Heat Is Online - Climate Change News 2008-07-24T00:00:00Z Ross Gelbspan urn:uuid:5492EDAE-F1FF-921E-13EE5920AB8EDCD4 Ice Melt Forces Russian Researchers to Evacuate Arctic Camp http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7028 2008-07-16T00:00:00Z Ice Melt Forces Russian Researchers to Evacuate Arctic Camp Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because the ice has melted to a fraction of its original size, a spokesman said. ]]> Ice Melt Forces Russian Researchers to Evacuate Arctic Camp http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7027 2008-07-16T00:00:00Z Ice Melt Forces Russian Researchers to Evacuate Arctic Camp Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because the ice has melted to a fraction of its original size, a spokesman said. ]]> The Heat Is Online http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=3075 2008-07-12T00:00:00Z The Heat Is Online Bush Leaves Warming to Next President http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7026 2008-07-12T00:00:00Z Bush Leaves Warming to Next President The Bush administration rejected its own experts' conclusion that global warming poses a threat to the public welfare, launching a comment period that will delay action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at least until the next president takes office. ]]> Bush Ignores Supreme Court Order on Greenhouse Gases http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7025 2008-07-11T00:00:00Z Bush Ignores Supreme Court Order on Greenhouse Gases

The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressure from the Supreme Court and broad accord among senior federal officials that new regulation is appropriate now.

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Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy to Heat Up Woods Hole Film Festival Developing Giants Reject G-8 Plan http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7022 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z

Developing Giants Reject G-8 Plan China, India and other energy-guzzling developing nations on Wednesday rejected key elements of a global warming strategy embraced by President Bush and leaders of wealthy nations. And the U.N's top climate official dismissed the G-8 goals as insignificant.  ]]> EPA Official: Cheney Censored CDC Over Health Impacts of Warming http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7021 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z EPA Official: Cheney Censored CDC Over Health Impacts of Warming

Members of Vice President Cheney's  staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official about health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency  official said yesterday.

]]> Sun-Blocking Mirrors Would Alter Climate http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7019 2008-07-08T00:00:00Z Sun-Blocking Mirrors Would Alter Climate A proposal to reverse climate change by placing mirrors in the sky to reflect sunlight away from Earth won't give us back the same climate we had before we started emitting so much carbon dioxide, says a new study. ]]> World Bank: Biofuels Drive Food Costs Up by 75 Percent http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7018 2008-07-08T00:00:00Z World Bank: Biofuels Drive Food Costs Up by 75 Percent

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analys ]]> G-8 Pledges 50 Percent Cuts Below Current Levels by 2050 http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7013 2008-07-08T00:00:00Z

G-8 Pledges 50 Percent Cuts Below Current Levels by 2050 Pledging to "move toward a low-carbon society," leaders of the world's richest nations endorsed Tuesday the idea of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, but from current levels rather than 1990's, as had been proposed. ]]> G-8 Vows to Halve Current Emissions by 2050 http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7017 2008-07-08T00:00:00Z G-8 Vows to Halve Current Emissions by 2050 Pledging to "move toward a low-carbon society,"  leaders of the world's richest nations endorsed the idea of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, but from current levels rather than 1990's, as had been proposed. ]]> G-8 to Halve Current Emis http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7016 2008-07-08T00:00:00Z G-8 to Halve Current Emis Enter two sentences of teaser information... ]]> G-8 to Halve Current Emis http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7015 2008-07-08T00:00:00Z G-8 to Halve Current Emis Enter two sentences of teaser information... ]]> UN Chief to G-8: Warming Intensifies Food Crisis http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7012 2008-07-05T00:00:00Z UN Chief to G-8: Warming Intensifies Food Crisis The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the U.N. climate chief said, urging leaders of the world's richest countries  to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years. Food security and soaring oil prices are likely to overtake climate change in the priorities of the G-8 meeting starting Monday, though global warming was the theme set by the host, Ja ]]> BLM Reverses Solar Ban on Public Lands http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7011 2008-07-03T00:00:00Z BLM Reverses Solar Ban on Public Lands Under increasing public pressure over its decision to temporarily halt all new solar development on public land, the Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday that it was lifting the freeze, barely a month after it was put into effect.
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Carbon capture and storage (CSS) is fast becoming the oil industry's favorite solution to the climate crisis, but the seductive simplicity of the idea masks a series of doubts about its viability.

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Storms kill 2, disrupt Olympic hopefuls

Swimmer Phelps and teammates herded into hallway in Omaha

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HansenToast

We're toast if we don't get on a very different path. This is the last chance."

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Sea-Ice Loss Hastens Thawing of Permafrost

As Arctic sea ice vanishes, permafrost could warm much more quickly than previously thought, according to new research. Melting permafrost could then release its vast stores of carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating global warming. The study is the first to link the loss of sea ice to warmer temperatures hundreds of miles inland. Bush Administration Slaps Two-Year Freeze On Big Solar Developments http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7005 2008-06-27T00:00:00Z

Bush Administration Slaps Two-Year Freeze On Big Solar Developments Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years. ]]> New Intelligence Assessment Cites Security Implications of Climate Change http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=6999 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z New Intelligence Assessment Cites Security Implications of Climate Change

U.S. intelligence experts believe fallout from global climate change over the next 20 years will boost global instability and may place new burdens on "Beyond" Endnotes http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7000 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

"Beyond" Endnotes

1 "At the Poles, Melting Occurring at Alarming Rate," The WP: "At the Poles, Melting Occurring at an Alarming Rate" http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7004 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

WP: "At the Poles, Melting Occurring at an Alarming Rate"

For scientists, global warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at the poles of Earth. The epic already has started. And it's not fiction. The scenes are playing, at the start, in slow motion: The relentless grip of the http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=7003 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

Beyond the Point of No Return

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Beyond The Point Of No Return" (Dec. 12, 2007)

Beyond the Point of No Return                

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Energy Demand to Rise by 50 percent by 2030: IEA World energy use is expected to surge 50% from 2005 to 2030, largely due to an expanding population and rapid economic growth, according to a government report. ]]> SCIENCE http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=3664 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z SCIENCE

The Science of Climate Change

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"Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations," Geophysical Resea ]]> Scientists Amazed By Speed of Ancient Climate "Snaps" http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=6997 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

Scientists Amazed By Speed of Ancient Climate "Snaps" The Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just 50 years, then plunged back into icy conditions before abruptly warming again about 11,700 years ago. Massive "reorganizations" of atmospheric circulation coincided with each temperature spurt, with each reorganization taking just one or two years, according to a new study. ]]> Warming Seen Dropping Oxygen Levels in Oceans http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=6913 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z Warming Seen Dropping Oxygen Levels in Oceans The world's coastal oceans are in crisis, with oxygen-starved 'dead zones' increasing by a third in just two years as global temperatures increase with climate change.  ]]> Hansen: Oil, Coal Execs Should be Tried for "Crimes Against Humanity" http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=6995 2008-06-24T00:00:00Z Hansen: Oil, Coal Execs Should be Tried for "Crimes Against Humanity" "More warming is already "in-the-pipeline," delayed only by the great inertia of the world ocean. And climate is nearing dangerous tipping points. Elements of a "perfect storm", a global cataclysm, are assembled."