El Niño, climate change and the East Coast storms | CEJournal

For the record, Kevin Trenberth believes the “fairly strong” El Niño we are experiencing has played a significant role in the spate of storms that have slammed the East Coast in recent weeks. But he also thinks climate change is playing a role as well.

EU Referendum: A profoundly non-feasible option

Generations to come are going to look upon this madness with the same puzzlement that we currently reserve for the medieval enthusiasm for burning witches, asking how it is supposedly rational people could be so easily led astray. Even in the here and now, that is not an easy question to answer.

Evil Denialist Blog Polls « the Air Vent

I’m curious what the readers here think about the effect of CO2 on global warming.

Solar complaints are hotting up

There has been an eightfold rise in complaints about home solar energy systems in the past six months amid claims of dodgy installations, higher bills and unpaid rebates on electricity that has been fed back into the grid.

Study: Whaling speeds up to climate change - UPI.com

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Whaling contributes to global climate change, U.S. scientists have found.
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Whales, which Pershing says are the "forests of the ocean," store carbon in their bodes and the gas can be released when they are killed.

"Whales, like any animal or plant on the planet, are made out of a lot of carbon," Pershing was quoted as saying at the conference by BBC News. "And when you kill and remove a whale from the ocean, that's removing carbon from this storage system and possibly sending it into the atmosphere."

A large blue whale stores around 9 tons of carbon -- only large trees store more of the greenhouse gas scientists say is responsible for global warming.

When a whale dies of natural causes, its body sinks to the seabed, transporting the carbon stored in it to the deep sea, away from the atmosphere for hundreds of years. Harpooning one, however, can release the carbon directly into the atmosphere, thus intensifying climate change.