Climate Scientist Suing Climate Change Deniers for Defamation - The suit moves forward.

Finally, Some Koch Brothers and Big Oil Climate Deniers who make up their facts and lies can and will have to face court for trying to destroy the livelihood of Climate Scientists.  This is very big news.

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2014/01/defamation-suit-filed-by-climate.html

Global Warming and the Jet Stream explained - Good Explanation of changes

If you look around, you will see colder colds and higher high temperatures which are caused by a major change in Jet Stream Flows which have come about because of Global Warming or Climate Change.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/16/1867371/video-explains-how-loss-of-arctic-ice-weakens-jet-stream-amplifies-extreme-weather/

Jon Stewart - Climate Change, who to believe in this time of a frozen east coast?

Jon Stewart’s wish to start 2014 without “left vs. right ideological bullsh*t” was quickly dashed on The Daily Show Monday night, as he confronted conservatives’ continued spewing of hot air regarding global warming.
“There you have it: ‘War on Christmas’ is over; ‘war on carbon’ begins,” Stewart said. “Global warming: Just one more liberal conspiracy. Because even though there is a great deal of scientific data establishing climate change trends. Even though many of the models of global warming predict more extremes of weather — not just warming — apparently decades of peer-reviewed scientific study can be, like a ficus plant, destroyed in one cold weekend.”
Stewart got particularly incensed at Fox News host Stuart Varney’s argument that a Russian research ship’s getting trapped in ice in Antartica proved the world was getting colder, which he punctuated with a blithe, “That’s just my opinion.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/07/jon-stewart-tees-off-as-fox-news-war-moves-from-christmas-to-climate-change/

EXTREME ICE - A video about Glaciers crumbling, Well worth the time to watch

I have spent 5 years hanging around a glacier and ice.  This is a very important video which has a Big Impact on the health of our world.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/extreme-ice.html

Polar Bear Migration: How Climate Change has Altered it

But today the Hudson Bay population—and the rest of the world's 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears—is being affected by changes. Since 1979, sea ice cover has declined by about 30 percent in the Arctic. As greenhouse gases continue to warm the Earth, Amstrup says, polar bears are being forced ashore for longer periods of time.

The bears of Hudson Bay, for instance, now spend an average of nearly 30 days longer on land than they did 30 years ago. Stirling and his colleague Andrew Derocher found that bears lose nearly two pounds of body weight each day they're on land—meaning the bears here are, in effect, 60 pounds lighter on average than they were three decades ago.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131122-polar-bear-migration-in-hudson-bay-science/

4 Environmentally Favorable Policies Implemented this past year.

A little progress is being made.

http://billmoyers.com/2013/11/28/four-climate-policies-were-thankful-for/

Methane Emissions far greater than believed from Natural Gas production

A major new study blows up the whole notion of natural gas as a short-term bridge fuel to a carbon-free economy.
Natural gas is mostly methane (CH4), a potent heat-trapping gas. If, as now seems likely, natural gas production systems leak 2.7% (or more), then gas-fired power loses its near-term advantage over coal and becomes more of a gangplank than a bridge.


http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/25/2988801/study-methane-emissions-natural-gas-production/

Illinois Man films a tornado taking apart his house

Man has created Climate Change and has altered the weather patterns with the adding of Carbon into the atmosphere.  We can expect more extreme storms in the future because we are doing little to limit Carbon into the air.  Big Oil and the Koch Brothers are paying multi million dollars to continue polluting with no concern for the environment.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/22/1257563/-Illinois-man-films-tornado-hitting-his-home?detail=email

90 Companies make 2/3 of the Carbon Pollution that warms our atmosphere

According to a new report by the Climate Accountability Institute in Colorado, just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions.
To be published in the journal Climatic Change, the report says the vast majority of the emitting firms were in the energy business, including Chevron, Exxon, BP, and state-owned and government-run firms.
According to the research, 90 companies on the list of top emitters produced 63 percent of the cumulative global emissions of industrial carbon dioxide and methane between 1751 to 2010, amounting to about 914 gigatons of CO2 emissions. Aside from seven cement manufacturers, the rest of the emitters were energy companies producing oil, gas, and coal.


http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/21/2977001/companies-responsible-thirds-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

IF All the Ice Melted!! It looks like the North and South Pole Ice will be gone by 2100. 200 Ft water rise

Result of all ice melting:  Water level will rise 200 feet.  Who needs Florida and current Southern California?  National Geographic looked into the possibility.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/10/2908741/national-geographic-melt-earth-ice/

SUPER TYPHOON: The new Normal in weather craziness

As the earth warms, the storms and winds get worse.  Is this the new normal?  200 MPH winds?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/09/1254129/-This-week-in-science-Super-Typhoon?detail=facebook

GreenHouse Gasses: Record Amount in the Atmosphere. Time is against us

'Heat-trapping gases from human activities have upset the natural balance of our atmosphere and are a major contribution to climate change.'

[O]n the global scale, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 393.1 parts per million in 2012, or 141% of the pre-industrial level of 278 parts per million. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere increased 2.2 parts per million from 2011 to 2012, which is above the average 2.02 parts per million per year for the past 10 years, showing an accelerating trend.
"Our climate is changing, our weather is more extreme, ice sheets and glaciers are melting and sea levels are rising,” adds Mr. Jarraud. “Limiting climate change will require large and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. We need to act now, otherwise we will jeopardize the future of our children, grandchildren and many future generations.”

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/06-2

Climate Change: Warming Report Sees Major Problems

Starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease already lead to human tragedies. They're likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will issue a report next March on how global warming is already affecting the way people live and what will happen in the future, including a worldwide drop in income.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/11/02/3154947/warming-report-sees-violent-sicker.html#emlnl=Afternoon_Newsletter#storylink=cpy

http://www.adn.com/2013/11/02/3154947/warming-report-sees-violent-sicker.html#emlnl=Afternoon_Newsletter

Melting Ice: The Global Impact

A freighter is now hauling coal through the Northwest Passage to be the first ship to make the passage. Ironic that it is coal actually.  This short video does a good job of explaining the significance of ice to our planet and how the melting of ice truly does impact Climate Change in a significant way.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/first-cargo-ship-use-northwest-passag

CLIMATE CHANGE WAS OCCURING AND It Was Caused by Human Actions.

The world's leading climate scientists said in a United Nations report that there was no longer room for doubt that climate change was occuring, and the dominant cause has been human actions in pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The IPCC declared today in the “Summary for Policymakers” of its Fifth Assessment Report on climate science, from hundreds of the world’s top scientists, there is a 95 to 100 percent chance global warming is caused by humans. “Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes,” the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change wrote in the report that also called on governments to “step up” their responses.


http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/09/27/17-ways-the-gop-debt-ceiling-bill-will-destroy-america/

Ocean Acidiification is happening and it is a BIG problem for sealife.

Acidification wasn’t supposed to start doing its damage until much later this century.

Instead, changing sea chemistry already has killed billions of oysters along the Washington coast and at a hatchery that draws water from Hood Canal. It’s helping destroy mussels on some Northwest shores. It is a suspect in the softening of clam shells and in the death of baby scallops. It is dissolving a tiny plankton species eaten by many ocean creatures, from auklets and puffins to fish and whales — and that had not been expected for another 25 years.

And this is just the beginning.

http://zandarvts.blogspot.ca/2013/09/inexorable-as-tides.html