Posts Tagged ‘global warming’
Freak Heat Wave Makes Obama ‘A Little Nervous’ About Global Warming
March 19, 2012 at 6:28 pm
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Speaking at a high-dollar Chicago fundraiser hosted by Oprah Winfrey as the city basked in June-like weather last week, President Barack Obama admitted to being “a little nervous” about global warming.
Extreme Coastal Flood Risk Across U.S. has Doubled; Sea Level to Rise One Foot by 2050
March 17, 2012 at 6:30 pm
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Sea level rise due to global warming has already doubled the annual risk of coastal flooding of historic proportions across widespread areas of the United States, according to a new report. By 2030, many locations are likely to see storm surges combining with sea level rise to raise waters at least 4 feet above the local high-tide line. Nearly 5 million U.S. residents live in 2.6 million homes on land below this level.
Map: Four of Five Americans Hit by Recent Climate Disasters
February 16, 2012 at 10:37 pm
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A new report by Environment America, “In the Path of the Storm,” finds that “federally declared weather-related disasters in the United States have affected counties housing 242 million people – or roughly four out of five Americans.” Global warming pollution has already made extreme weather like intense precipitation, heat waves, and floods more likely, with [...]
Apparently Unaware of Global Warming, L.A. Times Remains “Perplexed by the Mild Weather Across the U.S.”
February 4, 2012 at 11:11 pm
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One thing you can say about the Los Angeles Times, they are consistent in their miscoverage of global warming. On January 27, they committed “journalistic malpractice,” as climatologist Michael Mann tweeted, for omitting any mention of global warming whatsoever in their article seeking to explain why the U.S. “seems to have largely escaped winter.” On [...]
PBS Covers Link Between 2011′s “Mind-Boggling” Extreme Weather and Global Warming: “It’s Like Being on Steroids”
December 30, 2011 at 11:00 pm
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Mainstream news outlets spent a lot of time in 2011 covering the record-breaking year for extreme weather in the U.S. But only a few of them spent much time exploring the link between those events and global warming (see With No End in Sight for Texas Drought, ABC News Explains: “Every Farmer in the World [...]
Summers Will be Deadly Hot as Global Warming Looms in The Next 60 Years, Stanford Researchers Say
June 11, 2011 at 1:32 pm
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The only upside to global warming.We're in the midst of June gloom in Southern California, but you can be assured that Mother Nature will bring the heat. Maybe for decades to come.
Sierra Club calls on Gov. Brown to revise global warming plan
May 11, 2011 at 8:04 pm
The Sierra Club of California, the state’s oldest and largest environmental group, called on Gov. Jerry Brown this week to substantially rewrite the cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases that former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger considered to be his greatest legacy. The trading system, which would curb emissions from 600 California industrial plants, is the centerpiece of [...]
Climate change: Arctic ice melting faster, sea level to rise more, report says
May 4, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Sea levels will rise more dramatically than was predicted nearly four years ago by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a new study of arctic conditions concludes. The Arctic ice study by the International Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, titled Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA), says that the feedback loops scientists [...]
Global Warming’s Six Americas
September 3, 2010 at 9:43 am
Global Warming, Climate Change and Carbon Footprint all conjure up great debate and discussion, but per recent findings by the Center For American Progress there seems to be an agreement between those that are very alarmed about climate change and those that are doubtful or even dismissive of the idea. The report speaks about 6 categories of thought within our population, and finds that although differences, there are also some important agreements.
