Climate Change? What climate change? While Mitt Romney has expressed uncertainty over whether global warming is occurring or not, his vice-presidential pick, Congressman Paul Ryan, is a virulent denier of climate science, with a Congressional voting record to match, reports Brad Johnson at Climate Progress. Thus, this election will be crucial in deciding how the U.S. addresses climate change. Make your vote part of it!
Endless Summer Surfing Will End with Climate Change according to Curt Storlazzi, a surfer and a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who studies coastlines, reports Sam Kornell at the Pacific Standard. It might cause larger swells from storms, but overall it will probably decrease conditions for good surfing.
It's Melting, Melting... Arctic sea ice that is, at a rate about 50 percent faster than most predictions, according to data from the first satellite launched to study the thickness of the Earth's polar caps, reports Robin McKie for the Guardian. The summer Arctic could be ice-free in a few years, further accelerating global warming, and ultimately causing more volatile weather in the lower 48, of the kind we've been experiencing only... worse.
To Every Tide, Turn, Turn, Turn... at least in the Bay of Fundy, where the first U.S. tidal turbine, the TidGen turbine, has begun harvesting the powerful tides of the Bay of Fundy, reports Jess Bidgood at The New York Times. Once completed in 2016, the array of turbines there could power up to 1,500 homes.
Poached Caviar, Anyone? Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 100 degrees, reports Grant Schulte. About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon, worth nearly $10 million for their caviar, were killed in Iowa recently as water temperatures reached 97 degrees.
My foster baby Arctic chicks have hatched! Born in July, they are doing well and prospering, I hear, but not all chicks have the safety of bear-proof boxes, and the bears visit in August. Climate change has melted the ice pack food source of Arctic ice birds and is even starting to melt the frozen core of their nesting habitat, Cooper Island, making it a prime target for hungry polar bears. These Arctic "penguins" need more bear-proof nesting boxes from humans to keep their chicks safe. You can learn more here, and find out more about how dramatically climate change is changing their lives.
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this swallowtail I photographed in my mom's garden. Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future. If you'd like to tell Congress that you're voting for candidates that will support clean energy, join the increasing numbers of people doing so here. For more detailed summaries of the above and other climate change items, audio podcasts and texts are freely available.
"Just four years ago, in 2004, ConocoPhillips first participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project. We discussed climate change risks to our company in our response to the CDP-2 survey. Our submission was only 4 pages long, and was not approved for public release. The climate change issue was relatively new for us. And we did not have as much data on our recently merged company as we do now.
Today, there is a world of difference. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that global warming is unequivocal. The European Union’s Emissions Trading System is beginning Phase II. And both major U.S. presidential candidates are pledging to address climate change.
Our company has taken a well-defined position. We are very concerned about the potential impact of climate change. Last year we became the only U.S. integrated energy company to call for a mandatory national framework to address greenhouse gas emissions."
http://www.conocophillips.com/EN/newsroom/other_resources/pages/cdp_speech_text.aspx
“Climate change poses clear, CATASTROPHIC threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. We must transform the way we use energy...”
http://www.newscorp.com/energy/full_speech.html
And Feb.2011:
"We have become carbon neutral across all of our global operations and we are the first company of our kind to do so." http://tinyurl.com/74k6c4n
9 of the 10 world's wealthiest billionaires say man-made global warming is DANGEROUSLY real.
#1 Carlos Slim Helu ($74B,Mexican telecoms)
http://tinyurl.com/6umvcmj
#2 Bill Gates ($59B,Microsoft)
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Energy/Recommended-Reading-on-Climate-Change
#3 Bernard Arnault ($41B, LVMH,LouisVuitton)
http://tinyurl.com/72ruta5
#5 Warren Buffett ($39B, Geico+BNSFrailroad)
http://tinyurl.com/7vwg4wk
http://www.cnbc.com/id/35644956/page/2/
#6 Lakshmi Mittal ($31B,Steel)
http://tinyurl.com/7gwtk5y
#7 Amancio Ortega($31B,Zara apparel)
http://tinyurl.com/852a8yc
#8 Eike Batista ($29 billion,Brazilian mining/oil)
http://tinyurl.com/7zwwmdz
#9 Mukesh Ambani ($27B,Indian petrochem)
http://tinyurl.com/7cyutdz
#10 Christy Walton ($26B,Walmart,Solar1)
http://www.forbes.com/profile/christy-walton/
http://tinyurl.com/7l2ux4c
They've committed multi-$billions to sustainable energy.
Even BIG OIL agrees:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/maxwells/climate-change-denial-_b_1686437_170781851.html
If you deniers grasp reality better than them, why are they thousands of times more successful than you are?
CIA Opens Center on Climate Change and National Security, Sept.25,2009
"Its charter is not the science of climate change, but the national security impact of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts, and heightened competition for natural resources."
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/center-on-climate-change-and-national-security.html
p.xi,DoD TaskForce,
"Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security", Oct. 2011
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/dsb/climate.pdf
"...if all of the measures currently recommended to reduce emissions from human activity are implemented, the predicted temperature rise will vary from a minimum of 2degs.C to as much as 7degs.C by the end of the 21st century. A rise of more than 2degs.C is likely to have serious consequences for the human habitat."
DoD Quadrennial Defense Review,2010,p.84-85
http://www.defense.gov/qdr/images/QDR_as_of_12Feb10_1000.pdf
"Assessments conducted by the intelligence community indicate that climate change could have significant geopolitical impacts around the world, contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the further weakening of fragile governments. Climate change will contribute to food and water scarcity, will increase the spread of disease, and may spur or exacerbate mass migration."
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png
Scientists rule in the world of science. AGW is real.
By the way netdr aka Larry, how do you sleep nights after spending your days impersonating scientists and preaching false science?
• the polar areas are warming more quickly than the middle latitudes;
• winter temperatures are rising faster than summer temperatures;
• night-time temperatures are rising faster than daytime temperatures;
• the lower atmosphere is heating while the upper atmosphere, the stratosphere, is cooling.
excerpted from our 2008 free, downloadable book, Cool the Earth, Save the Economy, available at www.CoolTheEarth.US
How can global warming not be global? But it is, by looking at the overall average temperature. We need to look at average temperature because the entire surface is not one identical temperature, of course.
The long term trend is still warming, and Larry aka netdr well knows it. So naturally netdr wants to emphasize any short term fluctiations which may be cooling.
The long term trend.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.A2.gif
Larry, Plato had over 900 comments removed last week, and another 250 comments removed as climate-eagle. Question, do you have to return your fee when your astroturfing profiles get canned?
How is it, wearing the fake identity of a real climate scientist, and then proceeding to publicly misrepresent the science? How do you sleep at night, and then get up the next morning and do it again?
Oh that's right, you do it for oily pocket money.
Despicible astrotufer.
What matters is their background. Most of our legislators are lawyers, businessmen, or both, and THAT is the problem. They view the world through a narrow lens, and they don't get input from other fields.