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Scepticism chic
Himal Southasian
The earth is perilously close to the widely
agreed-upon 'tipping point', that of exceeding a two-degree
centigrade rise in global temperatures above ... |
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California: Green and Broke 2.0
Examiner.com
Chronic eco-group obstructions have reached
a tipping point in the hysterics of global climate
change in a time of global economic recession. ... |
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Met Office: Global warming may bring catastrophic climate
change ...
TopNews United States
... the 7.2F (4C) rise in average
global temperature can considered a hazardous tipping point
– not only would it cause droughts and floods all over the ... |
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Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our
lifetimes
guardian.co.uk
The Met Office's study warns global
warming could result in a rise of 4C by 2060. Photograph:
Vinay Dithajohn/EPA Unchecked global warming could bring a
... |
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Don't look now
Bennington Banner
... deficit mode nationwide?
global warming? How can we hope to deal with warming if
it hits that climate tipping point many scientists fear is
not far off? ... |
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World reaching 'irreversible tipping point' on warming
Cool Earth
Many of the world's climatologists believe
that the globe is fast-approaching "an irreversible tipping
point", it has been said. According to Professor Said ... |
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Met Office: catastrophic climate change could happen with 50 years
Telegraph.co.uk
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent An
average global temperature rise of 7.2F (4C), considered a
dangerous tipping point, could happen by 2060, ... |
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Philippine floods give global warning - Feature
Earthtimes (press release)
"At the rate we are moving, we will have a
hard time in addressing this tipping point unless the
protocol text is crafted in Bangkok. ... |
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Warning on warming
Mail & Guardian Online
Unchecked global warming could bring
a temperature rise of 4°C within many people's lifetimes,
according to a new report for the British government that ... |
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Climate change requires movement
SANA
After the rapid Arctic sea ice melt in the
summer of 2007, scientists realized that global warming was
happening more quickly and on a larger scale than ... |
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Planetary Boundaries? Go Ask the Romans
Miller-McCune.com
"We know that complex systems have those kinds of dynamics; our
goal was to say that each of these nine probably has a tipping
point. ... |
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An inconvenient admission
Atlanta Journal Constitution
You yourself won't be satisfied until we
reach the tipping point, and natural disasters become more
and more commonplace, accompanied by disease, ... |
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A New Earth
Vision Insights and New
Horizons
Overuse of the term tipping point has
diluted the reality that all systems exist in a balance of
interconnectedness. Can we so disrupt the natural systems ... |
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Rudd's future assured by Coalition
The Australian
Most importantly, in the past we never had a
magical "tipping point" where the whole system went out of
whack (despite periods where CO2 concentrations were ... |
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Rudd's future assured by Coalition
The Australian
Most importantly, in the past we never had a
magical "tipping point" where the whole system went out of
whack (despite periods where CO2 concentrations were ... |
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Inconvenient Censorship Stanford U. Bans Climate Film from Airing
Right Side News
Newsweek Magazine even used the climate "tipping
point" argument in 1975 to hype global cooling.
Newsweek wrote April 28, 1975 article: "The longer the ... |
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Global Warming is Neither
Energy Tribune
These publications and news programs
point to things like the melting of glaciers to prove
global warming is real. The melting of glaciers is not new.
... |
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Met Office warns polar ice melt is passing “tipping point”
Click Green
Published Wed 07 Oct 2009 07:42 Scientists
at the UK Met Office have warned global warming could melt
the vast Greenland ice sheet beyond 'tipping points' ... |
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A must-have revolution: How shopping became India's new religion
Independent
After eight years of the Bush administration
and its rejection of global warming science, it's unclear
why Clinton thought Delhi would fall into place. ... |
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Mammal Mystery Spurs Calif. Rescue Mission
CBS News
I know people want to jump in and say its
global warming so we caused it. Well let nature fix our mess
then. By saving so many we are going against nature. ... |
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The psychology of climate inaction
Public Radio International
PRI
"So you get a kind of tipping point
effect at some point. It's what everybody is doing. And
people reward each other in subtle ways for sharing that goal.
