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Global warming – a big hoax?

If you read this you most probably belong to a great majority of people who “believe” in climate change as in a phenomena induced by human activity. Yet not everybody will agree with that, and you have probably encountered those who still insist that nothing out of the usual is happening. Classics that those who [...]

Unsettling prospects

It has been suspected for weeks and now two U.S. agencies have confirmed 2010 as the warmest year on record-since 1880! Even if single weather occurrences cannot be directly linked to global warming, the fact the every year since 2000 has ranked as one of the 15 warmest years on record can be regarded as [...]

Global warming causes weather extremes across China

Extreme weather in China reinforces predictions about climate change. Chen Zhenlin, director of the emergency response, disaster mitigation and public services department connects most of these extreme weather events to rain resulting from global warming. Extreme rainstorms, most instances of extreme weather in a decade, highest temperatures across China since 1961 and the fact that [...]

Cold winter-what about global warming?

We are having an exceptionally cold winter with lots of snow in Europe this year again, and this is being misinterpreted as signalling an end to global warming. This is a superficial judgement of the situation as a whole, and those denying anthropogenic climate change like to use such indicators to support their theories.

Conservative America ignores climate change

The US has, so far, been reluctant to sign any binding document limiting CO2 emissions such as the Kyoto protocol. With a change of leadership and some new legislation in the US under President Obama, many were hopeful that a change in policy towards climate change was viable.

Mistake puts all in question?

Reuters wrote on Monday that scientist called for the IPPC  (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) to undergo for thorough reform in terms of sticking to solid scientific evidence and avoid policy advocacy in order to stay credible. The IPPC has been criticized over the last few months about admitting its 2007 report wrongly warning about [...]

 

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