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Carbon dioxide rate is at highest level for 650,000 years
Carbon dioxide is the principal greenhouse gas responsible for global
warming and, in 2005, concentrations stood at 379 parts per million (ppm).
This compares to a pre-industrial level of 278 ppm, and a range over the
previous 650,000 years of between 180 and 300 ppm, the report says.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2211568.ece
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The fallout of global warming: 1,000 years
Humans have already caused so much damage to the atmosphere
that the effects of global warming will last for more than 1,000 years,
according to a summary of a climate-change report being prepared by
the world's leading scientists.
The draft, seen by The Globe and Mail yesterday, also says evidence
the world is heating up is now so strong it is “unequivocal” and predicts
more frequent heat waves, droughts and rain storms, as well as more
violent typhoons and hurricanes. It concludes the higher temperatures
observed during the past 50 years are so dramatically different from
anything in the climate record that the last half-century period was likely
the hottest in at least the past 1,300 years.
Moreover, 11 of the past 12 years rank among the warmest since humans
began taking accurate temperature measurements in the 1850s, a record
of extremes so pronounced it is unlikely to be due to chance.
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070131.wclimate31/BNStory/
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Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a
lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to
undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an
ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration,
offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a
report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2004397,00.html
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World's sea levels rising at accelerating rate
Sea levels are rising even faster than scientists predicted,
according to a global analysis of data from tide gauges and
satellites.
environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2004718,00.html
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European countries have warmest January on record
In the Netherlands, January temperatures were the highest since they
were first measured in 1706, the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI
said on Wednesday, averaging about 7.1 degrees Celsius -- 2.8 degrees
more than usual.
today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-01
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Exposing ExxonMobil's GW Disinformation Campaign by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Exxon has responded to roars of recent outrage over its anti-social antics by announcing that it has stopped funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute which has collected over $2 million from the oil giant since 1998 to weave lies about climate change - and 4-5 other groups that Exxon refused to name. Exxon’s new contrition is hardly sincere. The company still continues to fund 40 other groups in its unrelenting campaign of deception… As evidence of the company’s insincerity, Exxon’s chief executive and CEO Rex Tillerson, on Friday told world leaders in Davos that oil companies should not be held esponsible for global warming. The blame, he argued, rests instead with the very consumers and government officials his company has spent millions of dollars manipulating and defrauding. America is a decade late in addressing the serious threat from global warming largely due to ExxonMobil’s campaign of deliberate deception. ExxonMobil’s conduct amounts to a war on civilization. The company can’t simply sweep this legacy of fraud and villainy under the rug with a paid op-ed campaign in the New York Times, or with oily statements shifting the blame to consumers. The company needs to cease its campaign of deception completely if it is to genuinely atone for its crimes against humanity.”
Found on the Climate Crisis Coalition website on 1/30/07, originally posted to the Huffington Post"
http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/blog/
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The Pace of Arctic Global Warming is Staggering
....the change "is happening so extremely
fast, much much faster than we have seen
in thousands and thousands of years. It
could have an unpredictable result."
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070125/sc_afp/climatearcticnorwaywarming
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Glaciers (water supply) Melting 6 X Faster Than '80s
"They melted on average about 1.6 times
faster annually this decade compared with
the 1990s, and about six times faster than
in the 1980s."
www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=07012
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Earth is Losing its Ability to Absorb CO2?
Scientists are very worried from their
data that shows increasing CO2 levels
that are growing faster than anticipated
and faster than the growth of emissions.
environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1994071,00.html
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Global Warming: Here Are the Hard Facts
This is an article that tells it like it is.
Show this to your friends that are in
denial. It is quite disturbing but it is
loaded with irrefutable facts.
www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070121/NEWS/701210320
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NOAA REPORTS 2006 WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD FOR U.S.
www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2772.htm
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Globe is Warming Faster Than Scientist's WORST PREDICTIONS
Our worst fears are exceeded by reality
seattle.indymedia.org/en/2007/01/256991.shtml
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First 7 Months of 2006 Hottest Ever Recorded in U.S.
madison.indymedia.org/feature/display/44565/index.php
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Alps Experiencing Warmest Time in 1,300 Years
VIENNA, Austria - Europe's Alpine region is going through its warmest
period in 1,300 years, the head of an extensive climate study said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16052360/
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Surge in Temperature Astounds Climate Researchers in the U.K
This year will be Britain's warmest since records
began, say scientists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1971636,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=18
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Extreme Autumn Temperatures Cause Unseasonable Flowering
In The Netherlands
Observers in the Netherlands reported that more than 240 wild
plant species were flowering in December, along with more than
200 cultivated species. According to biologist Arnold van Vliet
of Wageningen University, this unseasonable flowering is being
caused by extremely high autumn temperatures.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061221232129.htm
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Experts warn North Pole will be 'ice free' by 2040
..."but our research suggests that the decrease
over the next few decades could be far more
dramatic than anything that has happened so
far," .... "These changes are surprisingly rapid."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2499663,00.html
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Bears That Have Stopped Hibernating: More GW Consequences
This article tells of bears in Spain that for at least three years have
not hibernated, rather they stayed active because there was plenty
to eat and no need for the normal slumber. It also tells of many
other plant and wildlife abnormalities attributed to the rising
temperatures in Europe.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1221-01.htm
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Reduce CO2 in Ten Years, or Climate Will be Out-of-Control
With the new scientific discovery
that the result of global warming
will be "abrupt climate change"
to ice age conditions (Broecker)
due to a shut down of ocean currents,
this article is a scream in the wilderness
from a scientist that has been muffled
for years by the US Government. Note
it was not printed in the US.
If we fail to act, 'we will end up with a different planet'
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2208257.ece
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Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like
Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science
[Along with Government interference
in reports and speeches by it's own
scientists, this article helps to
explain why Americans are not
marching in the streets about climate
change.]
Oil Company Spent Nearly $16 Million to Fund Skeptic Groups,
Create Confusion
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html?wt.rss=rss
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New Publishing Rules Restrict Scientists
The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the
U.S. Geological Survey, the latest agency subjected to controls
on research that might go against official policy.
www.physorg.com/news85254012.html
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The A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science
Scientists who work for and advise the federal government have
seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies
have systematically limited public and policy maker access to
critical scientific information.
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/interference/a-to-z-guide-to-political.html
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NOAA Scientist Barred from Mentioning ‘Kyoto’ and 'Climate Change'
"It seems more like Nazi Germany or the
Soviet Union than the United States,"
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5205550,00.html
