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Himalayan hypeTampa TribuneIn 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a statement that the "Himalaya Glaciers are receding faster than any other part of the ...and more »
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AOL NewsNASA Scientists Say Earth Is Still WarmingAOL NewsProponents of climate change argue that erratic weather patterns could actually be proof of global warming. Here, a man walks his dog in Haddonfield, NJ, ...and more »
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New York Times (blog)Q&A: Bill McKibben on CO2 and CancunNew York Times (blog)Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and long-time advocate for action on climate change, believes we can still reverse the growing concentration of carbon ...and more »
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JPL presents two days of climate-change exhibitsPasadena Star-News... and games like "Climate Jeopardy." There will be a lecture "Our Changing Climate: The Latest from NASA's Eyes on the Earth," from 1 to 2:30 pm Saturday.and more »
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ITT spent $350000 in 4Q to lobby federal gov'tThe Associated Press... NASA and NOAA budgets. ITT lobbyists also discussed FAA funding, defense procurement, economic stimulus bills and climate change legislation, ...and more »
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NASA Researchers Study Polar Ice in GreenlandVoice of America"A lot of scientists believe that climate change will first show up at the polar region, so if they were to start to melt, which many people believe they ...and more »
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Telegraph.co.ukUN climate change claims on rainforests were wrong, study suggestsTelegraph.co.uk... about the devastating effect climate change could have on the Amazon rainforest. By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent A new study, funded by Nasa, ...Questions about research slow climate change effortsUSA Todayall 22 news articles »
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When a scientist becomes an activistSalt Lake TribuneThe man in the picture is NASA climatologist James Hansen, best known for bringing the danger of global climate change to the attention of the modern world ...and more »
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Globe and MailMassive Gap Widens Between Republican and Democrat's Belief in Climate ChangeTreehuggerI've written before about the ever-increasing politicization of climate change--the thesis that the ...NASA, NOAA Step Up Climate EducationSolveClimate (blog)Scientists urge Senate action on global warmingChristian Science MonitorIPCC Rainforest eco-tastrophe claim confirmed as bunkRegisterUSA Today -Edmonton Journal -Investor's Business Dailyall 755 news articles »
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Amazon rain forests were unaffected from once-in-a-century drought in 2005Oneindia... neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. ...and more »
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Congress debates new satellite planUSA TodayThe Obama administration's plans call for splitting management of the project, with the Air Force taking over two satellites and a joint NASA-NOAA team ...
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Michael E. Mann is an American climatologist, author of more than 80 peer-reviewed journal publications, most notably a number of articles on paleoclimate and as one of the originators of a graph of temperature trends dubbed the "hockey stick graph" for the shape of the graph. In 2009 he was promoted to professor at Pennsylvania State University, in the Department of Meteorology and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute and since 2005 has been Director of the university's interdepartmental Earth System Science Center. He was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report (2001). He has been organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science and has served as a committee member or advisor for other National Academy of Sciences panels. He served as editor for the Journal of Climate and has been a member of numerous international and US scientific advisory panels and steering groups. Mann has been the recipient of several fellowships and prizes, including selection as one of the 50 leading visionaries in Science and Technology by Scientific American, the outstanding scientific publication award of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and recognition by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) for notable citation of his refereed scientific research. Mann is one of several climate scientists who ...
This video corrects the lack of sound in a previous upload, which was to correct a typo in the preceding upload. The information is identical. Whoever can spot the corrected typo gets a free Climate Crock DVD! Seriously! Ok, the first 20 or so, anyway. In the many responses I get to these videos, it appears that a number of people want to deny, or are not even aware, that there is a scientific foundation to the overwhelming consensus on climate change. In fact, the science is built on thousands of publications and many decades of observation. In this video we'll go over some of the fundamental discoveries, the basic facts that we know beyond a doubt, about global warming. Of course, many people will never believe science, because they believe that anything that challenges their world view, is all part of a secret, global conspiracy. Increases in Longwave forcing inferred from Outward longwave www.nature.com Trends in Forcings www3.interscience.wiley.com Downward Longwave Radiation landshape.org Downward Longwave Radiation www.agu.org 29000 data sets, press release: www.giss.nasa.gov 29000 data sets pubs.giss.nasa.gov Global Energy Imbalance: pubs.giss.nasa.gov Isotopes: www.bgc-jena.mpg.de
This is the same video as "What do we know about Climate Change?", except it has a small typo -- I've left it up since so many places already have it embedded. In the many responses I get to these videos, it appears that a number of people want to deny, or are not even aware, that there is a scientific foundation to the overwhelming consensus on climate change. In fact, the science is built on thousands of publications and many decades of observation. In this video we'll go over some of the fundamental discoveries, the basic facts that we know beyond a doubt, about global warming. Of course, many people will never believe science, because they believe that anything that challenges their world view, is all part of a secret, global conspiracy. Increases in Longwave forcing inferred from Outward longwave www.nature.com Trends in Forcings www3.interscience.wiley.com Downward Longwave Radiation landshape.org Downward Longwave Radiation www.agu.org 29000 data sets, press release: www.giss.nasa.gov 29000 data sets pubs.giss.nasa.gov Global Energy Imbalance: pubs.giss.nasa.gov Isotopes: www.bgc-jena.mpg.de
Where does the scientific data confirming Climate Change and Global Warming come from? tinyurl.com tinyurl.com tinyurl.com www.epa.gov tinyurl.com tinyurl.com www.skepticalscience.com tinyurl.com web.mac.com NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest in the modern record. "Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle" illustrates how NASA satellites enable us to study possible causes of climate change. The video explains what role fluctuations in the solar cycle, changes in snow and cloud cover, and rising levels of heat-trapping gases may play in contributing to climate change. Each year, scientists at NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instrumental temperature records began 130 years ago. Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57°C (1.03°F) warmer than the 1951-1980 base period. And January 2000 to December 2009 came out as the warmest decade on record. Take a look below at nasa's collection of videos, articles and imagery designed to help tell the story of our warming world. Our warmest decade! NASA scientists unveil their latest findings on our warming world: 2009 is tied as the second warmest year since modern record keeping began, and 2000-2009 is the hottest decade ever: climate.nasa.gov Just 5 questions! On the record....about the temperature record. NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt talks about the Earth's surface ...
