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The Unexpectedly Exciting World of Refrigerants
Guest blog written by Tilden Chao. Tilden is an undergraduate at Yale University who worked on…Map tracks 30 years of extreme snowmelt across US
A new map of extreme snowmelt events over the last 30 years clarifies the processes that drive…Earth’s frozen areas are shrinking 33K square miles a year
The Earth’s cryosphere is shrinking by 33,000 square miles (87,000 square kilometers) per year. -
Model predicts 10-year burst of wildfire, then gradual decline
A look at the long-term future of wildfires predicts an initial roughly decade-long burst of…Once common weasels are doing a vanishing act
Three species of weasels, once common in North America, are likely in decline, including a species…Flood risk will rise as climate heat intensifies
A warmer world will be a wetter one. Ever more people will face a higher flood risk as rivers rise… -
234 scientists read 14,000+ research papers to write the upcoming…
This week, hundreds of scientists from around the world are finalizing a report that assesses the…Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on…
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- Nnimmo Bassey
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- Michael Grose and Lynette Bettio
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State of the Climate 2018 is the latest biennial snapshot of climate change in Australia. It focuses on observed long-term trends that are happening now and are likely to continue into the near future, as well as significant climate events that have occurred over the past two years
- Samson Reiny, NASA's Earth Science News Team
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The 2015-2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world, according to a new NASA study that is the first to comprehensively assess the public health impacts of the major climate event on a global scale.
- Dahr Jamail, Truthout
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Some people are in an outright panic. Some are in full-blown denial. Indeed, human responses to runaway climate disruption are spanning the spectrum.
- National Geographic
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What causes climate change (also known as global warming)? And what are the effects of climate change? Learn the human impact and consequences of climate change for the environment, and our lives. ➡
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- Stop Fossil Fuels
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- The Real News Network
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- Zhe Zhu, Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Connecticut
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- Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
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- Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
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Global Weirding is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech Public Media and distributed by PBS Digital Studios.
- Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
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All this worry about warming when it’s just a natural cycle. The climate is always changing and today’s no different -- right?
- Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
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We can't trust those Climate models....right?
- Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
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Living things need carbon dioxide to grow and we, humans, are constantly breathing it out. It can't really be a pollutant...can it?
- Gresham College
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Climate change is controversial and the subject of huge debate. Complex climate models based on maths helps us understand. How do these models work? A lecture by Chris Budd OBE, Gresham Professor of Geometry
- Thom Hartmann Program
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Are climate change and global warming predictions moving faster to destroy the world than was first thought? Changes are happening faster than predicted even 10 years ago and at the upper end of the range
- The Real News Network
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Steven Smith of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society and Diana Kushner of the Enduring Ice Project say that the melting of arctic ice will have profound consequences for the future of the planet Visit
- Democracy Now!
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Dr. James Hansen has been called the "father of climate change awareness." In 1988, Hansen first warned about the dangers of global warming when he testified before Congress.
- David Jones, Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
- Read Time: 4 mins
Australian summers are getting hotter. Today marks the end of our warmest summer on record, setting new national temperature records.
- Peter Frumhoff, director of science & policy
- Read Time: 2 mins
By the end of this year, more than half of all industrial emissions of carbon dioxide since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution will have been released since 1988 — the year it became widely known that these emissions are warming the climate.
- Tim Radford
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The planet’s temperature could zoom in an ever more greenhouse world, as researchers identify a dangerous possible cloud tipping point.
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