Spring agricultural fires can accelerate Arctic melting | Newspost Online

The emissions from fires far outweighed those from fossil fuels, the report states.

“These fires weren’t part of our standard predictions, they weren’t in our models,” said Daniel Jacob, a professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering at Harvard University. (ANI)

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Has Joe Romm Gone Missing?

So please, help us find the real Joe Romm. He was right on offsets and USCAP/Waxman-Markey before he was wrong about offsets and USCAP/Waxman-Markey.

UN head Ban Ki-moon continues to vigorously promote the greatest scientific fraud of all time

We meet at a critical moment in human history.

Our planet is warming to dangerous levels. In December, the U.N. Climate Change Conference will meet here in Copenhagen to find solutions to this grave global threat.
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Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. I also believe it is the most potent game-changer for business over the next century. It is an opportunity we must seize.
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If we get it wrong we face catastrophic damage to people, to the planet - and to the global marketplace.
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Our excessive reliance on a fossil fuel-based economy is destroying our planet's resources. It is impoverishing the poor. It is weakening the security of nations. And it is choking global economic potential.

The science is clear. Global emissions must peak in less than a decade to avert the worst consequences of climate change.