Global Warming News

Future looks bleak for all of us as latest super computer forecast suggests that there is little better than a 50/50 chance of keeping world temperatures below disastrous thresholds of + 2 degrees above pre-industrial age, even if unprecedented reductions in Co2 levels are made immediately. World temperatures have already increased by 0.75 degrees since pre-industrial times. An increase of 2 degrees will have serious consequences for all of humanity... read more

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Future looks bleak for all of us as latest super computer

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NASA's CO2 mapping satellite fails to make orbit and ends in disaster, setting back ability to accurately measure world CO2 levels.... read more.

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Scientists reveal pace of global warming now much faster than first thought as feedback mechanisms kick into place as higher co2 levels, cause higher temperatures,which in turn cause greater melting in the permafrost, which in turn releases more co2 and so on....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/14/AR2009021401757.html?hpid=topnews

UK to embrace nuclear power in effort to reduce relliance of fossil fuels.... your questions answered here...
http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/big-question/the-big-question-does-nuclear-power-now-provide-the-answer-to-britain8217s-energy-needs-1630345.html

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Can America and China get together to battle global warming together....?
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/united-on-climate-change-obamas-chinese-revolution-1604027.html
Bush fires focus the minds of Australians back on to climate change....
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/australia-fires-a-climate-wakeup-call--experts-1606105.html
And lastly....polar explorer sets off to Arctic to gather data to find out how long ice cap will survive...
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/polar-explorer-sets-off-on-arctic-survey-1606552.html

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Whats new this week?

well, Melbourne thermometers topped 43C (109.4F) on a third successive day for the first time on record as Australia continues to swelter under record temperatures believed to be caused by global warming... read more;

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/parched-australia-faces-collapse-as-climate-change-kicks-in-1522529.html

Brazil's rainforest is razed to allow cattle to graze in order for Brazil to expand it's beef export desires... read more;

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/rainforest-razed-so-cattle-can-graze-1521677.html

Antarctica, now officially warming.

Scientists now confirm that Antarctica is also now officially warming, records from 1957 to present day confirm...read more.

Wilkins Ice shelf about to collapse- watch video.

The Wilkins ice shelf in Antartica is literally hanging on a thread... now only 500 metres connects it to the Antarctic Peninsular.... watch this video to learn more..

New Runway- No Way, say Climate Change Activists

Climate change activists vow not to let a third runway open at London Heathrow, threatening to close the airport rather than let new runway get built...read more.

ExxonMobil make dramatic climate change U-Turn

Oil company giant make dramatic announcement in favour of carbon tax to tackle global warming, effectively calling for a tax on its own product...read more.

What can be done to save the planet..? Ask the experts...

Climate change experts give their opinions on what can now be done to save planet Earth from the effects of global warming...read more

Under 1 year until largest Global Warming conference...

In less than one year, Copenhagen will be host to the largest climate change conference the world has ever seen.... will it be successful...? read more...

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Geoengineering needed to avert climate disaster

Leading scientists agree that the only way now to avert the worst that global warming can throw at us will be for a "Geoengineering approach" to the problem of global warming that either reduces temperature or CO2..read more...

Soot reduction could slow global warming.

NASA scientists believe cutting soot, one of humanities most common pollutants could have an immediate affect on global warming...read more..

Have British scientists invented carbon neutral cement?

British scientists invent cement which absorbs more CO2 in the creation process than it produces...possible eliminating the 5% CO2 the industry adds to the atmosphere each year..read more..

Humankind has 8 years left to avert climate disaster.

Humakind has only around 8 years left to avoid the worst affects of climate change. An effort the equivalent of putting man on the moon will be required...read more..

NASA hunts for its rubber ducks...

NASA has lost it's rubber duckies.... NASA inserted 90 rubber ducks into melt-holes in the Greenland Ice sheet with a view to tracking how the ice is melting...so far they have failed to turn up..! read more...

Obama appoints top climate scientists to administration

US president elect appoints top climate change scientists to his administration, paving the way for new green US climate change strategy....read more,

2008 tenth hottest year on record

2008 is offically the tenth hottest year since records began...read more,

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Arctic tipping point?

Arctic amplification suggests the Arctic may have reached a tipping point, resulting in a summer ice free Artcic in as little as 20 years....read more,

UN action to halt Amazon Deforestation.

UN climate change conference aims to halt rainforest destruction.... read more..

Global Warming litigation?

Technology may allow those affected by climate change to bring claims for losses suffered as a result.....read more;

Wilkins Ice shelf starts to break up

The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica has been breaking up, as Antarctica warms up....see satellite images here...

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMWZS5DHNF_index_0.html