Global Warming or Climate Change

Global warming attribution studies consistently find humans are responsible for all global warming over the past six decades. Steam rises from the cooling towers of the Ferrybridge power station on March 13, 2009 in Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, England. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Dana Nuccitelli Tuesday 19 April 2016 11.00 BSTLast modified on Tuesday 19 April 201611.01 BS A new study published in Climate Dynamics has found that humans are responsible for virtually all of the observed global warming since the mid-20thcentury. It’s not a novel result – in fact, most global warming attribution studies have arrived at the same general result – but this study uses a new approach. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The percentage contribution to global warming over the past 50-65 years in two categories: human causes (left) and natural causes (right), from various peer-reviewed studies. The studies are Tett et al. 2000 (T00, dark blue), Meehl et al. 2004 (M04, red), Stone et al. 200...

Bill Nye will perform at USA Science and Engineering Festival on Saturday and Sunday.  more > By  Valerie Richardson  - The Washington Times - Thursday, April 14, 2016 Bill Nye  “the science guy” says in a video interview released Thursday that he is open to the idea of jailing those who deviate from the climate change consensus. Asked about the heated rhetoric surrounding the climate change debate, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s previous comments that some climate skeptics should be prosecuted as war criminals,  Mr. Nye  replied, “We’ll see what happens.” “Was it appropriate to jail the guys from Enron?”  Mr. Nye  asked in a video interview with Climate Depot’s Marc Morano. “We’ll see what happens. Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive, and so on?” “In these cases, for me, as a taxpayer and voter, the introduction of this ext...

BELLE MELLOR FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE By Thomas Levenson  GLOBE COLUMNIST   APRIL 17, 2016 LAST MONTH, DONALD TRUMP  sat down with the editorial board of The Washington Post for over an hour. The Post editors asked him about his foreign policy advisers, about his plans to revive US cities, about law enforcement, race, libel laws, thuggery at his rallies, and more — until, hard against the end of the session, there was time for one last question. What about global warming, asked editorial page editor Fred Hiatt: “Is there human-caused climate change?” No, Trump replied. Not really: “I think there’s a change in weather. I am not a great believer in man-made climate change. I’m not a great believer.” That’s not really an argument, of course — it’s more an evocation of that old Monkees tune. But stripped to essentials, the GOP presidential front-runner’s stance is essentially the same as that of his chief rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who says more bluntly th...

NASA is very busy. Its scientists are trying  to shore up our future here on Earth  while unravelling  the greatest mysteries out in space  - oh and they’re also  trying to piece together clues  left behind by our ancient ancestors thousands of years ago. But you know what NASA isn’t too busy for? Owning climate change deniers on Facebook who cite NASA’s own data as ‘evidence’ of a massive conspiracy that  97 percent of the world’s climate scientists  are inexplicably in on. How did all this start? Well, Bill Nye r ecently posted on his Facebook page that climate change denier Marc Morano refused to go in on a US$20,000 bet that the planet will keep getting hotter.  He offered Morano two bets: that 2016 would be one of the 10 hottest years on record, and that the current decade would be the hottest on record. Morano turned down both bets,  calling it "silly" and "obvious"  that the official records would show more glo...

Parag Khanna   April 18, 2016         Random House Parag Khanna is a senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and the author of Connectography . 'Go north, young man' I hate to say it, but I might be living at the wrong latitude—or at least, my kids certainly are. Reams of climate change reports—and a quick look at the news showing submerged tropical islands —attest to how sea levels are rising fastest at the equator … and we live in the equatorial city-state of Singapore. Of course, the good people of the tropics aren’t to be blamed for climate change: Their emissions have historically been much lower than the gas-guzzling, winter-heating, highrise-building and city-sprawling West. But in a perverse geological twist, temperatures are rising fastest at the  extreme latitudes —the Arctic and Antarctic—accelerating the ice melt that will drown the Maldives and Kiribati. Every time we think...

Images include shots of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C, Ocean Drive in Miami and the Statue of Liberty The photographs were developed by Pittsburgh-based digital artist Nickolay Lamm, based on real climate data Over course of the 20th century, sea levels across the globe rose faster than in any of the previous 29 centuries By MARK PRIGG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 18:33 GMT, 11 April 2016 | UPDATED: 01:03 GMT, 12 April 2016With scientists forecasting sea levels to rise by anywhere from several inches to several feet by 2100, historic structures and coastal heritage sites around the world are under threat. Some sites and artifacts could become submerged - with everything from Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America, to much of the museum beneath the Statue of Liberty at threat. Scientists, historic preservationists, architects and public officials are meeting this week in Newport, Rhode Island - one of the threatened areas - to discuss the problem, how t...