Archive for 'Greenland'
Today’s News - August 16, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Time to focus on another of my horsemen, Heat, which is causing havoc in the U.S. and Japan with record breaking temperatures.
First, the US: 37 Die In South, Midwest Heat Wave.
Unrelenting heat that has baked the Midwest and South for the past […]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 under Three Strikes Analogy, Health, Diseases, Extreme Weather, Record Temperatures, Sea Level Rise, Greenland, Today's News, Uncategorized.
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Today’s News - August 15, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - The Small Island Nations of the Pacific are at extreme risk due to sea level rise. Most of the time I concentrate on the most dramatic effects of sea level rise - the more powerful storms and storm surges - so it is […]
Posted: August 16th, 2007 under Extreme Weather, Disaster Planning, Saltwater Intrusion, Flooding, Permafrost, Greenland, Small Island Nations, Today's News, Sea Level Rise.
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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
Before beginning the news I apologize for my absence yesterday, it was a technology problem which I hope is fixed.
Live Earth News - The big day has arrived at last, and after a bit of a scramble Rio is Back; Live Earth show in Rio to go on after ban revoked; along with a bigger event in […]
Posted: July 7th, 2007 under Carbon Tax, Record Temperatures, Energy Conservation, CO2 Emissions, Today's News, Sea Level Rise, Greenland, Carbon Trading, Global Warming.
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Today’s News
New Sources
Renewable Energy News
Sustainable Transportation Technologies
Yahoo Environment News
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NPR Environment News
New Feature - Top Editorial - Coal: a burning need for research?, by Liz Kalaugher, editor of environmentalresearchweb.
Top Story - More on CSS, the story Greenhouse gas burial, by Physorg.com, details research advocating the use of deep coal seams that are not commercially viable to store […]
Posted: June 27th, 2007 under Coal, CCS, CSS, Today's News, Sea Level Rise, Greenland, Global Warming.
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Inside the Greenland Ice Sheet
I just found this amazing story with some fascinating photographs, on a page called “Ice Cap Divers Hanging by a rope 173 meters into the Ice Cap”, courtesy of Greenland Guide.
Every spring, melt water flows in torrents from the Ice Cap into the cold ocean. Since 1987 - with only one exception - the French […]
Posted: June 21st, 2007 under Greenland.
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“The Big Thaw - Ice on the Run, Seas on the Rise”
“Meltwater drains from the Greenland Ice Sheet”, Cover Photo by James Balog for June 2007 issue of National Geographic Magazine
Few institutions are held in higher regard than the National Geographic Society. Founded in Washington, DC in 1888, it is one of the world’s largest not-for-profit educational and scientific organizations. That is why I believe […]
Posted: June 4th, 2007 under West Antarctic, Greenland, Sea Level Rise, Global Warming.
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