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How Not To Write A Headline About The IPCC’s Climate Science Report
(Credit: AP On Friday, the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its fifth assessment showing what scientists understand about climate change. There are a number of important...
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Three Things We Aren’t As Sure Of As Climate Change, But Accept As Fact Anyway
Mark Dennin is an intern and Arpita Bhattacharyya is a Research Associate with the Energy Team at the Center for American Progress. Andrew Breiner contributed the graphics to this piece. Last week the...
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More Bad News For Fracking: IPCC Warns Methane Traps Much More Heat Than We...
Methane leaks in Boston area. Yellow indicates methane levels above 2.5 parts per million. Via NY Times. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that methane (CH4) is far more...
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Eating More With Less: Leaked IPCC Report Confirms Climate Change Will Shrink...
CREDIT: AP/Hassan Ammar Climate change will seriously damage the world’s ability to feed itself in the coming decades, according to a leaked report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change....
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Deaths From Heat Waves May Increase Ten Times By Mid-Century
Heat waves claim 660 lives every year in the U.S. As Thanksgiving approaches and leaves and temperatures start to fall across the country, heat waves are probably the last thing on anyone’s mind. But...
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Sea Level Rise Could Reduce The World Economy By 10 Percent This Century
Flood hits a Bangkok airport in 2011. CREDIT: Shutterstock New research predicts that by 2100, damage from flooding and rising seas could cost the world almost a tenth of its economy. The paper, by...
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IPCC: Climate Impacts ‘Are Very Evident, They’re Widespread’ And ‘We Are Not...
Humanity’s choice (via IPCC, 2013): Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Continued inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of...
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Epic King Tides Offer Glimpse Of Climate Change In Marshall Islands
As the Majuro shoreline erodes, coconut trees fall into the ocean. CREDIT: A.P. Images Hundreds of people who had to flee their houses earlier this week as flood waters tore through Majuro, the...
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UN Officials Speak Out On Climate Change As Australian Drought Deepens
CREDIT: A.P. Images Speaking ahead of next month’s IPCC publication on the effects of climate change on the world’s food supplies, human health, cities and rural areas, Rajendra Pachauri, the head of...
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Study: 2ºC Warming Is Enough To Seriously Hurt Crop Yields
CREDIT: Shutterstock As farmers sow this year’s crops, they may be distracted by the fact that by the 2030s — just over 15 years from now — crop yields in temperate and tropical regions will suffer...
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Climate Change Already Impacting ‘All Continents’ According To New...
CREDIT: Shutterstock The next big report from an ongoing international effort to nail down the science of climate change will be released on Monday. According to the Guardian, the report’s language...
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Conservative Climate Panel Warns World Faces ‘Breakdown Of Food Systems’ And...
Humanity’s choice (via IPCC): Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Continued inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of U.S....
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Climate Fails: The Internet’s Worst Reactions To The U.N.’s New Climate Report
CREDIT: Shutterstock When the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases a report, it’s safe to say it’s a pretty big deal. For the one released Monday, more than 1,271 people were...
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CNN Ignores Major Climate Report, But Fox News Does Something Even Worse
CREDIT: Andrew Breiner On Monday, someone who just watched Fox News wouldn’t know that a U.N. panel’s report said that “breakdown of food systems” and “violent conflict” are likely impacts of even low...
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Shell, Adidas, And 70 Other Companies Call On Governments To Cap Carbon At 1...
CREDIT: Shutterstock Royal Dutch Shell, Adidas, Unilever, and some 70 other companies released a communiqué urging world governments to keep carbon emissions since the industrial revolution to a...
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Climate Panel Stunner: Avoiding Climate Catastrophe Is Super Cheap — But Only...
Humanity’s choice (via IPCC): Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Continued inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of U.S....
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Could Australia Use Plants To Pull CO2 Out Of The Air And Store It Underground?
CREDIT: Greenfleet Australia Australia is in dire straits when it comes to climate change. An obstinate government has been tenacious in the quest to perpetuate fossil fuel extraction while sidelining...
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Right Now We ‘Grossly Underestimate’ Economic Damage From Climate Change, New...
British economist Lord Nicholas Stern. CREDIT: AP Photo / Keystone, Peter Schneider Our current models “grossly underestimate” the economic damage that will be wrought by climate change, according to...
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Climate Scientists Spell Out Stark Danger And Immorality Of Inaction In New...
Humanity’s choice (via IPCC): Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming and costs a mere 0.06% of annual growth. Continued inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic...
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Earth Is Heating Faster Than We Realized, Making 2°C Limit For Global Warming...
CREDIT: Shutterstock A major new study finds that “scientists may have hugely underestimated the extent of global warming because temperature readings from southern hemisphere seas were inaccurate.”...
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