***** 1.27.13 Leading Economist Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse.' The Guardian

The Guardian

Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change – it's far, far worse'

The Guardian

- ‎15 hours ago‎

Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more "blunt" about the threat posed to the ...

World Economic Forum Feels Climate Change PressureEnvironment News Service

Stern admits to underestimating climate change in 2006 reviewBlue & Green Tomorrow

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Stern Review - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is a 700-page report released for the British government on 30 October 2006 by economist Nicholas ...

Summary of the Review's main ... - Background - Positive critical response

Cost of combating climate change surges [cost to our children of our delay Tsunamis] as world delays -study. Reuters

Seems hugely low... $240/ton at the LEAST unless conclusive evidence to the contrary, however, interesting -

Carbon price of $30 needed to avoid 2°C climate target Responding to Climate Change Riahi told RTCC their research indicates a $30 price signal would give a 60% chance of limiting warming below the agreed UN limit of 2°C warming above ...

Delaying Climate Action To Later Is More Costly: Study CleanTechnica ... warming below 2°C. This would also help to limit the worst effects of global warming, including: rising sea levels, floods, droughts, and severe heat.

Cost of combating climate change surges as world delays -study Reuters UK Quick measures to cut emissions would give a far better chance of keeping global warming within an agreed UN limit of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) above ...

China, Inc. Locked In on World Solar, Wind Manufacturing Domination. CleanTechnica

• China, Inc. Locked In on World Solar, Wind Manufacturing Domination
• China’s Largest Solar Power Farm Approved
• China Continues to Dominate Global Renewable Energy Market
• Chinese President Looks To Cut Energy Consumption

Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five Nanowerk

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Global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five

Nanowerk LLC

- ‎1 hour ago‎

On average, there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide than could be expected without long-term global warming, shows a study now published in Climatic Change ("Global increase in record-breaking monthly-mean

[Sorry, I can't pass up the irony]. Headline: Global warming beneficial to ratsnakes. EurekAlert

Global warming beneficial to ratsnakes

EurekAlert (press release)

- ‎1 hour ago‎

URBANA - Speculation about how animals will respond to climate change due to global warming led University of Illinois researcher Patrick Weatherhead and his students to conduct a study of ratsnakes at three different latitudes—Ontario, Illinois, and ...

Climate change, debt and inequality 'threaten financial stability.' The Guardian

The Guardian

Climate change, debt and inequality 'threaten financial stability'

The Guardian

- ‎2 hours ago‎

Persistent economic weakness is sapping the ability of governments to tackle the growing threat of climate change and risks a global "perfect storm" of intertwined financial and ecological collapse, the World Economic Forum has warned.

Fiscal, Pay Imbalances Biggest Risks to Economy, WEF SaysBloomberg

World Economic Forum Warns Of “Digital Widlfire” Global ThreatTechWeekEurope UK

In Depth:How hubris put our health at riskCNN International

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Australian heatwave puts south-east on alert as wildfires burn out of control. The Guardian

The Guardian

Australian heatwave puts south-east on alert as wildfires burn out of control

The Guardian

- ‎1 hour ago‎

Five of Australia's six states combat fires on Tuesday after the country's fiercest heatwave in more than 80 years Link to this video.

states withstand nature's worstThe Australian

Firefighters battle blazes on 'dangerous day' in AustraliaCNN International

Your preferred source:Wind making Australia wildfires worseBBC News

From Australia:Southern New South Wales ablazeABC Online

Opinion:We are often the worst fire threatThe Canberra Times

In Depth:Facing up to the firestormSydney Morning Herald

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Sea level rises will be much worse than we feared, say leading scientists ... Daily Mail

Daily Mail

Sea level rises will be much worse than we feared, say leading scientists ...

Daily Mail

- ‎1 hour ago‎

The forecasts, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, are higher than the projections published by the IPCC in 2007 when it was estimated that sea levels would rise by as little as 18cm and as much as 59cm.

Delaying Climate Action Is More Costly: Study

Delaying Climate Action Is More Costly: Study

Wonder why Mid-Easterners hate US? WE DID THIS TO THEM - Two-thirds of Iranians believe in Global Warming. AME Info

Two-thirds of Iranians believe in Global Warming

AME Info

- ‎9 hours ago‎

The majority of respondents (76%) think that Global Warming is caused by human activities, compared to the 42% of Americans polled by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press in October 2012.

