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What can be done to slow climate change?

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - By NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Jan. 12 (Research) - ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2012) A new study led by a NASA scientist highlights 14 key air pollution control measures that, if implemented, could slow the pace of global warming, improve health and boost agricultural production.

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Paleoclimate record points toward potential rapid climate changes

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

ScienceDaily - By NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center - Dec. 08 (Research) - New research into the Earth's paleoclimate history suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including multiple meters of sea level rise, if global warming is not abated.

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Gingrich On Climate Change

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson - Dec. 07 (Fact Check) - Newt Gingrich went too far when he claimed that “I’ve never favored cap-and-trade.” It’s true he’s never favored the approach taken by Democrats, but he said in 2007 that he would “strongly support” cap-and-trade if combined with “a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions”.

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Flipping Through DNC Playbook on Romney

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Brooks Jackson, D’Angelo Gore, Scott Blackburn, Lalita Clozel - Dec. 01 (Fact Check) - The Democratic National Committee casts Mitt Romney as an untrustworthy flip-flopper in a lengthy Web video, but pads a long list of examples with some falsehoods and distortions. It's true that Romney has changed or modified his position on some major issues -- including abortion, a federal assault weapons ban and Reaganomics, as the DNC says. But the video strains the truth ... More >>

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Mitt Romney's views on climate change have changed, says DNC

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan - Nov. 30 (Fact Check) - Global warming has become a hot potato, at least for Republican presidential candidates. We’ve seen candidates for the Republican nomination question whether there’s scientific consensus on climate change, but those statements are at odds with the facts.

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10,000 Surround White House to Protest Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 07 (News Report) - More than 10,000 protesters surrounded the White House on Sunday calling on President Obama to reject the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast. The protest came exactly a year before the 2012 election and the pipeline is shaping up to be a major political issue.

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To WaPo, Planet's Fate Is a 'Second-Tier' Issue'

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

FAIR - By Peter Hart - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - The Washington Post had a piece yesterday (6/9/11) on Mitt Romney's views on global warming. It serves as a reminder that Republican political candidates are under enormous pressure from the right-wing base of the party on this issue--any politician who'

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David Suzuki: Humans May Have Loaded the Bases, but Nature Bats Last

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By David Suzuki - Jun. 01 (Special Report) - For the first time in human history, we have to respond as a single species to crises of our own making. Until now, this kind of unified effort only happened in science fiction when space aliens invaded Earth.

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All Coral Reefs May Be Gone By 2050

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Joanna Zelman - Feb. 25 (News Report) - A recent study has found that all of the world's coral reefs could be gone by 2050. If lost, 500 million people's livelihoods worldwide would be threatened. The World Resources Institute report, "Reefs at Risk Revisited," suggests that by 2030, over 90 percent of coral reefs will be threatened.

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Scientists Connect Global Warming To Extreme Rain

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Seth Borenstein - Feb. 16 (News Report) - Extreme rainstorms and snowfalls have grown substantially stronger, two studies suggest, with scientists for the first time finding the telltale fingerprints of man-made global warming on downpours that often cause deadly flooding.

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The Social Cost of Carbon

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:21:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Judith D. Schwartz - Feb. 15 (Special Report) - The social cost of carbon, or SCC, is the value in today’s dollars of the stream of damages caused by adding one metric ton of CO2 into the atmosphere; a ton is the amount a typical family car will emit every 10 weeks. The SCC figure adopted last Februar

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Why Seattle Will Stay Dry When Your City Floods

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Mark Hertsgaard - Jan. 25 (News) - Editor's note: What's the best way to adapt to our rapidly warming world? That's the question journalist Mark Hertsgaard asks in his new book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. The following article is the first of a two-part adaptation

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Science is self-correcting: Lessons from the arsenic controversy

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

realclimate.org - By RealClimate.org - Dec. 29 (Special Report) - Recent attention to NASA’s announcement of ‘arsenic-based life’ has provided a very public window into how science and scientists operate. Debate surrounds the announcement of any controversial scientific finding. In the case of arseno-DNA, the discussion that is playing out on the blogs is very similar to the process that usually plays out in conferences and seminars. This discussion is a core process by which science works.

