California throws down a global warming gauntlet

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California approves world's toughest
global warming rule for cars

California approves world's toughest
global warming rule for cars 09/24/2004 06:29 PM
California air regulators Friday unanimously approved the world's most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming -- a move that could affect car and truck buyers from coast to coast.

Vodafone Throws Down 3G Gauntlet

Vodafone Throws Down 3G Gauntlet 09/22/2004 07:06 PM
The Feature Sep 22 2004 11:02PM GMT

Ballmer Throws Down the Security
Gauntlet

Ballmer Throws Down the Security
Gauntlet 05/21/2004 11:16 AM
"I guarantee you our company will have the most secure software in the world. " From Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during his closing speech of this week's Microsoft Government Leaders Forum-Americas 2004.

Xbox v. PlayStation: Microsoft Throws
Down the Gauntlet

Xbox v. PlayStation: Microsoft Throws
Down the Gauntlet 04/18/2004 11:08 AM
Linux Insider Apr 18 2004 3:22PM GMT

Global trade = global warming

Global trade = global warming 12/12/2003 03:17 AM
Salon Dec 12 2003 2:13AM ET

Global trade, global warming

Global trade, global warming 12/11/2003 01:36 AM
Salon Dec 11 2003 0:56AM ET

Global Warming (II)

Global Warming (II) 08/27/2004 01:58 PM
Good comments, and mostly supportive though some skeptical along the lines of climate models are complex, climate science is uncertain, the experts may be wrong. All true; but reading the skeptical literature, I am reminded of the debates in the 1960s over the effects of cigarette smoking on human health....

Global Warming

Global Warming 08/27/2004 01:58 PM
At last, high-level Administration acknowledgment that global warming is real, and that human activity (mainly the burning of fossil fuels, principally oil, natural gas, and coal, and deforestation in Third World countries) is a principal cause because such activity emits carbon dioxide. (See also Times article.) Greenhouse gases, such as...

The Scent of Global Warming

The Scent of Global Warming 06/18/2004 04:08 PM
Wired News Jun 18 2004 8:19PM GMT

Deciding How Much Global Warming Is Too
Much

Deciding How Much Global Warming Is Too
Much 02/01/2005 09:41 PM
After a decade of cautious circling, some scientists and policy makers are now trying to define "dangerous climate change."

Global Warming Filtered

Global Warming Filtered 02/05/2005 09:02 PM
Global Warming Links - a compendium of resources.

Global Warming Picnic

Global Warming Picnic 05/19/2004 09:13 AM

We had a week or more of summer in the first week of May this year, while last year at this time it was still snowing on occasion. It was weather that begged for a picnic and so a few of us obeyed.

The weather has snapped back to its more normal pattern, but I can't help but be concerned when it's early May and 80+F in Finland and I read articles like Arctic Temperatures Warming Rapidly Polar Explorer, where a polar explorer describes the extreme amount of melting in the polar ice cap. The Arctic ice  has thinned by 40% over the last 20 years so you have to wonder what the dramatic change in the ice over the past year will mean in terms of climate change. The Helsingin Sanomat carried a story yesterday, Finland's climate may become warmer by up to 5°C, coming in the next 50 years, which would make Finland warmer than most of Southern Europe. Not to be forgotten is the Pentagon report: A n Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security. The movie The Day After Tomorrow is being released later next week which will have the effect of making global warming seem like nothing more than an action movie that lasts 2 hours and has the typically happy American ending in spite of the premise for the movie being scary enough to prompt the Pentagon to study worst-case scenarios.

I understand why people don't want to believe in the idea of global warming or dramatic climate change as the consequences are dire, but no amount of optimisim can change the course that nature is on. There has been enough research into past climate changes to support the theory of polar melting initiating a dramatic climate change via gulf stream disruption. It doesn't even need to be dramatic as the very well written, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850, describes. So, go enjoy the nice weather while it's here since all the evidence suggests that there may be few years remaining where we can.

Bush: Global warming is just hot air

Bush: Global warming is just hot air 09/09/2004 11:50 PM
Salon Sep 10 2004 4:00AM GMT

Air travel and global warming

Air travel and global warming 01/22/2004 03:01 AM

Scott Mackinney criticizes me in a comment on my blog about the damage I am causing to the environment with all of my air travel. I actually have been feeling a bit guilty about that and has been wondering where aviation is going to go from here.

