Tag: climate change
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Women of the World Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change
Apart from those imprisoned in a fortress of science denial, 69 percent of Americans give credence to the 95 percent of climate scientists who agree on the reality and trajectory of human-induced climate change. Nevertheless, the levers on its supersized drivers don’t seem to be within our grasp. Americans live with this looming threat, without…
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Researchers Discover Arctic Warmer Than Anytime in Last 44,000 Years
By Tim Radford Good news for Arctic mosses, if not for any other Arctic creatures: little tundra plants that have been buried under the Canadian ice can feel the sunlight for the first time in at least 44,000 years. The implication is that the Arctic is now, and has been for the last 100 years,…
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Toxic Algal Blooms Connected to Climate Change and Industrial Agriculture
Nutrient enrichment and climate change are posing yet another concern of growing importance—an apparent increase in the toxicity of some algal blooms in freshwater lakes and estuaries around the world, which threatens aquatic organisms, ecosystem health and human drinking water safety. As this nutrient enrichment, or “eutrophication” increases, so will the proportion of toxin-producing strains…
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Interactive Map Shows When Your Community Could Reach ‘Climate Departure’
[caption id="attachment_308507" align="alignright" width="300"]Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] A new study published in the journal Nature predicts that within a few generations humans will live in an “entirely new climate” unless greenhouse gas emissions are held to current levels. After the year 2047, the average temperatures in each year will be hotter across most parts of the planet than they had been at…
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Mainstream Media ‘Balances’ Climate Science With Fossil Fuel Funded Propaganda
Media Matters for America By Shauna Theel USA TODAY became the latest mainstream newspaper to incorrectly “balance” the views of the hundreds of scientists behind a major climate report with the Heartland Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded organization that once compared those who accept climate science to the Unabomber. In an op-ed published by the newspaper yesterday, the head of the organization portrayed…