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Europe has the world’s most-ambitious cap and trade system for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. For six years now, thousands of factories and power plants have had to reduce their emissions — or pay for their excess carbon pollution. Starting January 1, airlines and air cargo companies must join the program, including foreign carriers that land at European airports. But countries – including the US – who have airlines flying into Europe are resisting the program. The issue is shaping up to become an international showdown over what it means to get serious about global warming. From France, FSRN’s Liam Moriarty reports. More at fsrn.org

PLEASE READ!!! PLEASE READ ALL (CLICK MORE INFO)Hi, this video was put together and narrated by me. I hope it gives you a better insight and more knowlege about global warming. Please only post constructive criticizm (if you are going to criticize)… ALSO!! Go to www.blip.tv for part 2 of this video. BTW: This documentary took over 100 hours to put together, edit videos, record videos, make narration documents, list bibliography, etc, etc, etc This is Draft 5 you are watching Please enjoy And just a side note this was a project for school (I got a 99% and was chosen as the best documentary in the school!) Thanks For Watching =) Remember Part 2 is at www.blip.tv NOT REVVER anymore (Revver is constantly down, and the video quality has degraded, blip TV has FULL HD and is much better) Thanks

For more news visit ☛ english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http Add us on Facebook ☛ facebook.com South Korea is showing off what it says is the world’s first totally eco-friendly business building. It’s a structure that emits zero carbon and uses only renewable energy. The project is designed to underline the government’s drive to reduce greenhouse gases. South Korean officials are showcasing the world’s first zero carbon business building, located in Incheon, near the capital, Seoul. The twenty-five hundred square-meter building, housing the National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER), is part of the government’s drive to reduce carbon emissions. A project of the Environment Ministry, the building has been in operation since April. It cost around million US dollars and uses 66 different technologies, including solar and geothermal energy. A NIER researcher says the building uses passive and active systems to cut energy consumption by 40 percent. [Lee Jae-Bum, NIER Environmental Researcher]: “First of all, passive technologies are to minimize heat loss such as super insulation and super windows and doors.” Photovoltaic panels on the roof produce the building’s electricity. Solar and geothermal pumps work in concert to provide heat. Highly efficient insulation on the walls, and triple-glazed windows keep the building warm in winter and cool in the the summer. Light Emitting Diode (LED) bulbs provide light. Window blinds are programmed to automatically …

My sis is 9 yrs old and she has a speech about it. I’m helping her write it but I’m so lost. Here is what I have so far but I think it sounds boring and dumb! Can you help me rewrite it so its more interesting for 5th graders? I know this is asking for a lot but any ideas / suggestions / help would be so appreciated!! Thank you so much =)

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Global Warming Speech

The Earth has warmed by about 1F over the past 100 years. But why? And how? Well, scientists are not exactly sure. The Earth could be getting warmer on its own, but many of the world’s leading climate scientists think that things people do are helping to make the earth warmer.

Global warming is caused by greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases such as CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapour and ozone trap heat around the earth. Without them, heat would be lost into space and we’d all freeze. The trapping of heat around the earth is called the greenhouse effect because glass in a greenhouse traps heat in a similar way, keeping the inside of the greenhouse warm. The main greenhouse gas responsible or global warming is carbon dioxide. When we burn fossil fuels such as oil when we drive cars or in power plants and factories this relesaes huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Greenhouse gases are like a blanket – if they are the right thickness. The Earht won’t be too hot or too cold. Many experts think the way we burn fuel and add chemicals to the atmosphere is causing the blanket to become thicker. This makes the earth hotter, an effect known as global warming.

Scientists expect the average earth temp to increase by 6F over the next 100 years. This might not sound like much but it could change the Earth’s climate as never before. At the peak of the past ice age the temp was only 7F colder than today and glaciers covered much of the world!

So what might happen?
It is important to understand that scientists don’t know for sure what climate change will bring. Some changes brought about by climate change will be good. If you live in a very cool climate, warmer temperatures might be welcome. Days and nights could be more comfortable and people in the area may be able to grow different and better crops than they could before. But it is also true that changes in some places will not be very good at all.

