Arctic Shrinkage

Nov. 19, 2009 Arctic shrinkage is the decrease in size of the Arctic region (as defined by the 10 °C (50 °F) July isotherm). This is a change in the regional climate as a result of global warming. Projections of sea ice loss suggest that the Arctic ocean will likely be free of summer sea ice sometime between 2060 and 2080.[1] Because of the rapid response of the Arctic to global warming, it is often seen as a high-sensitivity indicator of climate change.. » read more

The 12 Days Of Global Warming (video)

Nov. 17, 2009 VIEW VIDEO http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=JmPSUMBrJoI. » read more

Copenhagen climate talks: No deal, we're out of time, Obama warns (with audio)

Brown still hopes to salvage climate talks as US rules out binding targets Nov. 15, 2009 Barack Obama acknowledged today that time had run out to secure a legally binding climate deal at the Copenhagen summit in December and threw his support behind plans to delay a formal pact until next year at the earliest. During a hastily convened meeting in Singapore, the US president supported a Danish plan to salvage something from next month's meeting by aiming to make it a first-stage series of commitments rather than an all-encompassing protocol. Postponing many contentious decisions on emissions targets, financing and technology transfer until the second-stage, leaders will instead try to reach a political agreement in Copenhagen that sends a strong message of intent. Obama says no deal at Copenhagen: 'What's needed is a strong political signal' Link to this audio While this falls short of hopes that the meeting would lock in place a global action plan to replace the Kyoto protocol, it recognises the lack of progress in recent preparatory talks and the hold-ups of climate legislation in the US Senate.. » read more

da Targets Gulf Coast: La. Declares State of Emergency

related: Hurricane Ida: El Salvador Death Toll Reaches 124 Ida's Storm Path November 9, 2009 AP NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Ida chugged toward the Gulf Coast, and despite warnings extending more than 200 miles across several states, residents seemed to take the first Atlantic hurricane to target the U.S. this season in stride. Photo: Workers look at big waves in Cancun, Mexico, kicked up by Hurricane Ida. (By Jose Domingeuz, AFP/ Getty Images) Authorities said the hurricane weakened early Monday to a Category 1 storm, with 90 mph winds.. » read more

News Viewpoint: Global warming is a giant scam

Nov. 7, 2009 June 01, 2009, 3:20PM To the Editor: Former Vice President Al Gore says the science is settled and refuses to debate anyone about global warming. Of course he can't debate anyone on the issue, because he will be exposed for the charlatan that he is. The Nobel Peace Prize and the Oscar was bestowed upon him by his liberal cronies for his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." This is the same movie that is shown to our school children and presented as gospel in order to indoctrinate them into the global warming camp.. » read more

Ida batters Nicaragua, then weakens

Back to tropical storm after hurricane; Cancun, gulf possibly in path Nov. 5, 2009 MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Ida weakened back into a tropical storm on Thursday after ripping into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and becoming a tropical storm. This ship was grounded by Hurricane Ida on Nicaragua's Corn Island on Thursday.  View related pho Ida, clocking 75 mph winds, struck land around sunrise in Tasbapauni, about 60 miles northeast of Bluefields. About 80 percent of homes were destroyed in nearby Karawala, a fishing village of about 100 flimsy, wooden shacks near the mouth of the Rio Grande de Matagalpa, said Nicaragua's National Civil Defense director, Mario Perez.. » read more

Al Gore Admits CO2 Does Not Cause Majority Of Global Warming

    ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: The Unrepentant Patriot Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:07 PM Subject: Al Gore Admits CO2 Does Not Cause Majority Of Global Warming To:    This, I believe, is the most telling statement from Gore's comments below:   “Over the years I have been among those who focused most of all on CO2, and I think that’s still justified,” Gore told Newsweek . “But a comprehensive plan to solve the climate crisis has to widen the focus to encompass strategies for all of the greenhouse culprits identified in the Nasa study."   In other words, he recognizes that "the jig is up" on CO2 as a "pollutant", so now he wants to rape us all even more egregiously by speciously claiming that everything from cow farts to the family fireplace has to be taxed.   He's crafty -- I'll give him that much.   If the world falls for this, especially in light of how thoroughly the notion of anthropegenic global warming is being presently debunked, then Lincoln was wrong -- it really IS possible to fool all the people all the time.. » read more

Climate Change a Distant Problem for Americans

Oct. 26, 2009 What do Americans think about climate change? The success of Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," may have allowed us to imagine this phenomenon had become a major concern. However, at the same time, the strength of "climate skeptics" and of the opposition to the proposed climate change law in Congress show that the question is far from settled. Climate change attitude researcher Anthony Leiserowitz: "The first image that comes to people's mind is the melting of the glaciers, the break-up of the ice caps. But few of us live on the shores of the Arctic or Antarctic oceans.. » read more

Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat

Nov. 3, 2009 The ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has continued to retreat rapidly, declining 26 percent since 2000, scientists say in a new report. Yet the authors of the study, to be published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reached no consensus on whether the melting could be attributed mainly to humanity’s role in warming the global climate. Stephen Morrison/European Pressphoto Agency Mount Kilimanjaro's top, shown in June, has lost 26 percent of its ice since 2000, a study says. Eighty-five percent of the ice cover that was present in 1912 has vanished, the scientists said.. » read more

Autumn snowstorm wallops Rockies, Plains (with video)

Oct. 30, 2009 A record-setting snowstorm that dumped nearly 4 feet of snow across parts of the Rockies by Thursday will threaten parts of the Midwest and South today with heavy rain and flooding. The powerful fall storm forced hundreds of flights to be canceled in Denver and closed schools and major highways. Heavy snow fell as far west as northern Utah's Wasatch Front to western Nebraska's northern border. In South Dakota, snow shut down the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.. » read more

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