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901 |
Walt Lucas: Hiding the decline when it comes to climate change
(Skeptic)
Daily Democrat
... not next week or next year, we
will have gone over the tipping point and the earth would
be irreversibly destroyed by global warming? ... |
902 |
Copenhagen Notes: EU agrees to more money to help poorer countries
Green Right Now (blog)
EU leaders say they have agreed to commit
the equivalent of $3.6 billion a year until 2012 to help poorer
countries combat global warming. ... |
903 |
In the shadow of disaster
Morning Star Online
Strong and achievable measures need to be
agreed at the Copenhagen summit to avoid reaching an irreversible
tipping point, but it has been proving difficult ... |
904 |
Authors say climate crisis a perfect storm for disaster
Lincoln Journal Star
A level of about 450 parts per million (ppm)
of the gas in the atmosphere is a widely accepted target to avoid
the fatal tipping point of no-return crisis, ... |
905 |
"SISTER SARAH" MAKES HERE FIRST POLICY STEP FOR RUNNING IN 2012
American Chronicle
Much has happened over the last decade that
supports more of a consensus in the causes of global warming.
) Further down in the climate change article, ... |
906 |
UN GLOBAL WARMING CONFERENCE CONCLUDES; "Snow-blanketed US
battles freezing ...
RenewAmerica
They abandoned the global warming
debate in favor of "coalition building." And now John mccain is in
trouble even in his home state. ... |
907 |
Gore stays on message
Variety
But as talks started last week at the UN Climate Change Conference
in Copenhagen, some polls showed the American public's belief that
global warming is ... |
908 |
Climate Gate: How To Make Your Own Hockey Stick, A Guide
Anorak.co.uk (satire)
Even a small increase in human CO2 might
push it past a catastrophic tipping point — a conclusion
that is bolstered by the hockey stick. ... |
909 |
The great green land grab
Times Online
This chilly melee is the tipping point.
Not the climatic one — more important than that. Copenhagen is
where the principle and the process of environmental ... |
910 |
Copenhagen a chance to pull world back from climate change ledge
Asheville Citizen-Times
Scientists have learned that even a little
atmospheric temperature rise can initiate feedback loops that
speed global warming, some of which are already ... |
911 |
Scientists: Climate talks aim too low for target
The Associated Press
Climate science co-chair Stocker
acknowledged that IPCC projections do not include the potential "tipping
point" addition of trapped methane, ... |
912 |
Proposed greenhouse emissions cuts remain `far short'
The Australian
Professor Stocker acknowledged that IPCC
projections did not include the potential "tipping point"
addition of trapped methane, a powerful greenhouse gas ... |
913 |
CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists Turn to Inuit for Clues
Reuters AlertNet
Using a metaphor, Schneider said that
reaching the tipping point at which a seven meter rise in
sea level can occur is like going towards the top of a hill ... |
914 |
Wallace's blog: Thoughts from a 'Global Warming ' early
adopter
TVNZ
In fact he's pretty pessimistic, and thinks
that we're no longer capable of preventing global warming.
The tipping point at which the Arctic melts, ... |
915 |
Idly wait no more
Philippine Star
Has mankind trespassed the tipping point?
ipcc's wise men seem reluctant to commit to this all-important
question. What is more relevant, they contend, ... |
916 |
Climategate: who bodysnatched Boris?
(Skeptic)
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
This is the point that global
warming accepters (to use a neutral word) keep missing, time
and again: climate change and our response to it are two separate
... |
917 |
Venture Capitalist Claims Soot and Smog Reductions Key to Climate
Agreement ...
PR Web (press release)
One US House of Representatives report says
that reducing black carbon alone “will immediately slow global
warming.”** A recent article published in Foreign ... |
918 |
Adventist leaders comment on Copenhagen climate summit
Adventist News Network
He added that "we are near a tipping
point" of global warming "and that the church, and
other religious communities, are not doing their part to lead the
... |
919 |
Future Planet- Blueprint for Survival
Australia.TO
A tipping point is rapidly
approaching when all the drivers of global warming will
converge and rapidly escalate uncontrollably including- the
release of ... |
920 |
Canaries in the Climate Change Coal Mines?