... |
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Climate change zealots bedeviled by the limits ...
National Post
Takes advantage of the system that feeds,
clothes and provides him with the very toys he claims to despise.
by JFJ Ah yes, back to global warming, ... |
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'Tax and dividend' best plan to solve global warming
The Missoulian
Within a decade or so, this would lead to a
"tipping point," at which time the alternates would become
less expensive than the fossil fuels and the ultimate ... |
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The Great Climate Scam (Skeptic)
The People's Voice
Today, fanciful scientists and economists
offer different perspectives on global warming predictions.
Modelling by the former puts the dangerous “tipping ... |
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Rise in sea levels can't be reversed
COP15 Copenhagen
So far global warming is estimated to
have caused sea levels to rise by about 20 centimeters. The latest
official estimate, given in 2007 by the ... |
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'Planned recession' could avoid catastrophic climate change
Telegraph.co.uk
... to keep global warming
below two degrees C above pre-industrial levels. The report says
the only way to avoid going beyond the dangerous tipping point
... |
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Who Can Head Off Climate Change Before the Tipping Point?
Forward
The only solution is to stop the warming
now, before it reaches the tipping point. Unlike health
care, or Israel, this isn'ta question of waiting another ... |
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Written by Jennifer Wastrom
Redding Pilot
Above 350 is considered harmful for the
planet and near a tipping point with no return. Today the
Earth's atmosphere has already passed that number. ... |
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Gore says climate change at 'political tipping point'
Wisconsin State Journal
... journalists that the political
climate is changing to allow Americans to tackle global warming.
"We're very close to that political tipping point," Gore
... |
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How pollution might just save the planet
Brisbane Times
As this gas is more than 20 times better at
global warming than carbon dioxide, that's a tipping
point we don't want to cross. Crutzen's chemical shadecloth
... |
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Climate of Distrust
The Gazette (Montreal)
The report states that scientists are trying
to establish early-warning systems to detect when a climate system
is about to reach a tipping point and become ... |
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Let the science catch up
The Australian
WHEN asked by the Economics Society to
debate on October 2 the global warming issue with
environmental economist Harry Clarke of La Trobe University,
... |
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Let the science catch up
The Australian
WHEN asked by the Economics Society to
debate on October 2 the global warming issue with
environmental economist Harry Clarke of La Trobe University,
... |
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Bill mckibben tells why 350 is a crucial number
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Author and activist Bill mckibben has
started a new group, 350.org, to raise awareness of global
warming. By Tim Johnson • Free Press Staff Writer • Sunday,
... |
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Open Thread
NewsBusters (blog)
We have reached the "tipping point."
2009 can now be officially declared the year the media lost their
faith in man-made global warming fears. ... |
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Conservatives not conserving
RantRave | Published
Opinion.
