantage of the bully pulpit and a huge national audience, President Obama can talk up the dangers of climate change. (Just don't mention the flimsy scientific evidence)
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Climate alarmists have demanded we halt warming at a 2°C increase at any cost (and they mean that literally). The funny thing is, 1.9°C is the most likely level of future warming
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Doomsayers say that Asia mustn’t become like the West. Instead, to save the planet, Asians are to be condemned to a life of endless labour – just so long as it’s clean and green
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The only way save the world is for industrialized civilization to collapse and it’s our responsibility to bring this about! Plus other gems from the history of climate hysteria
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It’s important to listen to many viewpoints, especially from outside our ideological biases: So let’s hear it for a wholefood Vegan with an un-hippy-esque take on climate change
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The evidence that global warming has stalled hasn’t caused alarmists to abandon their doomsday beliefs. They’re convinced that it’ll inevitably resume at some future stage
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Stomach churning. An analogy to make us wary of the supposed scientific ‘consensus’ on climate change is the way that scientists were once ‘certain’ of the cause of ulcers
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Despite the fear-mongering of climate alarmists, the unrelenting increase in global crop production reveals the positive effects of longer growing seasons and warmer winters
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Is the IPCC an international authority on all aspects of climate? Or is it no more than a craftily assembled government–supported lobby group, doing what lobby groups usually do?
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Capitalist societies are the ones where nature is best protected. Poor, authoritarian societies are ones where the environmental damage is greatest. Try telling that to the Greenies
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Without the rapid deployment of nuclear power, our energy needs will continue to be met predominately by fossil fuels, and global warming targets will almost certainly not be met
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‘Beans, beans, good for the heart, the more you eat, the more you fart.’ It’s not funny: The scientist-orchestrated fraud of anthropogenic climate change is now targeting flatulence
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Politicians stake gargantuan sums of public money on their faith in the climate alarmists – and that’s why it is so vital that every scrap of scientific data is dispassionately analysed
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The past week’s infernos in Australia, as symptoms of global warming, are punishment for mankind’s sins: The only cure is taxes, inflated electricity bills, and restricted air travel
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When you're an environmentalist with the public standing of Al Gore you'd think there'd be nothing more important than saving the planet. You'd be wrong. (He is a politician after all)
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The Thought of Kings. Now that Wills and Kate are giving him a grandchild, Prince Charles has even more incentive to peddle the guilt–tripping cliché called climate change
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Kyoto is dead. Long live common sense. The Kyoto Protocol expired on December 31, 2012, and it’s not been replaced because a new era of climate-change rationalism has taken root
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The human use of fossil fuels displaces firewood as a fuel, warms the climate, and raises carbon dioxide levels. And guess what? That’s actually great news for a greener planet
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Blowing in the wind. It’s cheap, it’s clean and you’d think it would make a great source of renewable energy – but long–term analysis of wind technology paints a different picture
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Science never stands still – and despite earlier predications, given what we know now about climate, there is almost no way that the feared large temperature rise is going to happen
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The United Nation’s most-cited series of climate change forecasts are faring vary badly. But what’s the betting that the inconvenient evidence of this fact does not see the light of day?
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Despite the well–documented shortcomings of the climate alarmists’ mouthpiece, the mainstream media continues to paint the IPCC as an objective, authoritative scientific body
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By Thunder! Hammer this clean energy message home: Thorium – an element named after the Norse god Thor – might prove to be the source of safe, emission–free power
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Man–made global warming may have little effect on the Amazon tree species, which have already weathered some of the worst that nature can throw at them for 8 million years
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The Doha climate conference has been described by some as a ‘major milestone’. For those with a realistic appreciation of the world, the term ‘ritual farce’ seems more appropriate
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In the first quarter of this year, U.S. carbon emissions hit a 20-year low. And this impressive reduction is largely due to a new energy source dismissed by climate activists: Shale gas
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Being ‘idealistic and impetuous’ means independence. So why choose climate alarmism; something preposterous and impossible to believe upon a close examination of the facts?
