Ndola — UNICEF will host the Zambian Children's Climate Conference III (ZCCC3) in Lusaka from August 15 to 19, 2011.
The national conference would be the third held in the country since the Children's Climate Forum convened in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where Zambian children were represented by four UNICEF child ambassadors.
The Norwegian Polar Institute says that some bears based in Svalbard will follow the sea ice as it retreats north during the summer melting period to continue hunting, while others will remain on land waiting several months for the ice to return.
While the seals are their main source of prey, they are opportunistic hunters who will scavenge from whale carcasses, feed on nesting seabirds and their eggs, and even kill reindeer.
As is typical, this has nothing to do with helping the poor. This is about government subsidy of a particular set of lifestyle choices of aging middle class hipsters.
… there are actually folks who think that Obama's farcical and unreachable 54.5 mpg standards for cars are too low.
Since cars are redesigned every 5 years, the 2025 date is basically 3 car revisions from now. It also is far enough in the future the auto makers can cynically sign on now fully expecting to ignore or change the regulation in the future.
"Polarbeargate" may not be the gold mine that climate change denialists had hoped for.AAAS, Climate change denialists?Really? And people wonder why leading institutions of science have been diminished in the eyes of many people (the most fervent partisans excepted).
CC. There are those who describe climatologists who don't believe in man-made climate change as being on the fringe. Is that true?
"Absolutely not. It's very much in the mainstream now. There are many, many climatologists who are skeptical about it (man-made climate change). I don't know if it's more than 50 percent or not. But in science that really doesn't matter. Science has nothing to do with who has a consensus or a majority.
According to Der Spiegel, the island is inhabited by about 2500 people and 3000 polar bears.
The BSES is a non-profit UK-based youth development charity. Founded in 1932 by the late Surgeon Commander G Murray Levick, a member of Scott's final Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13, BSES is one of the longest running organisations of its type.
Polar bear kills are treated like potential murders
Expeditions are normally provided with firearms for protection. But as Der Spiegel reports, shooting a polar bear is legally risky – no joke:
If a polar bear is killed on the archipelago, then it automatically leads to a trial. In this case the authorities assume the role of defence attorney for the dead bear."
"Some people don't believe in climate warning — like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust," he told London's Sun newspaper.
So what was McCartney doing tooling around Detroit in that notorious death-camp vehicle, the 17 mpg Chevy Suburban last month?
Is it really in the public interest for the line between advocacy and science to become blurred in this manner?
Below is the complete list of marine experts (Pew's term) who accepted this activist cash. Take a minute to scan it. It contains an awful lot of people whom the public is likely to regard as neutral, objective experts. There's a PhD attached to their name, after all.
But please also note that these people are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with full-blown political activists.
The BSES sends youths to Svalbard to investigate evidence of climate change.
Scientists say current concerns over a tipping point in the disappearance of Arctic sea ice may be misplaced.
Danish researchers analysed ancient pieces of driftwood in north Greenland which they say is an accurate way to measure the extent of ancient ice loss.
Writing in the journal Science, the team found evidence that ice levels were about 50% lower 5,000 years ago.
Salby does not dispute that some of the rise in CO2 levels is due to man-made emissions, but found that temperature alone explains about 80% of the variation in CO2 levels.
This means that an enormous government body is being led by a woman whose links to activist organizations are beyond dispute. The EDF. The Pew Environment Group. The World Resources Institute. None of these are a secret. None are marginal, shoe-string operations.
Yet even when there are three good reasons to worry that an activist mindset may be clouding your judgment, people are still prepared to call you a top flight scientist.
This suggests that, at its very highest levels, the scientific establishment is now rife with activists. But these people are not the same thing as genuine, bona fide scientists. Not at all.
So long as the scientific community chooses to pretend otherwise it doesn't deserve the public's respect – or its trust.
Reducing farm animals' wind by adding garlic to feed could substantially reduce greenhouse emissions, according to research by West Wales' scientists featured by Euronews.
An organosulphur compound obtained from garlic kills off methane-producing bacterium in the digestive system of cows, according to Professor Jamie Newbold, who heads up a €5 million-research programme at Aberystwyth University.
So, that's pretty conclusive: after the data has been manipulated to remove the biggest effect on climate (clouds) which are supposedly the key to their positive feedbacks, after measuring for a massive three months using two entirely different instruments flying different orbits measuring over a tiny bit of the globe …. it's conclusive proof.
Whereas when Roy Spencer produces a paper using a single set of data from 2000 to 2011 covering the whole globe … what is the response from the alarmists it was "too short" a period.
He said he had an "involuntary gag reflex" whenever someone said the "science was settled".
"Anyone who thinks the science of this complex thing is settled is in Fantasia."
The study, led by NCSU doctoral student James Levis, found that biodegradable plastics can release large amounts of methane gas when they break down in landfills. Methane is one of the most problematic greenhouse gases, able to trap much more heat than carbon dioxide, making it a major contributor to global warming.
The study, led by NCSU doctoral student James Levis, found that biodegradable plastics can release large amounts of methane gas when they break down in landfills. Methane is one of the most problematic greenhouse gases, able to trap much more heat than carbon dioxide, making it a major contributor to global warming.
Combet says the principal concerns are those about cost of living and jobs, the very aspects that the release of the carbon pricing package earlier this month were designed to address. Other concerns, such as the environmental effectiveness of the policy, are subsidiary.
"Abbott is running a pretty successful fear campaign," Combet admits. "It is not based in fact or reality, but that's politics. That's what you've got to deal with."
OPPOSITION Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey said last night he would consider disbanding the Department of Climate Change if the Coalition were to win the next election.
Read here. Next time you see an American Lung Association (ALA) ad, don't believe a word of it. The ALA is at the pig's trough slurping down taxpayer monies from the EPA. To make their federal money masters happy, the ALA runs questionable, biased, non-objective advertising designed to convince the American public just how great the regulatory-nightmare, job-crushing EPA is.
In the vernacular of D.C. lobbyists, the ads appear to be payback for their sugar daddy.
Lawrence Buja, the director of the Climate Science and Application Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said climate models had moved quickly from "Climate 1.0" to "Climate 2.0."
In Climate 1.0, the main issue was to prove that human-caused climate change was happening. "For that we needed models developed over 40 years to understand and address this question," he said.
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