published March 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Missouri coal train, photo: Scott Granneman via flickr. As Grist pointed out yesterday, the US now has 15 states with resolutions attempting to prevent limits on greenhouse gas pollution . Add to that West Virginia Senator John Rockefeller's bill, just introduced, which would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating stationary sources of pollution for effectively four years. Is ...
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published March 5, 2010 and has No Comments
Scientists took sonar measurements to record clouds of methane bubbles rising from the seafloor. Photo: Igor Semiletov, University of Alaska More evidence is emerging that methane previously trapped in the permafrost below the Arctic sea is starting to be released into the oceans and potentially into the atmosphere. Research published in Science shows that up to 7 million tons ...
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published March 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Filipina beauty queen Miriam Quiambao speaks at a Bangkok, Thailand, rally for gender and climate justice. Photo by ~MVI~ via Flickr. It's already well known that climate change is not an equal-opportunity threat, with its impacts on food production , severe storms, and drought, among others, hitting the world's
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published March 2, 2010 and has No Comments
The Monteverde golden toad went extinct in 1989. Photo: Wikipedia . This probably won't be the last word on the demise of the Monteverde golden toad , but a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that normal El Niño conditions, not climate change, lead to the spread of the deadly chytrid fungus and caused ...
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published February 24, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via UPI Earlier today, I reported that there are still hopes a bipartisan clean energy bill will come to a vote in the Senate this year. I also mentioned that the primary mechanism of reducing greenhouse gas emissions was still being discussed, and that it may not end up being the cap and trade system we've all come ...
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published February 22, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via JCWinnie Okay, so it's not exactly breaking news: climate change has been politicized for decades now. Which, as disturbing as it is, isn't necessarily surprising. The powerful interests whose unsustainable business practices are primary contributors to the growing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were bound to rebut scientific findings to preserve their operations. That they ...
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published February 20, 2010 and has No Comments
"The weather has become warmer in the last four or five years and that is affecting our crops," Tajik farmer Turaqulov Saidmuzator says. "We are losing almost 30 percent of our crops to diseases." Photograph by Anita Swarup/ Oxfam . The already harsh life of Tajikistan's large population of rural poor will be "dealt an even harder blow" by ...
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published February 19, 2010 and has No Comments
Jeremy Jones (above) and the crew of Protect Our Winters want to make sure the US actually
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We've Got 60 Days To Take Action! Protect Our Winters Launches Campaign to Pass US Climate Bill
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published February 18, 2010 and has No Comments
James Bay is the southernmost part of Hudson Bay... The area around Canada's James Bay has warmed about 2°C in the past twenty years alone, causing permafrost to melt and moving the southern edge of the perpetually frozen ground north 80 miles over where it was in the 1960s. That's the word from scientists at the Université Laval in ...
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published February 17, 2010 and has No Comments
Closer to what I think of when I think of Global Weirding. Image via Milaraki Global warming. Climate change. Global climate change. 'Our deteriorating atmosphere.' 'Hell and high water'. These are all labels that have been thrown at the scientifically observed phenomenon of global temperatures rising in concert with increased greenhouse gas emissions . Problem is, nobody can agree ...
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