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How the West was lost to wildfires
See those massive columns of acrid smoke drifting eastward? It's a smoke signal warning us that a globally warming world is not a matter of some future worst-case scenario -- it's happening right here, right now.
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If the sun goes into 'hibernation,’ it won’t stop global warming
Climate change skeptics are ecstatic over an analysis that says by 2020, we might enter a period of low solar activity, which they spin as a mini ice age
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A few brave conservatives speak up for climate sanity
Conservative D.R. Tucker and David Roberts spoke on Brad Friedman's radio show on how the right and enviros can find common ground on climate change.
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You might have a climate crisis if …
It's hard for me to fathom how naysayers still refuse to acknowledge that increased carbon pollution is to blame for increasingly hostile weather. Maybe some jokes in the style of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck" riff can win them over.
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Science connects climate change and wildfires. Why won't the media?
One of the least controversial impacts of climate change is more frequent, severe, damaging wildfires in America's West. Why won't reporters say so?
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NOAA: The new normal is hot
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center has just released an overview of its new “1981-2010 Climate Normals” [PDF]. Meteorologist Paul Douglas, founder and CEO of […]
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This is what the history of climate change research looks like
Need at-a-glance visual evidence of that "scientific consensus on climate change" we keep talking about? Skeptical Science has put together an interactive visualization of 4,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers. You […]
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Rockies snowpack level in severest decline in a millennium
Although all of that water flooding into the Midwest is coming from record snowpack in the Rockies, in the long term, snow pack levels in the mountain range have been […]
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Death threats for Australian climate scientists
Australian climate scientists are paying a steep price for their work, as opponents of Australia’s proposed tax on carbon emissions have embraced an attack the messenger strategy. More than 30 […]
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The most powerful climate video you’ll see all week
Bill McKibben published a must-read op-ed in The Washington Post last month about the connection between climate change and recent extreme weather events. Now Stephen Thomson has combined McKibben’s words […]
