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El Niño-driven sea surface temperatures still soaring.
Last week I noted “El Niño-driven sea surface temperatures are soaring. Forecast: Hot and then even hotter.” They are still soaring. NOAA’s National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center has a […]
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Veteran wins groundbreaking claim for Agent Orange exposure at Georgia military base
A U.S. veteran living in Tennessee has won what’s thought to be the first Veterans Administration claim for exposure inside the continental United States to Agent Orange, an herbicide that […]
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Biochemist Oliver Peoples explains how his polymer-producing microbes could transform the plastics i
Over at Seedmagazine.com, I have a brief interview with Oliver Peoples, a biochemist who hopes that his new bio-based plastic will upend the petroleum-based industry—and help clean up oceans and […]
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Lawsuit accuses Virginia power company of poisoning Dominican community with toxic coal ash
Here’s the damage from a coal ash spill in Tennessee.A civil lawsuit filed last week in state court in Delaware charges Arlington, Va.-based AES Corp. — one of the world’s […]
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More SuperFreakonomics climate change denial?
Is calling global warming a religion the same thing as denying global warming science? While the authors of Superfreakonomics, which is riddled with basic scientific errors, have started to issue […]
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Arctic ice reaches historic seasonal low
The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished…. “I would argue that, from a practical perspective, we almost have a seasonally ice-free Arctic now, because multiyear sea ice […]
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House passes landmark health-care bill with one GOP vote
In the first 40 minutes of Saturday’s debate on the landmark bill, representatives from the minority party objected — or threatened to object — no fewer than 75 times, throwing […]
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Three reasons to follow Climate Progress on Twitter
To follow Climate Progress on Twitter, click here. Here’s why you should: It’s a modern, portable version of a news teletype. I will be in Copenhagen and tweeting. Your (online) […]
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One error retracted, 99 to go
Superfreaknomics authors will, in future editions, correct their claim that Caldeira believes “carbon dioxide is not the right villain”
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El Niño-driven sea surface temperatures are soaring.
Last week I noted that the weak El Niño appears to be strengthening, as expected, so record temperatures will continue. The warming in the Nino 3.4 region of the Pacific […]
