Tag: Global Warming Science - Page 2
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Climate change is happening now and economic costs are enormous
USA Today has a good cover story on the many ways climate change is impacting the economy, the military, the environment and human survival.
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Meet Bill McKibben, the man behind the climate movement
Bloomberg Businessweek has a nice profile of 350.org founder and climate activist, Bill McKibben.
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How insurance industry can help fight climate change
Jim Malewitz at Stateline reports on the role the insurance industry can help reduce loses by addressing climate change.
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Is Keystone worth the fight?
David Roberts has an excellent rebuttal to those that argue the fight over Keystone XL pipeline is not worth the fight.
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The most important climate science paper
Want to understand why climate change is the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced? Read this six page paper.
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55,000-year-old 'urine layers' used to track climate change
There are many ways for scientists to look back through time. Ice cores, tree rings, sediment layers, carbon-dating, fossils, etc. But some ways are more unexpected...
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Cryosat mission reveals massive Arctic ice loss
An international team of scientists working with data from the European Space Agency (ESA) Cryosat satellite has found that Arctic ice loss has been significant between 2003 and 2012, declining by 36% during autumns and 9% during winters.
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Watch a City-Sized Glacier Collapse (Video)
The makers of Chasing Ice, a documentary about the effects of global warming, captured amazing footage of the largest ice calving ever caught on film. You have to see this!
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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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Sierra Club's Board of Directors Endorses Act of Peaceful Civil Disobedience
Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, explains why the non-profit will add civil disobedience to its roster of tactics in an effort to curtail the "global crisis unfolding before our eyes."
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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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Wake-up Call Climate Report from U.S. Government Made Public
A government advisory committee has submitted for public review of an climate report that -- surprisingly -- doesn't mince words.
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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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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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IEA Head Calls for End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Doing so will get us halfway to preventing dangerous climate change... if there's still time to do so.
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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.
