Regional cooperation: ‘Climate change bigger threat than wars’ – The Express Tribune

Referring to a research study, Prof Najam said South Asian countries in the coming days would be threatened more by natural disasters than wars.

Will Napa Valley Be Able To Produce Wine In 30 Years?

By 2040 Northern California might have 50% less land suitable for growing premium wine grapes due to climate change.

Environmentalists Caused Recent Global Warming Trends And Need To Do It Again | The Intersection | Discover Magazine

While many of us were howling about global warming over the last decade, Earth’s surface temperature actually failed to significantly increase. Yes, I said it. Global surface temperature showed little warming between 1998 and 2008. But, don’t go and broadcast the demise of the global warming movement quite yet. The reasons for the cooling trend are not encouraging. In fact, they are quite threatening. And, if environmentalists have their way (and I think they should), global warming will reemerge and may do so at an alarming rate.

News You Can't Use About Arctic Ice Climate Change - Climate Central

On the one hand, reporters like me try to explain to our readers that climate change is an overall trend, played out over many decades, and that a single year that's warmer than the year before, or cooler, doesn't mean a blessed thing.

And on the other hand, we sometimes make a huge deal when a given year is warmer or less icy than the year before — while deriding climate skeptics if they should trumpet a cooler than average year, or make a fuss about the fact that Arctic ice hasn't yet reached the lows of 2007.

It's all a bunch of noise, in both the statistical sense and the more conventional sense as well.