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Cows Let Go a Sigh of Relief: Congress acted on climate this week. And it's certainly a move to chew over. by erica — last modified Oct 29, 2009 01:53 PM — filed under: cap and trade, U.S. Congress, climate, animals, greenhouse gas emissions, farmers, climate change, enteric fermentation, global warming, farms, Environmental Protection Agency, ranching, methane — Relevance: 1%
Converging on a Climate Agreement: With Copenhagen less than two months away, is there a formula for reconciling the positions of developed and developing countries? by erica — last modified Oct 26, 2009 03:39 PM — filed under: 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 — Relevance: 1%
George Will Take Note: 1910 ≠ 2050: You can always count on conservative columnist George Will’s take on climate to be entertaining. by erica — last modified Sep 18, 2009 04:06 PM — filed under: climate, climate change, legislation, Waxman-Markey climate bill, policy, politics, carbon dioxide emissions, technology, Newsweek — Relevance: 1%
Climate Update: Of Ice and Men: If ice is the canary in the climate mine, the canary is melting. by erica — last modified Oct 14, 2009 08:29 AM — filed under: climate, National Snow and Ice Data Center, climate change, Arctic, Pulse of the Planet, global warming, ice, sea ice — Relevance: 1%
Cap and Trade Part 4: Forests, Farms, and Offsets: <p>What do you do if something emits greenhouse gases but is not <a class="external-link" href="http://nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/capandtrade3">under the ... by erica — last modified Aug 27, 2009 09:51 AM — filed under: cap and trade, climate, greenhouse gas emissions, offsets, climate change, economics, forests, global warming, ecosystems, carbon, carbon dioxide emissions, agriculture — Relevance: 1%
Day After Tomorrow Not Any Time Soon: Model simulations predict a global warming-induced ice age is not in the cards this century. Cool ... or should I say, "Neat"? by erica — last modified Jun 04, 2009 07:59 AM — filed under: abrupt climate change, climate, Geophysical Research Letters, oceans, Pulse of the Planet, ice, research, ice sheets, ice age, Younger-Dryas, climate disruption, Amy Bower, climate change, Susan Lozier, science — Relevance: 1%
Weather Prediction, Climate Prediction. What’s the Diff?: If scientists can’t accurately predict the weather next week or the week after, how can they predict the climate in 10 or 20 years? Good question. The answer ... by erica — last modified Apr 10, 2009 07:53 PM — filed under: climate, weather, global warming — Relevance: 1%
Climate Science Flurry: Cooling vs. Warming et al. Hot Items: This past week has been chock-full of new stuff on climate change. Let’s take a gander at a few. by erica — last modified May 05, 2009 03:47 PM — filed under: cap and trade, climate, greenhouse gas emissions, legislation, climate change, greenhouse gases, Jim Hansen, climate disruption, policy, research — Relevance: 1%
Cap and Trade Part 1: It’s About the Cap, Stupid: Where the climate is concerned, don’t be fooled: it’s ultimately about the “cap” not the “and trade” part. by erica — last modified Jul 10, 2009 10:18 AM — filed under: cap and trade, climate, greenhouse gas emissions, business, climate change, legislation, global warming, global economy, policy, politics, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
A Climate Fix? Not Too Cold, Not Too Hot, Just Right: While some people have a hard time accepting the fact that humans are disrupting the climate, others conclude that not only are we changing the climate today, ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 11:56 AM — filed under: climate, fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, industry, Industrial Revolution, greenhouse gases, global warming, ice age, carbon dioxide emissions, agriculture, Ruddiman's Hypothesis, methane — Relevance: 1%
Global Warming and Predictions of an Impending Ice Age – Predicting Future Climate: Where is the climate headed? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts <a class="external-link" ... by erica — last modified Apr 01, 2009 01:16 PM — filed under: climate, sunspots, Sun, greenhouse gases, global warming, ice age, climate change, solar variation — Relevance: 1%
Pulse of the Planet: Earth to Exxon: Methane on the Rise Again: As the Senate prepares to take up historic climate change legislation, Exxon Mobil’s CEO Rex Tillerson has taken a stance against moving toward renewable ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 02:20 PM — filed under: climate, climate change, greenhouse gases, global warming, pulse of the planet, Pulse of the Planet, carbon dioxide emissions, methane — Relevance: 1%
Science Update: Melting Permafrost Twice as Bad?: Remember the <a href="http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/methane">post</a> on how the melting of the permafrost would lead to a climate catastrophe? As ... by erica — last modified Aug 27, 2009 09:21 AM — filed under: climate, science, research, climate change, permafrost, methane — Relevance: 1%
