Tag: climate change
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Guiding Responsible Geoengineering Research
In an article published March 15 in the journal Science, Edward Parson of UCLA and David Keith of Harvard University outline how the current deadlock on governance of geoengineering research poses real threats to the sound management of climate risk. Their article advances concrete and actionable proposals for allowing further research — but not deployment…
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Fracking: What’s That Smell?
MICHAEL BRUNE — Natural gas boosters like to claim that it is a climate-friendly energy source, supposedly because it’s not as dirty as other fossil fuels. That’s like saying it’s safer to be attacked with a knife than a gun …
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Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shaping North into South
BU-led international team shows significant reduction in temperature and vegetation seasonality over northern latitudes An international team of 21 authors from 17 institutions in seven countries has just published a study in the journal Natural Climate Change showing that, as the cover of snow and ice in the northern latitudes has diminished in recent years, the temperature…
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Where Has All the Ice Gone?
EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE — The race is on between disappearing ice, which is melting faster than predicted, and reductions in carbon emissions, which is happening slower than hoped. The world will need a World War II–type mobilization to shift from climate-disrupting fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy if we are to …
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Greedy Lying Bastards: New Film Exposes Climate Denial Machine
DESMOGBLOG — Greedy Lying Bastards chronicles the dirty money trail from tobacco companies paying for fake experts to attack the science linking cigarettes and cancer, through to the modern day equivalent of oil companies paying fake experts …