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WMO Warns Lima Delegates 2014 May Be Hottest Year | Climate Central

WMO Warns Lima Delegates, 2014 … Hottest Year in History!:-( | Climate Central: Ouch, this is really really ugly, the data related to 2014 as the hottest year in modern history. Double to the angst is the melt-off of the Antarctic. Here’s a discussion about both. The period between April and September, according to NASA GISS was the hottest in 120 years. Most (?all?) of the months since April will set all time heat highs, as well….

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2014 could become the hottest year on record – CBS News

2014 could become the hottest year on record – CBS News: We should start to find out soon if another El Nino is coming our way. That is the weather formation in the Pacific that changes and directs the worlds weather in a BIG way. Apparently if El Nino forms, then this year will blast through all recorded records, and next year should be record setting as well. It offers up massive droughts in some…

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Highlights from the new IPCC report. 10 charts.

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/11/the-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-top-10-charts/?utm_content=bufferf5770&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer The new IPCC report on Climate Change. It is a little bit of a long read… The report spends some time on probabilities, including what “business as usual” looks. BAU gets ugly, and uglier, and ugliest. Starting early, not later, seems to make sense…!!!

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Clean Power Plan | TBO.com, The Tampa Tribune and The Tampa Times

Why I support the EPA’s Clean Power Plan | TBO.com, The Tampa Tribune and The Tampa Times: This July 28, 2014 article by Lynn Ringenberg (Professor Emeritus at USF) discusses the horrible health and wellness impacts of burning coal. “There is no such thing as clean coal.” The good news is that Natural Gas is so plentiful in the states and so very very cheap, that it is seriously supplanting coal in power plant production….

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Our planet is at a point of crisis – Leonard Pitts – Newsday

Our planet is at a point of crisis – Leonard Pitts – Newsday: Leonard Pitts is going to get some hate mail out of this article. But, sadly, its all true. The only are that could be clarified a bit is the 97% of scientist agree. I think the agreement is that there is global warming, it drops way off to 80% or so of those scientists who believe that humans are primarily the cause….