2017: THE YEAR IN CLIMATE...

 

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EL NIÑO MIGHT SPEED UP CLIMATE CHANGE...

This picture taken on July 26, 2017 shows an Indonesian ranger inspecting the peat forest fire at Meulaboh, Aceh province. Credit: Chandeer Mayhuddin Getty Images

 

Scientists have evidence that El Niño boosts CO2 levels, and they are pinning down how...

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THE OCEANS ARE GETTING MORE ACIDIC...HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW...

 

Right now, the world is teetering on an abyss of sorts. Scientists, in general, are starting to believe that we’re in the middle of an extinction level event; the sort of catastrophe that wiped the dinosaurs off the planet...

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DIRE WARNING: WE’LL SUFFER MORE 90+DEGREE DAYS, CLIMATE REPORT SAYS...

A recent federal climate change report says Florida could see more extreme whether, such as heavy rain like this, on the Flagler Memorial Bridge on Aug. 24, 2017. (Lannis Waters / The Palm Beach Post)

 

Double the number of scorching hot days and whipsaw bouts of overwhelming rain and debilitating drought could mar South Florida’s future if more efforts aren’t made to mitigate climate change, according to a federal study released this month...

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HOW GREED, FEAR AND OUR OWN BIASES BLIND US TO THE REALITIES OF CLIMATE CHANGE...

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By the time climate change is no longer a long-term threat, it will be too late...

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DEBUNKING CLIMATE CHANGE MYTHS: A THANKSGIVING CONVERSATION GUIDE...

Thanksgiving dinner conversations with the whole family can surface all kinds of myths and confusion. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

 

We asked our readers to share the top climate denial claims and global warming questions they hear from family. Here’s what science shows — and how to explain it...

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COMCAST WANTS TO CONTROL WHAT YOU DO ONLINE. DO YOU WANT TO LET THEM?

 

We have just 3 weeks to save net neutrality...

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PERSONAL REFLECTIONS OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S PREEMENENT CLIMATE SCIENTISTS ON THE 23RD COP IN BONN-FIJI, CAN IT BE THIS BAD?

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Settling wearily into my Deutsche Bahn seat at the start of a two-day journey back to Uppsala, Sweden, I’ve endeavoured below to capture my early thoughts on the latest attempt to forestall our headlong rush towards oblivion...

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IN HIS OWN WORDS: BEHIND A ONE-TIME SKEPTIC'S CLIMATE 'FLIP'...

Jerry Taylor of the Niskanen Center, for 23 years a thorn in side of climate scientists, spells out how he came to accept scientific evidence and the economic rationale for action...

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THESE ARE THE MELTING GLACIERS THAT MIGHT SOMEDAY DROWN YOUR CITY, ACCORDING TO NASA...

This NASA Earth Observatory image obtained July 27, 2012, shows a massive ice island as it broke free of the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland. (Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory via AFP)

 

New York City has plenty to worry about from sea level rise. But according to a new study by NASA researchers, it should worry specifically about two major glacier systems in Greenland’s northeast and northwest — but not so much about other parts of the vast northern ice sheet...

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GLOBAL WARMING IS KILLING THE LARGEST ANIMAL ON OUR PLANET. DEATH BY KILLER ALGAE...

Vreni Häussermann of the Huinay Scientific Field Station photographs one of hundreds of whales that washed up in Chilean Patagonia in 2015. Photo by Keri-Lee Pashuk

 

When 343 Sei whales died from a harmful algal bloom in Chilean Patagonia, they opened a window into the effect changing climate is having on marine mammals, our oceans, and us'...

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MY HEROES! A MUST WATCH VIDEO...

 

How do we tell the story of 10 years of climate journalism in 5 minutes?      
 
Watch this video for how we did it, with the help of filmmaker Bob Madey....

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HOW A NORTH CAROLINA METEOROLOGIST ABANDONED HIS CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTICISM...

 

I became a broadcast meteorologist for WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1981, and have worked there ever since...

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THE CLIMATE CRISIS? IT’S CAPITALISM, STUPID!

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The real culprit of the climate crisis is not any particular form of consumption, production or regulation but rather the very way in which we globally produce, which is for profit rather than for sustainability...

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BATTERED BY EXTREME WEATHER, AMERICANS ARE MORE WORRIED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE...

A home is surrounded by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey in Spring, Texas. Photograph: David J. Phillip/AP

 

After months of intense hurricanes, heat waves, and droughts, a survey finds a record number of Americans worried about climate change...

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WE HAVE NOW ENTERED THE STATE OF out of control and now OUT OF CONTROL AND NOW IRREVERSIBLE GLOBAL WARMING!

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You most likely have seen the news about the global warming aggravated weather like hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Marie or the horrible wildfires in northern California and the west coast. In this blog we have repeatedly provided good science informing that you that until we reverse our suicidal fossil fuel burning habits, global warming aggravated climate consequences (like what you are seeing almost everyday in the news,) will continue to increase in frequency, severity and scale...

 

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TRUMP SUED, LAWYERS CLAIM DENYING CHILDREN A HEALTHY FUTURE...

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A group of children and young adults is suing President Donald Trump’s administration for denying their right to a livable environment, claiming that by not properly addressing climate concerns, the United States is taking away their right to a healthy future...

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US GOVERNMENT AGENCY ISSUES CLIMATE CHANGE WARNING AS REPORT FINDS NATURAL DISASTERS COST AMERICA $350 BILLION...

At least 40 people are confirmed dead in northern California wildfires and the GAO estimates wildfires like this will cost the US more if climate change is not addressed. David McNew/Getty Images

 

'We simply cannot afford the billions of dollars in additional funding...if we do not take into account the consequences of climate change'...

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The 7 Best Rules for Real Estate and Business Investment in an Escalating Global Warming World

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In this age of global warming-aggravated extreme weather events, any rational individual or business will not want to invest in real estate in a location that will be regularly (or permanently) disabled by catastrophes like the hurricanes of Harvey, Irma, and Marie, or the wildfires of northern California that just burned over 6,000 structures. The shocking estimated recovery costs of these three hurricanes alone will run from one third to one half trillion dollars...

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PUERTO RICANS PUMP DRINKING WATER FROM HAZARDOUS-WASTE: REPORT...

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Some Puerto Rico residents are turning to a hazardous waste site for drinking water as the island continues to reel from Hurricane Maria...

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