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By Alexander Reed Kelly — Accounts of scientists being “surprised” that their predictions are being surpassed suggest that chaos theory—which says the particulars of the breakdown of the earth’s ecosystems are unpredictable—is going unread, disbelieved or ignored.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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Climate Vulnerable Forum
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A landmark report published this week by the Climate Vulnerable Forum links neglect of global warming to 5 million deaths and a loss of more than $1 trillion annually.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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Warming temperatures have reduced the area of frozen sea on the planet to roughly 2.2 million square miles, less than half of what it was four decades ago, suggesting that irreversible and accelerated climate change will be upon us in the coming decades.
Posted on Sep 14, 2012
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Chris.L.Dodds (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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An international grouping of scientists has published a list of 100 species headed for imminent extinction. Blame human greed and the relentless destruction of habitat.
Posted on Sep 11, 2012
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NOAA's National Ocean Service (CC BY 2.0)
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Melting ice caps are the canaries in the coal mines for the probable and impending global climate catastrophe. Arctic ice sheets endured record-breaking melt this summer with the annual thaw of the region’s floating ice reaching the lowest level since satellite monitoring began more than 30 years ago.
Posted on Sep 7, 2012
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AP/Biswaranjan Rout
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By Chris Hedges — The giddy, money-drenched, choreographed carnival in Tampa and the one coming up in Charlotte divert us from the real world—the one steadily collapsing around us.
Posted on Sep 3, 2012
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By David Sirota — As a wildfire/flash flood cycle ravages the American heartland, “the climate bites back” may be the 21st century’s karmic rejoinder to the hysterical screams of “freedom!” and “property rights!” when it comes to urban sprawl.
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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President Obama has declared a state of emergency in Louisiana as Isaac, a tempest of wind and water barreling toward the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, has been upgraded to hurricane status.
Posted on Aug 28, 2012
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A U.S. appeals court Tuesday overturned an Obama administration rule aimed at decreasing harmful pollution from coal-fired power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency said the reductions would have resulted in health benefits for more than 240 million people.
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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Polls show Romney isn’t connecting with voters. Has Obama defined him? An anti-Romney ad features a steelworker’s story of losing his wife to cancer right after a Bain restructuring cost him his job and his company medical insurance. And the month of July set new temperature records, but policymakers aren’t budging on climate change. These issues and more are debated on this week’s “Left, Right & Center.”
Posted on Aug 10, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Excuse me, folks, but the weather is trying to tell us something. Listen carefully, and you can almost hear a parched, raspy voice whispering, “What part of ‘hottest month ever’ do you people not understand?”
Posted on Aug 9, 2012
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Flickr / flydime (CC-BY)
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July was the hottest month in the U.S. on record, yet many in the GOP continue to dispute global warming and the science behind it.
Posted on Aug 8, 2012
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Global warming is happening and “humans are almost entirely the cause.” That’s the conclusion reached by a team of researchers at UC Berkeley, led by professor Richard Muller, who now considers himself a “converted skeptic” on the issue.
Posted on Jul 31, 2012
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Almost 30 percent of the American Midwest—the area that produces most of the country’s corn, soybeans and livestock—is suffering an escalation of its most extreme drought in five decades.
Posted on Jul 26, 2012
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Jul 19, 2012
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A block of ice twice the size of Manhattan has broken loose from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland. Scientists were quick to say that no single event of this kind can be attributed to climate change.
Posted on Jul 19, 2012
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch —
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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Aislin, Cagle Cartoons, The Montreal Gazette —
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Jul 10, 2012
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U.S. Air Force/Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock
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By Amy Goodman — Evidence supporting the existence of climate change is pummeling the United States this summer, from the mountain wildfires of Colorado to the recent “derecho” storm that left at least 23 dead and 1.4 million people without power from Illinois to Virginia.
Posted on Jul 3, 2012
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Recent weeks have seen the worst wildfires in Colorado history, the breaking of 2,000 temperature records, a mid-Atlantic storm that killed 23 and left millions without power, and a heat wave that sent the East Coast and the Midwest back to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But few mainstream meteorologists are talking about climate change.
