Tag: Global Climate Change - Page 9
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President Obama Mentions Climate Change! But Says the Wrong Things
In the President's first press conference since the election he's asked about climate change, and still fails to show enough urgency in addressing the problem, or even really get the solutions right.
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Global Warming Makes Orbiting Satellites Speed Up!
Global warming has all kinds of effects on our planet. While some are obvious (higher average temperatures), others are less intuitive.
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California's New Cap-and-Trade Emissions Trading Program is Second Largest in World
Results of the first auction of pollution permits will be announced next Monday.
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77% of Americans Think Fighting Climate Change Should be a Priority
A new Yale poll finds consensus growing around climate action in the United States.
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Global CO2 Emissions Set New Record High in 2011, German Data Shows
China's national emissions are now 50% higher than those of the United States, even though China's per capita emissions are far lower.
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More Fossil Fuels or a Stable Climate? We Can't Have Both, IEA Report Says
Forget US energy independence, the real message of the latest IEA World Energy Outlook is that we have to keep two-thirds of all remaining fossil fuels in the ground to avoid wrecking the planet.
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EU Grounds Airline Emissions Trading Program
Is it really progress on a global airline emissions deal or objections from powerful nations that have halted the program?
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Did Peak Oil Doomers Fixate On a False Scenario?
The problem is not too little oil, says a new IEA report, it's too much oil. And it illustrates why activists should not presume to know the future.
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Pollenapocalypse! Study Predicts Double the Allergy Agony by 2040
If you thought your allergies were bad now…
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After the Election, Big Data Is King. So Climate Models Should Be, Too
Everyone has been congratulating Nate Silver and tireless poll aggregators for correctly predicting the outcome of last Tuesday's election. Let's pay climate modelers the same respect.
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Climate Change Link to Mayan Civilization's Collapse Discovered
Scientists have been able to accurately measure past precipitation changes and correlate this with political and cultural changes in Mayan civilization.
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Arabica Coffee May Be Extinct in the Wild by 2100
Climate change may do in wild arabica coffee, which means bad things for cultivated varieties of the world's second most-traded commodity.
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Why Bipartisanship Might Destroy the Planet
A climate of compromise is all well and good. But the climate doesn't compromise.
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Arctic Spring Snowmelt Increasing Profoundly in Recent Years
New research snows that the Arctic snow is melting more quickly each year than ice.
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Keeping Warming Below 4°C Rise Requires 400% Increase in Decarbonization
A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers is unambiguous: We are hugely off track in decarbonizing the economy and are heading straight past 4°C temperature rise.
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Obama Wins, Says Nation is "Threatened by the Destructive Power of a Warming Planet"
Obama has handily defeated Mitt Romney, and said he intends to deal with climate change in his second term.
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Indian Monsoon May Fail More Frequently, More Severely as Climate Changes
Some new research takes a look at what our changing climate may do to the monsoon in South Asia over the next two hundred years.
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Protesters End Week-Long Occupation of Power Station Cooling Towers
A brave group of protesters risked their lives to highlight the dangers of climate change. As we recover from Sandy, let's move the conversation forward.
