Tag: climate change
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A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet Premiers Earth Day on PBS
Mark Kitchell’s 1990 Oscar nominated documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties, covered the campus activism that disrupted the House Un-American Activities Committee’s hearings, launched the Free Speech Movement, fought the police at People’s Park and inspired student spokesman Mario Savio to declare: “There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so…
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A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet Premiers Earth Day on PBS
Mark Kitchell’s 1990 Oscar nominated documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties, covered the campus activism that disrupted the House Un-American Activities Committee’s hearings, launched the Free Speech Movement, fought the police at People’s Park and inspired student spokesman Mario Savio to declare: “There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so…
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30 Countries Pledge Record Amount to Prevent Global Environmental Degradation
Thirty donor countries today pledged US$4.43 billion for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to support developing countries’ efforts over the next four years to prevent degradation of the global environment. “Today’s decision is a powerful signal from the global community about the importance of urgently reversing the negative environmental trends in order to ensure a…
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What Happens If We Exceed the Carbon Budget?
From the International Energy Agency to NASA, everybody agrees that warming the world by more than 2 degrees Celsius would be akin to diving into the climate change danger zone. In fact, James Hansen, a former NASA scientist now with Columbia University’s Earth Institute, says that operating within that limit “would have consequences that can be…
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New Study Delivers Blow to Climate Deniers, Refutes ‘Natural-Warming’ Theory With 99% Certainty
An analysis of temperature data since 1500 all but rules out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth’s climate, according to a new study by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy. The study, published online April 6 in the journal Climate Dynamics, represents a new…