On the one hand, in some areas, air travel is becoming cheaper and there are even people talking about small, low-cost private planes becoming more common.

A Feb 2000 GAO report warns that the damage to the environment from the emissions from aviation is particularly high because it is emitted into the upper atmosphere and that increased damage due to increases in travel can not be offset by technological advances. A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of experts affiliated with the UN warned that the share of global warming caused by air traffic could increase from 3.5% in 1992 to 17% in 2050.

We clearly have a problem here. In an IHT article that I can not seem to find a link to, I read that one of the possibilities was to fly lower where there would be more turbulence, but less damage. I've also heard about the idea of levying high taxes for air travel. In any event, the air travel utopia story seems a bit flawed and if we would get up off our asses and really do something about global warming (which we must) one of the first hit probably should be our global aviation habits.

I WAS going to write about this before, but hadn't been able to gather enough sources. (Honest! ;-) ) I still don't think I have enough information to have an educated opinion. Any pointers to more resources would be greatly appreciated.

Global Warming Causes Lower Yields

Global Warming Causes Lower Yields 07/01/2004 05:15 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 1 2004 9:36AM GMT

Global warming hits UK birds.

Global warming hits UK birds. 07/30/2004 07:34 PM
Global warming hits UK birds. The year without young. Have we hit the bottleneck?

Will Global Warming Cool Europe?

Will Global Warming Cool Europe? 12/08/2003 05:49 AM
As the melting Arctic ice cap chills the warm ocean current responsible for Western Europe's mild weather, temperatures could take a sharp dip -- after the continent adapts to being almost tropical.

Nuclear power or global warming

Nuclear power or global warming 05/26/2004 06:10 PM
James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia t heory, says that only a massive expansion of nuclear power as the world's main energy source can alleviate the effects of global warming. [Via WorldChanging.]

UK Releases Global Warming Report

UK Releases Global Warming Report 04/22/2004 12:01 PM

CeBIT a time for global warming

CeBIT a time for global warming 04/29/2004 08:31 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Apr 29 2004 11:47PM GMT

Global Warming Killing Thousands

Global Warming Killing Thousands 12/12/2003 06:49 AM
Climate change, linked by scientists to human emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide from cars and factories, caused 150,000 deaths in 2000, the World Health Organization says, and that number is rising.

IBM Supercomputer to Forecast Global
Warming

IBM Supercomputer to Forecast Global
Warming 02/10/2004 11:59 PM
UC Irvine researchers will use an IBM supercomputer to predict the impact of global warming on the Earth up to 300 years into the future.

"Michael Crichton on global warming"

"Michael Crichton on global warming" 01/04/2004 03:27 PM

Extinctions Due to Global Warming
Predicted

Extinctions Due to Global Warming
Predicted 01/09/2004 10:12 PM
Slashdot Jan 8 2004 10:24PM ET

IBM System to Model Global Warming

IBM System to Model Global Warming 02/18/2004 09:24 PM
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, will use an IBM supercomputer to predict the impact of global warming on Earth up to 300 years into the future.

Supervillainy: Astroengineering Global
Warming

Supervillainy: Astroengineering Global
Warming 04/08/2005 04:57 AM
Last year in April, at a sf convention here in Canberra, I watched a presentation on global warming by Gregory Benford, supposedly telling us about a global warming summit that he had recently participated in. Anticipating the nature of his audience, he first showed us the summit's deliberately conservative final numbers on temperature rise, carbon dioxide levels etc for the next 26 years, then quickly demolished some popular but flawed solutions with clear logic and straightforward calculation. Then he showed us the solution that he'd presented, amid mixed amusement and excitement, to the distinguished climatologists, meteorologists, physicists, chemists, biologists, political scientists, economists, engineerists, environmentalists and journalists at the summit. As a result of attending Greg's little overhead-projected show, I now believe that the cheapest, most effective and most practical answer to global warming is to think like a supervillain and block out the sun's rays using a giant rotating Space Lens suspended directly in front of the Sun! Muahahaha! Let me tell you why.

