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Whiplash in the Greenhouse
New York Times (blog)
Note this excerpt from a piece of mine on
various putative tipping points in the climate system: “For
example, the idea that recent sharp retreat of summer ... |
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1002 |
Exaggerating the impact of climate change on the spread of malaria
(Skeptic)
The Guardian
... a 'tipping point' for
malaria. Recent years may have seen malaria increasing in the Mt
Kenya region, partly perhaps as a result of global warming
but, ... |
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1003 |
Major Antarctic glacier is 'past its tipping point'
New Scientist
A major Antarctic glacier has passed its
tipping point, according to a new modelling study. After
losing increasing amounts of ice over the past decades, ... |
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1004 |
Agreement is not global
(Skeptic)
The Star
Coun JG Harston says I missed the point
because 'Australia is experiencing its hottest summer since
records began'. So it's global warming, ... |
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1005 |
Climate change pushes massive Antarctic glacier past tipping
point
Mongabay.com
A new study shows that a major Antarctic
glacier has likely passed its tipping point, putting it on
track to lose 50 percent of its ice in 100 years. ... |
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1006 |
Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels, figures show
The Guardian
Palmer said: "This study does not show the
Arctic has passed a tipping point, but it should open
people's eyes. It shows there is a positive feedback and ... |
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1007 |
Scientists: Major Antarctic Glacer Already Passed its "Tipping
Point"
ShortNews.com
because weather has alot factors thats
always fluctate alot whereas global warming is fairly
continuious aside from solar cycle fluctation, ... |
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1008 |
Spike in GHG seepage
Deccan Herald
Global warming is occurring twice as
fast in the Arctic than anywhere else ... show the Arctic
has passed a tipping point, but it should open people's
eyes. ... |
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1009 |
Spike in GHG seepage
Deccan Herald
Global warming is occurring twice as
fast in the Arctic than anywhere else ... show the Arctic
has passed a tipping point, but it should open people's
eyes. ... |
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1010 |
Methane Causes Vicious Cycle In Global Warming
NPR
It's not yet to the stage where it's a
runaway warming effect, Palmer says. But climate scientists
are worried that we could hit that tipping point. ... |
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1011 |
So, whatever happened to Copenhagen?
(Skeptic)
National Post (blog)
But, then again, global warming is a
very earnest, if not positively sullen topic, and to mine even an
atom of a joke from all of the frenzied evangelism of ... |
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1012 |
New climate change group in St Albans
St Albans & Harpenden Review
World leaders sold out to the giant carbon
corporations and agreed on nothing to stop uncontrolled global
warming and climate catastrophe. ... |
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1013 |
BIODIVERSITY: The Amazon Is Not Eternal
Inter Press Service
The tipping point for the Amazon is
20 percent deforestation," and that is "a scary result," Lovejoy
told Tierramérica in an interview. ... |
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1014 |
A climate-change tipping point
FT.com (blog)
People who worry a lot about global
warming sometimes talk about tipping points - a moment
when catastrophic climate change becomes irreversible. ... |
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1015 |
Hansen takes temperature of climate debate with book
CU Columbia Spectator
“We're coming pretty darn close,” Hansen
said, when asked if he could predict the tipping point. The
earth is reaching the point of no return, ... |
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1016 |
Global warming 'tipping points' may arrive without
warning
USA Today
This means that some effects of global
climate change on ecosystems can be seen only once the effects are
dramatic. By that point returning the system to a ... |
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1017 |
Why This January Is The Hottest On Record
Everything PR
Global warming detractors point
to such things as solar flares and other systematic variables
rather than human contributions, but these theories do not ... |
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1018 |
Hunters Point Shipyard EIR ignores doubled ocean rise
predictions with ...
