November 1, 2011 – 12:41 pm
As Tom Nelson points out, these people think you’re stupid (Sydney Morning Herald) A draft UN report three years in the making concludes that man-made climate change has boosted the frequency or intensity of heat waves, wildfires, floods and cyclones and that such disasters are likely to increase in the future. Someone wants the money […]
October 27, 2011 – 1:14 pm
Add another loony effect to the big list of things (Plantesave) Increasing climate change due to global warming and human activity is having a toll on some of earth’s greatest architectural monuments. The Great Wall of China, which has stood for more than two millennia, has recently experienced the collapse of two chunks of its […]
October 26, 2011 – 8:30 pm
Have you seen this? Awesomeness. And do you know why it’s awesome? Okay, it’s no Dancing Dror, but this is a pretty amazing Halloween light display done primarily with LED bulbs. Switching to LEDs can cut your holiday lighting energy expenditure by 90 percent, according to DOE (though they’re just talking about a Christmas tree, […]
October 19, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Yesterday it was coffee. Now, climate change (hoax) threatens tea. There could be riots in England if they read about it Production of tea in Assam – one of the world’s largest tea producing regions – is on a slow decline, thanks to changing climate in the Brahmaputra river basin. This has been revealed by […]
October 18, 2011 – 2:04 pm
It’s so terrible! Everybody panic!!!!!!! (UK Guardian) Forget about super-sizing into the trenta a few years from now: Starbucks is warning of a threat to world coffee supply because of climate change. In a telephone interview with the Guardian, Jim Hanna, the company’s sustainability director, said its farmers were already seeing the effects of a […]
October 18, 2011 – 10:08 am
It’s terrible, really, really, really terrible. I’m not quite sure why it’s terrible, the story doesn’t say what the problem with species shrinking actually is (unless you plan to eat tiny birds), but, I assume it is somehow terrible and foreboding and means the End Of Life On Earth! (USA Today) From the mighty polar […]
October 15, 2011 – 8:37 am
Thanks to Tim Blair for digging this one up (via Tom Nelson) (Digital Journal) Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about half a billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global […]
October 13, 2011 – 8:41 am
We’re dooooooomed (IBT) Imagine a world without chocolate. Chocolate is definitely slated to become a luxurious commodity if steps are not taken to halt the impact of global warming. This has been emphasized in new findings by the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). The CIAT study reveals that if preventive measures are not taken, […]
October 7, 2011 – 1:09 pm
Yet another scary story from the Warmist crowd that sounds more like a Madam Zelda prediction, via Mother Jones Can climate change cause or intensify earthquakes? Christopher Mims wrote about some of the science on this subject back in March, after the Japanese quake. This set the collective panties of climate skeptics a-bunching, chafed at […]
October 3, 2011 – 7:43 pm
We’re doomed (NY Times) Some 1,000 years ago, the Chinese named this city “Shanghai” based on its location. It literally means “above the sea.” Those pioneers probably never imagined the situation that confronts this city today: Shanghai is on its way to being below the sea. Climate change is pushing up the sea level globally. […]
