Global Warming News Watch

From www.reuters.com:

Fechner, who has been making documentary films for 20 years, said he was inspired by Gore’s film that thrust the issue of global warming into the spotlight. Fechner said he wanted to show one path that could be taken to help fight climate change.

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Fechner’s film tries to offer solutions by showing a concentrated solar power plant in Spain that produces enough electricity for 100,000 people, a wind energy network in Denmark and solar power projects in Mali and Bangladesh.

The film points out that two billion people have no access to electricity, a problem that could be alleviated in the years ahead with a greater use of de-central renewable energy that would have the added advantage of combating poverty.

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From www.nytimes.com:

LONDON (AP) — A parliamentary panel investigating allegations that scientists at one of the world’s leading climate research centers misrepresented data related to global warming announced Wednesday that it had found no evidence to support that charge.

But the panel, the Science and Technology Committee of the British House of Commons, did fault scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit and its director, Prof. Phil Jones, for the way they handled freedom of information requests from skeptics challenging the evidence of climate change.

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Read the complete article: U.K. Panel Calls Climate Data Valid

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From www.cbsnews.com:

As heated global warming debates continue, scientists are also investigating ways to get our planet to cool off if the politicians can’t figure out how to …

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From www.huffingtonpost.com:

On Global Warming, Scientists and TV Weathercasters Are at Odds – …

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From www.climateark.org:

The man who achieved global fame for his theory that the whole earth is a single organism now believes that we can only hope that the earth will take care of itself in the face of completely unpredictable climate change. Interviewed by Today presenter John Humphrys, videos of which you can see below, he said that while the earths future was utterly uncertain, mankind was not aware it had “pulled the trigger” on global warming as it built …

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From rss.sciam.com:

What your garbageman can’t tell you The aim of project "Trash Track": to study where recyclables go. Dietmar Offenhuber, a doctoral student in the lab, said there’s plenty of research on how things are made, but little is known about how they degrade and finally disappear. Among the questions here — especially for cities paying millions for recycling programs — are how much greenhouse gas is created and how much energy is wasted in the process. Another might be whether recycling really happens.

"Even the people working in waste removal don’t really have a clear knowledge or picture of where the stuff goes," he said.

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From www.nytimes.com:

Such skepticism appears to be widespread among TV forecasters, about half of whom have a degree in meteorology. A study released on Monday by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin found that only about half of the 571 television weathercasters surveyed believed that global warming was occurring and fewer than a third believed that climate change was “caused mostly by human activities.”

More than a quarter of the weathercasters in the survey agreed with the statement “Global warming is a scam,” the researchers found.

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From www.spokesman.com:

We can quite easily contain the negative impacts of any global warming for an indefinite period of time (while we proceed with rational solutions) at a cost for as little as $100,000,000 per year.

I have asked many times, why the latter (progressive) solution is prefereable, and no one has even attempted to offer a reasoned response.

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Rehashing the “hockey stick” or the motives of the IPCC or how Big Oil pays money to scientists for bogus science, are really not relevent.

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From www.examiner.com:

Although nobody is advertising it, there is an end to even the most pessimistic vision of global warming, no matter what we do here and now. The IPCC (and Nicholas Stern) have carefully conealed it behind an unrealistic population projection, but the fact of the matter is that they predict stabilization of emissions around 2100, even using a fantastically exaggerated population prediction of 15 billion souls on the planet.

When population stabilizes, so too do emissions of greenhouse gases. They don't call it anthropogenic for nothing. Which is why I keep laughing when people say the ice caps will melt if warming continues for 200, 200 or 3,000 years.

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Read the complete article: Global warming: There is an end game

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From www.global-greenhouse-warming.com:

Though this resource is a renewable fuel, it can still contribute to global warming. This happens when the natural carbon equilibrium is disturbed; for example by deforestation or urbanisation of green sites. Use of this organic energy includes ethanol, biodiesel, power, and industrial process energy.

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However, the International Food Policy Research Institute says in a report that biofuel expansions could push maize prices up over two-thirds by 2020 and increase oilseed costs by nearly half, with subsidies for the industry forming an implicit tax on the poor.

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Read the complete article: Feb 18, Biomass Power

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