Tag: climate change
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Harvard and Brown Fail Moral Leadership Exam
By John Fullerton At a time when institutions of business and government continue to fail society, two of our leading academic institutions missed the opportunity to provide essential moral leadership on the most pressing challenge ever faced in the history of human civilization. Harvard President Drew Faust issued her October statement first: She and her colleagues on…
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Top 13 Dumb Things Media Said About Climate Change in 2013
By Denise Robbins The evidence for climate change only got stronger this year, with a major climate report finding 95 percent confidence in manmade global warming and the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere hitting a record 400 parts per million. Climate doubters, in turn, became increasingly desperate, citing everything from a verified scam artist to the “Ouija…
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Climate Change Could Diminish Valuable Cloud Cover, Scientists Say
By Tim Radford Australian and French scientists believe they have cracked one of the great puzzles of climate change and arrived at a more accurate prediction of future temperatures. [caption id="attachment_316822" align="alignnone" width="500"] In a warmer world there may be fewer clouds—and less of a cooling effect. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The news is not…
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Extreme Weather Puts UK’s Hedgehog Population at Risk
By Kristina Chew The hedgehog population has fallen by 25 percent in the past decade in England due to intensive farming in the countryside and, in the suburbs, more and more cars and paved-over spaces. This year’s hedgehogs face another threat as many were born late, due to a wet summer and a warm October and may not have…
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A Year in the Life of Greenpeace
With your help, Greenpeace has not only reached around the globe to push policy and take direct action, but we have engaged the imagination of a world which is not happy with business as usual and demands a sustainable future. Below is a gallery of a mere few of those moments in the last year:…