San Francisco Bay View
Decades before Al Gore's “An Inconvenient
Truth,” Dr. Hansen addressed global warming. He warned we
dare not push past climate system tipping points. ... |
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1019 |
Weather doesn't mean diddly when it comes to global warming
Kansas City Star
The famous - or infamous - tipping point
will be reached when the world's oceans are no longer able to
absorb excess heat. At that point, global warming ... |
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1020 |
The winter of global warming
(Skeptic)
San Francisco Chronicle
... years during which the global-warming
believers pointed to every warm season, low-snowfall report and
storm as proof that the "tipping point" was near. ... |
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1021 |
Canada's Permafrost Has Moved North 80 Miles in Past 50 Years
Treehugger
He added that though the trend cannot be
conclusively linked to climate change owing to a lack of data in
the remote region, global warming is the most ... |
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1022 |
The crackup of the climate 'consensus'
New York Post
Now, the "Climategate" scandal that broke in
November is looking like a true tipping point: The leaked
e-mails have done to the climate-change debate what ... |
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1023 |
I'd like a big volcanic eruption and an Arctic disaster
The Ecologist
LS: You say in your book that it's too late
to stop the warming dead in its tracks by cutting our
greenhouse gas emissions. Have we reached a tipping point
... |
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1024 |
Deforestation Pushing Amazon to Its Ecological Limits
SolveClimate (blog)
And in the event of a forest-fire, “it could
be considered that E. Amazonia had passed a tipping point
in ecosystem structure and function,” the PNAS ... |
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1025 |
India, China, emission control and global warming
Subversify
However stupid this attitude sounds, it's
true that global warming deniers ... very rapidly –
approaching a tipping point of carbon dioxide concentration
in ... |
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1026 |
Shrinking Glaciers Threaten Tajikistan's Economic Dreams
Spero News
Tajikistan's contribution to global
warming is minimal, with only a handful of factories and just
... A recent Oxfam report, titled "Reaching Tipping
Point? ... |
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1027 |
81 months and counting …
The Guardian
Perversely, we maybe in the last hurrah of
the sceptics, and closer to a positive tipping point in
attitude than it seems. Even with plenty on his plate, ... |
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1028 |
Shrinking Glaciers Threaten Tajikistan's Economic Dreams
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
"In the past, the impacts of global
warming were more evident in the valleys," says Haqnazar
... A recent Oxfam report, titled "Reaching Tipping Point?
... |
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1029 |
Campus group to build solar greenhouse
The Sheaf
If we continue to this we are going to hit a
tipping point in 2015. ... 2009 documentary that
focuses on the environment, climate and global warming
issues. ... |
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1030 |
A Failed Economic System: The World Crisis of Capitalist
Globalization
Center for Research on
Globalization
18 Yet, if Marx constitutes the starting
point for a general theory of ..... In addressing the
global warming problem, Summers naively stated in 1992,
... |
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1031 |
Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social
Engagement
Environmental Leader
... we have a very small window
before we reach an irreversible tipping point, ...
It is time for business to become part of the global warming
solution. ... |
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1002 |
A Guernica for Gaia: The UK Art World Gets Serious about Climate
...
Art Threat Magazine
In response to this need for artists'
engagement with global warming, London hosted ....
of the unstoppable progress of the planet towards a tipping
point, ... |
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1033 |
The Wrong Kind of Green
The Nation.
These are "tipping points": after
them, we can't go back to the climate in which civilization
evolved. So in an age of global warming, the old idea of
... |
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1034 |
CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Shelf Leaking Potent Greenhouse Gas
Inter Press Service
On a global scale of methane
emissions from the land-based sources - animals, ... I'm
not optimistic that we will avoid some kind of tipping point." |
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1035 |
The Heat Over Bubbling Arctic Methane
(Skeptic)
New York Times
... of this heat-trapping gas is
about to upend the global climate system? ...
assessing Arctic warming, sees no evidence for a “tipping
point” beyond which ... |
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1036 |
Divisive he stands
The Age
More than two decades after having thrust
the global warming threat on to the ... The other
tipping point Hansen flags is the threat of species
extinction. ... |
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1037 |
Debate doesn't matter; action does
Columbia Daily Tribune
The tipping point will be reached
when the world's oceans are no longer able to absorb excess heat.
Global warming will not be gradual, but dramatic and ... |
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1038 |
A chat with Stephen Hawking
AsiaOne
While we are hoping to stabilise it, and
maybe even reverse it, by reducing CO2 emissions, the danger is
that the climate change may pass a tipping point at ... |
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1039 |
Seychelles threatened by global warming
GlobalPost
We are not far away from this tipping
point,” he warned. 85000 people live in the Seychelles, the
vast majority on Mahé, the largest of the 115 islands. ... |
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1040 |
Planet Hulk's Mad Genius Has A Radical Solution To Global
Warming
io9
... undersecretary for the Department
of Global Warming Mason Park (Tim Kang) informs the crowd
of scientists and activists that the tipping point has
... |
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1041 |
Methane Madness
(Skeptic)
American Thinker
For decades now, alarmists have claimed that
CO 2 emissions are warming the earth past the "tipping
point" and that only extreme reductions in the use of ... |
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1042 |
Climate Change in Central Asia Threatens Russia from the South,
Experts Say
Georgiandaily
Earlier this year, Oxfam released a report,
entitled “Reaching Tipping Point? Climate Change and
Poverty in Tajikistan,” based on interviews with people in ... |
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1043 |
Pushing Back Against the Methane Tipping Point
WorldChanging (blog)
The melting of methane ice (aka "methane
hydrates" and "methane clathrates") is probably the most
significant global warming tipping point event out there.
