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A Climate Change by Any Other Name
Last week Fox News and other conservative media outlets tried once again to fabricate controversy over climate science when they pounced on a presentation made by the president’s science adviser Dr....
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A Stunning Year in Climate Science Reveals that Human Civilization is On the...
This week marks the one-year anniversary of what the anti-science crowd successfully labeled ‘Climategate’. The media will be doing countless retrospectives, most of which will be wasted ink, like the...
View ArticleAn Amazing, Though Clearly Little-Known, Scientific Fact: We Get More Snow...
With the arrival of the snowy season we thought it appropriate to do a post on the links between climate change and snowfall. In the last year the Mid Atlantic region received not one but two major...
View ArticleA science-free Congress?
To our dismay, and the nation’s detriment, self-described climate change deniers – strongly supported by fossil-fuel interests — continue to mislead Congress and the public. In late January, we joined...
View ArticleIs global warming a black swan?
Year after year the worriers and fretters would come to me with awful predictions of the outbreak of war. I denied it each time. I was only wrong twice. -Senior British intelligence official, retiring...
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Extreme Warming Forces Climate Scientists to Add Hot Pink to Temperature Map
Last month I reported on a new paper by NASA’s James Hansen and Makiko Sato (see Hansen: “One sure bet is that this decade will be the warmest” on record). Kate at ClimateSight sighted a new color in...
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The Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral Continues
In November, Rear Admiral David Titley, the Oceanographer of the Navy, testified that “the volume of ice as of last September has never been lower…in the last several thousand years.” Titley, who is...
View ArticleWhat if the CO2 Ceiling Debate Were Like the Debt Ceiling Debate?
In this lightly edited cross-post, Climate Progress’s Joe Romm looks at the counterfactual: What if the president threw all the might of his bully pulpit and negotiating prowess behind reducing our...
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Eight Must-Have Charts Summarize the Evidence for a “Human Fingerprint” on...
Joe Romm in a Climate Progress cross-post. Click here for the high-res version of the image above. The Yale Project on Climate Change Communications asked Americans “If you had the opportunity to talk...
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March Heat Records Crush Cold Records by Over 35 To 1
By Joe Romm, of Climate Progress. The final data is in for the unprecedented March heat wave that was “unmatched in recorded history” for the U.S. (and Canada). New heat records swamped cold records...
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The Great Dust Bowl of 2012
Rebecca Leber and Joe Romm, in a Climate Progress cross-post. This year’s drought ranks as one of the top 10 worst U.S. droughts for the last century. With more than half the country (54 percent)...
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Study: We’re Headed To 11°F Warming And Even 7°F Requires ‘Quadrupling The...
By Dr. Joe Romm, via Climate Progress. A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers finds humanity has its foot on the accelerator as we head toward a cliff. The only hope is very rapid deployment of...
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Manmade Carbon Pollution Has Already Put Us On Track For 69 Feet Of Sea Level...
Joe Romm, via climate progress. The bad news is that we’re all but certain to end up with a coastline at least this flooded (20 meters or 69 feet). The “good” news is that this might take 1000 to 2000...
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Recent Observed Global Warming Is ‘Amazing And Atypical’
Dr. Joe Romm, via Climate Progress. The figure at right shows temperature change over the past 11,300 years (in blue, via Science, 2013) plus projected warming this century on humanity’s current...
View ArticleDeath Spiral Video: Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volume 1979-2012
Many experts now say that if recent volume trends continue we will see a “near ice-free Arctic in summer” within a decade. Creative tech guru Andy Lee Robinson shows why in a wondrous new video — set...
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