Year: 2008

CO2, Methane Up Sharply in 2007

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CO2, methane up sharply in 2007
Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:55pm EDT  
 
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The amount of two key greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere rose sharply in 2007, and carbon dioxide levels this year are literally off the chart, the U.S. government reported on Wednesday.

In its annual index of greenhouse gas emissions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found atmospheric carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global climate change, rose by 0.6 percent, or 19 billion tons last year.

The amount of methane increased by 0.5 percent, or 27 million tons, after nearly a decade of little or no change, according preliminary figures to scientists at the government’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Colorado.

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Sun Cycles Not Key to Current Global Warming

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Sun cycles seen not key to recent global warming
Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:15pm EDT  By Bruce Nichols

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – Satellite data show that changes in the sun are contributing to global warming but to a smaller extent than human activity, a space scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington told a group of petroleum geologists on Wednesday.

“The sun is playing a role that you can detect, but it’s not the dominant role,” Judith Lean told a crowded session at the 2008 convention of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in San Antonio.

Climate-change skeptics have suggested that solar cycles may be more responsible than human activity for increasing global temperature. But Lean said her findings showed “the sun is a factor of 10 less than the anthropogenic.”

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Climate Science: Forests & False Solutions

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This work out of Purdue regarding incorporating deforestation into climate models is critical…
except see what they’re doing with it: incrporating it right into false solutions. I got my undergrad
degree from that department…not always so proud of that when reminded of who they really
cater to.

Kyoto & “Green capitalism” makes me wanna puke…

ASW

From AAAS EurekAlert
http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/atmospheric.php

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Public Release: 22-Apr-2008
AGU journal highlights — April 22, 2008

In this issue:

Cooling a climate disagreement; Southern skies sensitive to ozone
variation; Do surges trigger geomagnetic substorms?; Model warns
early of Indonesia, Australia drought; Corals reveal oceans’ carbon
reservoir age; Unusual tremor jiggles Mexican zone.

Contact: Peter Weiss
pweiss@agu.org
202-777-7507
American Geophysical Union

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Public Release: 22-Apr-2008
Carbon Balance and Management

Purdue researchers propose way to incorporate deforestation into
climate change treaty

Purdue University researchers have proposed a new option for
incorporating deforestation into the international climate change
treaty. The approach would provide carbon credits for developing
countries that both set aside a portion of existing forests and slow
the rate at which the remaining forests are cut down. A key point in
the approach is its call for a deceleration of deforestation.

Contact: Elizabeth K. Gardner
ekgardner@purdue.edu
765-494-2081
Purdue University

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Security Risk From Climate Underestimated

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Security risk from climate said underestimated
Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:29pm EDT  Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single

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Climate change rises on World Bank agenda
10 Apr 2008

By Jeremy Lovell

LONDON (Reuters) – Countries around the world have hugely underestimated
the potential conflicts stemming from climate change and must invest
heavily to correct that mistake, a report said on Wednesday.

The report for Britain’s Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) by
environment expert Nick Mabey said the response had been “slow and
inadequate” and to rectify it spending needed to surge to levels
comparable to sums spent on counter-terrorism.

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