You can get excellent current data & scientific information on Climate Change from NASA @ climate.nasa.gov This video is from nasa's new website: climate.nasa.gov & Climate Change A Warming World @ http
You can get excellent current data & scientific information on Climate Change from NASA @ climate.nasa.gov This video is from nasa's new website: climate.nasa.gov & Climate Change A Warming World @ http
This short video announces the launch of the A Warming World Web page on nasas Global Climate Change Web site: climate.nasa.gov A Warming World features videos, images, articles and interactive visuals that discuss rising global temperatures and the impact of greenhouse gases as the main contributor to modern climate trends.
The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest in the modern record. "Piecing Together the Temperature Puzzle" illustrates how NASA satellites enable us to study possible causes of climate change. The video explains what role fluctuations in the solar cycle, changes in snow and cloud cover, and rising levels of heat-trapping gases may play in contributing to climate change. For more info on NASA and Climate Change, visit: climate.nasa.gov To download this video visit the Scientific Visualization Studio svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Want more? Subscribe to NASA on itunes! phobos.apple.com Or get tweeted by NASA: twitter.com
President Obama spoke with the crews of space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. The president discussed their missions with commanders George Zamka and Jeff Williams and their respective STS-130 and Expedition 22 crew members. New findings by nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the Andromeda galaxy have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova believed critical to studying dark energy. A zoom into this composite image of Andromeda, also known as M31, shows astronomers that the merger of what's left of two dense stars is the likely cause of many Type Ia supernovas. The telescope aboard nasa's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, was successfully activated during a January 15 test flight of almost six hours. Engineers examined the telescope's movement and stability to verify that it could remain locked in on a celestial object while the aircraft maneuvers in flight. A new NASA Web site can help our future explorers and leaders better understand the how's and why's of climate change and what they can do to make our planet more habitable. Called 'Climate Kids', the new Web site is the latest companion to nasa's award-winning Global Climate Change Web site. Forty-eight years ago, Mercury astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth when an Atlas rocket successfully carried his Friendship 7 capsule into space.
SOHO Mission The SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) project is a cooperative effort between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. SOHO was designed to study the internal structure of the Sun, its extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind, the stream of highly ionized gas that blows continuously outward through the Solar System. Link to SOHO... watch the sun for yourself... :-) sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov Link to documentary.... video.google.co.uk
Nasa explains what role the oceans have with the global climate change
The first scientist to bring global warming to the Congress of the USA was James Hansen. Professor Hansen brought NASA evidence of the greenhouse effect to the World, starting the climate change revolution.
BBC climate programme on climate change evidence, taking into consideration the arguments of NASA and environmental experts and sceptic opposition- in particular the scientist Bill Nierenberg who started the climate sceptic movement. Also looks at Camp Century in the Antarctic, the US Military observation base with a nuclear reactor as its power source. Part 1.
For more information visit www.hec.nasa.gov Climate modeling requires massive computational power. Until recently, that power required room sized machines with daunting technical and logistic requirements. But new advances in computer design, including hardware and software, continue to facilitate a paradigm shift. In an effort to broaden and democratize climate research tools, NASA has begun to facilitate the operation of new desktop sized supercomputers, with the goal of making it substantially easier for more researchers to do meaningful work on vital and essential questions for our world. Want more? Subscribe to NASA on itunes! phobos.apple.com Or get tweeted by NASA: twitter.com
Although all scientists interpret data in different ways, Chris Horner says that NASA scientists working on climate change have been particularly active in advocating for global warming. What is the motivation for this? And what could be the consequences?
nasa's climate change data called into question.
Fox News reports that nasa's Climate change Data is being questioned, amidst allegations of manipulated data put forth by the agency.