Global warming can make sea levels higher. Warmer weather makes the glaciers melt. Sea levels are expected to rise as much as 3ft in the next century. This could cause coastal flooding. Global warming also increases extreme weather such as tsunamis, floods, hurricanes and heat waves and droughts. Some animals and plants may go extinct because they can’t cope with the increasing temperatures.
Global warming will drastically change the world as we know it.

But dont worry, its not all doom and gloom! You can make a difference.Climate change may be a big problem, but there are many little things we can do to make a difference. If we try, most of us can do our part to reduce the amount of green house gases that we put into the atmosphere.

Driving a car or using electricity is not wrong. We just have to be smart about it.Some people use less energy by carpooling. For example, four people can ride together in one car instead of driving four cars to work.

Whenever we use electricity, we help put greenhouse gases into the air. By turning off lights, the television, and the computer when you are through with them, you can help a lot.

Planting trees is fun and a great way to reduce greenhouse gases. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the air.

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Thats all I have so far…I still have to write a conclusion but I don’t know what to say..

My sis is 9 yrs old and she has a speech about it. I’m helping her write it but I’m so lost. Here is what I have so far but I think it sounds boring and dumb! Can you help me rewrite it so its more interesting for 5th graders? I know this is asking for a lot but any ideas / suggestions / help would be so appreciated!! Thank you so much =)

>>>
Global Warming Speech

The Earth has warmed by about 1F over the past 100 years. But why? And how? Well, scientists are not exactly sure. The Earth could be getting warmer on its own, but many of the world’s leading climate scientists think that things people do are helping to make the earth warmer.

Global warming is caused by greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases such as CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapour and ozone trap heat around the earth. Without them, heat would be lost into space and we’d all freeze. The trapping of heat around the earth is called the greenhouse effect because glass in a greenhouse traps heat in a similar way, keeping the inside of the greenhouse warm. The main greenhouse gas responsible or global warming is carbon dioxide. When we burn fossil fuels such as oil when we drive cars or in power plants and factories this relesaes huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Greenhouse gases are like a blanket – if they are the right thickness. The Earht won’t be too hot or too cold. Many experts think the way we burn fuel and add chemicals to the atmosphere is causing the blanket to become thicker. This makes the earth hotter, an effect known as global warming.

Scientists expect the average earth temp to increase by 6F over the next 100 years. This might not sound like much but it could change the Earth’s climate as never before. At the peak of the past ice age the temp was only 7F colder than today and glaciers covered much of the world!

So what might happen?
It is important to understand that scientists don’t know for sure what climate change will bring. Some changes brought about by climate change will be good. If you live in a very cool climate, warmer temperatures might be welcome. Days and nights could be more comfortable and people in the area may be able to grow different and better crops than they could before. But it is also true that changes in some places will not be very good at all.

Global warming can make sea levels higher. Warmer weather makes the glaciers melt. Sea levels are expected to rise as much as 3ft in the next century. This could cause coastal flooding. Global warming also increases extreme weather such as tsunamis, floods, hurricanes and heat waves and droughts. Some animals and plants may go extinct because they can’t cope with the increasing temperatures.
Global warming will drastically change the world as we know it.

But dont worry, its not all doom and gloom! You can make a difference.Climate change may be a big problem, but there are many little things we can do to make a difference. If we try, most of us can do our part to reduce the amount of green house gases that we put into the atmosphere.

Driving a car or using electricity is not wrong. We just have to be smart about it.Some people use less energy by carpooling. For example, four people can ride together in one car instead of driving four cars to work.

Whenever we use electricity, we help put greenhouse gases into the air. By turning off lights, the television, and the computer when you are through with them, you can help a lot.

Planting trees is fun and a great way to reduce greenhouse gases. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the air.

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Thats all I have so far…I still have to write a conclusion but I don’t know what to say..

Should these IPCC scammers be spending time in prison?

True nature of climate change ‘highly uncertain’
Published Date: 13 September 2008
By TOM HARRIS & JOHN MCLEAN
John Woods, Director of Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland, asserts in his September 11 opinion piece: "The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which draws together the work of over 2,500 scientists, has concluded that most of the increase in global temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the increase in greenhouse gases from human activity."
This is a highly misleading statement.

Here’s the real situation.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) puts out "assessment reports" every five years or so, its latest being the much cited 2007 Fourth Assessment Report. Each assessment report covers the work of three working groups.

