Dear EarthTalk: Are there any conservation efforts focused on animal species endemic to islands likely to be submerged by rising sea levels? Islands are indeed likely to be the areas hardest hit by our warming climate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of leading climate scientists from around the world convened by [...]
It’s us that I am worried about. It’s true, most of the living things on the planet are going to take a mean beating if things continue to warm up as every credible scientist on earth seems to believe, but the planet itself will be perfectly fine…it will still be here long after we are [...]
What if the skeptics and some right-wingers are correct in that global warming is a myth and while the earth may be getting a few degrees warmer over the next couple of years, it is nothing to worry about? It’s just natural and things will turn around eventually? Could it be that we have been [...]
Dear EarthTalk: It has been said that global warming will bring a new ice age. Is this true or only fiction? While no one can be sure what and how severe the effects of global warming will be, it is entirely possible that one outcome of our profligate use of fossil fuels and climate change [...]
As reported over at Treehugger.com, UN climate negotiator Yvo de Boe has gone on record as saying that he doesn’t expect any new treaty to be agreed upon at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December. Great. Another giant conference, which everyone in attendance will be spewing carbon emissions into the air to get [...]
Well, that’s good news – even if it means it is still going up slowly. The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency is saying that due to high oil prices and the worldwide financial crisis, the annual increase in emissions of CO2 has been cut in half from this time last year. Emissions increased by 1.7% in [...]
Some of the key points of the American Clean Energy & Security Act from Grist, since they know better than I do. You can head to their site to read the nitty gritty, but here is a general summary: Renewable electricity standard The bill creates a renewable electricity standard (RES) that would require large utilities [...]
