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ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobbying for Bill Preventing Climate Change Accounting in US Trade Deals

ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobbying for Bill Preventing Climate Change Accounting in US Trade Deals The day before global leaders and diplomats passed a climate change deal in Paris at the United Nations climate summit, the U.S. House of Representatives — in a 256-158 vote — authorized the final text of a bill that has a provision preventing climate change to […]

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A climate rant: an idiot is an idiot is an idiot

A climate rant: an idiot is an idiot is an idiot It was yesterday that I gave a talk on climate at a meeting in Florence. It was a rather formal meeting, in the “Aula Magna” of the University of Florence, and my talk was part of a multidisciplinary series of lectures. I gave my […]

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Ecological Panic: The New Rationale For Globalist Cultism

Ecological Panic: The New Rationale For Globalist Cultism Faith in an ideology based on a desire for power over others and the need to feel personally superior without any legitimate accomplishment is perhaps the most dangerous state of being an individual or society can adopt. I would refer to such a mindset as “zealotry,” an […]

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The Godfather Of Climate Change Calls Obama’s Deal “A Fraud, It’s Bullshit”

The Godfather Of Climate Change Calls Obama’s Deal “A Fraud, It’s Bullshit” Amid all the self-congratulatory mutual masturbation that has effused since the “historic” signing of a climate ‘deal’ with no enforcement mechanism, few are better qualified (or more outspoken) to describe the utter farce that COP21 is than former NASA scientist James Hansen, who as The Guardian […]

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World Leaders Just Agreed To A “Historic” Climate Accord… Which Is Non-Binding And Has No Enforcement Language

World Leaders Just Agreed To A “Historic” Climate Accord… Which Is Non-Binding And Has No Enforcement Language Great news! The “greatest threat to future generations of the world” has apparently been solved. World leaders Saturday adopted an historic international climate accord in Paris, the first-ever agreement to commit almost every country to fight climate change. […]

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What Worries the World’s Most Famous Climate Scientist?

What Worries the World’s Most Famous Climate Scientist? James Hansen is fretting about the Paris talks, and for good reason. James Hansen detailed his fears in a recent communiqué posted on his website. Photo by chesapeakeclimate. Creative Commons licensed. James Hansen is fretting about the Paris climate talks, and for good reason. You might recall that […]

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Near Boiling Point on Global Warming

Near Boiling Point on Global Warming Rising global temperatures – if they exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels – threaten to unleash havoc across the planet, including mass dislocations of desperate people that will make the current flood of Syrian refugees look like a tiny warm-up, writes Nat Parry. With more than 40,000 negotiators from […]

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Eyes down: how setting our sights on soil could help save the climate

Eyes down: how setting our sights on soil could help save the climate The world’s soils store four times more carbon than its plants.  The world’s soils could be a key ally in the fight to limit global warming to 2℃, thanks to their ability to store carbon and keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. […]

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Hottest five-year period on record is 2011-2015, says WMO

Hottest five-year period on record is 2011-2015, says WMO The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) announced today that 2015 is likely to top the charts as the hottest year in modern observations, with 2011-15 the hottest five-year period on record. With two full months still to add in, the global average surface temperature for January to […]

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On Thin Ice: Big Northern Lakes Are Being Rapidly Transformed

On Thin Ice: Big Northern Lakes Are Being Rapidly Transformed As temperatures rise, the world’s iconic northern lakes are undergoing major changes that include swiftly warming waters, diminished ice cover, and outbreaks of harmful algae. Now, a global consortium of scientists is trying to assess the toll.  For more than 25 million years, Lake Baikal has cut an […]

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Don’t Tell These Ranchers Climate Change Isn’t Real

Don’t Tell These Ranchers Climate Change Isn’t Real The push to make Alberta’s cattle ranges drought resistant. Mac Blades (middle) fellow ranchers Frances Gardner and Gordon Cartwright recently won a long battle to have their drought-resistant heritage rangelands protected from coal bed methane and other energy developments. Photo by Ed Struzik. Among the many pictures […]

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More warming will bring a more polluted future

More warming will bring a more polluted future Global warming wil increase airborne aerosols and cause more atmospheric pollution, scientists say. LONDON, 15 November, 2015 – The future is slightly obscured. The outlook is less than clear. For once, such phrases are not metaphorical. A world of global warming could mean a growing haze of solid and […]

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Global warming drains the water of life

Global warming drains the water of life Melting snowpack in Turkey’s Lesser Caucasus mountains. Image: Dario Martin-Benito New research warns that rising temperatures are reducing the mountain snow on which billions of people in lowland areas depend for their water supply. LONDON, 13 November, 2015 – Up to two billion people who depend on winter snow to deliver their […]

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Ten years that changed everything; and prevented all change

Ten years that changed everything; and prevented all change We are one month away from the COP-21, in Paris, that should change everything – and will probably change nothing relevant. But change does occur, even though in ways that often surprise us, and in ways we may not like to see. The past decade has been […]

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Soaring heat and humidity pose deadly threat

Soaring heat and humidity pose deadly threat Working outdoors in places such as Dubai could become seriously life threatening. Image: Carter S’ via Flickr Parts of the Arabian Gulf region – prime source of the oil that helps fuel climate change – are most at risk of becoming uninhabitable for humans unless global warming is tackled. A […]

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