The approximately 1,000-page Working Group I (WG I) report, entitled The Physical Science Basis, contains the assertion made by Mr Woods above; its exact wording is found in Chapter 9, Understanding and Attributing Climate Change, and is the following: "Greenhouse gas forcing has very likely caused most of the observed global warming over the last 50 years."

So how many of the 2,500 scientists who reviewed parts of the complete IPCC report actually reviewed this statement?

Very few indeed.

We know this because, for the first time ever in 2007, the UN released on the Web scientist reviewers’ comments concerning the drafts of the WG I report and the IPCC editors’ responses.

An examination of reviewers’ comments on the last draft of the WG I report before final report assembly (i.e. the Second Order Revision) completely debunks the illusion of hundreds of experts diligently poring over all the chapters of the report and providing extensive feedback to the editing teams. What we find is that a grand total of 62 reviewers commented on the critical Chapter 9; in other words, 2.5 per cent of the total 2,500 participants.

Of the comments received from the 62 reviewers of this critical chapter, almost 60 per cent of them were rejected by IPCC editors.

And of the 62 expert reviewers of this chapter, 55 had serious vested interests (being employees of governments that already had decided on the outcome, for example), leaving only seven expert reviewers who appear impartial.

Two of these seven had interesting comments about the IPCC Chapter 9 statement that Mr Woods implies 2,500 IPCC reviewers support:

Dr Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph, Canada said, "A categorical summary statement like this is not supported by the evidence in the IPCC WG I report.

Evidence shown in the report suggests that other factors play a major role in climate change, and the specific effects expected from greenhouse gases have not been observed.”

Dr Vincent Gray of New Zealand, an IPCC Official Expert Reviewer since the organization started, called the IPCC Chapter 9 assertion “typical IPCC doubletalk” and concluded: “The text of the IPCC report shows that this is decided by a guess from persons with a conflict of interest, not from a tested model.”

A determination of the level of support among the 62 reviewers of Chapter 9 is subjective but a generous evaluation indicates that just five reviewers endorsed the chapter as a whole.

Of these, four had vested interests and the other made only a single comment for the entire 11-chapter report.

Mr Woods’ implication that 2,500 independent scientist reviewers agreed with this, the most important statement of the recent UN climate reports, is clearly nonsense.

Leading Canadian climatologist Dr Timothy Ball sums up the situation well: “The IPCC owe it to the world to explain who among their expert reviewers actually agree with their conclusions and who don’t.

“Otherwise, their credibility, and the public’s trust of science in general, will be even further eroded.”

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/3425/OPINION-True-nature-of-climate.4488683.jp?articlepage=1

Facts:

Man-made pollution cannot take the blame for Global Warming just due to the fact that the warmest period in history, called the Holocene Maximum occurred between 7,500 and 4,000 years ago.

Anthropogenic or man-made CO2 accounts for 0.117%, while other greenhouse gases that are man-made represent 0.163%. This makes the total effect of the industrialization of man on greenhouse gases about 0.28%, or a little more than one quarter of one percent.

We are in a ‘Minor Interglacial Period’ that will be ending once global warming ends. The last warming trend was 125,000 years ago, (the Eemian Interglacial Period,) which was much shorter that this one.

Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, leading climate and atmospheric expert from MIT said, "In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming."
Indeed, there is a strange reluctance to actually find out how climate really behaves. In 2003, when the draft of the U.S. National Climate Plan urged a high priority for improving our knowledge of climate sensitivity, the National Research Council instead urged support to look at the impacts of the warming–not whether it would actually happen.

Bert Bolin showed his horns many times, most notably…

Aksel Winn-Nielsen, former director of the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization, was tarred by Bert Bolin, first head of the IPCC, as a tool of the coal industry for questioning climate alarmism.

A letter to Bert… Bert was (r.i.p.) a well known alarmist, reporting only what information was worthy of his cause… From my research, these letters were very common, asking for agencies to report facts, not just little pieces…

http://www.sepp.org/Archive/controv/ipcccont/bolin.htm

Further Reading…

http://www.john-daly.com/TAR2000/lindzen.htm

Very interesting Testimony of Richard S. Lindzen before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, May 1st, 2001

Also some of the Gore "Star Chamber" Attacks on Scientists that dissagreed with him…

http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/06/gores_grave_new_world.html