User: Genecampaign Topic: Climate Change
Category: Global warming
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How to destroy the future | Noam Chomsky 4.6.2013 Guardian: Environment
From the Cuban missile crisis to a fossil fuels frenzy, the US is intent on winning the race to disaster What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you're an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what's happening here or, for that matter, imagine you're an historian 100 years from now – assuming there are any historians 100 years from now, which is not obvious – and you're looking back at what's happening today. You'd see something quite remarkable. For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence. And there are other dangers like pandemics, which have ...
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Jellyfish surge in Mediterranean threatens environment – and tourists 3.6.2013 The Guardian -- World Latest
A project is tracking the phenomenon as global warming and overfishing boost numbers of the venomous sea creature Scientists across the Mediterranean say a surge in the number of jellyfish this year threatens not just the biodiversity of one of the world's most overfished seas but also the health of tens of thousands of summer tourists. "I flew along a 300km stretch of coastline on 21 April and saw millions of jellyfish," said Professor Stefano Piraino of Salento University in southern Italy. Piraino is the head of a Mediterranean-wide project to track the rise in the number of jellyfish as global warming and overfishing clear the way for them to prosper. "Citizen scientists" armed with smartphones and a special app are now tracking them along thousands of miles of Mediterranean coastline. Population growth has continued over the four years of the project, and appears to be part of a global phenomenon, with most coastal areas studied around the world also reporting a rise in numbers. ...
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Australian team to retrace Sir Douglas Mawson's Antarctica expedition (Cached) 3.6.2013 New Kerala: World News
Sydney, June 3: A team of 46 Australian scientists is going to lead a voyage to Antarctica in a bid to retrace Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911-14 expedition.
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Global warming 'caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide' (Cached) 31.5.2013 New Kerala: India News
Washington, May 31 : A new research from the University of Waterloo has blamed Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and not carbon dioxide for global warming since the 1970s.
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Use of nuclear power prevents air-pollution deaths, greenhouse gas emissions: Study (Cached) 30.5.2013 New Kerala: India News
Washington, May 30 : The use of nuclear power has led to prevention of 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths globally and has also prevented the release of 64 billion tons of greenhouse gases that might have erupted from burning coal and other fossil fuels, a new study has revealed.
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'Global warming doesn't concern 40 percent of adult Indians' (Cached) 29.5.2013 New Kerala: Andhra Pradesh
New Delhi, May 29 : Over 40 percent of adult Indians are unconcerned, indifferent or disengaged about global warming, posing a threat to policy implementation on this crucial subject, says a research report by the Yale University.
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The destruction we ignore (Cached) 27.5.2013 India Together
Based on data collected from 92 coal power plants in India, a 2012 study that went largely unreported estimated the mortality impact of electricity generated from coal at 650 deaths per plant per year! Shiva Prasad Susarla analyses the key findings of the report and the remediation measures suggested.
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Fossil fuel divestment campaign's victory in Australia will be a moral one | Alexander White 22.5.2013 Guardian: Environment
Global climate divestment campaigns led by 350.org and Bill McKibben will have a larger moral impact than financial one Journalist and climate activist Bill McKibben is in Australia in June on his epic Do The Math tour , which aims to highlight the danger of fossil fuel company oil and coal reserves and encourage divestment. The tour was kick started by McKibben's Rolling Stone article, Global Warming's Terrifying New Math , which argued that in order to stay below the 2C warming limit, the global economy has a budget of less than 565 gigatons of carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, fossil fuel companies have reserves of carbon from oil, coal and gas of almost 3000 gigatons — far exceeding the climate's safe limit if it were to all be burned. This "math" has been known for some years before McKibben's article. The Potsdam Institute wrote about humanity's carbon budget back in 2009 , noting that even if we stayed within budget, we still had a 25% chance of going over 2 degrees warming. ...
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Sarah Palin disproves climate change as it snowed in Alaska in May (Cached) 21.5.2013 New Kerala: India News
Washington, May 21 : Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took to Facebook over the weekend to express her skepticism of global warming.
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Oklahoma tornado: is climate change to blame? | Harry Enten 21.5.2013 Guardian: Environment
The Oklahoma twister was a 'classic look', but the data shows we are experiencing more volatility in the US tornado season • Follow all the latest in our Oklahoma live blog Global climate change and politics are linked to each other – for better or worse. No clearer was that the case than when Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gave an impassioned speech on global warming in the aftermath of Monday's deadly Oklahoma tornado, and the conservative media ripped him . Whitehouse implied that at least part of the blame for the deadly tornado should be laid at the feet of climate change. Is Whitehouse correct? It's difficult to assign any one storm's outcome to the possible effects of global climate change, and the science of tornadoes in particular makes it pretty much impossible to know whether Whitehouse is right. Let's start with the basics of what causes a tornado. A piece from my friend (and sometimes co-chatter ) Andrew Freedman two years ago sets out the basics ...
