In the absence of a national climate and energy plan, how should agencies assess the planet-warming potential of individual projects?
FORBES: Why The U.S. Needs A National Climate And Energy Plan
Since CO2 is not a pollutant but a substantial benefit to agriculture, and since its warming potential has been greatly exaggerated, it is time for the world to rethink its frenzied pursuit of decarbonization at any cost.
The researchers say that emissions are the largest contributor to future climate change and a strong indicator of potential future warming.
While 40-60 percent of potential global warming is effectively locked-in, CEPR says, as much as half the rest could be cut through reducing work hours.
Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said Wednesday in their first 2013 summer outlook that a dry winter and expected warming trend mean the potential for significant fire activity will be above normal on the West Coast, in the Southwest and portions of Idaho and Montana.
Evidence continues to mount that recent estimates of sea level rise from global warming were wrong, and that the potential inundation to come may be much worse than previously contemplated, possibly exceeding an average of 3 feet worldwide.
With warming alone, northern fishermen increase their catch potential by 30 percent.
That's a potential concern of the enhanced melt in west Antarctica if the warming trend we find in summer continues.
BBC: West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate
Environmentalists like the idea because they believe it has the potential to reduce total energy consumption and thus help to curb carbon emissions and stop global warming.
Heightened methane emission from wetlands and permafrost has regularly been touted as a potential amplifying factor in climate change, with warmer weather stimulating their release and so producing further warming.
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