The Green Grok Blogs on Climate Change http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok daily 1 2008-10-19T08:02:19Z Global Warming Debate Gets Strange http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/strangenews <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/strangenews/image_thumb/> Someone tell me … which is the real news and which is fake? No publisher erica John Kerry Maldives legislation Chewang Norphel Nepal Africa global warming Kerry-Boxer climate bill Waxman-Markey climate bill glaciers policy politics U.S. Chamber of Congress 2009-11-05T19:05:08Z Blog entry Can We Put a Brake on Homely Emissions? http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/behavioralwedge <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/behavioralwedge/image_thumb/> Looking for the key to getting a jump on cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions? It may be in our homes. No publisher erica Steve Pacala greenhouse gas emissions climate change global warming Rob Socolow Waxman-Markey climate bill wedges carbon dioxide emissions 2009-11-04T20:57:53Z Blog entry Deforestation Role Demoted http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/redd No publisher erica greenhouse gas emissions climate change Reductions in Emissions from Deforestation an Forest Degradation global warming deforestation Waxman-Markey climate bill Kyoto Protocol peatlands rain forest 2009-10-30T17:18:57Z Blog entry Cows Let Go a Sigh of Relief http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/cows <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/cows/image_thumb/> Congress acted on climate this week. And it's certainly a move to chew over. No publisher erica cap and trade U.S. Congress climate animals greenhouse gas emissions farmers climate change enteric fermentation global warming farms Environmental Protection Agency ranching methane 2009-10-29T17:53:45Z Blog entry Arctic Plankton Sing the Global Warming Blues http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/phytoplankton <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/phytoplankton/image_thumb/> The canary in the climate change mine is singing a new and slightly different tune. No publisher erica climate change Arctic oceans Pulse of the Planet global warming research phytoplankton science 2009-10-28T19:26:52Z Blog entry 450 or 350 -- Choose One and Go http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/co2target No publisher erica UNFCCC COP-15 greenhouse gas emissions policy climate change legislation Gavin Schmidt Jim Hansen United States 450 ppm Bill McKibben climate disruption global warming Copenhagen carbon dioxide emissions 350 ppm temperatures 2009-10-26T20:15:18Z Blog entry Where Have All the Forests Gone - Bioenergy’s Legacy? http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/bioenergy <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/bioenergy/image_thumb/> Bioenergy’s free ride in Kyoto and national climate legislation is a recipe for disaster. No publisher erica land-use changes fossil fuels greenhouse gas emissions climate change legislation global warming Kerry-Boxer climate bill Waxman-Markey climate bill bioenergy Tim Searchinger Kyoto Protocol science policy politics carbon dioxide emissions 2009-10-23T14:48:18Z Blog entry Ice Update: Not So Fast Antarctica http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/iceupdate10222009 <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/iceupdate10222009/image_thumb/> Slower moving rocks under the Antarctic spell slower rates of Antarctic ice sheet melting. No publisher erica Global Positioning System Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment climate change global warming post-glacial rebound ice sheets ice age ice GRACE GPS 2009-10-22T18:07:52Z Blog entry Converging on a Climate Agreement http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/prog-convergence No publisher erica UNFCCC climate greenhouse gas emissions climate change global warming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change global economy Kyoto Protocol politics policy international carbon dioxide emissions 2009-10-26T19:39:40Z Blog entry Climate Update: Of Ice and Men http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/iceupdate0102009 <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/iceupdate0102009/image_thumb/> If ice is the canary in the climate mine, the canary is melting. No publisher erica climate National Snow and Ice Data Center climate change Arctic Pulse of the Planet global warming ice sea ice 2009-10-14T12:29:25Z Blog entry Did the Kyoto Protocol Miss the Target? http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/kyoto <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/kyoto/image_thumb/> <p>Everyone knows that Kyoto was a failure. Right? "<a class="external-link" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/scientists-say-kyoto-protocol-is-outdated-failure-397801.html">Scientists Say Kyoto Protocol Is 'Outdated Failure</a>,'" "<a class="external-link" href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8725">Lessons of Kyoto</a>," "<a class="external-link" href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9476">Commission Does Little About Climate Change</a>."</p> No publisher erica UNFCCC greenhouse gas emissions climate change global warming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Kyoto Protocol carbon dioxide emissions 2009-10-12T15:56:32Z Blog entry Obama Scores Nobel for Climate Work? http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/nobel-climate <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/nobel-climate/image_thumb/> Although the committee didn’t mention it, one of the reasons President Obama <a class="external-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/world/10nobel.html">won</a> the Nobel Peace Prize must have been the fact that he single-handedly pushed through historic <a href="http://nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/climatebillfence">climate legislation</a> in the United States ... No publisher erica climate change Barack Obama global warming politics 2009-10-09T16:16:04Z Blog entry Stop and Smell the Bubbly http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/bubbly <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/bubbly/image_thumb/> Enough of global warming and toxic waste. Today TheGreenGrok breaks out the champagne. No publisher erica champagne food carbon dioxide Marcel Proust global warming taste climate change carbon dioxide emissions smell 2009-10-06T17:16:54Z Blog entry The Waxing Sun and Warming Climate http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/pulse-sunspots <img src=http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/pulse-sunspots/image_thumb/> You don’t have to be a climate scientist to know that the Sun is the main driver of climate. No publisher erica greenhouse gas emissions solar Sun solar cycle greenhouse gases global warming radiative forcing Pulse of the Planet climate change sunspots 2009-10-05T16:46:24Z Blog entry What’s Different? Waxman-Markey Vs. Kerry-Boxer Climate Bills http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/waxmanmarkey-vs-kerryboxer No publisher erica cap and trade U.S. Congress Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act climate change legislation Kerry-Boxer climate bill Waxman-Markey climate bill American Clean Energy and Security Act policy politics 2009-10-14T13:57:45Z Blog entry