Latest Stories in Climate Change - Page 3
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ABC News and Daily Show Miss Point on Beijing Air Crisis
While The Daily Show and ABC News report on China's toxic air pollution, their framing misses an opportunity to connect dots to climate crisis.
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Nicholas Stern: Climate Situation 'Far Worse' Than Previously Thought
Nicholas Stern, the British economist who made a big splash worldwide with his government-commissioned Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change in 2006, is now saying that things are even worse than he let on in his famous report.
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Andean Glaciers Have Shrunk 30-50 Percent
A study of glaciers in the Andes shows that they have been losing a lot of ice, especially since the 1970s. A change in precipitation cannot be blamed, so global warming is the main culprit.
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Quote of the Day: President Barack Obama on Climate Change
Strong and inspiring words from the President's Inaugural Address.
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NASA To Send ATTREX Probe Over Pacific To Study Changing Climate
The Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment will deploy an unmanned aircraft to fly 65,000 feet above the tropical Pacific to explore regions of the upper atmosphere looking for answers about our warming Earth.
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Off the Charts: Australia So Hot, New Colors Added to Weather Map
It's official, 2012 was a record year for heat in the US, and 2013 is already turning out to be historic for Australia, a country that is used to extreme heat, but nothing quite like what they're getting now.
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2012 Was Hottest Year on Record for U.S. Lower 48 States, Says NOAA
2012 was a notable year on many fronts, and that includes the weather.
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Now's the Time to Act on Climate, Writes MIT's Technology Review in Open Letter to Obama
Let's hope that president Obama will listen, and tackle our climate problems with more vigor and urgency.
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Extreme Weather During 2012 Second Only to 2005 in Ferocity (Video)
Paul Douglas, the Chief Meteorologist of WeatherNation, did an excellent review of the past year’s extreme weather events.
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Rebecca Tarbotton of Rainforest Action Network, 1973-2012
Activist and environmentalist dies in tragic swimming accident
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Lisa Jackson to Step Down as EPA Director
Did years of criticism from everyone from Big Coal to the environmental movement take its toll?
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Antarctic Ice Warming More Rapidly Than Anticipated, Significant Sea Level Rise
Ice that could raise sea levels 3 meters (10 feet) is warming far faster than predicted according to new temperature study.
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Less Octopus, More Spider Crab. Climate Change Dictates This Year’s Christmas Menu in Spain
This year, most people can afford spider crab for Christmas, but no more octopus! Climate change and overfishing have reduced the amount of octopus, the crabs' predator, in spanish waters, and at the same time crabs are thirving.
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Interfaith Preach In On Climate Change Will Pressure Obama To Act
Religious communities across the country will gather to reflect on the moral implications of climate change and our imperative to act. One man, in particular, should pay heed.
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Polar Ice Sheets Melting 3 Times Faster Than Two Decades Ago
Since the early 1990s melting of the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica has contributed one-fifth of observed sea level rise.
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Kerosene Lanterns an Overlooked Source of Global Warming Pollution
It turns out that we've been underestimating the black carbon pollution from kerosene lanterns by a factor of twenty.
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Sea Levels Rising 60% Faster Than Expected
Rather than being alarmist, the IPCC projections on sea level rise are less than what the latest satellite data shows is actually happening.
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Most Important Pie Chart You'll See Today: 13,950 Peer-Reviewed Scientific Articles on Earth's Climate
Is there still a scientific consensus on global warming? What happens if you do a meta-study of the past 21 years?
