Information on Global Warming & Awareness Programme
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A Day in the Life of the Earth by Dr.Jeff Goldstein
Dr.Jeff’s Blog:
http://blogontheuniverse.org/2009/06/13/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-earth
2. Climate Change on
a Living Earth by James Lovelock
http://www.jameslovelock.org/page24.html
3. A Plea to President Obama: End Mountaintop Coal Mining
by Dr. James Hansen
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-james-hansen/a-plea-to-president-obama_b_219300.html?view=print
Climate News
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.climateprogress.org
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We Can't Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change
by John Kerry
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry/we-cant-ignore-the-securi_b_272815.html?view=print
2. We're Pumping Out CO2 to the Point of No Return.
It's Time to Alter
Course
by George Monbiot
http://www.commondreams.org/print/46479
3. Arctic reverses trend, is warmest in two millennia
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
4. Himalayans needs climate change science to get its
fingers dirty
Dipak Gyawali
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/03/climate-change-himalayas/print
5. Times of India: Global Warming
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/environment/global-warming/articlelist/2647216.cms
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Walking on Lava: Apocalypse and Uncivilization
by John Gray
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/13-8
- http://beta.thehindu.com/news/states/article6251.ece
- http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/climate-change-indian-monsoon-some-key-issues
- http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/taxonomy/term/3693&rtype=newsclipping
- http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/20-8
- http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/23-4
- http://climateprogress.org/2009/08/22/new-york-times-editorial-global-warming-national-security/#more-10302
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/shower-congress-with-copi_b_266080.html
- http://www.rethinkingschools.org/climate/
Others
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Global Warming Basics, Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.asp
Joseph Romm, "An introduction to global warming impacts: Hell and High Water", Climate Progress, March 22, 2009.
http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/22/an-introduction-to-global-warming-impacts-hell-and-high-water/
Global Warming Science, The Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/
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Lester R. Brown, Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2009, pgs 56, 74
[Download parts of, or the entirety of, this new, highly recommended, comprehensive, well referenced book for free here: http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/books/pb3/pb3_table_of_contents ]
Review by Joseph Romm:
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Joseph Romm, "James Hansen: Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet", ClimateProgress.org, February 16, 2009.
James Hansen, "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them", The Guardian/UK, February 15, 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/15/james-hansen-power-plants-coal/print
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Johann Hari, Our Heat is Turning the Arctic into an Alien Landscape, The Independent/UK, September 13, 2009. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/13-3
Charles J. Hanley, "Climate trouble may be bubbling up in far north", Associated Press, August 31, 2009. http://www.adn.com/news/environment/climate/v-printer/story/916689.html
Joseph Romm, Series of articles on Arctic permafrost, ClimateProgress.org, May 2008.
http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/22/tundra-part-1-the-permafrost-wont-be-perma-for-long/
http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/23/tundra-part-2-the-point-of-no-return/
http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/29/tundra-3-forests-and-fires-further-foster-feedbacks/
James Hansen, "Tipping PointL Perspective of a Climatologist", State of the Wild, 2008-9.
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/StateOfWild_20080428.pdf
Bill Chameides, "Does Climate Change Go Slow Before Going Fast?", The Huffingtion Post, September 9, 2009.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides/does-climate-change-go-sl_b_130283.html?view=print
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M. Sreelata, "Indian monsoon 'intensified by climate change'", SciDev Net, December 2006.
http://www.scidev.net/en/news/indian-monsoon-intensified-by-climate-change.html
Mani, Suhas, Goswami, "Can global warming make Indian monsoon weather less predictable?", Geophysical Research Letters, March 2009. http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009GL037989.shtml
R. M. Khaladkar, P. N. Mahajan, and J. R. Kulkarni, "Alarming Rise in the Number and Intensity of Extreme Point Rainfall Events over the Indian Region under Climate Change Scenario", Indian Institute of Tropical Meterology, August 2009. http://www.tropmet.res.in/~lip/Publication/RR-pdf/RR-123.pdf
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BJP expresses concern over drought, climate change, Hindustan Times, August 30, 2009
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/448573.aspx
Climate of India-Wikipedia, Global Warming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_India#Global_warming
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"Lost Horizons: Melting glaciers in Kasmir causing regional chaos ove water shortages", Climate Progress, July 13, 2009.
http://climateprogress.org/2009/07/13/melting-glaciers-kashmir-regional-chaos-water-shortages/print/
John Vidal, "Cities in peril as Andean glaciers melt", The Guardian/UK, August 29, 2006.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/aug/29/glaciers.climatechange/print
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Joseph Romm, "High Water: Greenland ice sheet melting faster than expected and could rise East Coast sea levels an extra 20 inches by 2100- to more than 6 feet", Climate Progress, June 14, 2009. http://climateprogress.org/2009/06/14/sea-level-rise-greenland-ice-sheet-melting/
David Shukman, "Antarctic glacier 'thinning fast'", BBC News, August 13, 2009.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8200680.stm?ad=1
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Joseph Romm, "Stunning new sea level rise research, Part 1: 'Most likely' 0.8 to 2.0 meters by 2100", Climate Progress, September 5, 2008.
David Shukman, "Sea rise 'to exceed projections'", BBC News, March 10, 2009.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7935159.stm?ad=1
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Joseph Romm, "An introductin to global warming impacts: Hell or High Water", Climate Progress, March 22, 2009.
http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/22/an-introduction-to-global-warming-impacts-hell-and-high-water/
Samuel S. Myers, MD, Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health, Worldwatch Report, http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6310
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Joseph Romm, "The Technology That Will Save Humanity: The solar energy you haven't heard of is the one best suited to generate clean electricity for generations to come", Salon.com, April 14, 2009. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/04/14/solar_electric_thermal/print.html
Jonathan G. Dorn, "Solar Thermal Power Coming to a Boil", Earth Policy Institute, Plan B Updates, July 22, 2009. http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2008/update73
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Jonathan G. Dorn, "The End of an Era: Closing the Door on Building New Coal-fired Plants in America", Earth Policy Institute, March 31, 2009. http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/plan_b_updates/2008/update81
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Ronald Brownstein, "The California Experiment", The Atlantic, October 2009
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200910/california-energy
Joseph Romm, "Energy efficiency is THE core climate solution, Part 1: The biggest low-carbon resource by far", Climate Progress, July 23, 2009.
http://climateprogress.org/2008/10/22/an-introduction-to-the-core-climate-solutions/
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"Rooftop hot water harvesting", India Environmental Portal, December 2007
http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/rooftop-hot-water-harvesting
"Getting into hot water: Solar water heating pays for itself five times over", Physorg.com, March 9, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news155814806.html
"Status of Solar Thermal Tehcnologies and Markets in India and Europe", Tata Energy Research Institute. http://www.teriin.org/opet/reports/solarthermal.pdf