Salon.com > Global Warming http://www.salon.com Fri, 03 May 2013 03:47:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Would we give up burgers to stop climate change? http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/would_we_give_up_burgers_to_stop_climate_change/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/would_we_give_up_burgers_to_stop_climate_change/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 23:29:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13288290 In case you missed the news, humanity spent the Earth Day week reaching another sad milestone in the history of catastrophic climate change: For the first time, measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surpassed 400 parts per million, aka way above what our current ecosystem can handle.

Actually, you probably did miss the news because most major media outlets didn't cover it in a serious way, if at all. Instead, they and their audiences evidently view such information as far less news-, buzz- and tweet-worthy than (among other things) the opening of George W. Bush's library and President Obama's jokes at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Such an appetite for distraction, no doubt, comes from both those who deny the problem of climate change and those who acknowledge the crisis but nonetheless look away from what feels like an unsolvable mess.

That sense of hopelessness is understandable. After all, some of the most hyped ways to reduce carbon emissions -- electric cars, mass-scale renewable energy power plants, etc. -- require the kind of technological transformations that can seem impossibly unrealistic at a time when Congress can't even pass a budget.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/would_we_give_up_burgers_to_stop_climate_change/feed/ 42 We tried to weaponize the weather http://www.salon.com/2013/04/27/we_tried_to_weaponize_the_weather/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/27/we_tried_to_weaponize_the_weather/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13280800 The years between the first hydrogen bomb tests and the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963 saw more than just increased anxiety about the effects of nuclear testing on weather. They also saw increased interest in large-scale, purposeful environmental modification. Most climate modification enthusiasts spoke of increasing global temperatures, in the hopes that this would increase the quantity of cultivated land and make for fairer weather. Some suggested blackening deserts or snowy areas, to increase absorption of radiation. Covering large areas with carbon dust, so the theory went, would raise temperatures. Alternatively, if several hydrogen bombs were exploded underwater, they might evaporate seawater and create an ice cloud that would block the escape of radiation. Meteorologist Harry Wexler had little patience for those who wanted to add weather and climate modification to the set of tools in man’s possession. But by 1958 even he acknowledged that serious proposals for massive changes, using nuclear weapons as tools, were inevitable. Like most professional meteorologists, in the past he had dismissed the idea that hydrogen bombs had affected the weather. But with the prospect of determined experiments designed to bring about such changes, he warned of “the unhappy situation of the cure being worse than the ailment.”

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/27/we_tried_to_weaponize_the_weather/feed/ 41 Could a carbon fee save us from climate change? http://www.salon.com/2013/04/25/could_a_carbon_fee_save_us_from_climate_change_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/25/could_a_carbon_fee_save_us_from_climate_change_partner/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:19:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13281752 AlterNet It’s hard to imagine anyone who has done more to further our understanding of the impacts of climate change than Dr. James Hansen. After 46 years working a scientist and climatogolist for NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hansen wasn’t content to simply catalog the dangers facing humanity and our planet — he has been ringing the alarm bell. “On a blistering June day in 1988 he was called before a Congressional committee and testified that human-induced global warming had begun,” the New York Times wrote in a recent story about Hansen. “Speaking to reporters afterward in his flat Midwestern accent, he uttered a sentence that would appear in news reports across the land: ‘It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.’”

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/25/could_a_carbon_fee_save_us_from_climate_change_partner/feed/ 5 House GOPer: Biblical flood proves climate change isn’t man-made http://www.salon.com/2013/04/10/house_goper_biblical_flood_proves_climate_change_isnt_man_made/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/10/house_goper_biblical_flood_proves_climate_change_isnt_man_made/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:11:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13267184 Rep. Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas, cited the Bible's Great Flood as an example of climate change that proves it's not necessarily man-made.

"I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy," Barton said during a Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing to discuss the Keystone XL pipeline, BuzzFeed reports.

He also said that it doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't believe that the climate is changing: "I think you can have an honest difference of opinion of what's causing that change without automatically being either all in that's all because of mankind or it's all just natural. I think there's a divergence of evidence."

