Global Warming or Climate Change

TOM JOHNSON  | JULY 11, 2014 Report identifies transportation sector as largest source of carbon pollution, responsible for 42% of greenhouse-gas emissions The biggest challenge to reducing the greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to climate change in the state is to do so without imposing an unfair cost burden on residents and businesses, according to a new report submitted to the Legislature. The report is the work of a study group set up by lawmakers to identify ways to comply with an aggressive goal of cutting back pollution that leads to global warming, reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent from 2006 levels by 2050. It recommends that the state focus on three key areas to achieve those targets: transportation; heating and building; and energy production. It is not going to be easy or painless, witnesses said at a hearing of the Senate Environment and Energy Committee yesterday in the Statehouse Annex on a range of crucial energy issues facing the state. “T...

All efforts to stop the deadly impact of global warming will ultimately fail. Yes, fail. Our leaders are destroying us from within. Blame GOP, conservatives, Big Oil, capitalist billionaires, Koch Bros. Also the president. Harper’s quotes John Podesta, Obama’s senior adviser, warning: “History will judge Obama’s climate-change efforts as sadly insufficient.”  Morning rush hour traffic moves along the I-10 freeway in Los Angeles. America’s leaders are failing us, will never act, till it’s too late to plan for an economic catastrophe. We have lost our soul. There are four big reasons our leaders will not act in time: First. Overwhelming opposition by the GOP, conservatives and capitalists ... Second. Our blind failure to see our planet cannot feed the 10 billion people predicted by 2050. ... Third. Our addiction to “more is never enough” consumption ... Fourth. The irrational, unscientific and ultimately self-destructive belief of capitalism in perpetual economic growth...

A UN report on climate change is expected to call for a trebling of the planet's use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. The report is also expected to argue that the trend of increased carbon emissions can only be reversed if a "massive shift" in energy use is made. Scientists will also cautiously endorse a shift to natural gas an alternative to carbon intensive sources. The report will be released on Sunday at a press conference in Berlin. It will argue that if significant action isn't taken by 2030, global temperatures could rise by more than 2 degrees C. Such a rise in temperature would be highly dangerous, the report will argue. Continue reading the main story What is the IPCC? In its own words, the IPCC is there "to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts". The offspring of two UN bodies, the  ...

The Great Green Con no. 1: The hard proof that finally shows global warming forecasts that are costing you billions were WRONG all along Read more:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2294560/The-great-green-1-The-hard-proof-finally-shows-global-warming-forecasts-costing-billions-WRONG-along.html#ixzz2NnWIR9Kb Follow us:  @MailOnline on Twitter  |  DailyMail on Facebook No, the world ISN'T getting warmer (as you may have noticed). Now we reveal the official data that's making scientists suddenly change their minds about climate doom. So will eco-funded MPs stop waging a green crusade with your money? Well... what do YOU think? The Mail on Sunday today presents irrefutable evidence that official predictions of global climate warming have been catastrophically flawed. The graph on this page blows apart the ‘scientific basis’ for Britain reshaping its entire economy and spending billions in taxes and subsidies in order to cut emissions of greenhouse gases....

Study of Siberian permafrost caves shows global warming of just 1.5C 'would pump out a TRILLION tonnes of methane and CO2 U.N. studies show global temperatures have already risen by 0.7C  Huge increase in levels of CO2 could accelerate global warming  Infrastructure built on top of permafrost across the world would collapse Governments currently committed to no more than 2C climate change By  DAMIEN GAYLE PUBLISHED:  12:26 GMT, 22 February 2013  |  UPDATED:  14:59 GMT, 22 February 2013 A temperature rise of just 1.5C is likely to release vast amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere from melting permafrost, new evidence suggests. In Siberia alone, the mighty thaw would liberate more than 1,000 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide and methane, experts warn. The extra levels of greenhouse gas are potentially enough to accelerate global warming. Natural ecosystems and human infrastructure would also be seriously disrupted. Frost cryst...

Jim Hartung Jim Hartung is President of GlobalEnergySolutions.org, and former Director of Energy Systems at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. Can NASA Stop Global Warming? LOS ANGELES – In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asserted that the United States “should commit itself to achieving the goal…of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth,” by the end of the decade. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration accepted the challenge. From 1969 to 1972, NASA’s Apollo program achieved six manned landings on the moon – missions that expanded human knowledge, stimulated economic growth, bolstered America’s geopolitical standing at a critical time, and inspired people worldwide. Illustration by Dean Rohrer Since then, NASA has repeatedly overcome adversity in pursuit of important breakthroughs and achievements, including exploring the solar system with robotic spacecraft, peering deep into the universe with space telescopes, and building the Space Sh...