Fun With CO2 in Greenland - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Elizabeth: “Party is over, deniers. Has been for a long, long time. No matter what way you try to manipulate this, you’re losing.”

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Okay, so I agree with you, somehow. But does this mean that we are going to go for a future that is solar, windy, and otherwise renewable, or does this mean that we’re bound to keep destroying this world like we do these days, simply because it is the way of our...

August

Dot Earthers Face to Face - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

It’s worth remembering that the biosphere takes up and emits about 15 times as much carbon dioxide per year as is released by burning fossil fuels.

However, the biosphere operates in steady state mode - for example, trees produce leaves in the spring and drop them in the fall - and then the leaves are converted back to CO2 and other nutrients by fungi and bacteria. Thus, over thousands of years, there has been little...

August

Dot Earthers Face to Face - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Just a sobering reminder there is tremendous work to be done. James Kanter has a piece in today’s NY Times.

“BARCELONA, Spain — An “extinction crisis” is under way, with one in four mammals in danger of disappearing because of habitat loss, hunting and climate change, a leading global conservation body warned Monday.

“Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions,”...

August

Wildlife Group Presses Poor Nations on CO2 - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

“It is not good enough for big developing countries to take absolutely no responsibility just because the biggest contributors to climate change are the developed countries,” Mr. Moosa said at the opening ceremony of the congress, held every four years under the auspices of the IUCN.

“America and industrialized nations must lead the way,” he said. “Developing countries like my own must become part...

August

Palin and Couric on Climate - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/01/sarahpalin.climatechange

“Her own Alaskan review of the science drew on a joint paper by seven authors, four of whom were well-known climate- change contrarians. Her paper argued that it was “certainly premature, if not impossible” to link temperature rise in Alaska with human CO2 emissions….”

“…One co-author of the paper, Willie Soon, completed the study...

August