Tag: Global Warming Science - Page 3
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Climate Change Hitting Europe Hard, Going To Get Worse
A new report from the European Environment Agency once again reveals the dangerous folly of ignoring climate change.
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Can Loving Penguins Inspire a Love of Math That Could Help Save Our Planet?
A scientist inspired by "The March of the Penguins" successfully models penguin huddling behavior, and hopes the penguins will interest people in math.
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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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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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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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What Manslaughter Conviction of Earthquake Experts Means for Global Warming Science
Science save us! (But only if we want to be saved.)
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Rising CO2 Could Make Glaciers, Ice Caps More Vulnerable to Cracking
It's not just melting causing by warming temperatures and rising greenhouse gases that threatens the world's ice caps and glaciers.
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How Much Carbon Dioxide is Emitted on Your Block? Hestia Knows
The Hestia project allows researchers to map CO2 emissions building-by-building and block-by-block.
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Climate Skeptics Given Much More Space by US Newspapers Than Foreign Press
A new study looks at the amount of space given to climate skeptics and deniers in US print media, confirming what you probably could've guessed.
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Methane Leaking From Arctic Seafloor Likely Not Caused by Human-Induced Warming
Some leaks of methane hydrates in the Arctic seafloor off Norway may have been leaking for hundreds of years.
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Fox News & Wall Street Journal Both Grossly Misrepresenting Climate Science: UCS Study
There haven't been many references to climate in either media outlet recently, but when it does come up, both are getting the science badly wrong.
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Arctic Sea Ice Melt Smashes Previous Record Lows - How Will We Respond?
Will we live in a nightmare or bring the dream of a more environmentally-friendly and socially-just future into being?
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Arctic Sea Ice Could Disappear in Summer by 2016
Though shipping and oil companies may benefit, an ice-free Arctic in summer will accelerate global warming.
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Thanks Guys! Study Shows Sea Otters Fight Global Warming by Protecting Kelp from Sea Urchins
According to a new study by researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, sea otters play an important role in helping the ocean absorb as much carbon dioxide as possible.
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Climate Science Basics: Why Will Dry Areas Get Drier & Wet Areas Get Wetter (Video)
This short video from NOAA explains the atmospheric science behind why sub-tropical regions are likely to get even drier because of global warming, while sub-polar and equatorial regions will see more precipitation. Get schooled.
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If We Can't Understand Rape, How Can We Solve Climate Change?
Rep. Todd Akin falsely claimed rape cannot lead to pregnancy. His ignorance highlights a problem of scientific illiteracy in the US government.
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Scientists Propose Creating Clouds to Slow Warming
Researchers are hoping their artificially-produced clouds will have a silver lining, for Earth's sake.
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U.S. Economy's Carbon Intensity Declined 4.2% in 2011
The amount of energy-related CO2 released into the atmosphere by per unit of U.S. GDP produced fell 2.4% in 2001, or 136 million metric tons, while GDP went up by 1.8%.