Atlantic Online (blog)
... polar ice from global warming
is essentially the tipping point that could indeed put them
over the edge, if they aren't poised to go there already. ... |
921 |
Climate Change: Jamaica-Copenhagen letter
Jamaica Observer
The greenhouse gases, emitted by an excess
of carbon dioxide (CO2) mainly, now saturate the atmosphere and
are bringing the system to a major tipping point. ... |
922 |
How to Slow Climate Change for Just $15 Billion
Wired News
By Brandon Keim Weaning humanity from its
fossil fuel habit will take decades, and it will take decades more
for global warming to stop. ... |
923 |
Defining challenge of our century
Manila Bulletin
... moving towards a tipping point
of irreversible climate change, particularly if strong global
action and commitment is not realized between now and 2020. ... |
924 |
Doomsday flick thrills audiences in 'saviour' China
AFP
The film '2012' may represent the tipping
point for youth to take sincere action," Solomon said. Some
say the change in attitude to China reflected in the ... |
925 |
No climate mitigation with expanding agriculture trade
Times of India
More trade also means subsidizing farming
systems that leads to more global warming. For instance,
fertilizer consumption is expected to double in the next ... |
926 |
Live the deal, UNWTO executive says
eTurboNews
One, the science says that we have to keep
the Earth's temperature stable, which means that global warming
has to peak in the next 10 years, more or less, ... |
927 |
Latest “Watermelon” Scam Unraveling In Charleston
(Skeptic)
FITSNews
I believe we are PAST the tipping point!!!!!
By political hack on December 16th, 2009 at 8:33 pm Just let it be
known that Joe Riley drives a hybrid, ... |
928 |
Obama, Palin, Copenhagen: The End Of Drinkable Water?
Huffington Post (blog)
With America's national debate on global
warming going bipolar between President Obama's grand entrance
at Copenhagen and the surreality of Sarah from ... |
929 |
No Tipping Point Yet at Copenhagen
Energy Collective (blog)
Still, is it possible that COP15 is nearing
a “tipping point?” A tipping point is that ephemeral
moment in international negotiations at which momentum ... |
930 |
Climate Crisis Nears Point of No Return, Scientist Says
Here
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Warming oceans, melting icecaps and
glaciers, and the increasing release of methane gas as permafrost
are all leading to a tipping point of no return, ... |
931 |
The View From Copenhagen's Tear-Gassed Streets
Huffington Post (blog)
The actions were coordinated by Climate
Justice Action, a sprawling coalition of global climate
justice groups that finds the major emissions reductions ... |
932 |
The National Anxiety Center Lists Top Ten Fears of the Coming Year
CNSNews.com
“2010, the end of the first decade of the
21st century, is likely to be seen in retrospect as a tipping
point that will determine either a return to ... |
933 |
CO2 is now at its highest ever
Cambridge News
The release of methane (a greenhouse gas 25
times as potent as CO2) from permafrost areas that are warming
up may result in such a tipping point being ... |
934 |
INTERVIEW: Ian Garrett Reports on COP15 and the Arts
Inhabitat (blog)
Read on to hear his take on creative
demonstrating, tipping points, and the paradox of flying to
a conference about global warming! ... |
935 |
Climate Change Matters
The Bahama Journal
While in Copenhagen, the prime minister is
expected to be joined by other CARICOM and world leaders to forge
a consensus on global warming. ... |
936 |
From Climategate to Copenhagen: Time for a Far Northern
Perspective (Skeptic)
AlaskaReport
Part of the problem is that the climate
change activists have developed a compelling narrative the equates
stopping global warming with expanding the sphere ... |
937 |
Row For Water: Why The Journey Of Katie Spotz Matters
Huffington Post (blog)
Extreme droughts, floods, melting glaciers
and other water cycle-related effects of global warming are
why there'll likely be 150 million global climate ... |
938 |
Copenhagen: debate simmers as leaked UN paper shows CO2 targets
inadequate
Examiner.com
The cost really won't matter if planet Earth
passes the tipping point of no return on reigning in the
C02 of an industrialized world that belches 90 million ... |
939 |
Live from Copenhagen: So The Climate Talks Are Winding Down
Clean Energy News (blog)
“The world's nations have come together and
concluded a historic–if incomplete–agreement to begin tackling
global warming. Tonight's announcement is but a ... |
940 |
7 Tipping Points That Could Transform Earth
Wired News
Straightforward global warming was
enough to worry about. But when the IPCC meets in 2014, tipping
points — or tipping elements, in academic vernacular ... |
941 |
Time is running out
The Nation. (blog)
... thus far and what is needed to
keep global temperature rise below 2°C – a level scientists
say would be a tipping point for runaway climate change.