Barton, one of Congress's top recipients of oil company campaign donations, is perhaps best known for apologizing to BP for what he called a White House "shakedown," after the Obama administration announced that it would set up a $20 billion escrow fund to benefit victims of the 2010 BP oil spill.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/10/house_goper_biblical_flood_proves_climate_change_isnt_man_made/feed/ 77 Poll: Concern about global warming is growing http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/poll_concern_about_global_warming_is_growing/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/poll_concern_about_global_warming_is_growing/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:01:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13264557 A new Gallup poll finds that more Americans are growing concerned about global warming, with 58 percent saying they "personally worry" about the effects of global warming at least a fair amount.

This is up from 51 percent in 2011.

From the poll:

Public concern about global warming has waxed and waned over the past two decades, ranging between 50% and 72%. The average percentage over time for "worrying a great deal/fair amount" comes in at just under 60%, similar to the March 7-10 reading from Gallup's 2013 Environment poll.

But the poll also finds that 15 percent believe that the effects of global warming will never happen, while 41 percent believe new reports about the subject are exaggerated.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/poll_concern_about_global_warming_is_growing/feed/ 18 Will Democrats destroy the planet? http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/tk_5_partner_7/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/tk_5_partner_7/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:45:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13264533 A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring some of the dirtiest energy on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast the “Selma and Stonewall” of the climate movement.

Which, if you think about it, may be both good news and bad news. Yes, those of us fighting the pipeline have mobilized record numbers of activists: the largest civil disobedience action in 30 years and 40,000 people on the mall in February for the biggest climate rally in American history. Right now, we’re aiming to get a million people to send in public comments about the “environmental review” the State Department is conducting on the feasibility and advisability of building the pipeline.  And there’s good reason to put pressure on.  After all, it’s the same State Department that, as on a previous round of reviews, hired “experts” who had once worked as consultants for TransCanada, the pipeline’s builder.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/tk_5_partner_7/feed/ 19 Limbaugh rewards child climate skeptic with an iPad http://www.salon.com/2013/04/05/limbaugh_rewards_child_climate_skeptic_with_an_ipad/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/05/limbaugh_rewards_child_climate_skeptic_with_an_ipad/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:20:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13262821 On his show Thursday, Rush Limbaugh hosted a climate expert to explain how global warming is "a hoax." Sorry, did we say climate expert? We meant 13-year-old kid from Indiana. The young man called into Limbaugh's show and said he had done his own research at the local library for a school project and concluded that it was obvious that man-made climate change is bogus.

“It was really easy for me to find this evidence, really easy,” said young Alex. “I believe the reason that the liberals do not have the evidence [that it's a hoax] is because they do not want the evidence. They don't want to hear that it's wrong.”

Alex said he found all the information at the library, because he didn't have a computer. Limbaugh was so impressed that he told Alex he wanted to send him an iPad, assuming his parents were OK with it, in order to help him with future research.

Circling back today, Limbaugh explained that "exactly as the news media is a branch of the Democrat Party, so too is much of science today." "The global warming scientists are just Democrats, folks. They're all part of an agenda," he continued, "The Democrats have literally politicized everything they can use to expand government, which is their primary objective."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/05/limbaugh_rewards_child_climate_skeptic_with_an_ipad/feed/ 58 Americans believe a lot of conspiracy theories http://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/americans_believe_a_lot_of_conspiracy_theories/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/americans_believe_a_lot_of_conspiracy_theories/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:15:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13258804 A new PPP survey asked Americans whether they believe in some of the more widespread conspiracy theories, and the results were a bit troubling.

Thirty-seven percent of voters, including 58 percent of Republicans, believe that global warming in a hoax. Six percent believe Osama bin Laden is still alive, while 13 percent think Barack Obama is the antichrist (including 22 percent of Romney voters). Five percent believe Paul McCartney actually died in 1966.

Perhaps the weirdest: 4 percent say "they believe 'lizard people' control our societies by gaining political power."