Posted on Jul 3, 2012
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The wildfire that raged through Colorado’s Waldo Canyon, just one of the many that lit up the state in recent weeks, consumed 346 homes and claimed at least one life. The event is consistent with predictions made by the world’s top climate scientists.
Posted on Jun 29, 2012
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A group of scientists is warning that the Earth—beset by environmental destruction, climate change and unbridled population growth—is heading for a tipping point that, once passed, will unleash a catastrophic breakdown in the planet’s biosphere that will bode ill for all creatures—including man—that call it home.
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
“Murderers, tyrants and madmen.” It’s been a tough few weeks for the forces of climate-change denial.
Posted on Jun 4, 2012
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Unhindered by Talent (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and with the intellectual property behind most of the solutions sitting in the public domain, any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it.
Posted on May 31, 2012
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AP/Mahesh Kumar A.
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By Chris Hedges — The World Health Organization calculates that one in four people in the United States suffers from chronic anxiety, a mood disorder or depression—which seems to me to be a normal reaction to our march toward collective suicide.
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By Amy Goodman — The Pentagon knows it. The world’s largest insurers know it. Now, governments may be overthrown because of it. It is climate change, and it is real.
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By Paul Zanetti, Australia —
Posted on Apr 10, 2012
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Jeremy Nell, Cagle Cartoons, The New Age, South Africa —
Posted on Feb 28, 2012
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Al Gore has yet another good idea that’s likely to be ignored by the business and political community: In the interest of economic and environmental sustainability, companies should be encouraged to focus on long-term rather than short-term investment goals by dropping the requirement to post quarterly earnings.
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AdamCohn (CC-BY)
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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark.
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
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John McNab (CC-BY)
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Increasingly chaotic weather, potentially habitable planets and closing in on the elusive Higgs boson are just a few of the developments observed and discoveries made by the scientific community in 2011. The editors at LiveScience asked university scientists to describe what they think were the most important advances of the year.
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By Amy Goodman — The “American way of life” can be measured in per capita emissions of carbon. In the United States, on average, about 20 metric tons of CO2 is released into the atmosphere annually, four times as much as in China.
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Tavis Ford (CC-BY)
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From its perch above one of the world’s biggest polluters, Canada’s conservative government decided it would be too expensive and pointless to meet its obligations to the Kyoto Protocol.
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NASA / Glenn Research Center
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By Eugene Robinson — After the summit ended Sunday, initial reaction basically ranged from “Historic Breakthrough: The Planet Is Saved” to “Tragic Failure: The Planet Is Doomed.”
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Karmen Meyer (CC-BY)
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Another round of climate negotiations, another vague promise to commit to something in the distant future and another slow-motion step toward disaster for the world’s poor and vulnerable. The Durban deal puts the U.N.’s 194 nations on track to begin negotiating a legally binding pact by 2015, six years after we were told to expect such a treaty in Copenhagen. (more)
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WWF@COP17 (CC-BY)
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John Vidal and Fiona Harvey with The Guardian describe the latest collection of blowups at the U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa, where negotiators from 194 countries, in their third consecutive round of all-night talks, seem powerless to come to any sort of agreement.
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AP / Schalk van Zuydam
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By Amy Goodman — High above the pavement, overlooking Durban’s famous South Beach and the pounding surf of the Indian Ocean, and just blocks from the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where up to 20,000 people gathered, seven activists fought against the wind to unfurl a banner that read “Listen to the People, Not the Polluters.”
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U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder
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By William deBuys, TomDispatch —
Consider it a taste of the future: the fire, smoke, drought, dust, and heat that have made life unpleasant, if not dangerous, from Louisiana to Los Angeles.
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This week, “Democracy Now!” is broadcasting from Durban, South Africa, where the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 17, is taking place. Host Amy Goodman points to the high-stakes issues on the table at the conference, including the future of the Kyoto Protocol, and covers the action from last weekend’s marches.
Posted on Dec 5, 2011
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