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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...
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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') ...
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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 ...
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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 ...

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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...

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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. ...
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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 ...
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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
 
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
 
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
 
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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
 
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
 
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
 
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, ...
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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
 
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
 
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 ...
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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 ...
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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
 
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
 
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. ...
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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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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. ...

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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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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