... |
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1044 |
The burden of believing in global weirding
CBC.ca
That's one thing less I have to worry
about!" There is a cheery side to global warming afterall,
I thought. No tipping point. No climate wars. ... |
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1046 |
Why the End Times Might Reek of Methane
Fast Company
Melting methane clathrates are pretty much
the scariest of the so-called "tipping point" effects of
anthropogenic global warming. ... |
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1047 |
Britain's energy future – political and technical considerations
Energy Collective
In order for the extent and effects of
global warming to be mitigated, ..... It is also
pertinent to point out that far more steel and concrete are
needed ... |
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1048 |
Dumbing Down Fire and Ice to Stop C02 Regulation
DC Bureau
Man may have already warmed the earth to the
tipping point, ... one cannot fault O'Keefe for
spewing out the industry line on global warming. ... |
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1049
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'The Future History of the Arctic': a balanced look
Seattle Times
And, if the climate continues its warming
trend, the Arctic may become an important trade ... for the
future and observes that we are at a tipping point. ... |
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1050
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Putting a Price Tag on the Melting Ice Caps
TIME
Of course, grappling with something as
vastly complex as climate science involves plenty of
uncertainties: What threshold represents a tipping point,
... |
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1051 |
Putting a Price Tag on the Melting Ice Caps
TIME
Of course, grappling with something as
vastly complex as climate science involves plenty of
uncertainties: What threshold represents a tipping point,
... |
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1052 |
Arctic ice recovers from the great melt
Times Online
... including some at the NSIDC, to
suggest that global warming had pushed the Arctic to a
tipping point from which it might not recover. ... |
1053
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The Arctic May Not See a 'Tipping Point' Scenario
(Skeptic)
Softpedia
By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor A large
number of geologists, oceanographers and planetary scientists
believe that the effects of global warming and climate
... |
1054
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Earth Day, 40 years later: Struggles of the green generation are
...
IdahoStatesman.com
During the Carter years, evidence supporting
global warming gained scientific strength, ... He
says today the world has passed that tipping point. ... |
1055
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Finding Ways To Mark Earth Day's 40th
NPR
FLATOW: So are you saying that we have
reached that tipping point where it's ... We know
there's a global warming problem that can cause all kinds
of havoc ... |
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1056 |
Hansen Clarifies Realities Of Global Climate Change
Cornell University The
Cornell Daily Sun
“We've reached a point where if we
don't begin to get on a different course in ... are not
adhering to pledges to reduce global warming emissions, he
added. ... |
1057
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Obama Readies for Battle: EPA Vs. GOP Global Warming
Deniers ...
A. Global warming is more
than one cold winter B. You can't show us .... I agree we
are nearing a tipping point, but evidence points to ... |
1058
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Climate Damage Confirmed To Be Serious, Extensive
KTVU San Francisco
... Ken Caldeira says earth
especially the oceans may be at a tipping point. ...
He also says global warming may cost a trillion dollars a
year in the US, ... |
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1059 |
2020: Coal Burning Must Stop; Kills 30000 Yearly
Basil & Spice
Global warming is a complex subject
because many factors, man-made and natural, are involved and
combined with larger long-term weather patterns, ... |
1060
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Curbing Greenhouse Emissions Will Be A Challenge
PlanetSave.com
... gas-emitting countries can avoid
reaching the warming tipping-point, ... this
paper clearly separates the global actions which must be
undertaken ... |
1061
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Trees tell of shifting world
PhysOrg.com
Rising global temperatures could
cause the vast Amazonian rainforest — sometimes ... One
study showed that tipping point to be about 28 degrees
Celsius, ... |
1062
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Arctic ice melt uncovers legendary sea route that connects Europe
...
Environmental Graffiti
These are snapshots of the devastation that
global warming has inflicted on the ... that the
polar zones may already have reached a crucial tipping point.
... |
1063
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Deniers - apologise for Climategate
Independent
The tide of global warming denial is
now rising as fast as global sea ... and "you have a
president who has very strong sympathies with that point of
view. ... |
1064
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BP fines and drilling bans are NOT enough!
TPMCafé
Dr. James Hansen, and many other climate
scientists say we are at a tipping point of ...
