Daily Archives: March 30, 2011

Global warming makes tsunamis and nuclear disasters more likely. http://www.csmonitor.com/

http://www.pantagraph.com/ Babs warned us about this : “Global warming can have a profound and negative impact on our outdoor recreation opportunities and businesses,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D, Calif.). “We are already seeing decreases in the amount of snowpack in … Continue reading →

Extra amounts of EPA designated toxin CO2 facilitates “healthy and vibrant plants.” http://www.ehow.com/

My elementary school teacher must have been wrong when she taught me that plants can’t grow without CO2.

Hansen has been warning us for years that warming will hyper-accelerate as CO2 increases. Now the argument suddenly switches to decelerated warming and scenario B, because CO2 increments have decreasing effect at higher concentrations. This argument is needed to partially … Continue reading →

Founded in 1988, the I.P.C.C. is a joint venture of the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization. Every four or five years, it conducts an exhaustive survey of the available data and issues a multi-volume assessment of … Continue reading →

In all, the citizen scientists found 800 baby Joshua trees. They narrowed the field to about 80 of the newest plants that were a foot tall or less, so Barrows could chart their distribution in relation to rising temperatures. Barrows … Continue reading →

TUCSON, Ariz., March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — U.S. and European policy to increase production of ethanol and other biofuels to displace fossil fuels is supposed to help human health by reducing “global warming.” Instead it has added to the global … Continue reading →

Ayacucho, had fallen by 1100, in part due to a severe drought that afflicted the Andes for a century or more. In the ensuing turmoil, local chiefs across the Peruvian highlands battled over scarce water and led raiders into neighboring … Continue reading →

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/54665186? h/t to reader Ivan