Chair’s Proposed Draft Text on the Outcome of the Work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Long term Cooperative Action Under the Convention

COP 15.  Ad Hoc Working Group on the Long term Cooperative Action Under the Convention http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/cutajar1.pdf [Yale Environment 360] Negotiators released a six-page draft of a climate treaty Friday that calls for limiting global temperature increases to 2.7 to 3.6 degrees F and cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least half by 2050. The draft, … Continue reading »

Pliocene Three-dimensional Global Ocean Temperature Reconstruction

Climate of the Past v5, pp 769-783, 2009 / by H. J. Dowsett, M. M. Robinson, and K. M. Foley http://www.clim-past.net/5/769/2009/cp-5-769-2009.html [From USGS press release, "New Discoveries Could Improve Climate Projections"] New discoveries about the deep ocean’s temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions. The deep ocean is affected more by surface warming than previously … Continue reading »

Framework for Climate Action and Energy Independence in the U.S. Senate

U.S. Senate / Senators John Kerry (D-Mass), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) http://kerry.senate.gov/newsroom/pdf/Climate_Framework.pdf [Hearst newspapers article by Jennifer Dlouhy] Senators negotiating a bipartisan climate change bill Thursday unveiled the broad outlines of their plan to combine greenhouse gas limits with expanded offshore drilling, more nuclear power and protections for refiners in a bid … Continue reading »