... |
942 |
What to make of second leaked UN doc and its sanctioned 3C rise in
global temp?
Grist Magazine
Science has called for 25-40 percent to give
us only a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to 2
degrees. So were we under the impression that “1.5 to ... |
943 |
Beyond the Darkest Hours, Hope Rising
Firedoglake (blog)
The level of CO2 in the atmosphere already
exceeds the dangerous tipping point of 350ppm. We're
currently at 387ppm. Even if we were able to reduce CO2 to ... |
944 |
Making the Best of a Messy Real World
Institute for Ethics and
Emerging Technologies
We may be reaching a tipping point
where we will be unable to control the runaway effects that could
undo all that we've managed to build in the last ten ... |
945 |
Chaos greets new climate pact
AFP
The president declared the non-binding pact
unprecedented and historic, though short of what must be done to
tame global warming. ... |
946 |
In Copenhagen, the New Radicals
TheTyee.ca
Why we need to 'lose' at this week's climate
summit if we are to win the fight against global warming.
[Editor's note: Last week, University of Victoria ... |
947 |
Global Warming and an Odd Bull Moose
Wall Street Journal
With the Copenhagen climate conference
drawing to a close, and the perhaps-compromised science of
global warming everywhere in the news, the big bull moose
... |
948 |
Physicist: global warming 'will happen all at once'
The Spoof (satire)
'The recent cooling trend shows that we're
at a tipping point. Not very long from now, the CO2
molecules will have absorbed so much energy from the ... |
949
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Beyond the Darkest Hours, Hope Rising
Firedoglake (blog)
The level of CO2 in the atmosphere already
exceeds the dangerous tipping point of 350ppm. We're
currently at 387ppm. Even if we were able to reduce CO2 to ... |
950
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CO2 is now at its highest ever
Cambridge News
The release of methane (a greenhouse gas 25
times as potent as CO2) from permafrost areas that are warming
up may result in such a tipping point being ... |
951 |
7 Tipping Points That Could Transform Earth
Wired News
Straightforward global warming was
enough to worry about. But when the IPCC meets in 2014, tipping
points — or tipping elements, in academic vernacular ... |
952 |
Hopenhagen Becomes Nopenhagen While the Ice Melts Away
Record-Searchlight (blog)
"In light of the rapid recent retreat of
Arctic sea ice, a number of studies have discussed the possibility
of a critical threshold (or 'tipping point') ... |
953
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Sea Level Rise May Exceed Worst Expectations
CounterCurrents.org
"There could be a global warming tipping
point beyond which many metres of sea level rise is inevitable
unless global greenhouse-gas emissions are cut ... |
954
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Global warming will benefit from moving out of the
spotlight for a while
Examiner.com
With the conclusion of COP15 in Copenhagen
and investigations in process on Climategate, global warming
and climate change will move off the front burner in ... |
955
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Copenhagen climate deal shows new world order may be led by US,
China
Washington Post
At one point in Friday's tense talks,
for instance, China's top climate change negotiator exploded in
rage at US pressure after Obama walked in on the ... |
956 |
Mark Landsbaum: Deadlocked at deadline
OCRegister
Expect a new deadline for a newly contrived
tipping point, by which time we must curb greenhouse gases
or, or, or... Or they will set another new deadline ... |
957
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Copenhagen aftermath
Tehran Times
They wanted a treaty that would hold the
warming to a safe level (although they could not agree on what
that level was). Most of them even wanted to make it ... |
958
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After the catastrophe in Copenhagen, it's up to us
Independent
To understand the gravity of what just
happened, you need to know a few facts about global warming
that, at first, sound odd. The world's climate scientists ... |
959 |
Voice of the Day Global warming: Debate from the Editorial
Advisory Board blog
News-Leader.com
There is a concept called "tipping point."
