SCIENTISTS GETTING ORGANIZED TO HELP READERS SORT FACT FROM FICTION IN CLIMATE CHANGE MEDIA COVERAGE...
"Media misrepresentation confuses the public and prevents our policy makers from developing a well-informed perspective, and making evidence-based decisions."
Read more‘AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH’ DIRECTOR TALKS CLIMATE AND CHANGE 10 YEARS AFTER...
Director Davis Guggenheim arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of 'An Inconvenient Truth' in May 2006. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
‘There’s still a need for this movie and many, many more. This issue is not going away,’ Davis Guggenheim says...
Read moreFIVE MOMENTS OF CLIMATE PROGRESS SINCE 'AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH'...
Here’s something to smile about. Check out five climate successes in the past decade... :)
Read moreSCIENTISTS ARE CONTROLLING THE WEATHER...
Cloud seeding involves releasing silver iodide, a naturally occurring compound, into storm clouds. Photo: Mike Cavaroc/TandemStock
Ten or so percent of it, anyway...
Read moreNEW STUDY PREDICTS AN INTOLERABLY HOT WORLD...
A dried-up pond in Cambodia's Kandal province. Delayed monsoon rains, due in part to climate change, have created the country's worst drought in decades. (Photo: Samrang Pring/Reuters)
Researchers say that unless fossil fuels are kept in the ground, global temperatures could rise more than 11 degrees Fahrenheit by 2300...
Read moreCROCODILES AND PALM TREES IN THE ARCTIC? NEW REPORT SUGGESTS YES...
If the use of fossil fuel continues, scientists warn that warming will melt the ice caps, "which will expose bare ground, increase heat absorption at high latitudes, and cause more warming."
PHOTOGRAPH BY DIANE COOK AND LEN JENSHEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE
If we keep burning fossil fuels, Earth will be 8 degrees warmer, returning to the climate of 52 million years ago, according to new research. It's the most dire prediction yet.
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DO REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS ADD VALUE COMPARED TO GLOBAL MODELS?
Global climate models (GCM) are designed to simulate earth’s climate over the entire planet, but they have a limitation when it comes to describing local details due to heavy computational demands. There is a nice TED talk by Gavin that explains how climate models work...
Read moreCLIMATE FEEDBACK SITE ALLOWS SCIENTISTS TO CORRECT MEDIA ERRORS...
Interested readers can visit the website ClimateFeedback.org to see what climate scientists thought of original articles in the media (AFP Photo/HO)
Miami (AFP) - In one case, a writer claimed a mini Ice Age would befall Earth in 15 years. In another, an op-ed touted global warming as saving countless people from freezing to death...
Read moreHOW CARBON FARMING CAN REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE...
Cattle graze here on a ranch in the Sand Hill region of North Central Nebraska. Grasslands cover a large percentage of the planet and research demonstrates greater potential with improved management (such as compost additions and plant composition) to increase soil carbon. credit: Aaron Price
Are there agricultural practices that might offer more potential than the ones commonly discussed in the “carbon farming” conversation?
Read moreTHE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION HAS SOLD OFF ITS ENTIRE $187M INVESTMENT IN BP...
Since the start of 2014 the Gate’s Foundation’s investments in major coal, oil and gas companies have fallen from $1.4bn to $200m. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
World’s largest health charity sells its $187m stake in the oil giant in a move welcomed by fossil fuel divestment campaigners...
Read moreACROSS AFRICA, THE WORST FOOD CRISIS SINCE 1985 LOOMS FOR 50 MILLION...
The Mashango family stand in front of their drought-affected crops in the Buhera district of Zimbabwe. Photograph: Tamara van Vliet/OCHA
A second year without rain threatens to bring catastrophe for some of the poorest people in the world. Donor countries, in the grip of wars and refugee crises, have been slow to pledge funds. But by the time they do, it could be too late...
Read moreThe day coal power dropped out of the national grid for the first time in more than 100 years...
The Government is planning to phase out coal energy completely by 2025 PA
From 1882 until 10 May this year, coal has powered the nation. Could the UK be one of the first countries to end coal power altogether?
Read moreCRIPPLING DROUGHT IN CENTRAL INDIA LEAVES MILLIONS ON BRINK...
In this May 10, 2016, photo, a Shepard drinks water on the dry bed of Manjara Dam, which supplies water to Latur and nearby villages in Marathwada region, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Failed monsoons play havoc with millions of farmers in central India leading to crippling poverty and soaring suicides. Some 400 farmers have killed themselves so far this year in the parched Marathwada region, which is home to about 19 million people.(AP Photo/Manish Swarup) more photos on original story...
Tens of thousands of people, mostly farmers, have been forced to abandon their villages and head to slums in bigger cities to earn a living...
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FAR FROM TURNING A CORNER, GLOBAL CO2 EMISSIONS STILL ACCELERATING...
The latest greenhouse gas index shows the world is still overwhelming its natural defenses with carbon emissions. Credit: Getty Images
The latest greenhouse gas inventory from NOAA shows CO2 and methane 'going completely in the wrong direction.'
Read moreCONTINUING COLLAPSE OF ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES WILL AFFECT US ALL...
ESA satellite image from 2002 of the Larsen B ice shelf, shattered and separated from the continent. The Larsen A ice shelf collapsed in 1995. Photograph: AP
If we had a West Antarctica ice sheet collapse, "It would change the coastline of the world"...
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