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Report: Nobody talks about ‘global warming’ anymore

Grist

Big news: Global warming is over. They found that searches for global warming , once the most common phrase for our overheating planet, are down 73 percent since 2010. Climate change began to outpace global warming around 2015 , and the newly popular climate crisis might someday catch up if current trends continue.

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‘There’s no doubt left’ about scientific consensus on global warming anymore

Grist

The scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming is likely to have passed 99 percent, according to the lead author of the most authoritative study on the subject, and could rise further after separate research that clears up some of the remaining doubts. The pushback has been political rather than scientific. In the U.S.,

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The Journey Towards Carbon Neutrality

Energy Central

BACKGROUND: The first reference to climate change started towards the end of the 1950s – Spencer Weart, Retired director of Center for History of Physics, Maryland in an email expressed, “It was just a possibility for the 21st Century which seemed very far away, but seen as a danger that should be prepared for” Weart’s Discovery (..)

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Obra Architects stimulates climate change discussion with a climate-correcting machine

Inhabitat - Innovation

The installation uses greenhouse technology to create perpetual, spring-like weather conditions through the fall and winter in reference to global warming.

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Global warming could push air conditioning demand up 59%

AGreenLiving

and other parts of the world because of global warming. Regions that were traditionally colder are warming up, and those that are warm are getting hotter. Cooling-degree days simply refers to the difference between the accepted temperature for human comfort and the daily average temperature.

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Energy Transitions Podcast: The North Sea – Axis of decarbonisation

Smart Energy International

Nils Røkke, Executive Vice President Sustainability at SINTEF and Chair of EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) talks to Pamela Largue about why the North Sea is often referred to as the “energy Silicon Valley of Europe”. LISTEN NOW.

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Jordan Peterson’s New Online School Will Be Rife with Climate Crisis Deniers

DeSmogBlog

Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” Last year, he referred in his newsletter to the “supposed emergency of climate change that critics have lambasted as unfounded alarmism.”