I think we've already gone past the
tipping point because we see daily effects and we don't
willingly stop! Think about it, a coal company would willingly
... |
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Gore dodges questions at environmental journalist conference
DigitalJournal.com
"We're very close to that political
tipping point," Gore said. "Never before in human history has
a single generation been asked to make such difficult and ... |
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Business Revs Up for Carbon Regulation
CNBC
But with all the activity at the state,
national and international level, Ceres' Bakal says Corporate
America seems to have reached a tipping point and will
... |
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Soros to pour $1B into clean energy technology
VentureBeat
Months ago, Soros argued that investing in
green could be the tipping point in turning the American
economy around — it looks like he finally found his ... |
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How Football Fans Can Solve Global Warming
The Infrastructurist
One was by Malcolm Gladwell (you know, the “Tipping
Point” guy with the funny hair-do) about how football causes
hideous brains injuries the men who play ... |
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Global warming can be delayed four decades, study finds
North County Times
And if warming continues, they warn,
it will reach a tipping point that makes further warming
inevitable. Unfavorable consequences of global warming are
... |
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bc's zombie politicians must wake up to climate change danger
Georgia Straight
I am not a doomsayer, I am not one who wants
to say we are beyond the tipping point. But I am afraid
that we are getting close to that. ... |
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Marine Matters: Pick a Number
The Free Press (press
release)
The conclusion: Unless the level of carbon
dioxide returns to 350 ppm this century, down from its current 389
ppm, the earth will reach a tipping point. ... |
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Disaster Displacement Driving Millions into Exile
SolveClimate
... like nasa's James Hansen, that a
tipping point has already been exceeded, with feedback
mechanisms rapidly exacerbating global warming – a
warming which ... |
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The book that will make the Greens turn puce
(Skeptic)
Irish Independent
There was one small glimmer of consolation
mid-week when a leading expert on global warming predicted
that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in summer in ... |
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Queries on The Times and the Environment
New York Times
That, for me, affords an opening, given that
any “solution” to the global warming problem implicitly
involves using energy more carefully and finding ... |
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Illusions on the edge of a precipice
The Age
For two decades, debate has clustered around
the politically mediated target of holding global warming
to 2 degrees, said to be equivalent to a level of ... |
748
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In Defense of England's Coal Protesters
OneWorld.net
Burning fossil fuels is bad for global
warming, but it doesn't follow that unilaterally shutting
Britain's coal-powered power stations is an urgent moral ... |
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In Defense of England's Coal Protesters
OneWorld.net
Burning fossil fuels is bad for global
warming, but it doesn't follow that unilaterally shutting
Britain's coal-powered power stations is an urgent moral ... |
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Concord the site for Saturday's regional energy revolution rally
Concord Journal
The event, organized by the Lexington-based
Global Warming Education Network, will be one of thousands
taking place Oct. 24 commemorating an International ... |
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ENVIRONMENT: Beyond Copenhagen —Peter Heap Et Al
Daily Times
Adaptation to global warming will be
expensive, even for developed countries. Fairly soon, public
pressure for solutions will grow (Arctic melting, ... |
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'Day after tomorrow' map shows consequences of climate change
Telegraph.co.uk
It was produced by the Met Office, that
predicts temperature rises may reach the dangerous tipping
point by 2060 unless more is done to cut greenhouse gas ... |
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350.org International Day of Climate Action - Oct 24, 2009
Eco Factory
This tipping point, fears the group,
will lead the world to a catastrophic and perilous future.
Supporting 350.org's data that CO2 has continued to trend ... |
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350.org International Day of Climate Action - Oct 24, 2009
Eco Factory
This tipping point, fears the group,
will lead the world to a catastrophic and perilous future.
Supporting 350.org's data that CO2 has continued to trend ... |
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Climate Change Steps Crucial
Cincinnati CityBeat
... noted by Discover magazine that
enough scientific evidence existed that we had reached a turning
point in understanding that global warming was real.
... |
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Sustainable development- an alternatives to economic growth
Honolulu Advertiser
Ching added that "Unless we act in response
to the global warming of our planet" these best of time
"could easily become our worst times. ... |
757
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Attention Green Investors: Get Over Your Hatred Of Coal – Carbon
Capture ...
istockAnalyst.com (press
release)
Moreover, with all that pressure on
governments to control their coal-generated carbon emissions
before global warming's so-called "tipping point" is
... |
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Finding the tipping point
Financial Express
The genes released in this generation may
outlast the effects of global warming and nuclear waste.”
