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The Challenge
Studies: CO2 Must Cease Altogether Juliet Eilperin. The Washington Post. 3/10/2008 Using advanced computer models to factor in deep-sea warming and other aspects of the carbon cycle that naturally creates and removes carbon dioxide (CO2), the scientists, from countries including the United States, Canada and Germany, are delivering a simple message: The world must bring carbon emissions down to near zero to keep temperatures from rising further.
Feeling the Heat: Global Warming and Rising Temperatures in the U. S. Environment Illinois. 9/14/2006 This year’s unprecedented heat wave is part of a broader trend of rising temperatures in Illinois, according to a new report released today by Environment Illinois. The average temperature in Chicago from 2000-2005 is 1.3° F higher than the average during the previous three decades (1971-2000). In the continental United States, the first seven months of 2006 were the warmest January-July of any year on record, according to the National Climatic Data Center. In Illinois, the average temperature was 3.5° F above the 20th century average, making it the second warmest January-July on record.
Richard B. Alley. Scientific American 11/04 Winter temperatures plummeting six degrees Celsius and sudden droughts scorching farmland around the globe are not just the stuff of scary movies. Such striking climate jumps have happened before—sometimes within a matter of years
Global Warming Our Worst Fears are Exceeded by Reality Steve Conner. The Independent, 12/29/06 During the past year, scientific findings emerged that made even the most doom-laden predictions about climate change seem a little on the optimistic side. And at the heart of the issue is the idea of climate feedbacks - when the effects of global warming begin to feed into the causes of global warming. Feedbacks can either make things better, or they can make things worse. The trouble is, everywhere scientists looked in 2006, they encountered feedbacks that will make things worse - a lot worse.
Peter D. Ward. Scientific American 10/06 Strangling heat and gases emanating from the earth and sea, not asteroids, most likely caused several ancient mass extinctions. Could the same killer-greenhouse conditions build once again?
You Can't 'Nuke' Global Warming Featured editorial in Chicago Sun-Times. David Kraft, NEIS. 08/10/06. The recent 2006 summer heat wave contained two news stories about nuclear energy, one widely broadcasted, one conveniently ignored. The first was about the record-setting electricity use, fuelled by the region’s demand for air conditioned relief. Exelon and other nuclear utilities attribute their success at meeting this demand to nuclear power. The second story barely appeared after the heat broke, when people weren’t paying attention. Both here and internationally, the demand for electricity was indeed met, sometimes by nuclear power. However, in many cases these reactors were either not allowed to run at full power, or, if they were, they were given regulatory permission to exceed safety and environmental standards. In other words nuclear plants were allowed to keep the air conditioners running, but only by risking an accident or damaging an already heat-stressed environment.
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