Climate bet 10 years on: What became of Mr. Gore’s ‘tipping point’?
Climate bet 10 years on: What became of Mr. Gore’s “tipping point”? By Kesten C. Green, February 6, 2018 University of South Australia ([email protected]) In 2007, University of Pennsylvania Professor J. Scott Armstrong challenged former U.S. Vice President Albert Gore to a bet on what would happen to global average temperatures over the following 10 […]
Schwarzenegger calls for Pruitt’s removal at EPA: He’s the ‘wrong person’ for the job
BY MIRANDA GREEN Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) didn’t mince words Thursday in his criticism of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, calling him the “wrong person” for the job. Speaking to a crowd at the California state Capitol in Sacramento, Schwarzenegger said of Pruitt, “He is, without any doubt, the wrong person […]
‘Climate Change Just Got a Little Less Terrible’ – ‘A new analysis rules out the worst case scenario’
By Eric Roston February 9, 2018, 4:00 AM EST There are some 20,000 research papers listed on Google Scholar, a search engine for academics, that mention the worst-case scenario for climate change, one where an overpopulated, technology-poor world digs up all the coal it can find. Basically, it’s the most cataclysmic estimate of global […]
The Great Climate Retreat: Study: ‘Sinking’ Pacific nation is ‘growing in size’ – Tuvalu’s total land area grew by 2.9%
Via: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-pacific-nation-bigger.html The Pacific nation of Tuvalu—long seen as a prime candidate to disappear as climate change forces up sea levels—is actually growing in size, new research shows. A University of Auckland study examined changes in the geography of Tuvalu’s nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014, using aerial photographs and satellite imagery. […]
Scientists warn of unusually cold Sun: Will we face another ice age?
A study by the University of California San Diego has said the Sun will experience a cold period where all solar activities will be reduced drastically. By : Bihu Ray February 8, 2018 14:46 IST Picture for representationReuters Remember the 1989 science fiction novel The Dying Sun by Gary Blackwood, where people were forced to migrate from the US to […]