How will climate change impact agriculture? This video explores the need for accurate, continuous and accessible data and computer models to track and predict the challenges farmers face as they adjust to a changing climate. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Climate Essentials This Climate Essentials multimedia gallery brings together the latest and most popular climate-related images, data visualizations and video features from Goddard Space Flight Center on one web page. Browse our top ten most popular climate resources, or select from the categories below. You can download the imagery in a variety of formats directly from this site. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov nasa's contribution to understanding Earth's climate, visit the Global Climate Change site. climate.nasa.gov Eyes on the Earth: climate.nasa.gov youtube Playlist Science for a Hungry World: www.youtube.com COP15 - Copenhagen, 7-18 december 2009 - youtube Playlist: www.youtube.com ...
For more information visit svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Next month, world leaders will gather in Copenhagen at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to negotiate a new global climate treaty. In anticipation of this event, NASA has compiled a multimedia resource collection for editors and producers developing climate-related stories. Taking Earths Temperature, a short film explaining how researchers use computer models to study climate change, is one of the many resources included in the gallery. Organized by topic, the videos, data visualizations, conceptual animations, and print-resolution images illustrate key concepts and discoveries in climate science. The compilation also features ten of nasas most popular climate visualizations. The gallery can be found at nasa's Scientific Visualization Studio (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov and nasa's Global Climate Change site (climate.nasa.gov Images and videos can be downloaded directly from those pages and may also be available by request. Want more? Subscribe to NASA on itunes! phobos.apple.com Or get tweeted by NASA: twitter.com
Copenhagen Treaty is World Government...Carbon Tax is a Fraud. ________________ The Road to Copenhagen Part I: The Club of Rome Jurriaan Maessen Infowars November 14, 2009 () Perhaps those agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime- sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment. Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable, at least insofar as international implications exist. Thus, the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and the oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans. The Regime might also be a logical central agency for regulating all international trade, perhaps including assistance from dcs and ldcs, and including all food on the international market. The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and or each region and for arbitrating various countries shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime should have some power to enforce the agreed limits. John P. Holdren, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Ecoscience, 1977 Beatrix and crew The Copenhagen conference on climate ...
As our series concludes, we ask NASA researchers: how will climate change impact agriculture? To find out more visit: www.nasa.gov Want more? Subscribe to NASA on itunes! phobos.apple.com Or get tweeted by NASA: twitter.com This episode explores the need for accurate, continuous and accessible data and computer models to track and predict the challenges farmers face as they adjust to a changing climate.
We know climate change can affect us, but does climate change alter something as vast, deep and mysterious as our oceans? For years, scientists have studied the world's oceans by sending out ships and divers, deploying data-gathering buoys, and by taking aerial measurements from planes. But one of the better ways to understand oceans is to gain an even broader perspective - the view from space. nasa's Earth observing satellites do more than just take pictures of our planet. High-tech sensors gather data, including ocean surface temperature, surface winds, sea level, circulation, and even marine life. Information the satellites obtain help us understand the complex interactions driving the world's oceans today - and gain valuable insight into how the impacts of climate change on oceans might affect us on dry land. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
"Climate Change and The Global Ocean" is the first episode in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. To find out more visit climate.nasa.gov Want more? Subscribe to NASA on itunes! phobos.apple.com Or get tweeted by NASA: twitter.com We know climate change can affect us, but does climate change alter something as vast, deep and mysterious as our oceans? For years, scientists have studied the world's oceans by sending out ships and divers, deploying data-gathering buoys, and by taking aerial measurements from planes. But one of the better ways to understand oceans is to gain an even broader perspective - the view from space. nasa's Earth observing satellites do more than just take pictures of our planet. High-tech sensors gather data, including ocean surface temperature, surface winds, sea level, circulation, and even marine life. Information the satellites obtain help us understand the complex interactions driving the world's oceans today - and gain valuable insight into how the impacts of climate change on oceans might affect us on dry land.
"Climate Change and The Global Ocean" is the first episode in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. To find out more visit climate.nasa.gov Want more? Subscribe to NASA on itunes! phobos.apple.com Or get tweeted by NASA: twitter.com We know climate change can affect us, but does climate change alter something as vast, deep and mysterious as our oceans? For years, scientists have studied the world's oceans by sending out ships and divers, deploying data-gathering buoys, and by taking aerial measurements from planes. But one of the better ways to understand oceans is to gain an even broader perspective - the view from space. nasa's Earth observing satellites do more than just take pictures of our planet. High-tech sensors gather data, including ocean surface temperature, surface winds, sea level, circulation, and even marine life. Information the satellites obtain help us understand the complex interactions driving the world's oceans today - and gain valuable insight into how the impacts of climate change on oceans might affect us on dry land.
It has been said that the frozen parts of our planet, also known as the cryosphere, may be the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine' when it comes to climate change. This video shows some of the most dramatic fluctuations to our cryosphere in recent years using visuals created with a variety of satellite-based data. Read more about and download this video: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Want more? Subscribe to NASA on itunes! phobos.apple.com Or get tweeted by NASA: twitter.com
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