Is the move towards Bt brinjal the right one? ... |
759
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Carbon dioxide: we're already over the safe limit
Telegraph.co.uk
Not only were CO2 levels much higher than
today but there was no global temperature tipping point,
much loved by James Hansen, and life thrived. ... |
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Superfreakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
guardian.co.uk
The last chapter is not even about an
economist – it's devoted to the story of Nathan Myhrvold, who
thinks that global warming can be solved by pumping ... |
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'Climate change is a good business opportunity'
Times of India
The fifth frame is alarmist, expecting a tipping point — an
apocalypse and this calls for drastic solutions. Shouldn't we be
doing a bit of everything? ... |
762
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The world demonstrates against climate change, but US public
concern wanes
Christian Science Monitor
While the exact number 350 is questionable, the concept of a limit
or tipping point is well-known in ecological and system
analyses. ... |
763
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The world demonstrates against climate change, but US public
concern wanes
Christian Science Monitor
While the exact number 350 is questionable,
the concept of a limit or tipping point is well-known in
ecological and system analyses. ... |
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UNE panel: Eat local, save the planet
Biddeford Journal Tribune
Hams, however, he said he believes there
will be a tipping point where enough people will buy
locally to make it more profitable for small local farmers and
... |
765
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Global forest canopy conference opens
India Today
"Global studies on deforestation warn
that the tipping point is just a few years away," he said,
adding that the need of the hour is to "green the emerald ... |
766
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350 travels 360 on day of climate action
Green Right Now (blog)
Specifically, they want their national
leaders to take serious steps to curb global warming at the
upcoming United Nations' climate negotiations in ... |
767
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Global Warming Roulette
Heritage.org
Spin the wheel and whatever number the ball
lands on will be the new tipping point we must get below;
if not, catastrophic global warming to cause ... |
768
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'SuperFreakonomics' freaks angry scientists
First Post
First there was The Tipping Point,
then Freakonomics, both of them books that painted a warm
insightful gloss over social and financial affairs. ... |
769
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Media tipping point (at long last)?
Energy Collective (blog)
A line in the book says: “Then there's this
little-discussed fact about global warming: While the
drumbeat of doom has grown louder over the past several ... |
770
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Some Local Utilities Preparing for Climate Change
Statesman Journal
Although many issues were debated, Berggren
said the discussion of future climate risks served as a "tipping
point" that led the utility to decide to alter ... |
771
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From 'warming' to 'change'
Peace Arch News
... for global warming and
then going on to attribute this to an increase in greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere, warns that we are nearing a “tipping point”
... |
772
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Meat: Not on the Menu of the Future says Lord Stern
WorldChanging (blog)
With views like this becoming more
prevalent, the responsibility tipping point Lord Stern
refers to may be closer than we think. ... |
773
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Some Local Utilities Preparing for Climate Change
Statesman Journal
Although many issues were debated, Berggren
said the discussion of future climate risks served as a "tipping
point" that led the utility to decide to alter ... |
774
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From 'warming' to 'change'
(Skeptic)
Peace Arch News
... for global warming and
then going on to attribute this to an increase in greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere, warns that we are nearing a “tipping point”
... |
775
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Meat: Not on the Menu of the Future says Lord Stern
WorldChanging (blog)
With views like this becoming more
prevalent, the responsibility tipping point Lord Stern
refers to may be closer than we think. ... |
776
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Marketplace of Ideas Brings Good Results
RhinoTimes.com Greensboro
Gore asserts that mankind is at the "tipping
point" beyond which there will be no hope for reversing
unstoppable global warming. Yet his personal behavior
... |
777
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UK warns of lack of urgency over Copenhagen talks
Reuters
With United Nations talks on a new deal to
combat global warming less than 50 days away, British
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said too many people still ... |
778
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The forecast: Warmer, with a chance of survival
Toronto Star
But he keeps looking at his watch
Climate-change activists sunbathe on the edge of an icy Norwegian
fjord, drawing attention to global warming's nakedly ... |
759
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Repower America Amplifies Thousands of Voices for Action on Clean
Energy and ...
