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British Climate Change Skeptics Lobby Schools in Britain

October 19th, 2007 at 12:26 pm » Comments (0)

Seen at ABC News Australia - A lobby group of climate skeptics is to send every British school a copy of the film The Great Global Warming Swindle, a controversial film that claims climate change is a myth.
The film caused a storm when it was screened in both Britain and Australia because it swims against […]



Lloyd’s of London’s 360 Reports on Climate Change, Risk and Strategies

October 19th, 2007 at 1:38 am » Comments (0)

Lloyd’s of London’s 360 Reports on Climate Change and Risk Reports. Lloyd’s reports that the insurance industry should start planning and modeling now for a higher level of losses across the world by the middle of the century as both the severity and frequency of weather events increase. The alternative - waiting until definitive scientific […]



Shrinking Arctic ice ‘locked into spiral of decline’

October 17th, 2007 at 4:11 am » Comments (0)

Oct 4 2007 - Shrinking ice ‘locked into spiral of decline’ by Darren Devine, Western Mail
DRAMATIC new evidence showing that ice cover on the Arctic Ocean has fallen to its lowest level recorded proves the area is “locked into a spiral of decline”, a Welsh scientist said last night.
Bangor University Oceanographer Dr Tom Rippeth, who […]



Night Shining Clouds Locations Expanding

October 17th, 2007 at 3:52 am » Comments (0)

“Night-shining” clouds are bringing a mystery that NASA has now made a mission to study- these hauntingly beautiful noctilucent clouds were previously restricted to the poles but are now being seen over Colorado. This photograph here was taken over the Juneau, Alaska, ice field in 1998.

‘Night-shining’ clouds, also known as ‘noctilucent’ clouds were discovered 120 […]



Polar Bear Plays with Husky Dogs

October 16th, 2007 at 4:53 am » Comments (0)

Found by Jennie at Neatorama:

A hunter-trapper Brian LaDoon was taking care of his pack of Husky dogs on a Canadian tundra whilst German photographer Norbert Rosing was setting up his cameras, when out of nowhere a large polar bear walked up to one of the dogs.

Brian knew that the bear had not eaten for months, […]