Tag: Global Warming Causes - Page 4
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It Is "Virtually Certain" That Climate Change is Causing More Extreme Weather
The IPCC's latest Special Report, “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation" seeks to evaluate the link between extreme weather and climate change.
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Turkish Photographers Capture Climate Change
Traveling exhibit in Turkey prompts audiences to put on their 'climate glasses' and see how floods, fires, and drought in the country are all connected.
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Dr. Rajendra Pachauri on Pricing Carbon, the Himalaya Glacier Error, and GOP Climate Denial (Video Interview)
I sit down with Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the IPCC. He explained why we still need to price carbon, how we can overcome GOP climate denial, and clears the air on the Himalaya glacier controversy.
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Top U.S. Climate Scientist: "Tar Sands are the Critical Juncture" (Video)
I interview the venerable Dr. James Hansen about the dangers of tar sands, unconventional fossil fuels, and how to solve the climate crisis.
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Prince Charles Warns of Human Extinction
In his first speech as the head of the Worldwide Wildlife Fund UK, Prince Charles warned of a mass human extinction if dramatic steps aren't taken to reduce the world's consumption of natural resources. According to an article in
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Global Warming: Scientists vs. Climate Skeptics (Infographic)
Image via reusethisbag.com digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/07/global-warming-scientists-vs-climate-skeptics-infographic.php'; Reusable Bags has a good infographic on the continuing climate change debate (as if it's debatable). You wont'
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UK Billionaire Pushes Arctic "Mega" Mine: Caribou, Whale & Seal Deaths Expected, "Habitat Will Be Lost"
Lakshmi Mittal, Britain's richest man, is pushing to open an opencast iron ore "mega-mine" inside the Arctic Circle that will include a 150-kilometer railway and two new ports that will bring a ship in every 32
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Energy Poverty: India's Best Kept Secret
During a business luncheon with the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) in India for World Environment
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Airplanes' Contrails Cause Far More Warming Than Their Carbon Emissions, But...
photo: marya/Creative Commons Radiative forcing has been on TreeHugger's radar for a while, and after finding out about this next study it'll be on your's too: According to research by the DLR German Aerospace Center, airplane contrails have a much,
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Palm Oil Giant Agrees to Set More Sustainable Standards in Indonesia
Images: Golden Agri-Resources, Foreign Policy Blogs
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"Ultimate Climate Change FAQ" Taking Shape
While scientists often talk about the dire consequences of a 4 degree rise in Global temperatures, so far temperatures have only risen by 0.75 degrees celsius since the end of the 19th Century. It can be hard for most of us to picture why this matters
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Refresher: How CO2 Causes Global Warming (Video)
A new year is nearly upon us, and it will likely be a yet another year in which we see slowly increasing average global temperatures. With 2010 likely to be the hottest on the temperature records yet, the trend is only projected to continue.
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Is Birth Control the Cheapest Answer to Climate Change?
From overpopulation as the elephant in the room, to the idea that less sex and more TV might be the answer to India's growing birth rate, overpopulation isn't exactly a taboo subject here
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Future at Risk on a Hotter Planet
We are entering a new era, one of rapid and often unpredictable climate change. In fact, the new climate norm is change. The 25 warmest years on record have come since 1980. And the 10 warmest years since
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There's No Such Thing As Free Parking
Alex recently asked Can Great Design Redeem the Parking Garage? He was talking about a new parking structure by Herzog and de Meuron on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road, which is a
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What's the Energy, Water and Greenhouse Gas Intensity of Oil Shale? High, High & High
In case you needed more convincing that developing the United States' oil shale deposits into liquid fuel is an environmental nightmare and a complete non-starter from an energy perspective, Western Resource Advocates has
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Stopping Soot Emissions Only Way to Prevent Runaway Arctic Sea Ice Melting
More on the high, but heretofore largely neglected, role that soot plays in
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Major Asian Paper Corps Undermine Indonesia's Carbon Emission Reduction Commitments
Echoing a recent Greenpeace report on the deforestation in Indonesia by the paper industry, Eyes on the Forest is highlighting the actions of Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL in illegally clearing forests and undermining government
