The Heat Is Online

The Heat Is Online


GLOBAL SOLUTION: Rewiring the World with Clean Energy


* World bank slams climate skeptics   (June, 2013)

* Chronically low water levels cripple shipping on Great Lakes   (June, 2013)

* NASA:  warming oceans are driving Antarctic ice shelf meltdown  (June, 2013)

* Britain's wheat production cut by 30 percent by extreme weather  (June, 2013)

* Global emissions hit record high in 2012   (June, 2013)

* Warming Mediterranean waters drive surge in toxic jellyfish   (June, 2013)

* US extreme events account for two thirds of global economic weather-related losses  (May, 2013)    

* Slower rate of warming brings cold comfort    (May, 2013)

* Melting glaciers contribute one-third to sea level rise  (May, 2013)

* Earth is warming faster than at any time in the past 11,000 years   (May, 2013)

* Aerosols far less effective in cooling atmosphere than previously thought:  study  (May, 2013)

* CO2 concentrations hit 400 ppm breaking 300 million year record  (May, 2013)

* Belief in "End Times" thwarts climate action in U.S.:  study  (May, 2013)

* Ice loss speeds acidification of Arctic Ocean   (May, 2013)

* Atmospheric CO2 levels approach 400 parts per million    (April, 2013)

* Global carbon intensity fell less than 1 percent in 20 years: IEA (April, 2013)

* Recent global temperatures higher than any time in the past 1,400 years  (April, 2013)

* World's clean energy drive has stalled IEA  (April, 2013)

* EU deals potential "death blow" to carbon trading  (April, 2013)

* Geoengineering scheme could trigger lethal drought in Africa (April, 2013)

* 1600-year-old Andes ice melted in 25 years  (April, 2013)

* US led world in financial losses to extreme events in 2012   (April, 2013)

* Recent accelleration in warming is buried in deep oceans --- study  (March, 2013)

* Global impacts of Arctic meltdown raise military concerns  (March, 2013)

* Volcanic eruption results dash hopes for geoengineering scheme  (March, 2013)

* Scientists foresee a doubling of Katrina-strength storms  (March, 2013)

* Top US Admiral calls climate change America's biggest long-term security threat  (March, 2013)

* Global temperature breaks 4,000-year record  (March, 2013)

* "Angry Summer" forces Australians to acknowledge climate change  (March, 2013)

* Slowing air systems may extend extreme heatwaves  (Feb.. 2013)

* Anonymous billionaires spent $120 million to discredit climate science -- The Guardian   (Feb. 2013)

* Watson: the world has lost the chance to hold warming to 2*C  (Feb. 2013)

* Moose populations becoming decimated because of warming:  scientists  (Feb. 2013)

* Effective climate action would cut oil company value by 60 percent -- bank study  (Feb. 2013)

* EXMO, Koch-funded ALEC pushes elementary schools to teach climate skepticism  (Feb. 2013)

* US emissions hit lowest level in 19 years   (Feb. 2013)

* Andean glaciers melting faster than at any time in the last 300 years   (Jan. 2013)

* Climate inaction blamed on "insider" environmentalists  (Jan. 2013)

* New York Times, other US papers, shrink climate coverage  (Jan 2013)

* 2012 hottest year in US by a wide margin  (Dec. 2012)


"Not an Act of God" -- (an op-ed about Hurricane Sandy)


* IEA:  surge in global coal production threatens climate crisis  (Dec. 2012)

* Scientists expose a skeptic's dishonest IPCC critique  (Dec. 2012)

* 36 percent of Americans see "end times" behind extreme weather  (Dec. 2012)

* Climate-driven disasters threaten US federal budget capacity  (Dec. 2012)


"Beyond the Point of No Return"


* Permafrost thaw could lead to runaway warming -- UN  (Nov. 2012)

* Kochs, Exxon move to kill state renewable requirements   (Nov. 2012)

* Climate change seen as major threat to national security  (Nov. 2012)

* How climate change turned Sandy into a monster  (Nov. 2012)

* Atlantic current changes are "rapidly destabilizing" methane beds  (Oct. 2012)


US PRESS COVERAGE:  A DAMNING BETRAYAL OF PUBLIC TRUST


* US newspapers lead the world in climate denial  (Oct. 2012)

* High Arctic summer temperatures unmatched in 1,800 years  (Sept. 2012)

* Study: Fox News, Wall Street Journal falsify cllimate coverage  (Sept. 2012)

* Ocean acidification threatens food supply of many nations   (Sept. 2012)

* Global carbon trading system on verge of collapse   (Sept. 2012)

* Speed of previous ice sheet changes startles scientists      (Sept. 2012)


 "Moral Leadership In The Greenhouse"


* Record West Nile Virus outbreak in US follows record summer heat   (Aug. 2012)

* Climate skepticism trumps heatwave, drought in US corn belt  (Aug. 2012)

* Scientists: widespread annual drought set to become the 'new normal'   (Aug. 2012)

* New carbon credit scam games the system -- but not the atmosphere   (Aug. 2012)

* Exxon Ceo:  We will "engineer" our way out of climate chaos (June, 2012)

* Global emissions up 48 percent in 20 years (June, 2012)

* Heartland ad likens climate advocates to Manson, Bin Laden and the Unabomber (May. 2012)

* Enhanced CO2 forces early plant growth spurt, followed by inevitable decline  (April. 2012)

* Oceans acidifying faster than at any time in the last 300 million years (March, 2012)

* NASA ANIMATION:  131 years of planetary heating in 26 seconds (Jan. 2012)

* Greenland shed  100 billion tons of ice in 2010 (Dec. 2011)

* Traditional 2* C target now seen as "prescription for disaster"   (Dec. 2011)

* World must prepare for large-scale refugee resettlement:  study (Oct. 2011)

* Arctic plankton blooming 50 days earlier than 14 years ago (March, 2011)

* Oceans have stored more heat than they released since 1993  (May, 2010)

* IEA:  carbon fuel subsidies reach $550 billion (June, 2010)