Earth Hottest It's Been in 2,000 Years

The Earth is running a slight fever from greenhouse gases, after enjoying relatively stable temperatures for 2,000 years. The National Academy of Sciences, after reconstructing global average surface temperatures for the past two millennia, said Thursday the data are "additional supporting evidence ... that human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming."

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Stephen Hawking Warns About Global Warming

Stephen Hawking expressed concern about global warming Wednesday even as he charmed and provoked a group of Chinese students.

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Group Says Ark. Carbon Emissions Increasing

A research group says carbon dioxide emissions in Arkansas nearly tripled between 1960 and 2001, as coal-fired power plants went on line and state motorists began burning more oil.

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Report Warns of Threat to World's Deserts

The world's deserts are under threat as never before, with global warming making lack of water an even bigger problem for the parched regions, a U.N. report released Monday said.

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Scientists Say Warming Threatening Fla.

Florida's governor cautiously entered the debate Wednesday over whether rising global temperatures are to blame for an increase in the number of strong hurricanes, meeting with two researchers who say global warming is threatening Florida with a long-term future of more bad storms.

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Bush Snubs Gore Film on Global Warming

Is President Bush likely to see Al Gore's documentary about global warming?

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Gore Invites 250 to View His Documentary

Al Gore led a discussion of the documentary which focuses on his efforts to educate people about global warming following a private screening of the film on Saturday.

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Global Warming Cited in Wind Shift

An important wind circulation pattern over the Pacific Ocean has begun to weaken because of global warming caused by human activity, something that could alter climate and the marine food chain in the region, new research suggests.

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10 States Sue EPA Over Global Warming

Ten states fired a new legal salvo at the federal government Thursday in a long-running court battle over global warming and pollution from power plants.

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Scientists Focus on Warming Disasters

A man stands on a railroad track as a train rumbles closer. "Global warming?" he says. "Some say irreversible consequences are 30 years away. Thirty years. That won't affect me." He steps off the tracks — just in time. But behind him is a little blonde-haired girl left in front of the roaring train. The screen goes black. A message appears: "There's still time."

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Scientists Focus on Warming Disasters

A man stands on a railroad track as a train rumbles closer.

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Beetles Aid in Global Warming Research

Beneath the lids of large coolers, thousands of tiny bugs devour the desiccated flesh of mammal carcasses destined for the vast specimens collection at the University of Alaska's Museum of the North.

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Greenland Glaciers Melting at Faster Rate

Warmer temperatures over the past decade have sped up the march of Greenland's southern glaciers to the Atlantic Ocean, where the ice and water they spill contribute more to the global rise in sea levels than previously thought.

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As Evangelicals Warm to Climate, Bush Cool

A top environmental advocate called it "a historic tipping point" when the Rev. Rick Warren and other prominent evangelicals joined a new drive to get their community to fight global warming.

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Scientists Warn of Melting Ice in Arctic

Scientists on Monday painted a gloomy picture of the effects of global warming on the Arctic, warning of melting ocean ice, rising oceans, thawed permafrost and forests susceptible to bugs and fire.

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Sens. Seek Stricter Global Warming Curbs

New Mexico's two senators laid out a path Thursday toward creating what they hope will become the nation's first mandatory program for trading greenhouse gases in the marketplace.

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Wash. Weather May Be Killing Seabirds

The mass starvation deaths of murres on Tatoosh Island off the Olympic Peninsula may be due in part to unusual weather patterns along the West Coast, scientists say.

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Another 'Inconvenient Truth': Gore rhymes with bore

One day our first-grade teacher rolled in a film projector and announced, "We're ready for our movie." What? A movie in school ? Would it be "Bambi"? "Pinocchio"? Would there be a cartoon? Yippee. Then she threaded the film, turned off the lights and the chattering projector sp …

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Johann Hari: The enemies of science need to feel the pain of their ideas

I couldn't help but quote most of this excellent rant. Oh boy it's good! Here we go:

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Gorey Truths: 25 Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore

While I don't necessarily agree with what Iain Murray lays out in this op-ed piece, you can't say that he doesn't make persuasive arguments.

