Where do educators and activists find information to share about climate change? One popular source of online graphics is a website called www.GlobalWarmingArt.com created in 2007 by Robert A. Rohde, a physics researcher at UC Berkeley. The website was last updated in 2009, but a lot of Rohde’s images and ...
Global Temperature Change as calculated by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In this chart, the analysts used mean annual temperatures based on data compiled from meteorological stations. The period from 1951 to 1980 was set, in this chart, as zero or “the base period.” The key conclusion of this ...
Think it’s been hot? Imagine living through the Great Heat Wave of 1936. It lasted most of that summer throughout the United States with 5,000 people perishing and many crops destroyed. Earlier this past week on 1290 WLBY, just as the high heat began to envelope us, Dean Erskine and ...
At Monday's meeting of the Chelsea Area Garden Club, Tony Reznicek, curator of the University of Michigan Herbariam, presented "How Will Climate Change Affect Michigan's Gardens and Natural Heritage?" Even though mean temperatures are rising, we won't be growing palms or figs any time soon in Michigan. It's not about ...
“It’s not someone else’s problem! It’s not tomorrow’s issue!” is how Rabbi Bob Levy of Temple Beth Emeth, Ann Arbor described the mandate for people of faith, the broader community, and our political leaders to take action to stop climate change. Rabbi Levy was speaking at a press conference to ...
We've all heard the tips about using less water or driving fewer miles to reduce our impact on the environment. Here's a list of a few more tips - or perhaps reminders - of the individual ways to reduce your impact on the environment. 1. Cut back on packaging: Don't ...
What do transportation, food and the Great Lakes have to do with one another? Plenty if you're trying to do something about fighting climate change, experts said during a University of Michigan Teach-In held Thursday in honor of the approaching 40th annual Earth Day. Earth Day is April 22.
The global climate change conference in Copenhagen just began heating up last week, and a delegation from the University of Michigan hopes to witness it all. That group, which is being led by Richard Rood, a U-M professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences; Paul Edwards from the School of ...
It's clear that a changing climate will change the environment. But why is a changed environment a harmed environment? Environmentalism gives conflicting and ultimately incoherent answers. When asked this question, the typical person who calls himself an environmentalist answers that change will drown the Maldivians and bring on monster hurricanes ...
Wayne Appleyard’s does not think much of George Will’s “myths” on climate change (letter to the editor, Nov. 15) Wayne writes that “the consensus in the scientific community on climate change is now overwhelming” and that it “is the most serious issue to ever confront mankind.”
A self-guided tour of Washtenaw County agencies that help people in various stages of homelessness is planned this Thursday to raise awareness. The free tour is being hosted between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. by the Washtenaw Housing Alliance. The alliance is a consortium of 25 local agencies that help ...
Last Sunday’s column by George Will (“Not the right climate for a climate change treaty” in the print edition) is just one in a long series of pieces by Mr.Will that try to perpetuate myths against the science of global warming (global climate destabilization is a more correct term).
Democratic senator and former presidential candidate John Kerry writes in the Huffington Post that climate change is more than a threat to the earth's flora and fauna. It will also lead to exacerbated conflicts and instability around the world, he says. "Make no mistake: catastrophic climate change represents a threat ...
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