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Cheap energy encourages economic growth, so thank frack for shale gas. It well and truly refutes the belief that fossil fuels would grow ever more expensive as they rapidly ran out
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Ritual farce; naked money–grabbing on behalf of poor countries; impossible solutions to what is a much–exaggerated problem – a.k.a. a United Nations’ climate change gab–fest
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It’s like a swarm of flies, all mindlessly banging against a glass window. Yes, there’s another annual exercise in futility: A UN climate conference – though you might well have missed it
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It’s a game changer. A Declaration of Independence. The American Revolution, Part 2. It’s the coming of shale gas and shale oil, and the transformation of the US energy outlook
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It’s potentially a cheap means to cool the planet, but geo-engineering isn’t finding favour in Doha. Apparently, the science is too little understood. A bit like climate change really
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Climate activists don’t want to go back to flying in coach, nor do the NGOs like Greenpeace. So ’tis the season when stories of the end of the world from global warming appear daily
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The last three decades were a period of increasing warmth, and inadequate for projections of ice melt in the future. Earlier, the worry was not retreating glaciers but advancing ones
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Wood. Would you or wouldn’t you? Burn it, that is. Ironically, nearly half of environmentally–aware Europe’s renewable energy sources are (quite literally) going up in smoke
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Contrary to what the UN is claiming, climate changes naturally all the time. The hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence
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The IPCC’s predictions of a wide range of climate calamities have been swallowed hook, line and sinker by the press and politicians, whose watchword is ‘never waste a good disaster’
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No issue of global urgency has tanked quite as quickly as the warming of the earth's climate – and the latest token United Nations talkfest in Doha just symbolizes this inconvenient fact
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Despite the gloomy predictions about diminishing resources and an energy crisis, the United States is actually awash in natural gas – it’s even got an extra energy source on ice
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There’ll be plenty of fear–mongering, hand–wringing, and head–shaking next week as the globe–trotting promoters of the world’s biggest scam meet at the UN climate convention
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Nothing but bluster: Without the lies it tells and the cosy stitch–ups it arranges with regulators and politicians at taxpayers' expense, the wind industry simply would not exist
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Alarmists’ only commitment is to the threat of climate change and not to rational assessment of real world probabilities or the consequences of any of their proposed remedies
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A cynical view: As action on global warming would harm the economy, it was a vote loser. With no need to seek re–election, President Obama can now re-embrace climate change
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There’s nothing carbon–saving about biofuel; even the big Green movements – Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF – are against it. So why the dash to swap coal for biofuel?
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Climate change? Or climate unpredictability? For the last 30 years, Antarctic sea ice has increased by 1 per cent each decade. It now covers more than any time since records began
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If planet is warming due to climate change, you would predict more droughts, right? In reality, you’d be wrong. Indeed, droughts may cause hot weather, not the other way around
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When it comes to nuclear, Green movements are suffering through what psychologists would describe as ‘cognitive dissonance’, and the usual cycles of ignorance, denial, and anger
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Re–writing history? If recent global warming has precedents, some might find it less alarming. That’s why it’s important to understand the Medieval Warm Period of 1000 years ago
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Gradual global warming is occurring. But the United States is experiencing significantly fewer major storms as temperatures warm. How are these facts misreported?
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Alarmist logic: If something bad happens, it must have an easily identifiable cause. Then wrap a highly emotional appeal in the incontestable clothing of science. Easy
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Changing course. Telling an electorate to sacrifice billions of dollars every year in order to have a barely measurable effect on the climate a century from now simply doesn't work
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An invitation to relax and have a glass of wine during an earthquake swarm is reassuring but wrong. And so is an invitation to panic during a climate change scare
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Instead of blaming human arrogance for stirring up destructive storms, perhaps we should be grateful for the manmade institutions that help us stay healthy, informed and alive
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In the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, one has to be amazed at how little fact–checking the global warming alarmists do. But blaming it on climate change is scientifically ludicrous
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Perverse incentives: Because cheap gas is reducing coal demand in the US, there’s more cheap coal in the marketplace. So supposedly ‘green’ Europe is now burning more coal
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It had been a tough year for global–warming activists, when suddenly there arose on the horizon a powerful force. A mighty blast of good news! A veritable Frankenstorm!