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Climate change pushes farmers in India to the tipping point – in pictures 21.5.2013 Guardian: Environment

Gerry Judah, born in Kolkata, returned to India after more than 50 years to see how people are tackling the effects of global warming


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Global warming likely to be slower than earlier predicted (Cached) 20.5.2013 New Kerala: Andhra Pradesh
London, May 20 : Scientists have said that the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term.
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Global warming likely to be slower than predicted (Cached) 20.5.2013 Rediff: Business
The recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term, scientists said.
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Heatwave deaths in New York city could rise by up to 22%, study shows 19.5.2013 Guardian: Environment
New temperature norms under climate change will increase weather-related deaths in metropolitan areas in coming decades New York city could experience up to 22% more deaths from extreme summertime heat in the coming decade under global warming, according to a study of the impact of climate trends. The higher deaths will be partially offset by a reduction in deaths due to the milder winters predicted in Manhattan. Overall, however, the net effect of the new temperature norms under climate change would be to increase weather-related deaths in New York city by up to 6.2% a year by the 2020s, according to the scientists. The study, published in Nature Climate Change , predicted oppressive summer temperatures would exact an increasingly heavy toll on people living in metropolitan areas such as Manhattan in the coming decades. The numbers would not be significantly offset by milder winters, the study found, and deaths due to extreme temperatures would rise more dramatically in the later ...
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Climate change meltdown unlikely but human disaster looms, claims new research 19.5.2013 Guardian: Environment
But forecast global temperature rise of 4C heralds disaster for large swaths of planet with oceans absorbing most global warming Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe. The researchers said that warming was most likely to reach about 4C above pre-industrial levels if the past decade's readings were taken into account. That would still lead to catastrophe across large swaths of the Earth, causing droughts, storms, floods and heatwaves and with drastic effects on agricultural productivity leading to secondary effects such as mass migration. Some climate change sceptics have suggested that because the highest global average temperature yet recorded was in 1998, climate change has stalled. The new study, which is published in the journal Nature Geoscience , shows a much longer "pause" would be needed to suggest ...
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Obama's Arctic strategy sets off a climate time bomb | Nafeez Ahmed 17.5.2013 Guardian: Science
US National Strategy for the Arctic Region prioritises corporate 'economic opportunities' at the expense of everyone else One week ago, the Obama administration launched its National Strategy for the Arctic Region , outlining the government's strategic priorities over the next 10 years. The release of the strategy came about a week after the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President at the White House Complex hosted a briefing with international Arctic scientists . Despite giving lip service to the values of environmental conservation, the new document focuses on how the US can manage the exploitation of the region's vast untapped oil, gas and mineral resources in cooperation with other Arctic powers. US hinges success of Arctic strategy on diminishing sea ice At the heart of the White House's new Arctic strategy is an elementary but devastating contradiction between what President Obama, in the document's preamble, describes as seeking "to ...
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Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist 17.5.2013 Guardian: Environment
Prof James Hansen warns public not to be fooled by 'diversionary tactic' from deniers Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist. Prof James Hansen, who first alerted the world to climate change in 1988, said on Friday: "It is not true that the temperature has not changed in the two decades." Since 1998, when the Niño climate phenomenon caused global temperatures to soar, the rate of increase in warming has slowed, causing some sceptics to suggest climate change has stopped or that the effect of rising carbon dioxide levels on climate is not as great as previously thought. Prof Hansen, speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, rejected both arguments. "In the last decade it has warmed only a tenth of a degree compared to two-tenths of a degree in the preceeding decade, but that's just natural variability. There is no reason to be ...
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97pc scientists agree humans are causing global warming (Cached) 17.5.2013 New Kerala: India News
Washington, May 17 : Most scientists agree that human activity is causing global climate change, according to an extensive analysis of the abstracts or summaries of scientific papers published over the past 20 years.
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UN: Experts weigh strategies to halt climate change (Cached) 17.5.2013 New Kerala: India News
New York, May 17 : With dire warnings likely to match or exceed the worst fears about the effects of global warming, environment and development experts gathered on Thursday at United Nations Headquarters to debate the twin challenge of curbing climate change while sustaining economic growth.
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Australia's 'unpopular' carbon price isn't to blame for Labor's poor polling | Alexander White 17.5.2013 Guardian: Environment
Claims that Julia Gillard's unpopularity were linked to her introduction of carbon pricing in 2012 don't stack up Since the disappointment of Copenhagen in 2009 , Australia has witnessed a concerted scare campaign against action on global warming. The scare campaign has been led by senior commentators in (Murdoch owned) News Limited papers, by conservative radio shock-jocks on the airwaves, and in parliament by extremist opposition party leader Tony Abbott. From the moment Australia's carbon pricing legislation package, the Clean Energy Future Act, was announced Tony Abbott has barnstormed from one end of Australia to another, declaring a "blood oath" that repealing the carbon price would be his first priority if elected: "I am giving you the most definite commitment any politician can give that this tax will go. This is a pledge in blood." Behind this incendiary phrase is Abbott's own climate change policy, a mishmash of ineffective handouts to industry to "clean up" polluting power ...
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