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Warming Will Continue Even with Immediate Eradication of Greenhouse Gases
Even if we somehow managed to restore our planet’s atmosphere to zero greenhouse gases, temperatures would still continue to rise by a few tenths of a degree over the next 10 years. That is the best...
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Arctic Ocean Could be Source of Massive Amounts of Methane
A new report has shown that the Arctic Ocean could be a significant contributor of methane to the atmosphere. The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, looked at airborne observations of...
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Offsetting and Feedback: Do the Books Balance?
Achieving a state of so-called ‘carbon neutrality’ has long been the Holy Grail for individuals, businesses, and even nations that have an eye fixed on the threat posed by global climate change. It’s a...
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Irreversible Sea Level Rise to Continue for Thousands of Years
It’s too late! We’re all going to die! So says the latest research to be published in the respected journal Environmental Research Letters. OK. I might be jumping to a bit of a dramatic conclusion...
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Siberian Caves Point To Devastating Future Thawing And CO2 Release
A team of scientists from Britain, Russia, Mongolia, and Switzerland have released a report which finds that evidence obtained from Siberian caves suggest that a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees...
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Northern Hemisphere Is Becoming Warmer Than Southern Hemisphere
You may not have consciously thought about it, but I imagine that to some of you out there who have an environmentally conscientious brain, the fact that the Northern Hemisphere has more landmass and...
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Phoenix and Blacksburg Top 2015 Mayors’ Climate Protection Awards
Phoenix, Arizona and Blacksburg, Virginia top this year’s list of the top green cities according to the US Conference of Mayors (USCM). The Mayors’ Climate Protection Awards honor cities for...
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How Bringing Back The Great Whale Can Limit Climate Change (VIDEO)
The oceans are huge carbon sinks for the world. Fish and whales comprise only a tiny part of their overall biomass. Nevertheless, studies have shown that fishing and whaling by humans have altered the...
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New York Bill Introduced To Eliminate Greenhouse Gases By 2050
As reported by UtilityDIVE, a dozen New York lawmakers have introduced a bill aimed at codifying Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s climate change goals, including a 100% reduction in anthropogenic greenhouse gas...
View ArticleGlobal Weirding News of the Week
Since we had plenty of news last Friday and I was heading out of town, I decided to leave our weekly roundup of global weirding and environmental news (that we… The post Global Weirding News of the...
View ArticleHunting for Methane (+ Fun Explosions) [VIDEO]
The release of methane from underneath Arctic ice is expected to be a major issue in coming years as permafrost melts (if we don’t act to stop climate change soon). Methane… The post Hunting for...
View ArticleClimate Science News of the Last Week (or So)
Other than all the big news we wrote about last week (click on our Global Warming or Science categories above), here are a number of climate science stories I thought… The post Climate Science News of...
View ArticleClimate Benefits of Natural Gas Overstated?
Natural gas production has skyrocketed in the U.S. and elsewhere lately. And one big supposed benefit of this energy source is that it creates a lot fewer greenhouse gas emissions… The post Climate...
View ArticleWhere and How? New Carbon Footprint Study Shows Location, Lifestyle Matter
UC Berkeley Researchers Jones and Kammen, working at the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) have conducted a landmark GHG emission analysis of U.S. households, and which also provides a...
View ArticleEPA Global Warming Finding "Supported by the Underlying Science"
Witch hunts seem to be all the current GOP has money or time for. For example, Senator James M. Inhofe (Okla.) -- one of the most outspoken climate change deniers in the world -- requested a review of...
View ArticleRadiative Properties of Greenhouse Gases (Video)
Here’s another fun video from Peter Sinclair. And his text intro or summary of it: I’m working on an update of my “The Sun is Doing it” crock –… The post Radiative Properties of Greenhouse Gases...
View ArticleIf Only Greenhouse Gases Were Visible (Special Camera Shows Them)
A friend/fellow Important Media director, Becky Striepe, shared this story with me a few weeks ago. I’ve been dying to get to it but just haven’t. The idea, one… The post If Only Greenhouse Gases...
View ArticleUS Map of Biggest Polluters (Interactive)
The EPA release a cool new interactive map yesterday that lets you check out who are the biggest greenhouse gas polluters in your neighborhood (or anyone’s neighborhood in the… The post US Map of...
View ArticleNASA: More Rapid Global Warming in Near Future
by Rob Painting of Skeptical Science As a recent SkS post by Dana Nuccitelli has pointed out global warming hasn’t stopped, despite a recent lull in global surface temperatures. The oceans, which… The...
View ArticleGlobal Climate and Warming Affected by Cloud Feedback
“It’s a vicious cycle – warmer temperatures mean clouds trap more heat, which in turn leads to even more warming,” explains Andrew Dessler, a professor in the Department of Atmospheric… The post Global...
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