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The drought is making California sink—and climate change is making the drought worse
So say two new studies.
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The drought isn't just a California problem
A rundown of other Western states in the middle of serious dry spells
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Hottest July On Record Keeps 2015 On Track To Crush 2014 For Hottest Year
2015 is likely to crush the previous record -- 2014 -- probably by a wide margin. We appear to be in the midst of the long-awaited jump in global temperatures.
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Alaska’s terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate change
The fires are just the latest indicator of a climatic transformation that is remaking the state — its forests, its coasts, its glaciers, and perhaps most of all, the frozen ground beneath — more than any other in America.
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Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning
In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels. The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the...
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The Murder of the Whales, Courtesy of the Royal Danish Navy - Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization.
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NOAA: Hottest First Half Of Year In Northern Hemisphere By Stunning 0.36°F
The latest monthly report confirms 2015 will crush previous global temperature records, with the hottest first half of any year since records started being kept 135 years ago.
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The oceans are warming faster than climate models predicted
As I have said many times on this blog, if you want to know how much “global warming” is happening, you really have to be able to measure “ocean warming”. That is because more than 90% of the excess energy coming to the Earth from greenhouse gases goes into the ocean waters. My colleagues and I have a new publication, which better characterizes this heating and also compares climate model predictions with actual measurements. It turns out models have under-predicted ocean warming...
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Polar bears are in more trouble than we thought
Polar bears have been a face of climate change for years. We’ve long understood that the melting sea ice is drastically reducing their means of foraging for seals, their main food source. We even know that pollution puts their penile bone density at risk. But now, scientists have identified another threat to polar bears: Summer ice melt. Researchers from the University of Wyoming found (paywall) that polar bears aren’t able to adapt to...
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The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle
When the giant fault line along the Pacific Northwest ruptures, it could be our worst natural disaster ever.
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The Global Warming "Pause" Never Actually Happened
There’s been much debate these past few years over the cause of the so-called global warming “hiatus”—a pause in the overall uptick up of Earth’s temperature due to cooling at the surface of the Pacific Ocean since the early 2000s. Did climate warming stop? Nope, we just weren’t looking deep enough.
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What's Really Warming the World?
Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise