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VinothChandar (CC BY 2.0)
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
Two sets of scientists working independently have come to the conclusion that the Arctic will soon be ice-free and forested.
Posted on May 18, 2013
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The results are conclusive. Of more than 4,000 peer reviewed papers published over a period of 20 years, 97.1 percent agree that climate change is man-made.
Posted on May 16, 2013
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Lake sediments in a Siberian crater show that the last time atmospheric carbon dioxide was at present levels, global temperatures were 14.4 degrees hotter, forests covered the tundra and sea levels were up to 130 feet higher than they are today.
Posted on May 14, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 13, 2013
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Humanity on Friday passed a milestone on the way to planetary destruction when monitoring stations registered 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide spread throughout the atmosphere.
Posted on May 11, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
To this day, we’ve never quite taken in the moment when Soviet imperial rot unexpectedly—above all, to Washington—became imperial crash-and-burn. Left standing, the United States—the Cold War’s victor—seemed like an empire of everything under the sun. It was as if humanity had always been traveling toward this spot.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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By David Sirota — In case you missed the news, humanity just spent the Earth Day week reaching another sad milestone in the history of catastrophic climate change.
Posted on May 3, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
A warming climate means ever more rapid changes in the Earth’s climatic zones, researchers say, and a heightened extinction risk for species that inhabit them.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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By Joe Conason — Having directed NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for most of the past four decades, Dr. James E. Hansen retired this month to devote himself to the scientific activism that has brought both awards and catcalls during his long and distinguished career.
Posted on Apr 26, 2013
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On the occasion of the collapse of the European emissions trading scheme, Guardian environment correspondent George Monbiot explains why markets are no substitute for governments, especially when it comes to avoiding global warming, one of the worst mass disasters humankind will yet see.
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
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With apologies to the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson, who is widely credited as the founder of Earth Day, I don’t really feel like celebrating.
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch —
Two nightmare scenarios—a global scarcity of vital resources and the onset of extreme climate change—are already beginning to converge and in the coming decades are likely to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition and conflict.
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
As growing carbon dioxide emissions continue to warm the climate, more aircraft are likely to encounter turbulence in flight, meaning bumpier and perhaps longer journeys for passengers.
Posted on Apr 12, 2013
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Pioneering Lancaster, Calif., Mayor R. Rex Parris wants his city to generate more power from renewable energy than it consumes. In fact, he wants the dusty, desert town to be the solar power capital of the universe. And he’s a Republican.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
Why take a look at the history of gay rights in the context of the climate struggle? Because the hardest part of the Keystone pipeline fight has been figuring out what to do about the Democrats.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
Critics of renewable energy have always claimed that sun and wind are only intermittent producers and that back-up fossil fuel plants are needed to make them viable. But German engineers have proven otherwise.
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Australia’s recent bought of fierce and frequent floods, fires and droughts is likely only to intensify, a report says, unless the world moves fast to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.
Posted on Apr 3, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
The amount of ice in the Antarctic is increasing as the other end of the world melts apace, scientists say—a strange consequence of global warming.
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 1, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
The Group of Least Developed Countries, a key partner in the long-running United Nations climate talks, is willing to agree to the industrialized world’s core demand on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Posted on Mar 30, 2013
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Americans believe climate change is happening but are unwilling to pay to build sea walls and relocate coastal communities, a Stanford University poll released Thursday found.
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Researchers say they have found a clear link between climate change and the spread of diarrhea and similar diseases in one African country. But the nature of the link may be unexpected.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
East Asian countries are showing the most progress in reducing the carbon intensity of their economies, leaving their competitors in Europe and the U.S. in their dust.
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
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By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network —
Drone attacks, deadly bombings, tensions with neighboring India, power and food shortages and political instability ahead of May elections all threaten Pakistan, and soon climate change will too.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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Manny Francisco, Cagle Cartoons, Manila, The Phillippines —
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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In line with the teachings of academic and social philosopher Noam Chomsky, a study shows that people are likelier to join causes that present visions of a society that is warmer, friendlier and more moral than the one they live in than they are to support efforts that do not feature such outlooks.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Supporters of geo-engineering are disappointed to learn that an Icelandic volcano that threw iron into the nearby ocean did little to reduce long-term atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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Regarding the impending climate crisis, Yale scientist Anthony Leiserowitz tells Bill Moyers: “You almost couldn’t design a problem that is a worse fit with our underlying psychology.” The solution? Part of it involves turning the issue into talking points for conservatives.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
With temperatures predicted to rise by at least 2°C this century, storms like the one that drowned New Orleans in 2005 could occur in the Atlantic once every two years.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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Aislin, Cagle Cartoons, The Montreal Gazette —
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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An 18-year-old Yup’ik Eskimo who could lose his home to melting tundra is suing the state of Alaska for failing to take action on climate change.
Posted on Mar 16, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
Japan has succeeded in pioneering the exploitation of vast reserves of undersea methane. It could be good news for a resource-hungry country and bad for an overheating planet.
Posted on Mar 16, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
The world’s rainforests may be able to weather the assaults of climate change more robustly than scientists had earlier thought, says a new study.
Posted on Mar 15, 2013
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By William deBuys, TomDispatch —
If you want a taste of the brutal new climate to come, don’t think of Hurricane Katrina or Superstorm Sandy. Look to Phoenix, where if the power goes out, people fry.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
News that carbon dioxide levels rose sharply last year confirm that climate change will soon be impossible to stop.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law —
According to activists such as Chris Williams, capitalism is designed for infinite growth, but the planet is not.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Arctic vegetation is now growing nearly 500 miles closer to the North Pole than it was a few decades ago, indicating that the region is warming fast.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network —
Even if humanity can solve the technical riddles involved in trying to geo-engineer the planet away from dangerous climate change, many legal and ethical questions will still need answers.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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What is the gravest long-term security threat to the part of the world that includes China, North Korea and Japan, according to America’s top military officer there?
Posted on Mar 9, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
The Earth would be in a cooling phase if it were not for the effect of rising quantities of atmospheric carbon dioxide, say scientists who have reconstructed the climate of the last 11,000 years.
Posted on Mar 9, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Many of the Canadian far north’s glaciers are likely to melt by the end of the century, making significant and irreversible sea-level rise inevitable.
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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For eons a giver of life, sunlight is being turned into a force for death by the carbon collecting in the atmosphere. A new study suggests the planet is warmer than it’s been in 11,300 years, and temperatures will climb to increasingly dangerous levels through 2100.
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
Scientists say increased coal-burning, especially in developing countries, is largely responsible for a sharp increase in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
As ice melts in the Arctic, there are conflicting views on whether exploiting new oil and gas reserves will be commercially viable. The future of this pristine environment may depend more on the price of fuel than anything else.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Two Sundays ago, I traveled to the nation’s capital to attend what was billed as “the largest climate rally in history” and I haven’t been able to get the experience—or a question that haunted me—out of my mind. Shouldn’t hundreds of thousands have been there?
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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