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17/5/2013
Fiji's picturesque Natewa Bay must be a hard place to leave, and for none more so than the villagers of Vunidogoloa, who are preparing to abandon their ancestral home in the face of the rising sea. But they have little choice: big waves now ...
11/5/2013
The old saying that ''what goes up must come down'' doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone.
The chief greenhouse gas was measured Thursday at 400 parts per million in Hawaii, a ...
17/4/2013
The reduction of greenhouse gases that cycle through the atmosphere more quickly than carbon dioxide could significantly reduce potential sea level rise this century, according to a study in which the National Center for Atmospheric Research was ...
14/4/2013
A new study finds that it is possible to greatly slow the rate of sea level rise, which is one of the biggest threats global warming poses, by cutting so-called "short-lived climate pollutants,' which warm the climate on timescales of a few weeks ...
6/4/2013
Our planet is already showing the stress of radical climate change, affecting the Earth right before our eyes. The climate is different than when we were kids, and it is changing more rapidly than ever before. Accordingly, the underlying thesis ...
31/3/2013
This spring could be the most miserable one ever for those of us with allergies, and we can blame it on climate change.
People in the Northeast, in particular, will be among the hardest hit in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and this ...
6/3/2013
Increased concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), primarily carbon dioxide emitted from the burning of fossil fuels for cheap energy, have driven global average temperatures to rise. While this in itself is cause for concern, the ...
28/2/2013
Scientists may have resolved a long-standing puzzle in climate science by showing that ancient increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide came at the same time as rising temperatures, rather than hundreds of years afterward.
In a new ...
24/2/2013
From March 1, 2007, to that same date the following year, nations from around the world and particularly the North came together for what was the third International Polar Year (IPY). As with the case in the two previous IPYs (the first in the ...
5/2/2013
Arctic nations have an extraordinary opportunity to show global leadership to slow regional warming and melting by embracing a proposal to launch talks on an agreement to reduce emissions of the climate pollutant black carbon. Arctic environment ...
4/2/2013
In his inaugural address, President Obama made climate change a priority of his second term. It may be too late.
Within the lifetimes of today's children, scientists say, the climate could reach a state unknown in ...
1/2/2013
After listening to President Obama's inaugural address, my faith in our nation's resolve to address climate change has been renewed. I have hope. The president devoted one of the longest paragraphs of his speech to the need to confront this ...
31/1/2013
Last week, a much discussed new paper in the journal Nature seemed to suggest to some that we needn’t worry too much about the melting of
Greenland, the mile-thick mass of ice at the top of the globe. The research found that the
Greenland ice ...
30/1/2013
Last week, a much discussed new paper in the journal Nature seemed to suggest to some that we needn`t worry too much about the melting of
Greenland, the mile-thick mass of ice at the top of the globe. The research found that the
Greenland ice ...
26/1/2013
In his inaugural address last week, President Barack Obama made climate change a priority of his second term. It might be too late.
Within the lifetimes of today's children, scientists say, the climate could reach a state unknown in ...
13/1/2013
When do "alarmists" become thought leaders? Is it when their numbers reach a critical mass? It is when the threat they identify becomes so obvious to enough people, it becomes impossible to deny? Is it when long-time climate change deniers, ...
3/1/2013
SOMETIME this Antarctic summer, Sridhar Anandakrishnan will fly to the mouth of Pine Island glacier in West Antarctica. It's a dangerous place. "You get these monster crevasses," he says. "If your helicopter needed to set down, it's not a trivial ...
1/1/2013
The thesis that Hansen has put forward for several years is that Ice Sheet collapse is a non-linear process: that with the inclusion of amplifying climate feedbacks it is likely to follow an exponential rate of acceleration - a doubling rate. It ...
25/12/2012
The rebuilding of the NYC, Long Island, and NJ coastal areas post Hurricane Sandy is a critical opportunity to impact how America responds to climate change.
When I suggested this at a recent 350.org meeting in NYC, most people thought ...
23/12/2012
The Rev. Canon Sally Bingham is president and founder of the Regeneration Project and Interfaith Power and Light, a national interfaith network of affiliates that work with congregations to promote energy conservation, energy efficiency, and ...
21/12/2012
The year 2012 was one of extreme weather: massive floods in Australia stranded entire towns; a day of torrential rains submerged half the Philippines capital; a super-typhoon ravaged the western Pacific; and a record drought seared more than half ...
11/12/2012
Scientists will tell you: There are no perfect computer models. All are incomplete representations of nature, with uncertainty built into them. But one thing is certain: Several fundamental projections found in U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on ...
6/12/2012
Scientists will tell you: There are no perfect computer models. All are incomplete representations of nature, with uncertainty built into them. But one thing is certain: Several fundamental projections found in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
4/12/2012
In a development that underscores the widening gap between the necessary steps to limit global warming and the policies that governments are actually putting into place, a new report shows that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will likely ...
1/12/2012
A new report on permafrost slowly thawing in the Arctic creating
methane and carbon dioxide emissions highlights an approaching dangerous climate tipping point. There is a huge amount of organic matter frozen in permafrost, estimated to contain ...