Tag: climate change
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Watch All Four North Carolina GOP Senate Candidates Laugh When Asked About Climate Change
What’s so funny about a warming planet?…
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Taking Clean Energy Action With Climate Activist Leslie Glustrom
Leslie Glustrom is a dynamic climate change activist living in Boulder, CO, who has been for years fighting Xcel Energy, the current provider of much of…
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Jimmy Carter Slams Koch Brothers and ‘Unpleasantly Successful’ Climate Denial Campaign
A former U.S. president provided some strong words regarding climate change this week while speaking at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). Jimmy Carter referenced not only the fight against time we’re all in when it comes to climate-related impacts, but also the fight against those who are funding climate denial. The 39th president…
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Is This Moth Beating Climate Change?
Finnish and U.S. scientists have an unsolved puzzle: good news when they expected bad news. They have invested 32 years studying the forest moths of Finnish Lapland to measure the effect of climate change—and at face value, there doesn’t seem to have been a change. Yet between 1978 and 2009, average annual temperatures in the region…
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Doing Nothing Isn’t an Option: How to Avoid the Worst of Climate Change
It’s fitting that the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was released during Earth Month. After all, the third chapter of its Fifth Assessment focuses on ways to keep our planet healthy and livable by warding off extreme climatic shifts and weather events caused by escalating atmospheric carbon. Doing so will require substantially…