Obama's green team (click title to entry - thank you)
Obama's choices to lead the Energy Department and the EPA must seize the opportunity to turn around national policy.
December 15, 2008
...Also said to be on tap: Carol Browner, President Clinton's EPA chief, in an as-yet-undefined position coordinating climate-change policies, and Nancy Sutley, a Los Angeles deputy mayor overseeing energy and environmental issues, as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Together, they'll aim to head off the worst effects of global warming, a vast challenge that will be complicated by the nation's economic woes. Yet the political support for the needed changes is enormous -- if they can't get it done, it may never happen.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Climate Change Animation and Graph (click here)
Climate Change Animation and Graph (click here)
NASA reports that 2006 was the fifth warmest year on record and 2007 will likely be even warmer - possibly the warmest year in the history of instrumental measurements. Over the past 30 years Earth has warmed by about 0.6 degrees Centigrade or 1.08 degrees Fahrenheit. NASA has documented this increase with an animation. The first and last frames of their climate change animation can be seen in the image at right. It shows the increase in annual mean temperature in one year increments between 1880 and 2006....
design by Robert Simmon
May 21, 2007
The original version of this fact sheet, published in 2002 and written by John Weier, is archived as a PDF.
Over the last five years, 600 scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sifted through thousands of studies about global warming published in forums ranging from scientific journals to industry publications and distilled the world’s accumulated knowledge into this conclusion: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal.”...
The original version of this fact sheet, published in 2002 and written by John Weier, is archived as a PDF.
Over the last five years, 600 scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sifted through thousands of studies about global warming published in forums ranging from scientific journals to industry publications and distilled the world’s accumulated knowledge into this conclusion: “Warming of the climate system is unequivocal.”...
