Climate scientist Michael Mann, best known for creating the controversial “hockey stick” graph to show the effects of anthropogenic global warming over the last 200 years, speaks to CNN about the University of East Anglia “climategate” emails. Source: Washington Times/CNN
Climate change skeptics claim recently-revealed emails between scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in the UK show that researchers fudged data on global warming and sought to discredit skeptics by attempting to ban their papers from scientific journals. Patrick Michaels of the DC-based Cato Institute think tank, who was mentioned in the hacked emails, tells Clean Skies News he was targeted because of his opposition to climate change theory. Source: Clean Skies News
Clean Skies News’ editor Margaret Ryan analyzes the announcements by the governments of South Korea and Brazil of significant reductions in CO2 emissions by 2020. Source: Clean Skies News
A report by the World Wide Fund for Nature suggests the future of China’s Yangtze river basin is endangered by increasingly extreme weather patterns. Source: Reuters
UN-appointed experts say there is growing evidence that the freak weather conditions believed to result from climate change have a disproportionately adverse effect on women. Source: Clean Skies News
Clean Skies News goes behind the scenes at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, where new technology batteries for plug-in hybrid vehicles are being developed with Department of Energy research funding. Source: Clean Skies News
In the knowledge that coal power plants will come under legal and financial pressure to reduce CO2 emissions as part of efforts to reduce climate change, French firm Alstom on Friday unveiled the world’s largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant – a process known as sequestration. It’s a technology that backers hope will fuel a new multi-billion dollar industry and keep the coal industry alive. Source: AFP
On Saturday October 24th, people were out on the streets for the International Day of Climate Action. At events all over the country, from St. Louis’ iconic arch to a coal plant in Chicago, thousands of activists joined in warning of rising sea levels, demonstrated how coal is bad for communities as well as climate, and marched for climate leadership at iconic structures and government buildings. Source: Greenpeace
Former Senator John Warner of Virginia discusses what he sees at the Kerry-Boxer bill’s “biggest sell” among lawmakers – the potential effects of climate change on national security. A co-sponsor of two previous climate bills, Senator Warner appeared as a witness on the second day of Kerry-Boxer hearings. Source: Clean Skies News
NASA climate scientist Tom Wagner provides a look at the state of Arctic sea ice in 2009 and discusses NASA’s role in monitoring the cryosphere in the face of global climate change. Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center