Links tagged “cancun”
- Orange County Register Cites Climate Depot’s More Than 1000 Dissenting Scientist Report
Paper: Climate Depot is 'a leading global warming debunking site, identifying more than 1,000 dissenting scientists around the world who challenge the theory of a manmade global warming catastrophe. Dissenters include current and former IPCC scientists. It's become more difficult for global warming zealots to quiet critics, many of whom once held similar views.'
- Analysis: ‘Cancun climate deal falls flat, Kyoto Protocol on life support’
- Analysis: Cancun in a nutshell: ‘Nothing achieved but it’s a big PR success’
- Same old, same old — Cancun Closes with Deal: ‘Basically the deal on emissions is that countries will agree to agree on cuts at the next climate change conference’
'It would be cynical to call it a bribe, but agreements were largely reached because rich countries continued vague promises to hand over $100 billion in climate aid annually to poor countries beginning in 2020.'
- UN climate change talks in Cancun agree a deal: ‘Touted as a platform on which that comprehensive agreement can be built’
- ‘Stern won’t comment on whether this is the end of the Kyoto Protocol or not’
- India`s interests ‘protected’: ‘No commitments in Cancun Agreement’ Env. Minister: ‘India’s interests had been fully protected and enhanced’
'India's right to development safeguarded by the deletion of the clause which wanted global GHG emissions' cuts
- Deadlock over Kyoto — Cancún talks have little to show after 2 weeks: ‘Despite an all-night bargaining session, ministers had managed on the final day to agree on just 1 paragraph of text’
- Update: ‘Gore Effect’ on Steroids: 6 straight days of record low temperatures during COP16 in Cancun Mexico – more coming
- Revkin of New York Times on UN Climate Summit: ‘The extravagance of some of the parties was beyond parody’
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10 Recent Studies Affirm It Was Regionally 2-6°C Warmer Than Today During The Last Glacial
From 80,000 to 12,000 years ago, when CO2 concentrations lingered near or below 200 ppm, many new or recent studies suggest that when directly comparing region to region, it was as much as 6°C warmer than today even during this ice age period. This has prompted some scientists to “exclude atmospheric pCO2 as a direct driver of SST [sea surface temperature] variations”.
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‘New Reality’ of climate change or better detection technology? NOAA moving up hurricane season outlook to May 15 from June 1
Sean Sublette, a meteorologist at Climate Central, who pointed out that the 1960s through 2010s saw between one and three storms each decade before the June 1 start date on average. It might be tempting to ascribe this earlier season entirely to climate change warming the Atlantic. But technology also has a role to play, with more observations along the coast as well as satellites that can spot storms far out to sea.
“I would caution that we can’t just go, ‘hah, the planet’s warming, we’ve had to move the entire season!’” Sublette said. “I don’t think there’s solid ground for attribution of how much of one there is over the other. Weather folks can sit around and debate that for awhile.” Earlier storms don’t necessarily mean more harmful ones, either.
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‘Hierarchical modeling’ study: Climate Change May Reduce Children’s Diet Diversity – Hotter temps have negative impact on the diet diversity
"Hotter long-term temperatures have already had a negative impact on the diet diversity of children all across the world. The researchers found that hotter temperatures, both long-term averages and short-term anomalies, were significantly correlated with low diet diversity in five of the six regions studied."
- Study: A trillion trees will cost nurseries billions & they ‘can’t grow nearly enough seedlings’