James Hansen says whole approach at Copenhagen is “so fundamentally wrong that it is better to reassess the situation”
In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world’s pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
“I would rather it not happen if people accept that as being the right track because it’s a disaster track,” said Hansen, who heads the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
Too Stupid to Take Action on Climate Change? It’s Time to Get Smart and Get Started
In addition to reducing greehouse gas emissions to zero as quickly as possible and developling more carbon sinks, such as planting a many trees as possible, we must concurrently begin research and development of ways to artificially remove carbon from our atmosphere. The excess carbon we have to rid our planet of is the equivalent of the mass of over four Mount Rainiers.
Sad news: Johnny Rook has flown away
One of JohnnyRook’s last posts: Before I die, I want to have some sense that this beautiful planet that has provided the context for my life, will have some chance of enduring. I want to die with hope, believing that my teenage son and his children and your children and their children will live in a world that is reasonably hospitable to human beings.
I don’t know how that can happen if people will not face the reality of what is taking place in the world. So, I continue to sound the alarm, even though I know that most of what I write is discounted as alarmist or simply ignored as too uncomfortable to deal with.
John Holdren on Global Climatic Disruption
John Holdren has been appointed by Barack Obama as as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He talks about Global Climatic Disruption at the American Response to Climate Change Conference, June 25 & 26, 2008.
A Dismal Climate Forecast from NOAA
Editors note: there have been several hundred articles printed on this subject in the last two days, sources such as the New York Times, ABC News Australia, and the Globe and Mail, plus countless blogs. Our elected officials can’t pretend they haven’t heard this news. You can click on the title of this article for the direct link if you want to copy it [...]
Is another record-breaking loss of Arctic sea-ice due this summer?
Arctic freezing may have stalled and the annual melt may begin earlier. The summer ice extent could shrink to a new record low in 2009, even if the National Weather Service’s prediction of weak la Niña conditions through early summer hold true. This will amplify an already existing dangerous feedback loop driven by the loss of reflectivity of the ice surface. In the Arctic, it’s already too hot.
“Climate Change Models” – A Shocking Graphic from the UK Met Hadley Centre
The UK Met Office Hadley Centre reports even with large and early cuts in emissions, projections indicate that temperatures are likely to rise to around 2 °C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century. If action is delayed or is slow, then there is a significant risk of much larger increases in temperature.
Breaking News on Cause of Sea Level Rise
it is above all the increase in the mass of sea water rather than its heat content that is behind the rise in sea level that has been observed since 2003. The increase in the mass of the oceans is equivalent to a rise of 1.9 mm/yr of the mean sea level. What is the source of this extra water in the oceans? Melting continental ice sheets.
The Ten Worst Nations for GHG Emissions
Most industrialized European nations as well as China and the U.S. (which have not agreed to any emissions’ reductions) have been spewing more carbon dioxide since 1990 — up in total some 403 million metric tons of CO2e from 2000 levels. Canada ranks third worst offender, after Sweden and Turkey.