'Missing Sink' Finder Goes Missing Near the Antarctic: Climate scientists were looking forward with anticipation to yesterday’s NASA launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory – it was going to help resolve one of ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 11:53 AM — filed under: climate, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, greenhouse gases, global warming, NASA, Orbiting Carbon Observatory, missing sink — Relevance: 1%
Pulse of the Planet: Good News From Africa - Tropical Forests Inhale: A heretofore unrecognized ally has emerged In the global warming fight: tropical forests. by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 11:54 AM — filed under: greenhouse gases, climate, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, Pulse of the Planet, forests, global warming, missing sink — Relevance: 1%
Climate Update: Temperature Moderate but Skating on Thin Ice: Winter 2009 is history. Let’s take a quick look at what the climate has been up to. by erica — last modified Apr 09, 2009 10:05 AM — filed under: climate, sunspots, El Nino-Southern Oscillation, Arctic, La Nina, ice, Antarctica, temperatures, ice shelves — Relevance: 1%
Deep Ocean Revisions Do Not Spell Global Warming Rethink: A new paper suggests that our model for the circulation of the deep ocean may be wrong. But claims that all global warming science should therefore be thrown ... by erica — last modified May 20, 2009 03:50 PM — filed under: climate, climate change, oceans, Pulse of the Planet, global warming, research, science — Relevance: 1%
Are We Flying Blind?: Starting in January of this year, data streaming from the U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Satellite F15 began to show an alarming and perplexing ... by erica — last modified Apr 01, 2009 04:23 PM — filed under: climate, national security, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, Orbiting Carbon Observatory, technology, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program — Relevance: 1%
Whither the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?: Mention global warming, and you might think of rising sea levels inundating coastal cities and island nations. But how much could sea levels rise? Two new ... by erica — last modified Mar 31, 2009 12:51 PM — filed under: sea level rise, climate, Greenland, climate change, Pulse of the Planet, global warming, ice sheets, Antarctica — Relevance: 1%
The Affordability of the Proposed National Renewable Standard: After extensive House debate last week, the draft Waxman-Markey climate bill is expected to enter the markup (or pin-the-amendment-on-the-bill) stage next ... by erica — last modified May 01, 2009 03:14 PM — filed under: U.S. Congress, climate, electricity, climate change, energy, economics, legislation, renewable energy, renewables — Relevance: 1%
Ocean Acidification Time Bomb Is Ticking: While the world argues about the effects of and solutions to carbon dioxide (CO2) on climate, the ocean is slowly but inexorably becoming more acidic. by erica — last modified Aug 05, 2009 03:31 PM — filed under: climate, oceans, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, calcifier, global warming, Svante Arrhenius, ocean acidification, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
Has the Climate Worm Turned?: Some say that global cooling — maybe even another ice age — is around the corner. A new NOAA report suggests otherwise. by erica — last modified Aug 27, 2009 09:50 AM — filed under: climate, El Nino-Southern Oscillation, solar cycle, El Nino, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, solar minimum, ice age, National Climate Data Center, temperatures, climate change, ENSO, solar variation — Relevance: 1%
Living on the Edge: Are there limits to how much we can grow as a society and survive? by erica — last modified Sep 28, 2009 03:39 PM — filed under: social science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, climate change, nutrient runoff, water pollution, climate disruption, agriculture, Anthropocene, The Limits to Growth, boundaries, particulate matter, ocean acidification, carbon dioxide emissions, oceans, global warming, water, chemical pollution, Holocene, climate, biodiversity, Thomas Malthus, ozone hole, Club of Rome, pollution — Relevance: 1%
Speaking of the Environment: Some tidbits about climate-change politics and a surprising even shocking relationship between deaths and economic growth. by erica — last modified Oct 01, 2009 01:02 PM — filed under: cap and trade, Clean Air Act, business, climate, economics, legislation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, politics, Waxman-Markey climate bill, climate change, policy, Environmental Protection Agency, carbon dioxide emissions, economy — Relevance: 1%

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