True scale of CO2 emissions from shipping revealed

Leaked UN report says pollution three times higher than previously thought

John Vidal, environment editor Wednesday 13 February 2008 05.34 EST

The true scale of climate change emissions from shipping is almost three times higher than previously believed, according to a leaked UN study seen by the Guardian.

It calculates that annual emissions from the world’s merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO2, or nearly 4.5% of all global emissions of the main greenhouse gas.

The report suggests that shipping emissions – which are not taken into account by European targets for cutting global warming – will become one of the largest single sources of manmade CO2 after cars, housing, agriculture and industry. By comparison, the aviation industry, which has been under heavy pressure to clean up, is responsible for about 650m tonnes of CO2 emissions a year, just over half that from shipping.

Until now, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has estimated shipping emissions to be a maximum 400m tonnes, but the new draft report by a group of international scientists is a more sophisticated measure, using data collected from the oil and shipping industries for the International Maritime Organisation, the UN agency tasked with monitoring pollution from ships. It not only shows emissions are much worse than feared, but warns CO2 emissions are set to rise by a further 30% by 2020.

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Capitalism Could End All Life On Earth

In tonight’s Daily Take Thom discusses how capitalism could end all life on earth.

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Freeman Dyson: A Global Warming Heretic & Denier

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Published on Feb 9, 2014

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Freeman Dyson on the Global Warming Hysteria April, 2015

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Published on Apr 6, 2015

Interviewed in April, 2015; Freeman Dyson aged 91 gives his views on the Global Warming Hysteria an interview conducted by “Conversations That Matter”;

“CO2 is so beneficial…it would be crazy to try to reduce it”.
“Probably it does us Good, the Earth will get greener as a result”.
“The general public has a lot more common sense (than the media or politicians)”.
“I’m retired, I don’t have to fear losing my job”.
“Man-made climate change is, on the whole, Good”.
“They (Climate Models) are no good for prediction”.

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Full Show 5/26/15: Capitalism Could End All Life On Earth

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Published on May 26, 2015

Thom discusses the GOP’s continued war on women’s rights with Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards and the racial and class bias behind student borrowing with Demos’ Mark Huelsman. Tonight’s Politics Panel talks Bernie Sanders’ announcement rally from Burlington, VT, Bernie’s call for a Wall Street transaction tax, and Jeb Bush’s defense of the Patriot Act. In tonight’s Daily Take Thom discusses how capitalism could end all life on earth.

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TPP: The Dirtiest Trade Deal You’ve Never Heard Of

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Published on Nov 7, 2014

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http://www.StopFastTrack.com; http://www.ExposeTheTPP.org; http://www.sumofus.org/tpp

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could cost us our internet freedom, labor rights, access to affordable medicine, the safety of our food, and protections that keep our water and air clean.

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange on Europe’s Secret Plan for Military Force on Refug ee Boats from Libya

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Published on May 27, 2015

http://democracynow.org – WikiLeaks has just revealed secret details of a European Union plan to use military force to curb the influx of migrants from Libya. “The documents lay out a military operation against cross-Mediterranean refugee transport networks and infrastructure,” WikiLeaks says. “It details plans to conduct military operations to destroy boats used for transporting migrants and refugees in Libyan territory, thereby preventing them from reaching Europe.” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange discusses the EU’s plan from his place of refuge inside Ecuador’s London embassy.

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Julian Assange on the TPP: Secretive Deal Isn’t About Trade, But Corporate Control

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Published on May 27, 2015

http://democracynow.org – As negotiations continue, WikiLeaks has published leaked chapters of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership — a global trade deal between the United States and 11 other countries. The TPP would cover 40 percent of the global economy, but details have been concealed from the public. A recently disclosed “Investment Chapter” highlights the intent of U.S.-led negotiators to create a tribunal where corporations can sue governments if their laws interfere with a company’s claimed future profits. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange warns the plan could chill the adoption of health and environmental regulations.

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If You’ve Wondered Why So Many Politicians Deny Climate Change, Science Has Your Answer

Emily Atkin Posted on May 27, 2015 at 8:00 am

Scientists have known for a long time what’s causing current climate change. What’s been less clear is why so many U.S. politicians aren’t listening.

Sure, there’s been falsely balanced media coverage of climate science. And there are both financial and ideological incentives to deny that carbon emissions are causing the phenomenon.

But according to new research published in Nature Climate Change, there’s at least one statistically proven reason why more than 56 percent of Congressional Republicans deny climate change: echo chambers.

The term “echo chambers” traditionally refers to situations where people surround themselves with information they want to hear, and block out the rest. We’ve known for a while that these present themselves in climate politics; A 2014 study suggested that the reason Americans haven’t fully accepted the scientific consensus on climate change is because of echo chambers like Fox News, where conservative viewers are “exposed only to content consistent with their opinions, while shielded from dissenting views.”

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Saving Planet Earth & Stop Climate Change

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Published on Apr 5, 2015

Saving Earth from Climate Change Documentary Discovery HD

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as “global warming”.

Scientists actively work to understand past and future climate by using observations and theoretical models. A climate record — extending deep into the Earth’s past — has been assembled, and continues to be built up, based on geological evidence from borehole temperature profiles, cores removed from deep accumulations of ice, floral and faunal records, glacial and periglacial processes, stable-isotope and other analyses of sediment layers, and records of past sea levels. More recent data are provided by the instrumental record. General circulation models, based on the physical sciences, are often used in theoretical approaches to match past climate data, make future projections, and link causes and effects in climate change.

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