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    On thin ice: Documenting earth’s disappearing glaciers - by frog



    This past week the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) of the US ran this documentary, showing the vast destruction of human habitat that is coming in just a few short years due to global warming. No doubt the deniers who love to hang about frogblog will point out how helpless we are and how doing our [...] read more
    April 21, 2009 8:10 am - 14 Comments
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    The methane time bomb - by frog



    Scientists have recently documented the ticking of the biggest climate change time bomb of them all – methane frozen for millennia beginning to melt in the Arctic. Indeed, the tipping point that the IPCC fears the most may already have been reached. The Independent reports the bad news: In the past few days, the researchers [...] read more
    September 24, 2008 11:02 am - 32 Comments
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    Global warming: an elaborate hoax…or? - by frog



    Very elaborate. I wish I knew how to organise melting icecaps and extinction of species as a party trick read more
    September 23, 2008 10:34 am - 3 Comments
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    Target Practice - by frog



    Well, it looks like the US, China, Canada and Japan are going to hold Bali to ransom and prevent anything substantial from coming out of it. Not that I expected any grand outcome, just a decent framework to keep the post-Kyoto negotiations going. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a link to The Big [...] read more
    December 14, 2007 3:18 pm - 7 Comments