What hath man wrought? 'New Normal: Storm's cost may hit $50B' WANE

Storm's cost may hit $50B

WANE - ‎51 minutes ago‎

WASHINGTON (AP) - Superstorm Sandy will end up causing about $20 billion in damages and $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business, according to IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm.

Storm Sandy costs soar towards $50 billion as 35 dieThe Times (subscription)

Superstorm may end up slowing US economy slightlyBismarck Tribune

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Yes, Hurricane Sandy is a good reason to worry about climate change Washington Post

Yes, Hurricane Sandy is a good reason to worry about climate change

Washington Post (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎

And yet trying to attribute specific hurricanes to changes in global temperature remains quite difficult. In its big report on natural disasters last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said it had “low confidence” that humans ...

Watching Sandy, Ignoring Climate ChangeNew Yorker (blog)

Sandy: Climate Change You Can Believe InForward (blog)

Climate Change Reducing Global GDP by $1.2 Trillion Businessweek

Climate Change Reducing Global GDP by $1.2 Trillion

Businessweek-18 hours ago

Climate change and pollution related to carbon-dioxide emissions are reducing the world's gross domestic product by 1.6 percent a year, about $1.2 trillion, ...

Sudan Inflation Accelerated to 42.1% in August on Food Cost Businessweek

Sudan Inflation Accelerated to 42.1% in August on Food Cost

Businessweek - ‎3 hours ago‎

Prices of food and drinks, the biggest component in the consumer price index, rose 3.9 percent in the month as the cost of meat, beans and vegetables increased as much as 11.8 percent, the Khartoum-based agency said today in an e-mailed statement.

Assateague: Climate change could threaten island's existence ... Carroll County Times

Assateague: Climate change could threaten island's existence ...

Carroll County Times - ‎8 hours ago‎

A look at Assateague Island National Seashore, located along Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is one of the places where climate change could be disruptive if the Atlantic Ocean continues to rise in the 21st century: $142 million: The amount of visitor ...

Report: Atlantic National Seashores Are Hard Hit By Climate Change; Flooding ...Melodika.net (press release)

Report: Rising Temperatures Threaten Atlantic SeashoresRevmodo

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Mayan collapse mystery solved? Deforestation exacerbated a drought Christian Science Monitor

Mayan collapse mystery solved? Deforestation exacerbated a drought

Christian Science Monitor - ‎Aug 24, 2012‎

"We're not saying deforestation explains the entire drought, but it does explain a substantial portion of the overall drying that is thought to have occurred," said the study's lead author Benjamin Cook, a climate modeler at Columbia University's ...

What The Mayan Collapse Could Have Meant For The 2012 Mayan ApocalypseInternational Business Times

Mayan Tree Chopping May Have Worsened Droughts, and Contributed to The ...Discover Magazine (blog)

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Republicans hand China World Economic Domination

Scientific American (blog)

US Battery Maker Says China May Lead the World in Electric Vehicles Written by Mark Fischetti Scientific American (blog) - ‎20 hours ago‎ But a recent deal between a Boston-based battery maker and a major Chinese auto company shows that a strong movement is underway that could soon make China the center of the electric vehicle world. Boston-Power has signed a multi-year agreement to ...

Climate change threatens New Mexico ski season Santa Fe New Mexican

Climate change threatens New Mexico ski season

Santa Fe New Mexican.com - ‎9 hours ago‎

“Climate change will have serious adverse effects on the tourist industry,” the Demos study states. “Warmer winter weather, reduced snowpack and earlier melting will shorten the ski season and force ski areas to spend more money on snow-making

Environmental cost of Keystone project too great South Bend Tribune

Environmental cost of Keystone project too great

South Bend Tribune - ‎6 hours ago‎

There already are numerous examples of bitumen pipelines rupturing. The Keystone XL pipeline is supposed to be built over the Ogallala Aquifer, which extends from Montana to New Mexico.

Elec Vehicles - $1/gal gas equiv: Expect gas prices to continue heating up MiamiHerald.com

Tom Hudson: Expect gas prices to continue heating up

MiamiHerald.com - ‎51 minutes ago‎

By Tom Hudson It has been a record-breaking summer but not at the gas pump. While July was the hottest month on record and most of the United States continues suffering near record drought conditions, drivers have been spared sky high gasoline prices ...

Refinery problems blamed for hike in national gas pricesNewsworks.org

US Gas Prices Spike; Refinery Problems CitedABC News

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