Posts Tagged ‘global warming’
By NikkiJade • Jul 28th, 2008 • Category: Interviews
Nicole McCallum interviews Shawn Boudreau, the founder of The Global Warming Opposition Front, green-safe, not-for-profit, electric company. He is hiking across Canada to raise funds for his organization and to encourage the use of alternative energy sources.
By NunoXEI • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Articles, Spotlight
Nuno Teixeira compiles a summary of some events that surrounded the polar bear controversy; the polar bear was the first species ever to be considered for a “threatened” listing in the ESA directly tied to the effects of global warming on its habitat. Controversy commences.
By NunoXEI • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Josh Hill, The Daily Galaxy–Together with Britain’s environment ministry and the country’s Meteorological Office, Google have created a new animated map that layers over their Google Earth program to illustrate the potential impact of global climate change over the next century.
By NunoXEI • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Edward Helmore, Guardian–New research suggests the narwhal, the mysterious whale with a long spiral tusk, may be more at risk from climatic change due to the fact that it is so attuned to its environment, that it may be one of the least able of Arctic mammals to adapt to rapid warming in the high north.
By NunoXEI • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Julie Steenhuysen, ENN–A proposed solution to reverse the effects of global warming by spraying sulfate particles into Earth’s stratosphere could make matters much worse, climate researchers said.
By NunoXEI • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Rebecca Sato, The Daily Galaxy–Evidence for abrupt climate change is readily found in ice cores taken from Greenland and Rebecca Antarctica. Could something like this happen again? It sure could, and because the changes can happen all within one decade—we might not even see it coming.
By NunoXEI • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blog
Britain’s dragonflies, which date back to the dinosaurs but are increasingly threatened by habitat destruction, pollution and climate change, are to be the subject of a major national survey.
The five-year project, to be launched on Thursday, will result in a new atlas of the 39 species of dragonfly and damselfly that breed in Britain [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Like a bit of scientific prophecy, Kerry Emanuel, wrote a paper published in the journal Nature back in 2005 warning that a warming climate would increase hurricane intensity. Three weeks later Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans. Global warming experts frequently quoted his study, and climate change evangelists like Al Gore frequently cited the work. Critics, [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Organizers hope a gathering of governors this week will be as effective in addressing climate change as a similar event that launched the conservation movement a century ago.
As many as 10 governors and leading experts on global warming plan to attend the conference Thursday and Friday at Yale University, and review state programs and develop [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Al Gore, alarmist-in-chief of the anti-global warming campaign, stands to make money from his investments in “green” firms selling various climate change remedies.
Said Gore: “There are a lot of great investments you can make. If you are investing in tar sands, or shale oil, then you have a portfolio that is crammed with sub-prime carbon [...]