That is when a lot of small things finally add up enough to cause
a seemingly sudden large shift or change. ... |
960
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Climate change denial as done by a WWF wrestler ... and June
Sarpong
guardian.co.uk (blog)
The trouble is that the way the new
industrial countries are going even if the tipping point
isnt now, it certainly will be with us in another 10-20 years
... |
961
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Copenhagen—Is it Already Too Late?
America Magazine
(subscription) (blog)
That already represents a possible
tipping point, with serious side effects. Rise in temperature
of three or more degrees Celsius could push us beyond a ... |
962
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OPEC May Keep Production Flat But Gamble on Price Rise
Daily Finance
It's a delicate balancing act the OPEC
plays, but ultimately it will be unable to continue; that will be
the tipping point, when the R&D going into ... |
963
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Global climate change is not a simple issue
Register Pajaronian
They have great concern that the Earth is at
a tipping point that will result in untold disasters to
humanity: oceans rising and flooding out low-lying ... |
964
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The Copenhagen Climate Conference Debacle: What Does It Mean for
Massachusetts?
Open Media Boston
... and ultimately pass binding
treaties that will limit global warming to the latest
projected tipping point of 1.5 degrees Celsius worldwide by
2050. ... |
965
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Voice of the Day It's already too late to stop global warming
News-Leader.com
... emissions = global warming.
Liberals hope to keep carbon dioxide, already at 387 parts per
million, below 350 ppm -- the greenhouse effect tipping point
... |
966
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Leading Climate Scientist James Hansen on Why He's Pleased the
Copenhagen ...
Democracy Now
Another tipping point is in the
survival of species. As we begin to put pressure on species and
move the climate zone so that some of the species can't ... |
967
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Editorial: Copenhagen meeting a feeble step but a needed one
Dallas Morning News
Sooner or later, we will reach a tipping
point, beyond which the warming process will accelerate
so fast there will be little we can do to stop coming ... |
968
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China and Indonesia hail deal of Copenhagen summit
Wikinews
Richard Black, who is a journalist of BBC
environment says the tipping point is the 2 degrees
Celsius. The UN scientists says to avert the climate crisis we
... |
969
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Global warming--a climate scientist responds to how 'warmists'
should speak to ...
Examiner.com
Almost all of the measures you advocate to
help bring about a greener world are justified without a trace of
global warming. Emphasize the common-sense ... |
970
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Canada's lack of action at Copenhagen disappointing
Canada.com
People walk past part of the Cool Globe
exhibition about global warming and climate change in the
centre of Copenhagen last weekend at the end of the ... |
971
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Andrew Weaver: "Global leaders have abdicated their
responsibility"
The Coast Halifax (blog)
We have leaders like Obama working with the
Chinese and India to put forward a statement arguing that they'll
try to avoid [global warming to] two degrees, ... |
972
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Physicist: global warming 'will happen all at once'
The Spoof (satire)
'The recent cooling trend shows that we're
at a tipping point. Not very long from now, the CO2
molecules will have absorbed so much energy from the ... |
973
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Heal The World. It's All We Have
Times of India
Scientists are agreed that at the present
level of warming, extreme weather events, rising sea levels
and shrinking glaciers will increasingly become ... |
974
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let's bring a bit of the moon to India
Times of India
It's been a redefining decade for India too:
The transformation of a developing nation into a global
powerhouse on the back of attention-grabbing economic ... |
975
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Climate change: Zambia's doomsday scenario
postzambia.com
Scientists call this the tipping point.
This is when two degrees is too hot. Just two more degrees Celsius
to our planet's temperatures, and the Earth's ... |
976
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Taking some positives from Copenhagen
Bangkok Post
According to some models we may be on the
brink of, or already past, a ''tipping point'' in
atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that will free huge amounts of
... |
977
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AT THE SCENE OF CRIME
Calcutta Telegraph
They were clear on the goal — they wanted a
treaty that would hold warming to a safe level (although
they could not agree on what that level was). ... |
978
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The Last Decade of Doubt About Climate Change
Firedoglake (blog)
The great fear is that we will push things
past the tipping point of no return, which could come with
surprising swiftness. ... |
959
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Climate Change (Optimistic) Activism in 2010
CounterCurrents.org
... you and I who understand the
serious dangers of climate change, especially the increasing
possibility of crossing a tipping point to runaway
warming, ... |
980
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Global warming debate Part 4: A climate scientist responds
to tipping points (Skeptic)
Examiner.com
This fourth part addresses 'tipping
points' or boundaries that global warming can cross leading
to irreversible damage to the environment. ... |
981
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Global warming blamed for rise in malaria
Times Online
However, malaria epidemics began among the
population as average temperatures went over the 18C tipping
point. The number of people contracting malaria ... |
982
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Why Ecological Revolution?
