global climate change

Texas Censors Scientists’ Work Revealing Impacts of Climate Change

October 12, 2011

Photo credit: eutrophication&hypoxia via Flickr/CC BY

John Anderson, a oceanographer from Texas, worked with a group of researchers on an in-depth study on Galveston Bay for 10 years. He then authored the report on the study, which he submitted to Te…

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More Factory Farms Behind 20% Increase In Meat Consumption Over Past Decade

October 12, 2011

photo: Mike Fleming/CC BY

Many TreeHugger readers are probably aware that the amount of meat we’re eating on average is increasing, a lot. Some new research from Worldwatch Institute quantifies it, and the picture isn’t pretty. In the past 10 years, …

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Are Carbon Offsets Irrelevant? Maybe They Always Were…

October 12, 2011

Image credit: Land Rover Our Planet, used under Creative Commons license.

When I wrote about the new UK Carbon Reporting Framework which connects potential project funders with CO2-cutting initiatives, I noted that they were not calling it offsets. I…

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Ancient Lakes Miles Below Antarctica May Hold Climate Clues, New Life Forms

October 11, 2011

All Antarctica photos: Subglacial Lake Ellsworth Consortium, Neil Ross/University of Edinburgh

Cocktail party fact incoming: There are hundreds of liquid lakes that lie miles beneath Antarctica. Unfrozen, but still-cold-as-hell, lakes. The largest, L…

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NASA Climate Scientist: Skeptics are "Winning the Argument"

October 11, 2011

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NASA’s James Hansen, perhaps the world’s foremost climate scientist, said that “climate contrarians … have been winning the argument for several years, even though the science has become clearer.” He made the …

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World’s Highest Webcam Monitors Climate Change on Everest

October 10, 2011

Screenshot via evk2cnr.org

Scaling the world’s highest peak normally required months of training and heaps of determination — but now, thanks to a new webcam installed on Mount Everest, anyone with an internet connection can get a taste of life in t…

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Europeans Fear Climate Change More than Economic Crisis: New Poll

October 10, 2011

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Europeans seem to understand the severity of the threat posed by climate change a bit better than we Americans do. A new poll shows that the majority of Europeans consider it the second gravest problem facing the …

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Rick Perry’s Attack Ad: Obama & Romney are ‘Carbon Copies’ (Video)

October 10, 2011

There’s no love lost between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, the two supposed frontrunners in the GOP presidential primary race. Ever since Perry hurled himself upon the scene and was instantly proclaimed a serious contender by a breathless, conflict-see…

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Here’s Why Coal’s True Cost Is Much Higher Than We Pay

October 10, 2011

photo: Jim Brickett/CC BY ND

Skeptical Science previous examined the fact that the market price of coal power is artificially low because we do not directly pay for all of its impacts, particularly on air quality and climate change. People who feel…

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Amazon Drought Released 1.8 Billion Tons of CO2 in 2010

October 9, 2011

Photo: Stephen Messenger

Last year, the Amazon rainforest experienced the worst drought on record, reducing normally flowing rivers to sun-baked stretches of dried mud and pushing the fragile ecosystem to the brink. And even more troubling than the c…

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