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Fox News Boss Ordered Staff To Cast Doubt On Climate Change Science

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post - Dec. 15 (News Report) - A top Fox News editor sent an email to staffers and journalists questioning the science behind global warming and directing them to always point out on air that the theory has its skeptics. Media Matters obtained the memo. It is the second such email the organization has released in as many weeks. Like the last one, the global warming memo came from Bill Sammon, Fox News' Washington managing editor. Sammon was also the author of an email directing journalists to use the phrase "government option" instead of "public option."

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When could global warming reach 4°C?

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Royal Society - By Richard A. Betts, Matthew Collins, Deborah L. Hemming, Chris D. Jones, Jason A. Lowe, Michael G. Sanderson - Dec. 03 (Special Report) - While much political attention is focused on the potential for global warming of 2°C relative to pre-industrial, the AR4 projections clearly suggest that much greater levels of warming are possible by the end of the twenty-first century in the absence of mitigation. The centre of the range of AR4-projected global warming was approximately 4°C. The higher end of the projected warming was associated with the higher emissions scenarios and models, which included stronger carbon-cycle feedbacks. The highest emissions scenario considered in the AR4 (scenario A1FI) was not examined with complex general circulation models (GCMs) in the AR4, and similarly the uncertainties in climate–carbon-cycle feedbacks were not included in the main set of GCMs. Consequently, the projections of warming for A1FI and/or with different strengths of carbon-cycle feedbacks are often not included in a wider discussion of the AR4 conclusions. While it is still too early to say whether any particular scenario is being tracked by current emissions, A1FI is considered to be as plausible as other non-mitigation scenarios and cannot be ruled out.

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Four degrees and beyond special issue journal

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

tyndall.ac.uk - Dec. 01 (Special Report) - The collection of papers by leading international scholars from the Tyndall Centre, Oxford University, the Met Office and overseas institutes, explores the likelihood of large climate changes of 4 degrees and the potential impacts of these changes. The research addresses the challenges involved in avoiding high levels of warming, as well as the challenges of adaptation should society fail to do so. It stems from the first academic conference to analyse 4 degrees and beyond, last year by the Tyndall Centre.

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The Primary Obama Movement Begins Today

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Ian Welsh - Nov. 05 (News Analysis) - The 2010 electoral massacre is over and Democrats are licking their wounds. Let me put it simply, what went wrong went wrong from the very top of the party. In both political and policy terms, the President of the United States, the head of the Democratic party, created this disaster.

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Americans' Climate Change Knowledge: Fossil Fuels Are Fossilized Dinosaurs, Global Warming Is Beneficial And 12 Other Ridiculous Beliefs (PHOTOS)

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Travis Walter Donovan - Oct. 21 (Investigative Report) - A new report released by Yale, "Americans' Knowledge Of Climate Change," reveals an extremely alarming absence of accurate information when it comes to what Americans know about the climate and energy. The report's findings are based on a survey of 2,030 American adults and include some shocking results, such as a large belief that fossil fuels are the fossilized remains of dinosaurs, rockets punching holes in the ozone contribute to global warming, and that some actually believe global warming is beneficial.

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The Third Way to Media Success

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Abe Peck - Oct. 12 (Special Report) - Northwestern University researchers look to link editorial talent with audience experiences to get an elusive Web-era result — loyal readers and viewers. Northwestern University researchers have explored a way to couple creative expertise with deep

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As White House Reverses Rejection of Solar Panels, 350.org to Hold 10.10.10 Day of Action on Global Warming

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman - Oct. 08 (News Report) - Climate change activists are gearing up for a major day of action this Sunday with the 10.10.10 global work party organized by the group 350.org. More than 7,000 events are being held in 188 countries to urge people across the globe to do something in their city or community that will help deal with global warming. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has announced plans to install solar panels atop the White House’s living quarters, one month after the White House rejected a proposal by Bill McKibben of 350.org and students from Unity College to reinstall the White House solar panels used by President Carter in the 1970s.