We can not address the coming Global Warming catastrophe
without ... |
1065
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Scientists say Earth could get too hot for humans
CTV.ca
New research theorizes that if global
warming continues at its current pace, ..... No one
knows what the tipping point is or when it will occur.
... |
1066
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UN fears 'irreversible' damage to natural environment
Jakarta Globe
"This report is saying that we are reaching
the tipping point where the ... Global
climate, regional rainfall and loss of plant and animal species
were ... |
1067
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Environmental damage dire
Straits Times
The third 'Global Biodiversity
Outlook' found that deforestation, pollution or ... 'This
report is saying that we are reaching the tipping point
where the ... |
1068
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UN's Third Global Biodiversity Outlook Report
Greenfudge.org
The world faces a critical tipping point
and potentially irreversible damage, ... High ocean
acidification levels, warming oceans and overfishing have
all ... |
1069
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New paper: “unlikely that man-made global warming would
cause a ...
By Anthony Watts
Hence, hysteretic threshold behavior (or a “tipping
point”) is unlikely to occur during the decline of Arctic
summer sea-ice cover in the 21st century |
1070
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Climate Change: Mass Tree Deaths Mean Amazon May Be At Tipping
Point
... are consistent with the
idea that global warming will cause more droughts in
future, ... Tundra: The high north is warming particularly
fast, melting the ... Gas hydrates: Also involving methane,
this tipping point involves huge ... |
1071
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Amazon drought and pollution: Triggering a tipping for
global warming
Dscriber
Maybe global warming is happening. Or
maybe the Earth is off kilter in its orbit around the Sun. Maybe
the Moon is getting closer. Or perhaps 2012 doomsday .. |
1072
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David Whitehouse: No Arctic “Tipping Point” | Climate
Realists
Ice, if you read the literature,
is the key tipping point substance. ..... #1 The
Death Blow to Anthropogenic Global Warming by Stephen Wilde
(42742 views) ... |
1073
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Hansen on why he became an activist: “Our planet is close to
...
By Joe
Fourteen months later I gave another public
talk – connecting the dots from global warming to policy
implications to criticisms of the fossil fuel industry for
promoting misinformation. This time my grandchildren provided
... |
1074
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Behind the hurricane hype | Journalist Profile |
By Gregg Easterbrook
One of the big questions of global
warming is whether there will be tipping points — natural
thresholds that cause climate change to accelerate. If the
Princeton paper's view is correct, by the time the tipping
point for hurricanes is ... |
1075
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Salceda says climate funds in crossroad | ATN - Asia Times News
According to him, the world is
facing a tipping point on the expanding global carbon
emissions gap—where global warming and climate change
becomes irreversible by 2050 and beyond. Salceda said this should
now be addressed, ... |
1076
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Up close and personal with penguins -- and climate change
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
If, as some scientists maintain, we are
moving toward a tipping point, ... of the expanding
range of change induced by global warming in polar
climates, ... |
1077
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2012 Mayan Calendar and Global Warming – Metaphysical | my
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By admin
Scientists say we're witout a question
previous the tipping point. The tipping point
signifies the point of no come back for our planet. I shudder to
feel of what we just like a folks have accomplished to the globe
which has sustained ... |
1078
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MSM Inertia: What We Can Learn from 120 Years of Climate ...
By Don Polson
On February 15, 1959, the New York Times
reported: “Arctic findings in particular support theory of rising
global temperatures.” However, the temperature of the Earth
was not warming at this point, it was falling. ... |
1079
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Snowpocalypse as Tipping Point
The Great Snowpocalypse of 2010
will be remembered as the tipping point that ...
Global Warming? When you have to resort to the “It's colder
because it's ... |
1080
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Capitalists, Global Warming, and the Climate Justice
Movement ...
But this new crisis, this imminent
"tipping point" for global warming, is another beast
altogether. It is happening too fast. How can we possibly
dismantle ... |
1081
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Armageddon in 2012? The truth behind the doomsday theories
By Robalini
A total environmental collapse brought about
by runaway warming, toxic poisoning of the seas of parts of the
inhabited areas of the world or a tipping point with some
of the most crucial species (see Bee colony collapse above) would
have a huge impact upon ... |
1082
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Green Living: 10 reasons to be hopeful
Justmeans
This comes even after the Congress denied
anthropogenic factors contributing towards global warming.
... This is great because it hastens the tipping point.