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On Tipping Points and Climate Change

The idea is that in many non-linear systems (of which the climate is certainly one), a small push away from one state only has small effects at first but at some 'tipping point' the system can flip and go rapidly into another state.

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Mother Earth: Check, Please

Global warming is real. Humans are largely to blame. Al Gore says so. So does Myron Ebell.

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Activists become first to reach North Pole in summer

"Chicago, July 04: Two environmentalists became the first people to reach the North Pole by canoe and on foot in summer, in an expedition aimed at drawing attention to how global warming is threatening polar bears with extinction, they said in a satellite telephone interview.

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Alberta's Klein slams Al Gore interview on oil sands

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has criticized former U.S. vice-president Al Gore for comments he made in a magazine interview in which he attacked the massive oil-sands industry in northern Alberta.

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No Tornadoes Confirmed In Nebraska-Kansas Area This Year

Could this be a benefit of global warming? From the article: The 30-county area they serve in central Nebraska and north-central Kansas hasn't had a confirmed tornado for the first six months of this year. That hasn't happened since 1950.

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Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth

Only an aggressive research and development program might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing with it. Perhaps some system could purge the atmosphere of surplus greenhouse gases?

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A Convenient Lie

From the article: The former vice president's film shows dramatic film of big chunks of ice breaking off glaciers, but the "calving" of icebergs is a normal, natural process involved in the growth of glaciers into the sea.

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Big Tobacco and Big Oil

This is yet another interesting point from An Inconvenient Truth that I'd like to discuss.

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A tale of two crises

The second in a series of quarterly posts chronicling the big stories in global energy crisis and climate change. A detailed history of the last 3 months.

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The False Alert of Global Warming

"Global warming became the environmentalists' cause celebre in the late 1980s. They had turned on a dime, for only a few years earlier global cooling had been their mantra. They didn't know what had caused that earlier "cooling trend," but its effects were sure to be bad.

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Earlier Return for Long-Haul Migrant Birds

Climate change has led several migrating bird species to re-set their travel clocks.

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2005 Hurricane Season: Blame the Heat

It's no secret that 2005 was a ferocious hurricane season. A record 28 tropical storms and hurricanes--including four category-5s--lashed through the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean, leaving an appalling toll of death, misery, and destruction in their wakes.

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If only gay sex caused global warming

"NO ONE seems to care about the upcoming attack on the World Trade Center site. Why? Because it won't involve villains with box cutters. Instead, it will involve melting ice sheets that swell the oceans and turn that particular block of lower Manhattan into an aquarium."

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Climate Change May Not Benefit Crops

Increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide may not be as helpful to crops as previously thought, according to a new study. As global temperatures rise, soil moisture levels fall.

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Al Gore is wrong. There's no "consensus" on global warming.

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Don't Worry About the Weather by George Giles

"Two large hurricanes have struck the United States in recent months producing large-scale evacuations, casualties and property damage.

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Jellyfish-Like Creatures May Play Major Role in Fate of Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean

Transparent jellyfish-like creatures known as salps, considered by many a low member in the ocean food web, may be more important to the fate of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the ocean than previously thought.

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Where The Truth Lies : Lawrence Lessig On Global Warming, The Media, and Al Gore

In the July 2006 issue of Wired, Lawrence Lessig discusses global warming, the media, and Al Gore.From the article: About halfway through, Gore cites two studies to explain why so many people remain so skeptical about global warming.

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As the World Melts

Only by looking at the past and documenting the natural changes can we get the real perspective on how unusual today's climate is. [...] We have the only archive of tropical ice cores, which is important because many of these glaciers will melt within the next 15 years.

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Al Gore on The Daily Show

From the article: Dr. Gore made the bold assertion that global warming “is the only crisis we've ever faced that has the capacity to completely end human civilization.” Stewart correctly pointed out: “Nuclear's got a shot. The bomb's got a shot.”

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Global warming perk disputed

Buildup of gases won't sharply boost crops, study says Scientists had thought that there was one potential upside to global warming: more food to feed the world.

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As the World Melts: Interview with Lonnie Thompson

Wired News spoke with Lonnie Thompson, an Ohio State University professor and paleoclimatologist who has spent the last 31 years studying the ice fields atop many of the world's highest peaks.

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