'Boiling Point': Who's to Blame for
Global Warming?

'Boiling Point': Who's to Blame for
Global Warming? 08/15/2004 02:19 AM
Ross Gelbspan is on a mission to correct the failures and misdeeds of politicians, industries, environmentalists and journalists.

Acid rain limits global warming

Acid rain limits global warming 08/03/2004 11:05 AM

Sir Martin Rees on global warming and
other things

Sir Martin Rees on global warming and
other things 01/25/2004 02:59 AM

I sat next to Sir Martin Rees at dinner last night. He is the Royal Astronomer of the UK and the Master of Trinity College. I met him last year at the same dinner. He's amazingly smart and funny.

Ever since I'd posted my entry on aviation and global warming, I've been trying to figure out how to get to the bottom of this issue. The journalists told me that they just cited experts and the trick was to find good experts. I figured Sir Martin Rees would probably have an educated and balanced view.

Sir Martin Rees told me that he thought it was probably true that global warming was happening and that CO2 emissions contributed to it. He said that his main concern with global warming with the possibility that something non-linear would happen. In other words, his worry was not just the melting of the ice caps or the increased heat, but that this would cause something unpredictable and significant, such as a change in the circulation of the oceans.

He talked about some of the interesting mail he got. He said that he once got contacted by a cryogenic company which wanted his opinion on the idea of "the end of involuntary death" by freezing yourself before you die. When he replied that he'd rather be buried in a cemetery than a freezer in Calfornia, the company posted on their web site that "Rees is a deathist".

In a controversial book that he wrote called "Our Final Hour" he says that there is a 50/50 chance that our civilization will end this century. He mentioned that the original title of the book was "Our Final Century?" The British publishers took out the question mark and made it "Our Final Century". Then the US publishers change it to "Our Final Hour". ;-)

The dinner was off the record. "Nothing leaves this room. Just like Las Vegas." But I received permission from Sir Martin Rees to blog his comments. Sir Martin, if you see this and I've quoted you in error, please let me know. I don't have your email address.

Global Warming Hurts Rice Yield

Global Warming Hurts Rice Yield 06/29/2004 02:33 AM
CBS News Jun 29 2004 6:17AM GMT

No Doubts Global Warming Is Real, U.S.
Experts Say

No Doubts Global Warming Is Real, U.S.
Experts Say 12/04/2003 01:16 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 4 2003 0:38AM ET

Global Warming (III): The Public
Intellectuals Weigh in

Global Warming (III): The Public
Intellectuals Weigh in 08/27/2004 09:20 PM
The following description of a recent conference on the world's worst ills, featuring several economists who had been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, enables me to sink global-warming skeptics and academic public intellectuals with only one salvo. "An international panel of economists brought together to rank the world's worst...

Diesel Soot Seen As Global Warming
Factor

Diesel Soot Seen As Global Warming
Factor 12/22/2003 06:32 PM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 22 2003 5:30PM ET

Group uses film to oppose global warming

Group uses film to oppose global warming 05/28/2004 09:26 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 29 2004 1:07AM GMT

Global Warming Ignites Tempers, Even in
a Movie

Global Warming Ignites Tempers, Even in
a Movie 05/12/2004 01:23 AM
Twentieth Century Fox does not seem to have fully anticipated the political firestorm being whipped up by "The Day After Tomorrow," a $125 million movie about global warming.

Diesel soot seen as global warming
factor

Diesel soot seen as global warming
factor 12/23/2003 03:51 AM
Boston Globe Dec 23 2003 3:18AM ET

Global warming raises stinkbugs
(Reuters)

Global warming raises stinkbugs
(Reuters) 06/18/2004 11:26 AM
Reuters - The discovery of breeding colonies of stinkbugs in London is clear proof that global warming is a fact of life.

Scientists Blame Soot for Global Warming

Scientists Blame Soot for Global Warming 12/23/2003 06:12 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 23 2003 5:19AM ET

"Global warming will plunge Britain into
new ice age 'within decades'"

"Global warming will plunge Britain into
new ice age 'within decades'" 01/27/2004 03:31 AM

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