... |
1083
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Top 10 Environmental Stories This Year
Patch
In a year that saw our planet get ever
closer to the tipping point of irreversible global
warming I picked the right time to focus my attention locally
here ... |
1084
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To Build Solar Panel » Climate Change Conversations with ...
By Admin
scales Climate Change Conversations with
ExxonMobil, Part 1: Reaching a Tipping Point? A
strange thing happened to me last Friday: ... |
1085
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It's called global warming caused by man made pollution
stupid
By Bomber
(Radical alarmist)
Man made pollution is warming the planet dangerously
towards a tipping point which could crash our collective
civilization, of that there is zero doubt, yet a report put out by
Greenpeace last week shows how one of the largest secret ... |
1086
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Climate Tipping Points - Understanding Climate Change Blog
...
Using climate history we discuss
how tipping points are triggered and the ... determine
whether the current global warming trend will lead to a
tipping point. |
1087
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Conservative Jedi: A Lesson for All You Having Nightmares About
...
By Northern Exposer
It's funny isn't it, but about five years
ago wasn't Al Gore saying we face a “ tipping point” in 10
years after which global warming would be impossible to
stop? We are now just five years away. Does that mean in another
five years we ... |
1088
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Is Global Warming a Horse that Has Left the Barn?
I have the general sense that Global Warming
is a juggernaut whose strength .... He said that there is
no solid evidence of such a general tipping point. ... |
1089
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Skeptic's Corner: Global Warming conspiring to cool the
Earth
(Skeptic)
By Jer
Where is the tipping point setting
off this chain reaction of positive feedbacks when in fact the
very catalyst for a runaway climate (warmer temperatures caused by
CO2) is instead causing the opposite affect in some cases? ... |
1090
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The Tipping Point Exceeded
By "Bear"
IN 2004, JOHN SCHELLNHUBER, distinguished
science adviser at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
in the United Kingdom, identified 12 global-warming
tipping points, any one of which, if triggered, will likely
initiate sudden, ... |
1091
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Reducing black carbon buys time
environmentalresearchweb
... could now be reduced by 50%, it
would not be sufficient to avoid the 2°C global temperature
rise that many scientists consider could be a tipping point.
... |
1092
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Greenland's tip « Bleeding Edge Blog
By panokroko
”Sometime in this decade we may pass that
tipping point which would put us warmer than temperatures that
Greenland can survive,” Alley told a briefing in the US Congress,
adding that a rise in the range of 2C to 7C would mean the
complete obliteration of Greenland's ice sheet. ... |
1093
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Greenland's tip « Bleeding Edge Blog
By panokroko
”Sometime in this decade we may pass that
tipping point which would put us warmer than temperatures that
Greenland can survive,” Alley told a briefing in the US Congress,
adding that a rise in the range of 2C to 7C would mean the
complete obliteration of Greenland's ice sheet. ... |
1094
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Why are climate scientists ignoring peak oil and coal?
Our
Future Planet
The crucial point is that all our
theoretically large supplies will not become ... It seems
that global warming scenarios are based around assumptions
of ... |
1095
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Climate Change May Result in More Skin Disease
Internal Medicine News Digital Network
Global warming may be debated in the
popular media, but there is little ... of 2 degrees
Centigrade may be the "tipping point" that triggers
irreversible ... |
1096
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Hollywood Hip Hugger | Speak Easy On Broadway
By admin
The environmental movement is, to use a
popular term, about the tipping point. It's about to get to
the tipping point. There's a tipping point, and I
believe the tipping point will be occurring when the
environmental movement is no longer ... |
1097
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Greenland melt tipping point 2040 | Resources for a
sustainable future
By morris
... leaving the planet on course for
3.2 °C of global warming, and Greenland – the world's
second largest ice cap – heading for a point of no return. The
suggestion is that Greenland will reach a tipping point in
the early 2040s. ... |
1098
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World losing biodiversity at unprecedented rate: UN
Sify
Chennai, Jan 7 (IANS) The extinction of
biodiversity due to global warming is thousand times higher
than natural extinction and irreparable degradation may ... |
1099
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Watch Global Climate Change via C-SPAN Online
Watch Global Climate Change via
C-SPAN Online. ... calls a shift in human attitudes from
denial to responsibility for global warming the 13th
tipping point. ... |
1100
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Global Warming Consensus is Shifting | Co2 Insanity
By co2insanity
Well, I'm about 99.99% certain that when the
consensus hits the 'tipping point' where 51% of the
scientist think that anthropogenic global warming is
bullshit, that those very same warmers will suddenly start
screaming about how a ... |