The Heat Is Online

The Heat Is Online

"Beyond the Point of No Return" 

                    -- Ross Gelbspan (Dec. 2008)


 

US PRESS COVERAGE: A DAMNING BETRAYAL OF PUBLIC TRUST (May, 2010)


                                                                     GLOBAL     PROBLEM


GLOBAL SOLUTION: Rewiring the World with Clean Energy


"Moral Leadership In The Greenhouse"

-- Ross Gelbspan (March, 2009)


* New UN climate chief cites "screaming threat" of climate disasters  (Sept. 2010)

* Climate activists seek direction after a demoralizing string of defeats     (Aug. 2010)

* Review calls for stricter checks, more transparency for IPCC  (Aug. 2010)

* Big oil spent a record $175 million to kill climate bills (Aug. 2010)

* Greenland Ice Sheet loses 100 square miles, biggest loss since 1962 (Aug. 2010)

* Russia's drought-driven halt to wheat exports  panics world grain markets  (Aug. 2010)

* Pakistan's worst flood in recorded history claims some 1,100 lives   (July, 2010)

* International study confirms accelerating warming trend    (July, 2010)

* Rapid decline in phytoplankton population stuns scientists   (July, 2010)

* Flash floods seen increasing as Milwaukee gets eight inches in two hours   (July, 2010)     

* Senate climate bill collapses   (July, 2010)  

* Coral reef deaths soar in record ocean heat      (July, 2010)

* First half of 2010 was hottest such period on record  (July, 2010)

* Carbon lobby launches "CO2 is Green" campaign   (July, 2010)

* Massive Greenland glacier retreats one mile in one night   (July, 2010)

* Military declares climate change "a catalyst for conflict    (June, 2010)

* Investigation clears Michael Mann of fraudulent allegations   (June, 2010)

* Malaria soars with small rainforest reductions  (June, 2010)

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

* Climate change is causing "irreversible" destruction of ocean life systems (June, 2010)

* Himalayan glacier melt puts 60 million people at risk of food shortages    (June, 2010)

* Warming pushes many small mammal species to the brink (June, 2010)

* Geoengineering clouds could intensify warming: study  (June, 2010)

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

* Britons' Doubts about anthropogenic climate change soar   (May, 2010)

* NAS urges deep carbon cuts in US (May, 2010)

* IEA: Solar Can Power one-quarter of the world by 2050 (May, 2010)

* More than 250 NAS scientists strike back at skeptics  (May, 2010)

* Nashville inundated with 14 inches of rain in two days   (May, 2010)

* Study shoots down carbon capture as climate remedy (April, 2010)

* Ocean acidity has risen 30 percent in 200 years (April, 2010)

* Royal Society links climate changes to geological shocks (April, 2010)


CLIMATE NEWS UPDATES: 2000 -- 2009


* House of Commons clears CRU's Jones of most "climategate" charges (March. 2010)

* CO2-absorbing Algae found toxic to sea life  (March, 2010)

* NASA study debunks "global cooling"   (March, 2010)

* IPCC understates case for human-induced warming (March, 2010)

* Creationists begin to take aim at climate science as well as evolution (March, 2010)

* Brutal winter storms cut power to millions in the US, Russia and Western Europe (Feb. 2010)

* Rate of ocean acidification unprecedented in last 65 million years   (Feb. 2010)

* ExxonMobil funds new blitz by climate skeptics (Feb. 2010)

* Cyberthieves steal millions in fraudulent carbon credits   (Feb. 2010)

* Egypt's breadbasket becoming poisoned by saltwater intrusion (Jan. 2010)

* 2000-2009 is the hottest decade on record   (Jan. 2010) 

* Middle Eastern drought triggers flights of "water refugees" (Jan. 2010)

* Increased leakage of seabed methane startles scientists (Jan. 2010)

* CIA, Pentagon begin planning for warming-driven security threats (Dec. 2009)

* 2010 projected to be hottest year on record   (Dec. 2009)