Reuters
Brigadier General Stephen Cheney - USMC
(retired): "I believe that global warming and climate
change is a national security issue. ... |
780
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Elizabeth Kolbert: Al Gore and “Our Choice”
New Yorker
Al Gore's new book, “Our Choice,” which
comes out today, puts forward a series of proposals for taking on
global warming. He spoke to Elizabeth Kolbert ... |
781
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The luck of the Sapiens: the weird fortuitousness of global
warming
True/Slant
What strangely good luck. It this point,
I'll insert a huge qualifier. The problems posed by global
warming are gargantuan, and no laughing matter. ... |
782
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Saving the trillionth tonne
BBC News
This is estimated to have caused just under
1C (1.8F) of global warming (other things affect global
temperature as well but, as it happens, their effects ... |
783
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Our Planet, Our Selves
GC Advocate
by Justin Rogers-Cooper As we move closer to
the tipping point of climate change, where we'll lose
control of our ability to influence atmospheric ... |
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Barbara Boxer plans to bypass Republicans on climate vote
Politico
And if we don't act, we will be past the
tipping point. Remember your grandmother's ice box? No ice =
no cooling = food perishes. And so it will. ... |
785
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Hart: United, not divided, on climate change
GlobalPost
Gary Hart calls on China, America to build a
global warming accord By By Alexandra Pearlman (Suffolk
University) Student Correspondent Corps BOSTON — A box ... |
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Two cheers for the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall
guardian.co.uk
Death by nuclear winter has been succeeded
by the peril of the world being fried by global warming.
Twenty years on, the planet is richer, freer, ... |
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Is man on course to cause the sixth extinction?
guardian.co.uk
"The idea of mass extinctions as the next
step after talking about the perils of global warming is
the most crucial subject," said Gillian Blake of Holt, ... |
788
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David Spratt: Powerful working towards climate talks disaster
Green Left Weekly
For two decades climate policy has been
focused on policy targets aimed at preventing global warming
exceeding 2°C, which is said to be a level of ... |
789
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We Can Stop Global Warming Today
Scienceline (blog)
A positive feedback would allow a small
amount of warming from CO2 to be amplified into a much
larger global warming. Tipping points are possible
if there ... |
790
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Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread: Food & Climate
Daily Kos (blog)
It's not simply that meat is a contributor
to global warming; it's that it is a huge contributor.
Larger, by a significant margin, than the global ... |
791
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Australian PM warns skeptics 'are too 'dangerous to ignore' and
are 'holding ...
Gather.com
Climate Depot Response: Yes, you are very
correct on this point Mr. Rudd. Scientists dissenting from
silly and baseless man-made global warming fears are ... |
792
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Beinecke: Major Progress Is Being Made
Roll Call (subscription)
That, scientists worldwide largely agree, is
a kind of tipping point. Global warming above that
level would trigger environmental catastrophe, ... |
793
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James Hansen speaks
Energy Collective (blog)
... sufficient warming – thus
this methane has the potential to greatly amplify humanmade
global warming, if that warming reaches a level, a
tipping point, ... |
794
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Carbon dioxide not a pollutant
(Skeptic)
Ithaca Journal
The latest lunacy from the CO2-leftists is
that 350 parts per million of CO2 - carbon dioxide - in the
atmosphere is the tipping point. ... |
795
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We have met the deniers, and they are us
Grist Magazine
Agents of the lethal delays in our response
to escalating, accelerating, catastrophic global warming.
Yet, as deniers of climate change, they're amateurs ... |
796
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Obama in 11th-hour climate bid with China, India
AFP
... a necessity in any serious
global effort to arrest climate change. "We are at a
tipping point, I think, both in the quest for remedies to
climate change ... |
797
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Tipping Points: How Arctic Warming Could Chill
Western Europe
SolveClimate
After 21 years of payments, the monthly
check is finally split evenly between interest and principal, a
tipping point that typically passes without ... |
798
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Tribune Comment: Sinking hopes for Copenhagen
Tribune (blog)
... we have only a 75 per cent chance
of limiting global warming to the critical 2oc threshold
before the doomsday tipping point of no return is reached.
... |
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China confronts global warming dilemma
Christian Science Monitor
As such, it was a tipping point in
the country's environmental awareness. “For the ordinary people,”
says Hu Kanping, editor of the Environmental Protection ... |
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Carbon dioxide emissions fall in state
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Nationwide emissions of carbon dioxide, the
leading global warming pollutant, increased by 19 percent
from 1990 through 2007, but the growth rate slowed in ... |