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World Bank envisions a 4°C over normal future. Waterworld, here we come
When scientists and diplomats talk about the next century of climate change, the hope is that we can hold things together enough to only see a temperature rise of 2 degrees from pre-Industrial levels. But the reality is that even with electric cars and carbon offsets, we still may hit the dreaded 4 degree mark, which would cause the kind of catastrophic flooding and climate change the hippies warned you about. And the World Bank is now involved, because if that happens, it’s going to change the entire global economic picture.
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posted 21 November, 2012
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Portrait of Global Aerosols
This portrait of global aerosols was produced by a GEOS-5 simulation at a 10-kilometer resolution. Dust (red) is lifted from the surface, sea salt (blue) swirls inside cyclones, smoke (green) rises from fires, and sulfate particles (white) stream from volcanoes and fossil fuel emissions.
High-resolution global atmospheric modeling provides a unique tool to study the role of weather within Earth’s climate system. The Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5) is capable of simulating worldwide weather at resolutions of 10 to 3.5 kilometers (km).
Floating islands of the future could replace sinking island nations like the Maldives
Some of the first nations to raise hell about global climate change were tiny island nations like the Maldives, where people were waking up every morning to the sea slowly rising bit by tiny bit. And if the trend continues, the sad truth might be that one day, some of these island nations might sink under the waves forever. That is, unless people moved onto FLOATING PARADISE ISLANDS OF THE FUTURE.
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posted 09 August, 2012
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Study shows that it’s actually quite feasible to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
One of the main culprits in global warming is carbon dioxide. There’s too much of it. It’s churned out by cars and cities and planes and boats by the boatload, all at the same time that we’re removing the trees that would gladly take it. So the solution it seems is to simply remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Magic.
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posted 30 July, 2012
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For some reason, the Greenland ice sheet is thawing at a staggering rate
Even though it’s summer in Greenland, it’s still fucking cold. The Greenland ice sheet has been in place for many, many summers, and usually there’s only a little bit of surface thawing. But in the span of four days, Greenland has gone from 40% surface thawing, which is about normal, to a staggering 97% .
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posted 26 July, 2012
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The good news is that human carbon emissions will defer the next Ice Age
The last ice age ended over 11,000 years ago and at some point, we’re due for another. But thanks to human carbon emissions and global warming, that next ice age will be deferred past the next 1500 years, when it should be starting.
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posted 11 January, 2012
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Global warming skeptic gets paid to debunk global warming, ends up becoming a believer
Richard Muller is a physicist and once was a disbeliever in global climate change. That is until he was given a $600,000 research grant, much of it from the Charles Koch Foundation, with the intention of disproving climate change. But once he started doing his own independent analysis, his numbers matched the figures of NOAA and NASA.
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posted 01 November, 2011
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Today’s science class will be taught by Fox News. Today’s topic is: Global Warming. NSFB (not safe for brain)
Fox had an “expert” guest refute global warming via the first law of thermodynamics. Are they even trying anymore? Have they ever been trying?
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posted 10 August, 2011
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Scientist warns that the Great Barrier Reef could be dead in 10 years
According to Ove Hoegh-Guldberg at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, if we continue to release CO2 into the atmosphere at the same rate that we currently are, in ten years we’ll reach a tipping point at which the Great Barrier Reef will start to quickly die off completely as the creatures that support the reef’s existence start to move to other waters.
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posted 09 April, 2011
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Even if December was the coldest for a while in N. America and Europe, 2010 was still the warmest year on record
At times like this, when many people in the US and Europe are still digging themselves out of the snow of one of the coldest Decembers and currently one of the coldest Januarys in quite some time, according to the NOAA, 2010 globally was still the warmest on record since 1880, tying the previous record from 2005.
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posted 13 January, 2011
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US Representative thinks that God will save us from climate change, because He said so
US Representative John Shimkus (R-IL) isn’t worried about climate change, manmade or otherwise. Because in the Bible, God promised that after the great flood that saw Noah and his family as one of the few human survivors, God promised that He wouldn’t do that again. His days of destroying humanity were done. So that’s that, then.
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posted 16 November, 2010
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