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Other NewsEditorialsCan Californians afford cleaner cars?California's history-bending rules will do what they are designed to do - reduce pollution and cut greenhouse gases - only if the public buys the clean cars in the volumes predicted. That's the big uncertainty. Modesto Bee Climate change should have effect on politics.Azaleas are budding and daffodils can be found in full bloom along rural roads around West Alabama. Is that proof of global warming? Hardly, but that doesn’t mean evidence of sustained, rapid climate change isn’t mounting. Tuscaloosa News Climate data chills global warming alarmism.The Earth's temperature hasn't increased significantly in about 15 years. Yet governments around the world used the threatened overheating as an excuse to regulate, tax and subsidize in order to curb greenhouse gases. Orange County Register OpinionOnce, men abused slaves. Now we abuse fossil fuels.Pointing out the similarities (and differences) between slavery and the use of fossil fuels can help us engage with climate change in a new way. The Guardian Paul Krugman's toxic shock syndrome: Mercury madness.The new EPA mercury regulations appear to be but another Obama administration salvo in an unrelenting war against fossil energy in general, coal in particular, where the largest casualties will be businesses, jobs and household electricity budgets. Forbes Avoiding a yo-yo future.It’s official. In mid-January, NASA reported that nine of the 10 warmest years ever recorded have occurred in the 21st century, making the past decade the warmest yet. We know why this is happening: It's us. Global warming is my fault, and yours. Vancouver Sun |
Cheap natural gas jumbles energy markets, stirs fears it could inhibit renewables.For the past three years, promoters of shale gas and environmentalists opposed to coal-fired power plants have hailed the sudden abundance of U.S. natural gas as a bridge to a renewable-energy future. Washington Post How the stimulus revived the electric car.One success the Obama administration can duly claim is the rebirth of the electric-car industry in the United States. The question is: Will it last? ProPublica Clear and present dangers not so clear, or present.Let’s face it, human beings are not very good at dealing with distant, relatively uncertain threats. By the time some of the worst consequences of climate change clearly manifest themselves as near-term challenges, it will be too late to stop them. Climate Central Poor, minority residents face most health risks with climate change.Poor, urban and minority residents are most at risk for health problems linked to climate change, according to a new California Department of Public Health analysis of Los Angeles and Fresno counties. California Watch How the Sierra Club took millions from the natural gas industry — and why it stopped.Mainstream environmental groups have struggled to balance local concerns about traditional pollution with planet-sized worries over climate change, and how to work with corporate America without being seen as selling out. Time Magazine Storm over climate change among weather forecasters.You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. But weather forecasters, many of whom see climate change as a natural, cyclical phenomenon, are split over whether they have a responsibility to educate viewers on the link between human activity and the change in the Earth's climates. Reuters India's panel price crash could spark solar revolution.In India, electricity from solar is now cheaper than that from diesel generators. The news - which will boost India's "Solar Mission" to install 20,000 megawatts of solar power by 2022 - could have implications for other developing nations too. New Scientist Town turns off wind, opts for solar energy.At a time of accelerating production of both wind and solar energy, Duxbury officials have decided to buy solar energy produced elsewhere and take their own wind project off the table. Boston Globe Oil industry sees no threat from electric car.The biggest oil companies in the world have calculated that few, if any, of today's drivers will see electric cars outnumber gasoline and diesel models in their lifetimes. Reuters Evidence for jellyfish invasion is lacking.Over the last decade, reports of proliferating jellyfish have multiplied, as have fears that they are overrunning the world’s oceans. In a new study, however, researchers argue that there simply isn’t enough long-term data to conclude that global jellyfish numbers are on the rise. New York Times |
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Glacier thief arrested in Chile.A new explanation for why glaciers are retreating: it's not global warming, it's theft.
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Cut emissions, boost health.Reducing greenhouse gases would save billions in health care costs. Policy makers should take note.