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Cuccinelli goes fishing again

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

realclimate.org - Oct. 04 (Special Report) - In keeping with our role as a site that tries to deal with the science of climate change rather than the politics, we have specifically refrained from commenting on various politically-motivated legal shenanigans relating to climate science. Some of them have involved us directly, but we didn’t (don’t) want to have RC become just a blog about us. However, the latest move by Ken Cuccinelli, the Attorney General of Virginia, against Mike Mann and UVa is so ridiculous it needs to be highlighted to the widest audience possible. For background, Rosalind Helderman at the Washington Post has covered most of the story. The last installment was that Cuccinelli’s attempt to subpoena 10 years of emails between 39 scientists and Mike Mann and ‘all documents’ residing at UVa related to four federal and one Commonwealth of Virginia grant, was thrown out by a judge because Cuccinelli did not provide any reason to suspect that fraud had occurred and that federal grants are not covered by the relevant statute. Without due cause, the AG is not allowed to investigate (and without such a restriction, there would be no end to politically motivated witch hunts

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Long Nights and Thin Ice: A Penguin’s Tale

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Todd - Sep. 28 (Special Report) - His research has determined that some colonies of Adèlies, those living near Ross Island, are going to be near-term winners of how climate change affects the world’s seventh continent. This will occur even as their peers on the Antarctic Peninsula 2,000 miles away face a punishing slog toward probable localized extinction.

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Could This Be A Crime?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

climatestorytellers.org - By Subhankar Banerjee - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - Last month the U.S. Senate finally put an end to the climate bill. Since then several opinion pieces have been published, including articles in Yale Environment 360, Grist, TomDispatch, The Nation, and The Hill. Some of these point out why the U.S. climate movement failed, while others call for a new movement. Global warming is a crisis: for all lands, for all oceans, for all rivers, for all forests, for all humans, for all birds, for all mammals, for all little creatures that we don’t see... for all life. We need stories and actions from every part of our earth. So far, global warming communications have primarily focused on scientific information. I strongly believe that to engage the public, we need all fields of the humanities. It is to this end that I founded ClimateStoryTellers. And there is much action: globally, 350.org and Climate Justice Movement; nationally, organizations such as Center for Biological Diversity; and state-based initiatives such as New Energy Economy in New Mexico. These groups give us hope that a bold – not weak – climate movement will continue to move forward with renewed energy. Our task is to make the collective global voice louder and louder until ignoring such loud cacophony will not be an option by our governments. Global warming is not something we can solve with good behavior and healthy lifestyles. It will require major government action to control pollution–and–polluters and to start a low–carbon–society.

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Dead Fish Wash Ashore In Thousands For Second Time This Week On East Coast (VIDEO)

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Aug. 12 (News) - NBC Philadelphia reports that tens of thousands of dead menhaden fish washed ashore Wednesday on a New Jersey beach along Delaware Bay.

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The Muir-Russell report

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

realclimate.org - By Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt - Jul. 07 (Special Report) - The long-awaited and surprisingly thorough Muir-Russell report (readable online version) was released this morning. We’ve had a brief read through of the report, but a thorough analysis of this and the supplemental information on the web site will have to wait for a day or so. The main issue is that they conclude that the rigour and honesty of the CRU scientists is not in doubt. For anyone who knows Phil Jones and his colleagues this comes as no surprise, and we are very pleased to have this proclaimed so vigorously. Secondly, they conclude that none of the emails cast doubt on the integrity and conclusions of the IPCC, again, something we have been saying since the beginning. They also conclude as we did that there was no ‘corruption’ of the peer-review process. Interestingly, they independently analysed the public domain temperature data themselves to ascertain whether the could validate the CRU record. They managed this in two days, somewhat undermining claims that the CRU temperature data was somehow manipulated inappropriately. (Note that this exercise has been undertaken by a number of people since November – all of which show that the CRU results are robust).

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