Monthly Review
Their melting will give rise to enormous
floods, followed by acute water shortages.5 Many of the planetary
dangers associated with current global warming ... |
983
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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old
CounterPunch
The tipping point of global
warming is perhaps only a decade away. Buying a Prius won't
matter much once the permafrost of the arctic regions thaws and
... |
984
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The coming climate panic?
Energy Collective (blog)
It's the same kind of cultural tipping
point, often triggered by dramatic events, that has led to
revolutions or wars in the past. ... |
985
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Make a penguin to celebrate Jan. 9
Akron Beacon Journal
To explain the effects of global warming,
adults point to the loss of habitat that is threatening
animals in the wild. In North America, we see the ... |
986
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The Heretics: Steve Milloy – by Rich Trzupek
(Skeptic)
FrontPage Magazine
You can leave a response or trackback to
this entry Given the dogmatic fervor of global warming
proponents, and their intolerance of skeptics who dare to ... |
987
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Methane release 'looks stronger'
BBC News
A worst-case scenario is one where the
feedback passes a tipping point and billions of tonnes of
methane are released suddenly, as has occurred at least ... |
988
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As the World Burns
Rolling Stone
This was supposed to be the transformative
moment on global warming, the tipping point when
America proved to the world that capitalism has a conscience,
... |
989
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Long Drought Ahead From Global Warming, Study Says
New West
And further no evidence that increases in
CO2 caused catastrophic overheating of the Earth in the past or
that there is a CO2 "tipping point" since ... |
990
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The Story of a Can't-Do Nation
Pacific Free Press
Tom by Orville Schell Another tipping
point has also been on my mind .... that global
warming is still being challenged, and that things may not be
as far ... |
991
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Pine beetles transform BC forests into greenhouse enemy
Globe and Mail
Mr. Parfitt will release a new report on
Monday that argues there are ways to bring BC's forests onside
again in the battle against global warming, ... |
992
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Methane release from Arctic seabed stronger than expected
Barents Observer
Higher concentrations of atmospheric methane
are contributing to global ... A worst-case scenario
is one where the feedback passes a tipping point and ... |
993
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The Melting of America
CBS News
Another tipping point has also been
on my mind lately and it's left me no .... that global
warming is still being challenged, and that things may not be
as ... |
994
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Climate tipping point: Global Atmospheric Methane on
the rise
Bay Area Indymedia
Release of these methane reserves is a major
climate tipping point, that could have a runaway affect on
global temperatures and climate. Global warming may
... |
995
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Bering Strait influenced ice age climate patterns worldwide
PhysOrg.com
While the findings do not directly bear on
current global warming, they highlight the ...
changes can lead to dramatic tipping points for climate
patterns, ... |
996
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After Copenhagen: Jamaica and climate change
Jamaica Observer
The science documenting the increased
global warming was not brought into ... decades of
reaching a tipping point where the melting cannot be
reversed. ... |
997
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USDA misleads on farming's climate future
Enter Stage Right
Since 2007, the earth seems to have passed a
"tipping point" into global ... He is
co-author, with S. Fred Singer, of Unstoppable Global Warming
Every 1500 ...
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998
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Thinking the unthinkable
chinadialogue
But, as Stewart Brand argues in a new book,
Whole Earth Discipline, the tipping point where almost
everyone becomes an environmentalist is “tough not just ... |
999
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REAP Chair to Attend April Climate Change Conference in Bolivia
(Skeptic)
PR Newswire (press release)
Instead, inaction and indifference prevailed
in a lemming march to the global warming tipping point --
led in large part by the rich nations of the ... |
1000
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FAQs on climate change
The Nut Graph
Planet Earth will survive even if we cross
our climate system's tipping point and trigger runaway
climate change. In tackling climate change, ... |