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[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] New data show rapid Arctic ice decline: The loss of sea ice in the Arctic will not directly raise global sea levels, researchers said, but will contribute to an overall ocean warming that could erode the Greenland ice sheet, which would affect sea levels. The disappearance of the polar ice cap could also affect global ocean circulation patterns, and its melting has already imperiled native species such as the polar bear.

[RealClearPolitics - Articles] RealClearPolitics - Articles - Secretary Clinton on the Antarctic ...: But the research made possible within the framework of the Antarctic Treaty has shown us that catastrophic consequences await if we don't take action soon. The framers of the treaty may not have foreseen exactly the shape of climate change, but their agreement allowed scientists to model its effects, including glaciologists studying the dynamics of ice, biologists exploring the effects of harsh temperatures on living organisms, geophysicists like those who discovered the hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica that prompted the ban embodied in the 1987 Montreal Protocol.

[EarthNews] EarthNews » Archive » Clinton to lead first-ever Arctic-Antarctica ...: The United States will host a first-ever joint session of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting and the Arctic Council today in Baltimore, the opening event in the Antarctic group’s annual meeting. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will preside over the event, which nearly 400 diplomats, government officials and polar scientists from 47 countries are expected to attend.

[Ocean Conserve: Ocean Conservation RSS Newsfeed] Black carbon linked to half of Arctic warming: “We need to broaden climate policy to include reductions in black carbon, given its critical role in Arctic warming and overall global warming,” said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development. “Black carbon is part of a package of fast-action strategies that can achieve mitigation in the near term and slow Arctic warming, including targeting short-lived, non-CO2 climate forcers such as HFCs, methane, and tropospheric ozone, as well as increasing carbon sequestration through forest protection and production of biochar.”

[Scoop NZ - Education Most Read] Scoop: Questions for Oral Answer - 7 April 2009: Charles Chauvel: Which ofthe following statements is correct: one, the previousLabour-led Government legislated via new section 223 of theClimate Change Response (Emissions Trading) Amendment Act toprovide for a billion-dollar home insulation fund; two, thelegislation was enacted by Parliament in September, afterthe time when it could be included in the 2008 Budget, andafter the deadline for mention in the Pre-election Economicand Fiscal Update;

[Latest News] Remarks by Secretary of State Clinton at the Joint Session of the ...: Look at what’s been accomplished: scientists produced detailed maps of the last unexplored mountain range on earth, sent robot submarines under the Antarctic Ice Shelf to map the sea beds, drilled deep beneath the sea floor to learn more about the effects of carbon dioxide on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and shed light on how climate change affects the microscopic life at the base of our ecosystem.

[Euro News 24 - News] New Data Show Rapid Arctic Ice Decline | Euro News 24: The loss of sea ice in the Arctic will not directly raise global sea levels, researchers said, but will contribute to an overall ocean warming that could erode the Greenland ice sheet, which would affect sea levels. The disappearance of the polar ice cap could also affect global ocean circulation patterns, and its melting has already imperiled native species such as the polar bear.

[Green Car Congress] Green Car Congress: Energy Learning Curve Survey Finds Americans ...: For example, half of all Americans could not identify a renewable energy source, nearly 4 in 10 cannot name a fossil fuel, two-thirds overestimate US dependence on Middle Eastern oil, and more than half think that, by reducing smog, the United States has gone “a long way” in addressing global warming.

[Climate Progress] Climate Progress » Blog Archive » How the world can (and will ...: Politically, I don’t see Barack Obama funding a single wedge out of the US budget right now and Congress isn’t even showing as a blip on the horizon. Even the easiest, the most well established, the proven to pay the investment back, climate change mitigations aren’t being funded fully.

[Watts Up With That?] Catlin Crew Officially Has Hypothermia (and Frostbite) « Watts Up ...: The Catlin Arctic Survey Team have now been working in temperatures of below -40 degrees centigrade for more than 30 days.  When the three (Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley) leave messages on the TVM - a machine that records the messages they phone into London HQ - their voices often sound slurred and they occasionally muddle their words.

[GreensBlog] Climate Change is about more than the mechanism | Greens MPs: This system is what the Libs want, they want to be allowed to make money from scams like clear felling vast areas (using petrol unaccounted in the carbon offsets claimed) then planting trees (using petrol unaccounted in the carbon offsets claimed) and fertiliser (using petrol to apply it and coal to make it unaccounted in the carbon offsets claimed) and releasing soil carbon from plowing (unaccounted for in the carbon offsets claimed and using petrol unaccounted in the carbon offsets claimed).

[Hot Air TV] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cap and trade gets big pushback in Senate: About six months ago, the ratio was 90/10, Two months ago it was 80/20, and today it hit 50/50 for the first time - including the lead skeptical story “A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming“. One thing that has changed is the rise of blogs written by informed citizens, complemented by the demise of corporate newspapers which make money from keeping people continually alarmed about one thing or another.

[The Bellows] The Bellows » An Existential Crisis for Libertarianism: They are one discreet group of libertarians, who, as one commenter pointed out, have their own constituencies to please. Even free market fundamentalists (you might be able to lump me into that category, but please don’t without having a conversation first) think that certain conditions have to apply for a market to reach a favorable outcome: clear rules of the game, clearly defined property rights, non-coercion, etc.

[Recent Comments on Mises Economics Blog] The Law of Intended Darkness - Mises Economics Blog: A pithy way to end your piece, Jason, but it seems to me that - since, at the end of the day you`ve done nothing more than agree with the WWF that Earth Hour is at its core a symbolic event that by itself will save little if any money or power - you`ve taken our time but told us nothing. All you`ve done is to contribute hot air yourself (without at all addressing whether the Earth Hour might itself be, for those sponsoring it, an effective means of symbolic communication).

[The Energy Blog] The Energy Blog: Off the Grid -- A Growing Trend: Looking at it strictly from the point of view of reducing energy use and reducing green house gas emissions, it seems to me that it puts too much emphasis on solar electricity as an energy reduction strategy. It seems to me that an approach that works on all household energy use would be more effective in reducing energy and also offer a much higher rate of return for the money invested in energy savings.

[TierneyLab] Tragedy Is Not Freeman Dyson’s Business - TierneyLab Blog ...: To jump back to Dyson’s article in the New York Review of Books, the nut of his objection is thus: “There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible.”

[Johnblakey's Weblog] Decluttering 2 « Johnblakey’s Weblog: Regarding the circumstances of Mr Mohamed’s death, the witness statements we have reflect a very different story to the one painted by the Sudanese embassy. Inter-tribal conflict is used as an excuse by the authorities to mask many killings carried out by their armed forces and militias.

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