More from the survey:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/americans_believe_a_lot_of_conspiracy_theories/feed/ 53 Antarctic sea ice expanding http://www.salon.com/2013/04/01/antarctic_sea_ice_expanding_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/01/antarctic_sea_ice_expanding_partner/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:42:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13258170 Global Post
 A summer melt caused by climate change is, counterintuitively, expanding Antarctic sea ice, scientists say.

A Dutch study published online in the Nature Geoscience journal said that sea ice around Antarctica has expanded at an accelerated rate of 1.9 percent per decade since 1985, unlike that in the Arctic region. It also notes that cool freshwater from melt underneath Antarctic ice shelves has insulated offshore sea ice from the ocean beneath, which is warming.

Because the melt water has a relatively low density, it accumulates in the top layer of the ocean, allowing for the cool surface waters to re-freeze more easily during fall and winter.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/01/antarctic_sea_ice_expanding_partner/feed/ 5 Top 5 investigative videos of the week: Inside the smog capital of the world http://www.salon.com/2013/03/30/top_5_investigative_videos_of_the_week_inside_the_smog_capital_of_the_world_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/30/top_5_investigative_videos_of_the_week_inside_the_smog_capital_of_the_world_partner/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13256144 The I Files In the news this week: women fighting for their safety and rights in the Arab Spring, the fraud behind those calorie counts on your favorite foods, and smog so hideous you can see it from space.

In a continuing partnership with Salon, the editors of The I Files are highlighting our picks for the best investigative videos that illustrate and illuminate what's happening in the world.

For more stories like these, please take a moment to subscribe to The I Files channel, YouTube’s one-stop news source. You’ll get a first look at the best videos from all of the major news outlets and select independent producers without the hassle of having to sift through the YouTube clutter. Subscribing is free and causes no damage to the environment.

“Sexual Assault in Tahrir Square,” Bridgette Auger for GlobalPost

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/30/top_5_investigative_videos_of_the_week_inside_the_smog_capital_of_the_world_partner/feed/ 1 Is there an actual tipping point for global warming? http://www.salon.com/2013/03/27/is_there_an_actual_tipping_point_for_global_warming_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/27/is_there_an_actual_tipping_point_for_global_warming_partner/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:56:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13253463 Scientific American Is there a chance that human intervention—rising temperatures, massive land-use changes, biodiversity loss and so on—could “tip” the entire world into a new climatic state? And if so, does that change what we should do about it?

As far back as 2008 NASA’s James Hansen argued that we had crossed a “tipping point” in the Arctic with regard to summer sea ice. The diminishing ice cover had moved past a critical threshold, and from then on levels would drop precipitously toward zero, with little hope of recovery. Other experts now say that recent years have confirmed that particular cliff-fall, and the September 2012 record minimum—an astonishing 18 percent lower than 2007’s previous record—was likely no fluke.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/27/is_there_an_actual_tipping_point_for_global_warming_partner/feed/ 17 Climate science-denying GOPer to head climate subcommittee http://www.salon.com/2013/03/20/climate_science_denying_goper_to_head_climate_subcommittee/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/20/climate_science_denying_goper_to_head_climate_subcommittee/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:06:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13246896 A House subcommittee on climate change announced that its new Chair will be Rep. Chris Stewart, a Republican from Utah who does not believe in man-made climate change, and who has written several end-times novels that were endorsed by none other than Glenn Beck.

"I'm not as convinced as a lot of people are that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is," Stewart told the Salt Lake Tribune. "I think it is probably not as immediate as some people do."

As Tim Murphy from Mother Jones reports, Stewart is no big fan of the EPA or Endangered Species Act either:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/20/climate_science_denying_goper_to_head_climate_subcommittee/feed/ 13 How to protect my children? http://www.salon.com/2013/03/12/how_to_protect_my_children/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/12/how_to_protect_my_children/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13225700 Hi Cary,

Thanks for your thoughtful column. I'm not sure what advice you can offer me, but I feel compelled to write.

I'm a happily married woman in my mid-40s, with three children ranging in age from 8 to 15. I am well-educated and work full-time in a rewarding job, and I feel very fortunate.

Twelve years ago our baby daughter passed away at 11 months, as her brain never developed properly, but she was never diagnosed. Long ago I made peace with her death and only raise it now because it taught me to appreciate the present.