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Top ConsequencesPoor, minority residents face most health risks with climate change.Poor, urban and minority residents are most at risk for health problems linked to climate change, according to a new California Department of Public Health analysis of Los Angeles and Fresno counties. California Watch Evidence for jellyfish invasion is lacking.Over the last decade, reports of proliferating jellyfish have multiplied, as have fears that they are overrunning the world’s oceans. In a new study, however, researchers argue that there simply isn’t enough long-term data to conclude that global jellyfish numbers are on the rise. New York Times Drought may dry up Texas rice crop.A day of reckoning looms for the state’s rice growers, who pump millions into Southeast Texas each year and account for 5 percent of America’s rice. Come March 1, if there is not enough water in reservoirs along the Lower Colorado River, managers will take the unprecedented step of withholding water from agriculture. Climate Central Temperatures – not acid – could cook coral to death.A warming ocean is encouraging the growth of coral in the far Southern Hemisphere, according to new research published in Science – suggesting that temperature changes play a bigger role, at least in the near term, in the fate of corals than any ocean acidification. Scientific American Top SolutionsCheap natural gas jumbles energy markets, stirs fears it could inhibit renewables.For the past three years, promoters of shale gas and environmentalists opposed to coal-fired power plants have hailed the sudden abundance of U.S. natural gas as a bridge to a renewable-energy future. Washington Post India's panel price crash could spark solar revolution.In India, electricity from solar is now cheaper than that from diesel generators. The news - which will boost India's "Solar Mission" to install 20,000 megawatts of solar power by 2022 - could have implications for other developing nations too. New Scientist Town turns off wind, opts for solar energy.At a time of accelerating production of both wind and solar energy, Duxbury officials have decided to buy solar energy produced elsewhere and take their own wind project off the table. Boston Globe Top CausesNew meteorological theory argues that the world's forests are rainmakers.First published in 2007 by two Russian physicists, Victor Gorshkov and Anastassia Makarieva, the still little-known biotic pump theory postulates that forests are the driving force behind precipitation over land masses. Mongabay Marching in near lock-step.A stunning new archive of the oxygen isotopic composition of tropical precipitation recorded in the deposits of a Peruvian cave is helping to elucidate how climate change—both past and future—in one region of the globe may drive climate changes in far-flung regions. Science Top PoliticsHow the stimulus revived the electric car.One success the Obama administration can duly claim is the rebirth of the electric-car industry in the United States. The question is: Will it last? ProPublica Clear and present dangers not so clear, or present.Let’s face it, human beings are not very good at dealing with distant, relatively uncertain threats. By the time some of the worst consequences of climate change clearly manifest themselves as near-term challenges, it will be too late to stop them. Climate Central How the Sierra Club took millions from the natural gas industry — and why it stopped.Mainstream environmental groups have struggled to balance local concerns about traditional pollution with planet-sized worries over climate change, and how to work with corporate America without being seen as selling out. Time Magazine |
From the Daily Climate NewsroomAuthors of Wall Street Journal climate piece downplay industry ties.
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Half of the 16 scientists who penned a controversial Wall Street Journal opinion piece proclaiming there is "no need to panic" about global warming have ties to either the oil and gas industry or groups dedicated to debunking climate science, a DailyClimate.org investigation has found. more Shareholders boost carbon disclosure – study.Disclosures about greenhouse gas emissions and carbon-reduction strategies can lift a company's economic value, a new study has found. more The scientist: Jim Hansen risks handcuffs to make his research clear.NASA's chief climate scientist built his career studying Earth's atmosphere and modeling humans' potential impacts on climate. Then he realized that laboratory work was only part of the equation. A Climate Query. more Low-carbon cement paves a development path (or sidewalk).Carbon emissions from cement are set to grow explosively as developing countries such as India create a "first-world" infrastructure. Scientists and entrepreneurs are struggling to push alternative technologies out of the lab and onto the street. more Pushed to brink, swans rebound with help from global warming.
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Hunted to near extinction in the 19th century, the trumpeter swan is taking advantage of warmer, longer summers to expand its range and numbers - one of the few good news stories of global warming, at least for now. more |
