Development top priority of developing nations: China

Beijing: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday asked rich nations to face the fact that development will be the top priority of developing countries as he described the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change meeting as "hard-won".

[Ok, so now the science ISN'T already settled?]: NASA Space Missions to Study Effects of Global Warming | ChattahBox News Blog

(ChattahBox)—As the future direction of NASA is debated by lawmakers in Congress and the space agency’s aging fleet of shuttles are about to be retired, three new missions have been announced for 2010. The staff for the upcoming missions will be chosen for their scientific background, with studies planned on the earth’s climate, the relative health of the earth’s oceans and the sun’s effects on intergalactic weather.

With the ongoing debate on the cap-and-trade legislation to reduce man-made carbon emissions, which cause global warming, the new missions will offer scientists and lawmakers current data on the health of our planet. Michael Freilich, head of NASA’s Earth-science division, is aware of the need for climate change studies. “They are extraordinary timely,” said Freilich about the three missions. He expects the results of the studies would aid the science of global warming.

Decade of Illusion: Jorge Ramos

During this decade we have also been killing ourselves. In the last year we have sent thousand of tons of toxic gases into the atmosphere (23 percent more than in the previous decade), according to a U.N. panel of scientists. And that has caused holes in the Earth's ozone layer.

The poles are melting and the sea level is rising at such a rate that some countries like the Maldives Islands might soon disappear into the ocean. The climate is more unpredictable and violent each day. And it is our own fault. NASA recently reported that the last decade was the hottest in history.

Storm that never ended?

It is enough to get Thunder Bay joining with Minnesotans For Global Warming!

Other than sore muscles, and tired arms from shoveling, the storm has also impacted the Sports Dome in the city, heavy snow caused a tear in the room bringing the dome down. Fortunately there were no one inside the facility.

'Storms of My Grandchildren' by James Hansen -- latimes.com

James Hansen gives us the opportunity to watch a scientist who is sick of silence and compromise; a scientist at the breaking point -- the point at which he is willing to sacrifice his credibility to make a stand to avert disaster, to offer up the fruits of four-plus decades of inquiry and ingenuity just in case he might change the course of history.
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"This is not difficult!" he insists as he walks us through the relationship between temperature and CO2 levels, the importance of sea level stability for civilization, the tilt and orbit of the Earth and, of course, the human and natural forcings.
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"Of course," he notes, "by 2005 I was well aware that the NASA Office of Public Affairs had become an office of propaganda."