I love my family dearly, and my children bring me great joy.  So what's the problem then? I worry that I've brought them into a world whose future holds overpopulation (for which I myself feel a bit responsible) and global warming. My children have such bright futures ahead, which may be completely devastated by these global crises.

I feel guilt at having brought them into the world, and yet I can't imagine not having them in my world. I feel so hopeless that I am unable to make the world a better place for them. My happiness in the present is marred by my heartache thinking of their future.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/12/how_to_protect_my_children/feed/ 27 Australia breaks hottest summer record http://www.salon.com/2013/03/01/australia_breaks_hottest_summer_record_as_temperatures_rise_globally_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/01/australia_breaks_hottest_summer_record_as_temperatures_rise_globally_partner/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:13:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13215766 Australia weather bureau has confirmed that this country — like many others — has just sweltered through its hottest summer on record.

Global Post The Australian Bureau of Meteorology reported that records were broken for the average temperature and average daytime temperature between December and February.

A record was also set for the number of consecutive days in which the average maximum was more than 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Farenheit) — namely the seven days from Jan. 2 to 8. The previous record was four days.

The Australian Associated Press quoted the bureau's climate change program manager, Tony Mohr, as saying:

"If you're 27 years old, you've never experienced an 'average' month's temperature — it's all been above average."

January 2013 was the hottest month recorded since 1910, Blair Trewin and Karl Braganza bureau wrote in a report, while records were also set for the hottest daytime temperatures averaged over the whole of Australia.

In a year that saw several deadly wildfire outbreaks across the country, 14 locations deployed by the weather bureau to monitor the long-term climate registered individual record temperatures.

Australia's Fairfax media quoted Trewin, a senior climatologist with the weather bureau, as saying:

"It was hot just about everywhere. It was in the top 10 for every mainland state. Six of the hottest 10 summers [nationally] have happened in the last decade."

The summer heat came despite much of Australia's eastern seaboard experienced flooding from two major storm systems, Fairfax noted.

It cited Will Steffen, executive director of the Australian National University's Climate Change Institute, and a member of the Australian Climate Commission, as saying:

"It’s been a pretty amazing summer as far as extremes go. We had record high sea-surface temperatures along the east coast, leading to more evaporation and more moisture in the atmosphere available for rainfall."

The bureau said the summer followed a pattern of extremely hot summers around the world in recent years.

Could any broader trend be drawn from the record-breaking Down Under summer of 2012-13?

Trewin and Braganza wrote that the extremes fit with a well established trend in Australia:

"It’s getting hotter, and record heat is happening more often."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/01/australia_breaks_hottest_summer_record_as_temperatures_rise_globally_partner/feed/ 1 Obama’s climate change promises http://www.salon.com/2013/02/13/obamas_climate_change_promises_an_incomplete_history/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/13/obamas_climate_change_promises_an_incomplete_history/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:23:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13200031 In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Obama promised to take steps to fight climate change, including, if necessary, implementing executive actions.

"I urge this Congress to get together, pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on together a few years ago," Obama said. "But if Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will. I will direct my Cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy."

In his last few major policy speeches, the president has emphasized the importance of taking action to combat climate change. But in the past he's been a bit more waffling on the subject. Here's a rundown of how he's framed the debate since taking office:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/13/obamas_climate_change_promises_an_incomplete_history/feed/ 3 The XL stakes of the Keystone pipeline http://www.salon.com/2013/02/11/the_xl_stakes_of_the_keystone_pipeline_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/11/the_xl_stakes_of_the_keystone_pipeline_partner/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13197406 Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the “dirtiest,” carbon-rich oil on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.  In the near future, President Obama is expected to give its construction a definitive thumbs up or thumbs down, and the decision he makes could prove far more important than anyone imagines.  It could determine the fate of the Canadian tar-sands industry and, with it, the future well-being of the planet.  If that sounds overly dramatic, let me explain.

