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$7 Trillion to Fight Climate Change?
The EU proposes spending that much on projects that will barely reduce temperatures or lower sea levels.
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Climate Change Is Now in the Developing World’s Hands
his past weekend, exhausted diplomats from around the world climbed into fossil fuel–powered airplanes and bade good riddance to Warsaw, Poland. They had spent two weeks holed up in the frigid capital engaging in what has become an annual Kabuki dance over what to do about climate change.
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China's largest desert freshwater lake shrinking faster than ever
Hongjiannao Lake has been disappearing since the 1970s but has now shrunk by almost one-third since 2009
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Why the Rest of the World Is Mad at India
It’s the type of powerful force that’s felt when 1.2 billion people clamor for more electricity—many of them trying to light, heat, and refrigerate their ways out of poverty; others throwing rupees at excessive air conditioning and other newfound luxuries. And it’s the type of unpredictable force that’s felt when the government of those 1.2 billion is in election mode, clamoring for votes by brazenly blocking progress at international climate talks.
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Climate extremes on the rise, with worse to come, IPCC leader says
Limiting global warming to the international goal of 2 degrees may trigger some important tipping points in the climate and much more extreme conditions will result if temperatures continue on their present trajectory, a US scientist has said.
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By 2020 around 20% of energy demands will be met by #wind power in the UK, up from 3% in 2011
EY predicts that the investment trend will continue and by 2020 around 20% of Britain's average demand - around 70 terrawatt hours will be met by met by wind power compaired to 3% in 2011.
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Perfluorotributylamine: New Greenhouse Gas Identified
Perfluorotributylamine - a chemical used in the electrical industry - has the potential to contribute significantly to global warming.
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Savvy Godwit up to climate challenge
The bird world's long-distance champion is probably savvy enough to cope with climate change, researchers believe.
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New 'Massive Lake' Threatening Climate Change Debate?
Greenland can either slow the effects of climate change or could drastically raise sea levels. Researchers at the University of Utah said that lake, known as "perennial firn aquifer," remains liquid year-round despite the otherwise frozen landscape around it, according to English.chosun.com.
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Moving from awareness to action
The research confirmed many of the global community's worst fears for climate—and showed that in some ways the situation was even worse than previously thought. Still, the major reports of 2013 were more than bearers of bad news. Let's look back at three ways research advanced the discussion on climate change in 2013, laying the groundwork for shifts from awareness to action
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Report: Some plants may not adapt quickly to future climate change
Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human-induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.
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Not even the deepest sea creatures will escape climate change
Climate models are now predicting a "staggering" catastrophe for deep sea marine life .
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Cold weather snap fuels misinformation over climate change
The record-breaking cold weather in the US doesn't mean the globe isn't warming, scientists say
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Fox Only Talks About Climate Change When It's Cold
The recent Arctic chill has given Fox News an excuse to give "skeptics" a platform to deny climate change and bash climate science. But the network has been remiss to discuss the topic during periods of record heat.
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Big glacier's retreat 'irreversible'
Antarctica's mighty Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is now very probably in a headlong, self-sustaining retreat. This is the conclusion of three teams that have modeled its behavior. Even if the region were to experience much colder conditions, the retreat would continue, the teams tell the journal Nature Climate Change.
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A grand solar minimum would barely make a dent in human-caused global warming
Recent articles in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and in the Irish Times both ran headlines claiming that another grand solar minimum could potentially trigger an "ice age" or "mini ice age" this century. These articles actually refer to the Little Ice Age (LIA) – a period about 500 to 150 years ago when global surface temperatures were approximately 1°C colder than they are today. This is quite different from an ice age, which are more like 5°C colder than today.
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El Ninos Could Double as the Pacific Warms
Twice as many of nature’s troublesome children, the El Niños, could arrive to cause havoc in the coming century.
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Earth Won't Die as Soon as Thought
Take a deep breath—Earth is not going to die as soon as scientists believed. Two new modeling studies find that the gradually brightening sun won’t vaporize our planet's water for at least another 1 billion to 1.5 billion years—hundreds of millions of years later than a slightly older model had forecast. The findings won’t change your retirement plans but could imply that habitable, Earth-like alien worlds are more common than scientists thought.
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A World Without The Winter Olympics
How climate change will make the Games impossible for certain cities.
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Three Ways the Right-Wing is Trying to Convince You that Climate...
Climate change denial is big business, with a recent report finding that the majority of the rhetoric was fueled by millions of dollars of so-called ‘dark money,’ or funders who remain in the shadows while using others to promote their agenda. During the recent cold snap that froze out...
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