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Sandy Storm2: Policymakers in hurricane regions should worry about levees, storm-shelters and evacuation procedures, not trying to stop people from driving SUVs
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If you want to fix climate change, you would start with the cheapest way of reducing carbon emissions (not the dearest). This means using natural gas, especially abundant shale gas
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Political climate change: As the US presidential campaign shows, attitudes have cooled towards the ‘threat’ of global warming – it’s no longer a hot topic with the voting public
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Alarmists reckon that climate change will hit Africa hard. But assertions that global warming is shrinking the continent’s crop production while enlarging its deserts are simply false
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President Obama’s deafening silence on climate change is good for both skeptics (who don’t have to make sense of nonsense) and alarmists (who don’t have to defend the indefensible)
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It might seem fishy (indeed, it is fishy), but this latest piece of scientific research is not bullsh*t: It seems that fish poo is an underestimated mechanism for carbon sequestration
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What lurks beneath? Scientists have found that the landform below ice-sheets can halt ice retreat, even during warm periods. Predictions of sea level rise may need revising down
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Going to extremes: The climate debate is either complete scepticism, or else it's the alarmist end-of-the-world portrayals. And neither of those really accord with the best evidence
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Based on computer projections, many governments are taking policy action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Anyone would think that the science behind the projections was settled
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The spread of fear about global warming has given politicians a free hand to subsidize alternative technologies. Trouble is, that this fear isn’t based on solid scientific scenarios
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Pity the poor Russian polar bear. It’s not global warming that causing a rapid decline in their numbers, but rather the fact that they’re spending more time on land. And being shot
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The alarmist media always trumpet evidence of slight warming trends. But they’ve been surprisingly quiet about official data showing that global warming stopped 16 years ago
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The Great Barrier Reef is doomed! (If you ignore the fact of the high margin of error in visual surveys and that in any given year surveys sample only a tiny part of the vast reef)
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A few years ago, the renewable energy sector seemed on an inevitable march to being the power source of the future. Now it’s running out of puff as fossil fuels make a comeback
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As with most issues opposed by environmentalists, studies of GE that find harm are shouted from the media rooftops, those that do not are ignored. But what of GE’s genuine benefits?
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‘Full many a flower is born to blush unseen / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.’ Perhaps alarmists should be blushing, given climate change appears to benefit desert plants
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Taking the wind out of the environmentalists’ sails: As the US enters the last month of a bitterly contested presidential race, bad news is flooding in from the green energy sector
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Sun strike: China’s global dominance of renewable energy manufacturing has been hailed by environmentalists. Now its solar panel and wind turbine factories are running out of gas
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When the question of energy is raised in political discourse, the important thing seems to be that it’s ‘clean’. Apparently, whether or not it actually supplies people’s needs is irrelevant
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Crappy journalism often helps further the aims of global warming alarmists, whose main objective is to lay their hands on the climate funds they hope will be laundered via the UN
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In typical UN double-speak, Kyoto advocates will suggest the agreement is alive and well and moving into a ‘new phase’. The terms ‘flogging’ and ‘dead horse’ come to mind
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Want some easy publicity? Then all you need do is make ridiculously unsupported global warming claims and big league environmental activist groups will beat a path to your door
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Apocalypse Now! The fear of global warming is one of a long list of millennial or apocalyptic movements that have been at work in most societies throughout human history
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In the real world, fracking has blessed the US economy with clean, cheap, abundant energy, created jobs and reduced reliance on imported gas. Except that’s not the Hollywood version
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There were 260 million cases of malaria in 2010, with 665,000 deaths (86% under the age of five). But for the modern Green movement, many of these deaths may have been avoided
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Oh, I’m a lumberjack and I’m alright / I think of global warming and I don’t take fright … especially as climate change might bring ancient forests back to Canada’s frozen north
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A clutch of new reports should finally green–light Europe’s shale gas revolution. Then again, the EU’s environmentalist lobby does have a nasty habit of shooting itself in the foot
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The rate of decline in Arctic sea ice is faster than many predicted. The question is, though, what does it mean? Especially as Arctic melts on this scale have happened before
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The most detailed history of climate on the Antarctic Peninsula has revealed that this area undergoes bouts of rapid warming periodically. So much for ‘unprecedented’ warming
