Thursday, May 26, 2016

The Hot Climate Trend Continues in April and the Arctic is Melting

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2014 set a record for the hottest year on record. 2015 beat that to become the new hottest year. And 2016 is well on its way to becoming the...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

The Long Road to Reforming America's Chemical Law May Soon Be Over

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Earlier this week it was announced that Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and James Inhofe (R-OK) had reached an agreement on the long awaited...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer R. Weart

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Spencer Weart takes us on a journey into the past. In The Discovery of Global Warming , Weart provides a history of the science that ...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Will Thinking in Collective Terms Lead to More Climate Action? Meh.

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Man-made climate change is real . So how do we encourage people to do something about it? One new paper suggests people are more willing t...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016

175 Nations Sign Paris Climate Agreement on Earth Day - What It Means

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"We are in a race against time. The era of consumption without consequences is over.  The poor and most vulnerable must not suffer fur...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

The Surreal Case of Sarah Palin vs. Bill Nye the Science Guy

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Among the many interesting climate-related activities this past week was one that qualifies as surreal. Former half-term Governor and 2008...
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Thursday, April 14, 2016

A Consensus on Consensus

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"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal." "Anthropogenic drivers...are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause...
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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Science Communication - How to Deal with Trolls on Facebook

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While all science is done via peer-reviewed research papers, scientific conferences, and active communication with other scientists, ther...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Antarctica is Melting and Attorneys General are Going After ExxonMobil

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Two major stories rise to the surface this week in climate news. A new study warns that melting in Antarctica could raise sea levels subst...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

James Hansen and Catastrophic Ice Melting - What it Means

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Unless you've been living under a rock (or perhaps the ocean) this week you've noticed a new paper by climate scientist James Hans...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Happy St. Patrick's Day - Climate Change in Ireland

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"Top o'the morning to you!" Or since that is never actually said in Ireland, "Lá Shona Fhéile Pádraig!" (Happy St....
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Arctic Sea Ice Continues to Decline at Record Pace

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The decline of Arctic sea ice extent continues to decline at a record pace. As noted here two weeks ago, January sea ice extent was the lowe...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Spotting Climate Deniers on the Internet

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More than 100 years of peer-reviewed published climate science has demonstrated that human activity is warming our climate system. And yet...
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

What is Happening to the Arctic? How to Read the Graphs

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As 2016 starts off even hotter than the record-breaking heat of 2015 because of man-made climate change, one of the fastest warming areas of...