Halting global warming could cost #150 a year for every human: Experts

London, Dec 10 (ANI): Putting a cap on global warming can cost up to 150-pound-a-year for every individual, according to experts.

The sum would allow a five percent reduction in emissions by 2020.
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Met Office’s Dr David Lowe pointed out that the carbon content in air is currently rising at the rate of three per cent a year.

[Is CO2 piling up directly over this particular area?]: Sundarbans water warming eight times faster than global average

New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) In the Sundarbans, surface water temperature has been rising at the rate of 0.5 degree Celsius per decade over the past three decades, eight times the rate of global warming, says a new study. That makes the Sundarbans one of the worst climate change hotspots on the globe.

Heavy Snowfall, Wind Pounding Midwest, New England - ABC News

A gigantic storm dumped more than a foot of snow across much of the Midwest and New England as it marched eastward Wednesday, creating blizzard conditions, burying cars under huge drifts and providing ammunition for a massive campus snowball fight in Wisconsin.

Even more snow fell in some areas, with 16 inches reported in Des Moines and nearly 19 inches just south of Madison, Wis. Gusts of up to 50 mph created snow drifts between 8 and 15 feet tall and even knocked down a two-story Christmas tree in downtown Champaign, Ill.

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“‘They’ve got us outnumbered,’ said Ian Plimer, an Australian geologist, who has interests in several mining operations. ‘But we’ve got them outgunned.’”

Holy Schmidt « the Air Vent

Well I’m becoming a bit of a fan of John Christy. He’s always answered my questions, they always make sense and he pretty well wiped the floor with Schmidt. In addition when I independently checked his results on the difference between RSS and UAH satellite datasets in 1992 (there is a step at this point), he seemed to be correct. On the other hand, Schmidt has censored way over 80 percent of my reasonable questions, and I did ask on topic, polite, non-leading and real questions which deserved answers. He’s very cocky with readers and has made many a point which is difficult to balance with fact. I’ve had similar experiences with Grant Foster’s blog (tamino-another political extremist). It’s clear that they get that I understand the issues and see me as a threat to the consensus – which is cool, but the spin fit’s a political agenda more than a scientific one.