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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Work by 100 scientists over five years reveals that more than half of species studied are endangered by a warming planet.
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Once-rare severe flooding events could occur as frequently as once a decade by the end of this century.
Posted on Jun 13, 2013
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The New York mayor’s $20 billion proposal to protect America’s most populated city from the ravages of global warming seems to ignore the worst predictions of sea level rise reported in the respectable press.
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
A vast, globally important river basin in Canada five times the size of France is at great risk from a potential catastrophic oil spill from the mining of tar sands.
Posted on Jun 12, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
The good news is that some coral can recover from periodic warming of the oceans. The bad news is it might take too long.
Posted on Jun 7, 2013
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Regarding rainfall patterns and tree growth, nobody knows for certain what climate change will bring.
Posted on Jun 6, 2013
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Aislin, Cagle Cartoons, The Montreal Gazette —
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch —
Imagine you’re a historian 100 years from now—assuming there are any historians 100 years from now, which is not obvious—and you’re looking back at what’s happening today. For the first time in the history of the human species, you’d see we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves.
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
More intense thunderstorms combined with damaging winds are expected to occur with increased frequency because of climate change.
Posted on Jun 5, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
New study predicts a big jump in foliage growth in arid regions as carbon dioxide levels increase.
Posted on Jun 4, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 2, 2013
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By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network —
Data collected during the H.M.S. Challenger’s four year expedition in the late 19th century shows that oceans are absorbing far more heat than previously realized.
Posted on Jun 1, 2013
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By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network —
Major U.S. news broadcasters are hot on stories about the British royal family but cold on the destabilizing climate—despite Prince Charles’ dire warnings.
Posted on May 29, 2013
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By Paul Brown, Climate News Network —
An experiment to see whether citizens of one of the world’s richest countries could live sustainably by drastically reducing their energy consumption has found that very few could meet the challenge.
Posted on May 28, 2013
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 26, 2013
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The first ever analysis of the rate of population loss among frogs, toads, salamanders and newts found a general decline of 3.7 percent per year from 2002 to 2011, while “red-listed” species disappeared at a rate of 11.6 percent annually, even in protected lands.
Posted on May 25, 2013
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By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network —
New research suggesting the Earth may be warming more slowly than expected does not mean climate change is a false alarm, experts say.
Posted on May 25, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Cities are liable to heat up much more than open countryside as the climate warms, and in the case of New York City, this could mean a big increase in heat-related deaths.
Posted on May 24, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama should spend his remaining years in office making the United States part of the solution to climate change, not part of the problem.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group, and one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment. But we don’t have one for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on. “Terracide,” from the Latin word for earth, has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Establishing what temperatures suit different species of fish has enabled scientists to find elusive evidence of what climate change is doing to oceans.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network —
Most of the world’s glaciers are retreating more slowly than the few that are shrinking fast. But new research confirms that almost all of them are losing mass.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
If you take the long view, you’ll see how startlingly, how unexpectedly but regularly things change. Not by magic, but by the incremental effect of countless acts of courage, love and commitment, the small drops that wear away stones and carve new landscapes, and sometimes by torrents of popular will that change the world suddenly.
Posted on May 21, 2013
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By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network —
British farm animals and crops face a heightened health risk from several diseases encouraged by climate change.
Posted on May 21, 2013
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on May 21, 2013
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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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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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The next global economic shock could come from the carbon markets as an investment bubble in fossil fuels grows to the tune of trillions of dollars.
Posted on Apr 19, 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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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
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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