Sometimes, what starts out as a minor skirmish can wind up determining the outcome of a war -- and that seems to be the case when it comes to the mounting battle over the Keystone XL pipeline. If given the go-ahead by President Obama, it will daily carry more than 700,000 barrels of tar-sands oil to those Gulf Coast refineries, providing a desperately needed boost to the Canadian energy industry. If Obama says no, the Canadians (and their American backers) will encounter possibly insuperable difficulties in exporting their heavy crude oil, discouraging further investment and putting the industry’s future in doubt.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/11/the_xl_stakes_of_the_keystone_pipeline_partner/feed/ 13 Al Gore: Fix the filibuster, talk about climate change, ensure privacy online http://www.salon.com/2013/02/10/al_gore_fix_the_filibuster_talk_about_climate_change_ensure_privacy_online/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/10/al_gore_fix_the_filibuster_talk_about_climate_change_ensure_privacy_online/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13194222 More than 1,800 years ago, the last of Rome’s “Five Good Emperors,” Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, wrote, “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” His advice is still sound, though soon after his reign the Roman Empire began the long process of dissolution that culminated in its overthrow 300 years later.

Arming ourselves with the “weapons of reason” is necessary but insufficient. The emergence of the Global Mind presents us with an opportunity to strengthen reason-based decision making, but the economic and political systems within which we implement even the wisest decisions are badly in need of repair. Confidence in both market capitalism and representative democracy has fallen because both are obviously in need of reform. Fixing both of these macro-tools should be at the top of the agenda for all of us who want to help shape humanity’s future.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/10/al_gore_fix_the_filibuster_talk_about_climate_change_ensure_privacy_online/feed/ 65 More vacation time just might stop global warming http://www.salon.com/2013/02/06/more_vacation_time_just_might_stop_global_warming_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/06/more_vacation_time_just_might_stop_global_warming_partner/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:51:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13192238 AlterNet This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.

A new report published by a liberal think tank offers an intriguing solution to the problem of global warming: work less, and carbon emissions will be reduced. That’s what the Center for Economic Policy and Research says in a new study, according to a report in U.S. News and World Report.

If people around the world switched to a “more European”-like work schedule, it could “prevent as much as half of the expected global temperature rise by 2100,” the study says, as the publication notes. A “more European”-like schedule includes working far fewer hours and taking longer vacation time.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/06/more_vacation_time_just_might_stop_global_warming_partner/feed/ 1 Will anyone tell the truth about climate change? http://www.salon.com/2013/02/04/will_anyone_tell_the_truth_about_climate_change/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/04/will_anyone_tell_the_truth_about_climate_change/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:25:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13190388 In the Kubler-Ross stages of grief, it is a long road from denial to acceptance. But in the tragedy that is climate change, the terrifying new math proves that we need to get to acceptance as quickly as possible in order to prevent -- or at least minimize -- a planetary cataclysm. Doing that, as I argue in this short new video, requires a massive public education campaign about the reality of climate change, starting with the mass media.

But one of the big problems is local television news -- and how so many of the nation's Ron Burgundys are full-on climate-change denialists. Also important is the quiet change happening in the national media -- a change whereby more and more outlets are taking steps to diminish -- or criticize -- what minimal climate change coverage still exists.

Consider the news of the past few weeks:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/04/will_anyone_tell_the_truth_about_climate_change/feed/ 121 How will the House Science Committee address climate change? http://www.salon.com/2013/01/22/how_will_the_house_science_committee_address_climate_change/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/22/how_will_the_house_science_committee_address_climate_change/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:52:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13178399 In his inaugural address, President Obama surprised the left by pledging to "respond to the threat of climate change" during his second term, "knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations." But one major hurdle will be Republicans in the House of Representatives, who helped scuttle climate change legislation in 2010, and who will likely force the president to use his executive powers to implement any kind of new regulations.

The House Science Committee is representative of one aspect of this dilemma, and a planned hearing to discuss factors that contribute to climate change could showcase just how many Republicans on the committee are decidedly anti-science. The hearing is still taking shape but will take place sometime in the coming weeks, according to a committee aide.

Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the committee's chairman, said in a statement that he hopes the hearing will "focus on the facts rather than on a partisan agenda":

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