Archive for the 'Global Warming' Category

Facts Shatter Global Warming Denier Claims

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Global warming climate change is happening.x20 A major cause of it is the burning of fossil fuels. The effects of it will be severe and damaging. We are already seeing some effects in extreme weather events, melting glaciers and rising seas. Those are the facts. But ExxonMobil did not like [...]

How the ‘Grand Oil Party’ Got Its Name

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Amidst the pork in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was $6 billion in subsidies to oil and gas companies1. At the time Congress passed the act, the five biggest oil companies had just posted record profits of $52 billion for the first half of the year2. Republicans voted 87% for the act [...]

Greenpeace Explorers on First-Ever Summertime Trek to North Pole

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

Two Greenpeace explorers are now trekking across the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole – the first ever such trip during summertime1. The trip is harder and riskier in the summertime, when the seasonal melting of the ice sheet leaves large gaps of ocean water, shaky ice, dense fog and deep slush. The [...]

Fossil Fuel Global Warming More Certain than Ever

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Mainstream science holds that the burning of fossil fuels is causing the earth to warm rapidly. A scientist published that idea in 18981, and through accelerated study it became a consensus by 19962. Only a few scientists still hold that current global warming is due to a natural cause17, but their voices have [...]