Global Warming News Watch

From rss.sciam.com:

With as much as 90 percent of the country’s primary forest cleared, continuing to plunder the remaining rosewood forests could push the trees into extinction and further endanger crucial habitat for native creatures, like the lemur. In total, about 70 percent of Madagascar’s species call these forests home, Barrett said. The rosewood logging practices also contribute to harmful greenhouse gas emissions, with deforestation globally accounting for 15 percent of all such emissions.

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From www.nytimes.com:

The clearing of forests for commercial uses has helped make Indonesia the world’s third-largest greenhouse gas emitter, behind the United States and China, according to some estimates. The country has major timber and paper industries and is the world’s leading producer of palm oil.

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From www.globalwarminghysteria.com:

Take your pick for metaphors. Either the Global Warming Hoax Wall is crumbling – or climate change alarmism is suffering the death of a thousand cuts. Either expression is apt for the imploding of the UN IPCCs alarmist pseudo-science.

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From trailblazerbusinessfutures.wordpress.com:

Several research projects have also warned of a pending crisis in natural resources, such as water and wildlife, which have suffered dramatic losses due to over-use, pollution, habitat loss, and, increasingly, changes caused by global warming.

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From eureferendum.blogspot.com:

Australians are losing interest in global warming, according to an opinion poll by Sydney’s independent Lowy Institute, released today. It shows 46 percent of respondents are “really worried” by climate change, compared with 68 percent four years …

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From www.climateark.org:

The chance for a breakthrough in world’s efforts to seal a legally binding deal on curbing global warming remains slim as a result of the current European debt crisis and U.S. reluctance to take bold actions to fight climate change, analysts say. After rounds of lengthy talks failed, people began to question the possibility of cutting a binding deal on fighting climate change in a few years: “Are the conditions right at this very moment? Would it make …

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From blogs.dailymail.com:

From the Times of London: “The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350-year-old institution’s official position on global warming. It will publish a new ‘guide to the science of climate change’ this summer. The society has been accused by 43 of its Fellows of refusing to accept dissenting views on climate change and exaggerating the degree of certainty that man-made emissions are the main cause. The society appears to have conceded that it needs to correct previous statements. It said: ‘Any public perception that science is somehow …

Read the complete article: Royal Society unsettles global warming science « Don Surber

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From cambioclimaticoglobal.com:

I’m doing a case study on if the greenhouse effect causing global warming is fact or fiction. I’ve got loads to back up the fact that it does but can’t find any other possible reasons for global warming. Help? all the things about cars and stuff causing global warming.. is that still the greenhouse effect or something different?

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From cambioclimaticoglobal.com:

There are so many actions we as humans can take to reduce and slow global warming.

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From rss.sciam.com:

However it happens, changing worldviews takes time. It took two decades or more for global warming to gain any serious traction. Now it is seen as an opportunity to develop a whole new sector of the economy: alternative energy. The same could happen for green chemistry, as a demand for cleaner products drives innovation.

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Read the complete article: Green Chemistry: Scientists Devise New “Benign by Design” Drugs, Paints, Pesticides and More

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