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UN Reports 2013 Warmest Year on Record

Posted by voice on Saturday, 16 November 2013 in Climate Change

The year 2013 is currently on course to be among the top ten warmest years since modern records began in 1850, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said today, adding that melting ice caps and glaciers have contributed to a record high in global sea levels. “Temperatures so fa...

Typhoon Haiyan and climate change Q&A

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 12 November 2013 in Climate Change

Is typhoon Haiyan linked to climate change? As the devastating storm has only just happened, it is too soon for any research to have been done on whether global warming influenced typhoon Haiyan. But there are good reasons for expecting that it has (see below). Furthermore, the tools...

Colorado Flooding and Climate Change

Posted by piankoe on Sunday, 15 September 2013 in Climate Change

The Boulder, Colo. area is reeling after being inundated by record rainfall, with more than half a year’s worth of rain falling over the past three days. During those three days, 24-hour rainfall totals of between 8 and 10 inches across much of the Boulder area were enough to qualify this storm...

The Problems of Fixing Climate Change

Posted by thatsenough on Saturday, 17 August 2013 in Climate Change

In the quest to head off rising global temperatures, some scientists have argued for steep curbs in how much soot and methane are released into the air. But a new study suggests that targeting such emissions in the next couple of decades may make much less of a dent than previously thought. While c...

Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 09 May 2013 in Climate Change

The United States has failed to take action to mitigate climate change thanks in part to the large number of religious Americans who believe the world has a set expiration date. Research by David C. Barker of the University of Pittsburgh and David H. Bearce of the University of Colorado uncovered t...

Oceans Rising At Alarming Rate!

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 in Climate Change

Whew! We made it through that Mayan end of the world apocalypse thing. But don’t even begin to imagine that our doomsday problems are nearly over. Even the Wall Street Journal breathlessly reported "Polar Ice Melt Is Accelerating: Shrinking in Greenland, Antarctica Has Sent Ocean Levels Higher, Stu...

The Green Ninja Climate Change Super Hero

Posted by Calle on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 in Environmental Heroes

Wouldn’t it be nice to have your own superhero to reduce the global carbon footprint? Enter the Green Ninja, a climate action superhero who fights global warming through education and social change. We all know the importance of reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases to help stabilize our climat...

Trusting Global Warming

Posted by Aaron on Friday, 08 February 2013 in Climate Change

A growing majority of Americans think global warming is occurring, that it will become a serious problem and that the U.S. government should do something about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Even most people who say they don't trust scientists on the environment say temperatures are ris...

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Is Denial the Biggest Barrier to Sustainable Change?

Posted by mak on Friday, 01 February 2013 in Climate Change

There's the old joke that denial is not a river in Egypt. However, it is the most pernicious barrier to dealing with the sustainability challenges of our age. Now that we should be surprised, because as humans, we are particularly capable of blocking out all sorts of trauma in the hope we can hold ...

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Are you Hot? 2012 was According to NOAA

Posted by acox on Thursday, 31 January 2013 in Climate Change

The globally-averaged temperature for 2012 marked the 10th warmest year since record keeping began in 1880. It also marked the 36th consecutive year with a global temperature above the 20th century average. The last below-average annual temperature was 1976. Including 2012, all 12 yea...

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Changing American Minds about Climate Change

Posted by 20minutesto9 on Sunday, 27 January 2013 in Climate Change

NATURE’S SIGNALS are changing American minds about the risks of climate change. But Washington’s minds are lagging, despite President Obama’s stirring call to action in his inaugural speech. The best hope for achieving the transition to a low-carbon economy is through innovation to reduce the costs...

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Obama's Climate Change Promises

Posted by rackfokus on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 in Sustainable Development

As President Barack Obama prepares to take the oath of office for the second time, he has promised that climate change will be a priority in his second term. The chances that significant climate action will actually happen, however, remain slim, policy experts say. "I always have hope, but it is so...

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Global Warming or US Warming?

Posted by addison on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 in Climate Change

The Ashville, North Carolina-based National Climatic Data Center says the continental United States had a national average of just over 57 degrees between January and November. While that is 3.3 degrees higher than the long-term average, it is only one degree above the soon-to-be-outdated ...

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Obamas Climate Change - A Second Tier Debate

Posted by Wolf on Thursday, 08 November 2012 in Climate Change

The invitation to the White House in the spring of 2009 struck Barack Obama's allies in the environmental movement as a big moment: a clear sign that climate change was on his radar and that the president was eager to get to work. The event was indeed a turning point, but not the one ca...

Why Has Extreme Weather Failed to Heat Up Climate Debate?

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 28 August 2010 in Climate Change

We've had so much record heat around the world lately that the records themselves are setting records: 17 nations have reached new temperature highs, a new record for records in a year. Pakistan hit (129F) 54C, a new record for all of Asia. Moscow had never hit 100F (38C) before; lately it's...