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For a Perfect Planet, use Earth First Products – including Fluffy Green Softener, Eco-Fluff, Everyday Sanctimonia, and Crocodile Tears Carbon Con. They’re best if you’re green
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Heard the record news about the polar sea ice? No, not the doom and gloom End-of-the-World stuff about the Arctic, but the record amount of Antarctic sea ice? Thought not
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A bit of a boob. Prince William and Kate Middleton risked watery death by visiting the famous sinking Pacific island of Tuvalu. (It’s sinking beneath the lunacy of climate alarmism)
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The theory that human use of carbon-based fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic global warming or climate change is not a hoax. It’s nothing short of the crime of the century
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Perhaps we needn’t get so crabby about the threat of ice melt on Arctic organisms because some polar fauna, including crustaceans, are surviving by riding the deep ocean currents
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Pork pies. In most countries, they’re a savoury dish. In England, it’s rhyming slang for ‘lies’. And there a large number of pork pies told about fossil fuels and government subsidies
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Global-warming ideologues often make statements of ‘fact’ that are actually testable hypotheses. And when these hypotheses are actually tested, they’re found to be wanting
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There are a couple of things wrong with the renewable energy lobby in the UK. Like they’re such a noisome, greedy, destructive, repellent, leprous and loathsomely vile group of people
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Power to the People! Climate alarmists’ true goal is not a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, but instead a transfer of wealth and power from individuals to government
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Running out of gas: The world carbon market, the only global system of carbon trading, designed to help promote greenhouse gas-cutting projects, is on the point of collapse
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There are ‘good’ and ‘bad’ skeptics. But despite having legitimate concerns, climate skeptics are lumped with the latter, like AIDS denialists and anti-vaccination campaigners
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The greatest catastrophe that the human race could face this century is not global warming but a global conversion to ‘organic farming’ – an estimated 2 billion people would perish
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The Greens are “fundamentally opposed” to nuclear power because – wait for it – it’s “elitist and undemocratic”. Excuse me?! And that’s a typical example of their problem with science
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In the Good Old Days, political parties, media and environmentalists believed in climate policies as an unavoidable necessity. Those were the Good Old Days, before the recession
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America’s got Al Gore. Britain’s got Nicholas Stern. And for once, the Old Country comes out ahead – at least when it comes to junk science policies aimed at saving the planet
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Patrick Whittle is completing a PhD in political philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His research into the social and political implications of Darwinian theory touches upon many disciplines, including anthropology, biology, human history and pre-history, economics and psychology, as well as social and political theory. (His latest paper, "Health, Inequality and the Politics of Genes", in the New Zealand Medical Journal, indicates the range of his academic interests.) Before returning to academia, initially gaining a Masters degree in linguistics, Patrick was an officer in the New Zealand Army. He has lived and worked as a teacher in the Middle East, and as a newspaper journalist and a sub-editor in New Zealand. Patrick accepts that there is solid evidence for anthropogenic global warming, but is skeptical of many of the political proposals for remedying its possible impact. While he is a keen mountain runner and a passionate cycle commuter, Patrick does acknowledge that there is a place in the world for cars. It's called the garage! Douglas Campbell has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Arizona and is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He has degrees in computer science and biology, and has worked as a wildlife ranger with endangered species in New Zealand. His areas of philosophical expertise include logic and the philosophy of science. He is impressed by the breadth and depth of the scientific evidence supporting the theory of anthropogenic global warming, and thinks that to the extent that the science remains uncertain the Precautionary Principle still justifies even relatively costly mitigation measures. Like Patrick Whittle he is, however, open to being led by logic and good evidence to whatever the truth may be. His optimistic hope is that Climate Debate Daily will help focus minds on the very best arguments from both sides of the debate and help put the poor arguments (of which there are many!) to rest. Climate Debate Daily is an independent website which began its life on the internet on January 1, 2008. It came into being after Doug Campbell and the University of Canterbury's Professor Denis Dutton had a spirited but friendly argument about climate change in the philosophy department's tea room, which resulted in a decision to set up a site dedicated to fairly presenting both sides of the issue. Professor Dutton, who was skeptical about the degree to which human activity has contributed to the general warming trend that began in the 1880s, remained an active editor of Climate Debate Daily until late 2010. Climate Debate Daily has no financial or institutional connection with the University of Canterbury. It is generously supported by a grant from Dr. Peter Farrell of ResMed Corp. (www.resmed.com). Dr. Farrell is skeptical of the threat of anthropogenic global warming. But he also says, "Let the best argument win."
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