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As protesters continue their civil disobedience outside the White House (pictured above), and getting arrested by the score each day, the State Department has taken a further step towards approving the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, issuing its final environmental ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
With Hurricane Irene set to blaze a path of destruction up the East Coast (and this author right in the path in lower Manhattan), NRDC has a good overview of how cities right in the path have been preparing (or not) for this sort of massive storm--and not incidentally many of these preparation also are good for climate change adaptation. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The perhaps inevitable question: So what's the connection between climate change and Hurricane Irene? The stock answer is that it's hard if not impossible to blame any extreme weather event and climate change, but it does contribute to making hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, even blizzard...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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And then there was one. Jon Huntsman is now the only remaining candidate who understands the importance of respecting science. Mitt Romney had previously roused the hopes of sentient, rational-thinking persons everywhere when he bluntly explained at a campaign stop in New Hampshire that yes, scientists say humans are causing the planet to warm. Not only that, but he followed the stateme...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Going through all the Steve Jobs commentary this morning I came across actor-comedian-proud technophile Stephen Fry's commentary on BBC News. Fry and Jobs have apparently been friends for a while and the whole thing is worth a listen.
But there's one passage...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Industry in Gaziantep, Turkey. Photo: Veyis Polat / Creative Commons.
Public concern about global warming is dramatically on the rise in Turkey, increasing from 48 percent in 2010 to 75 percent this year, topping a survey of 10 European countrie...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It's now well into the fourth day of peaceful protest of the outside the White House, where a diverse array of concerned citizens are risking arrest to send the Obama administration a simple message: Do not approve the Keystone XL, a 1,700 mile pipeline that would inextricably link the nation's energy future to Canada's tar sands -- the dirties...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Well here's an interesting little catch, courtesy of Media Matters (whose unenviable job it is, evidently, to watch Fox News 24/7). In this segment on 'Fox and Friends', the hosts team up to bash Jon Huntsman. He's behind in the polls, and has been publicly criticizing his rivals for their extreme views, especially on science. But the interesting part comes around two and a half minutes in -- when the hosts say their fact-checkers have looked...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Anticipating greater access to natural resources in the Arctic due to climate change nations which border the region are increasingly trying to stake claims to greater territory. Den...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Research done at Jungfraujoch, high in the Alps, discovered the discrepancy. Photo: Empa
Most TreeHugger readers will probably correctly cite carbon dioxide and methane as greenhouse gases, but less will cite trifluoromethane (HFC-23) as being a concern. At 15,000 times the global warming potential as CO2 and having a half-life of 270 years in the atmosphere, it probably should be--indeed reducti...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It's like music to mine ears: A Republican presidential candidate talking sense on science -- and climate science, to boot. GOP presidential candidate Jon Hunstman let loose in a fiery interview on ABC over the weekend, in which he criticized Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry as catering to the extreme right of the Republican party. He blasted them for questioning evolution and Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Earlier this week, a few bloggers and enviros were calling on the former GOP presidential candidate (and former, former climate advocate) Tim Pawlenty to come clean on his opportunistic global warming flip flop. See, Pawlenty, in a last-ditch effort to appease the rabid science-free wing of ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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NASA has released a map of Antarctica's complete ice flow. It is the first of its kind to show the speed and direction of ice flow on the continent, with glaciers flowing from the center out to the coast. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How much damage has this year's extreme weather--record snowfall in many places this winter, flooding, heat waves, tornadoes, drought in Texas with no end in sight--cost the United States? The National Climatic Data Center has a figure for the first ei...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A new study in the journal Science sheds some light on the critical question of how well will animal species adapt to climate change. The paper shows that animals are responding up to three times faster than expected to climate changes, either moving to higher a...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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I guess we're not quite yet at "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." Those were President Obama's infamous words upon his inauguration, but, in fact, just released number show that despite a soft economic comeback US emissions went up nearly 4 percent in 2010.
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Rick Perry has kept himself busy since announcing his intention to run for president -- after calling for a moratorium on all new regulations and referring to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke as "treasonous", he publicly derided climate change as a hoax perpetrated by scheming, data-manipulating scientistsRead the full story on TreeHugger
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Perhaps the best way to alert the public to the importance of sustainability is visual representation of environmental degradation. We've featured some fantastic photography of industrial pollution and melting glaciers, but artist Mary Edna Fraser does something d...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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