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Global Warming: What Happens When You Factor Out the Other Factors

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Richard Muller, Glaciers, Refudiator, Climate, Temperatures, Solar Activity, Climate Skeptics, El Nino, El Nino-Southern Oscillation, Pulse of the Planet, Temperature Records, Sea Ice, La Nina, Arctic, Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Cooling, Volcanoes, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) Project, Green News
Bill Chameides

2011-12-14-Screenshot20111214at6.04.10PM.jpg Has the warming trend slowed in the 2000s? Yes and no.

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A Changing Climate About Climate Change in D.C.?

Bill Chameides | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Ben Santer, House of Representatives, Ed Markey, Richard Muller, America?S Climate Choices, Climate Scientist, Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, Temperatures, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Solar Forcing, Climate Skeptics, Best, Henry Waxman, Policy, Climate Change Attribution, Temperature Station, Legislation, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Sunspots, Temperature Records, Politics, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Climate Science, Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming, Global Temperatures, Green News
Bill Chameides

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a Congressional resolution marking the end of climate skepticism -- or the beginning of major climate legislation -- any time soon.

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Louisiana Forced to Start Adapting to Climate Change

Susan Buchanan | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Hurricanes, Temperatures, Health, Agriculture, Invasive Species, Greenhouse Gases, U.S. Geological Survey, Construction, Entergy Corp., Louisiana State University, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Green News
Susan Buchanan

Climate change may be controversial but state and local agencies and utility-giant Entergy Corp. are beginning to adapt to new weather trends. Adaptation could be key to the coast's future.

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Study Finds Global Warming 'Is Real' While Coverage Suggests the State of Denial Is Too

Bill Chameides | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Skeptic, Temperature Records, Elizabeth Muller, Richard Muller, Anthony Watts, Fred Singer, Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, Temperatures, Climate Change, Carl Bialik, Best, Wall Street Journal, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com. The spin on this one is enough to make your head spin. On October 20 a group of scientists announced big news: The ...

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Energy Agency's 'Golden Age' for Gas

Bill Chameides | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Energy, Fossil Fuels, World Energy OUtlook, Temperatures, Climate Change, Oil, Shale Gas, Coal, Nuclear Power, Global Warming, International Energy Agency, Global Temperatures, Natural Gas, Green News
Bill Chameides

A special report from the International Energy Agency released in advance of the World Energy Outlook 2011 examines how ramping up natural gas would impact energy and climate up to 2035.

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Climate Change, White Roofs, and Common Sense

Bill Chameides | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Steven Chu, Models, Geoengineering, Electricity, Temperatures, Energy Use, Climate Change, Climate Models, White Roofs, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Clouds, Global Warming, Climate, Green News
Bill Chameides

Of all the geoengineering ideas, the one often cited as the simplest, most obvious one, the one we should get started on right away is painting roofs white -- after all how can that not help? How indeed.

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PHOTOS: Deadly Heat Wave Spreads From Midwest To East

Reuters | By Barbara Goldberg | Posted 09.20.2011

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NEW YORK, July 21 (Reuters) - Sweating crowds on the East Coast and in the Midwest flocked to waterfronts and urban cooling centers on Thursday to...

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Heat Wave Kills At Least 22 People

Reuters | Karin Matz | Posted 09.19.2011

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A searing heat wave in the central and southern United States has killed at least 22 people this week, and forecasters Wednesd...

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Paul Krugman: Climate Change Economics, What Economists Agree On

The New York Times Magazine | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arthur Cecil Pigou, Cap and Trade, Statistics, Cbo, Climate Change Deniers, Economics, Temperatures, Science, Emissions, Pollution, Heritage Foundation, Gdp, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Martin Weitzman, James Hansen, Paul Krugman, Global Warming, China, Green News

In what follows, I will offer a brief survey of the economics of climate change or, more precisely, the economics of lessening climate change. I'll tr...

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Too Darn Hot: Climate Change, Heat Stress, Human Life

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Body Temperature, Sweat, Hyperthermia, Heat Waves, Research, Climate, Temperatures, Health, Climate Change, Science, Wet-Bulb Temperature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Pulse of the Planet, Adaptation, Global Warming, Heat Stress, Green News
Bill Chameides

According to the authors of a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences there is a definite possibility that global warming could raise temperatures enough to be fatal to humans.

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Screwups in Climate Science

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glaciers, Email Hack, Washington Times, University of East Anglia, Temperatures, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, Wall Street Journal, Tree-Ring Data, Climate Research Unit, Phil Jones, Climate Change, New York Times, Washington Post, Global Warming, Himalayas, Green News
Bill Chameides

Recent events have given climate science a black eye, but nowhere near the knockout punch depicted in the media. E-mails documenting overly partisan b...

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Climate Reality Trumped by the Donald

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hawaii, South Africa, Australia, Al Gore, Washington Times, Snowstorms, Climate, Temperatures, Snow, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Storms, United States, Weather, Newt Gingrich, Brazil, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

The fact that bunches of climate deniers have used the recent weather to sow seeds of doubt about climate change is not very surprising, but Donald Trump? What happened?

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Global Warming Trash Talk or Cherry-Pickin' Time

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cooling, National Review, United States, Temperatures, Global Warming, Climate Change, Green News
Bill Chameides

Apparently the National Review, none too pleased about climate legislation rattling around Congress, has joined the "global cooling brigade."

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U.S. Climate Bill Part of Solution but Not the Whole Solution

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Cap and Trade, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, China, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Temperatures, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Disruption, Green News
Bill Chameides

Co-written by Bill Chameides and Prasad KasibhatlaThe climate deniers have a new argument: don't pass climate legislation because it doesn't cut emiss...

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This Winter's Temperature: Is It a Boy or a Girl?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, El Nino-Southern Oscillation, La Nina, El Nino, Temperatures, Green News
Bill Chameides

Bill Chameides, recently appointed to America's Climate Choices, blogs regularly at theGreenGrok.com. Predicting climate variations from year to year...

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Global Warming and Predictions of an Impending Ice Age - Part 3

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Chameides

You don't have to search too hard to find a skeptic's blog proclaiming that global warming "stopped" in 1998.

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