global warming

Shipping is significant source of greenhouse gas emissions

Many people mostly connect greenhouse gases with power plants and cars, but these two greenhouse gas sources, though most significant ones are not the only ones that cause global warming and climate change. One of the greenhouse gas sources that is often neglected is shipping. Shipping currently accounts for for 2.7% of global CO2 emissions, [...]

World expects bigger emission cuts from United States

New climate deal looks to be only couple of months away but still there are so many different questions in the air that need to be answered before the final agreement. The most important question of them all is how much should industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions, most importantly world’s biggest polluters United [...]

Drastic cuts in greenhouse gases very unlikely

The successor of infamous Kyoto protocol should be only couple of months away but the world still can’t agree on what are required cuts in greenhouse gases to fight against climate change. The more closer we are to this new climate deal the more likely it looks like that we won’t see drastic cuts in [...]

who is responsible for global warming and climate change?

The global has been divided into primarily two block- one consists of developed countries and another consists of developing or the under developed countries. It is a recognized truth that the so called developed nations who have been economically progressing for last more than 150 years of high emissions of the greenhouse gases and the [...]

Global warming facts – General facts

Global warming is the most obvious sign of climate change. Global warming is increase in the average Earth’s temperature that dates from the mid-twentieth century. Global warming is most likely man-made as a result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions, most notably carbon dioxide (CO2). Global warming is affecting all parts of the world, especially poles [...]

political opposition still too strong for major CO2 cuts

Will U.S. be able to cut greenhouse emissions as much as the world expects it should? Judging by the current situation very unlikely. Even US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said how political opposition is still too strong for major greenhouse gas cuts, and Obama should really expect fierce battle before reaching his climate policy goals. [...]

Still not doing enough

You can find whole variety of different global warming articles on the web but this is still not enough to hurry politicians into immediate action against global warming and climate change. Scientists, together with us environmentalists, are constantly warning politicians that time is running up but that doesn’t seem to bother them, especially now in [...]

Glaciers shrinking fast

As the global warming impact strengthens glaciers are melting at very fast pace. Latest data shows that glaciers from the Andes to Alaska and across the Alps shrank as much as 3 meters (10 feet), the 18th year of retreat and twice as fast as a decade ago. The only thing that can stop this [...]

Global warming evidence

There are still some people that believe how global warming is nothing than a scary Armageddon story created by scientists. These people do not even believe that scientists have enough evidence for such conclusions, to them these are only speculations and guesses that do not have enough to hold the water. First of all real [...]

China wants bigger CO2 cuts

China really looks to be experiencing a really positive trend regarding climate change issue. China is currently the world’s biggest polluter but is still urging rich nations to make bigger CO2 cuts. China does not only want rich countries to cut their emissions by 25-40 percent by 2020, what China also wants is bigger funding [...]

Global warming facts – True facts or just a scary story?

Many people are still finding it hard to believe that there is global warming phenomenon happening and increasing with each new day. There are even large number of people believing that if there really exists phenomenon like climate change and global warming that this is not happening because of us but this is some natural [...]

multidimensional problem

Global warming is by far the biggest ecological problem world has ever faced with, and upcoming climate change could cause whole variety of other problems that could make life close to impossible in many corners of the world. What can world do the prevent the worst possible scenario? Once our planet’s average temperature reaches point [...]

Global warming

Introduction:- “Global” and “warming” are perhaps the two most important words used to justify the approaching governmental control of our economy. In reality, global warming is barely occurring: In the 30 years starting in 1977, warming amounted to 0.32 degree Fahrenheit per decade, and in the next hundred years it is estimated to be about [...]