Archive for August, 2007
Today’s News - Weekend Edition - August 11-12
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - You know I believe that Sea Level Rise is going be faster and higher than predicted by the IPCC, and this next article provides more proof, with a great moral tale - the sea doesn’t care how much money you make, it […]
Posted: August 13th, 2007 under Beyond Kyoto, Energy Conservation, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Today's News, Sea Level Rise, China, Renewable Energy, Global Warming.
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Today’s News - August 10, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Now that the flood waters are starting to recede from India and Bangladesh, the world can more clearly assess their impact and the news is very bad. These two articles clearly illustrate the challenges that lie ahead of us: first in dealing […]
Posted: August 11th, 2007 under Global Warming Insurance, Flooding, Extreme Weather, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Tax, Sea Level Rise, Today's News, CO2 Emissions, Global Warming.
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Today’s News - August 9, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Stories - Today was a huge news day and it was tough picking a top story, so please excuse the skimpy commentary in this section. These two climate change related articles were chosen because they discuss two areas that concern me the most - […]
Posted: August 10th, 2007 under CO2 Emissions, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Methane (CH4), Permafrost, Sea Level Rise, Greenland, Today's News, Global Warming.
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Today’s News - August 8, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - In a preview of what is going to become a more frequent problem thanks to global warming New York City’s subway was flooded by a storm: NY subway flooding causes chaos.
Flooding in New York’s subway lines ground the city’s transport system to […]
Posted: August 9th, 2007 under Beyond Kyoto, Flooding, CO2 Emissions, Today's News, China, Global Warming.
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Today’s News - August 7, 2007
Top Story- There are two entries today, both about Global Warming. The Global Warming debate is settled for most of the world, but it still lingers on in the U.S and the first article provides some valuable insight into why that is occurring: Gore: Polluters Manipulate Climate Info. The second article provides shocking new information on the consequences […]
Posted: August 8th, 2007 under CCS, CO2 Emissions, Climate Change, CSS, Today's News, Sea Level Rise, Renewable Energy, Global Warming.
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Today’s News - August 6, 2007
Top Story - At the recent UN Special Session experts indicated that the cost of combating global warming would be approximately 1% of the world GDP (4 times that if we delayed), now we have independent corroboration of that figure by our EIA; but their figure is actually slightly lower: Climate bill shaves $533 bln off economy.
A […]
Posted: August 7th, 2007 under CO2 Emissions, Global Warming Insurance, Today's News, Renewable Energy, Sea Level Rise, Global Warming.
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Today’s News - Weekend Edition - August 4-5
Doing this blog in my spare time has become a full time job (about 5-6 hours/day, six days/week), and sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day. So, occasionally I miss something, something that I catch days later; like the fact that the UN launched a new Climate Change Website last Friday.
A new United […]
Posted: August 6th, 2007 under The Arctic, Climate Change, Global Warming Insurance, Today's News, Sea Level Rise.
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Today’s News - August 3, 2007
Top Story - Global warming is characterized by rising temperatures and the biggest dangers will occur if we go above the point of no return, a temperature rise of 2 to 3 degrees centigrade. Now it appears we may be closer to that point than predicted: Europe hotter than thought in last century: study.
Western Europe has […]
Posted: August 4th, 2007 under Energy Conservation, Record Temperatures, CO2 Emissions, Today's News.
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Today’s News - August 2, 2007
Top Story- The UN Special Session is still the big news as it was held over for a 3rd day to give more delegates an opportunity to speak: UN Climate Change Meeting Runs Long.
The first-ever U.N. General Assembly meeting on climate change needed an extra day Thursday so speakers from worried nations could discuss global […]
Posted: August 3rd, 2007 under CO2 Emissions, Beyond Kyoto, Global Warming Insurance, CCS, Coal, Today's News, CSS, Global Warming.
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Today’s News - Special Edition - UN Special Session on Climate Change - August 1, 2007
Today is the second day of the 2007 UN Special Session on Climate Change. To honor this event and to provide it with the coverage it deserves I am posting my first Special Edition of Today’s News. In the future if events dictate this level of specialized coverage I will post similar Special Editions. The […]
Posted: August 2nd, 2007 under CO2 Emissions, Beyond Kyoto, Global Warming Insurance, Deforestation, Today's News, Wind Power, Sea Level Rise, Small Island Nations, Renewable Energy, Global Warming.
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