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Pat Robertson: ‘Climate Change is a Joke
Televangelist Pat Robertson was in rare form during the Jan.7 broadcast of the 700 Club, lashing out at John Kerry’s attempts at Middle East peace and insisting climate change is just a joke. During the show, Robertson warned that Kerry’s attempt at an Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation deal...
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Warming 'killing penguin chicks'
Penguin chicks in Argentina are dying as a direct consequence of climate change, according to new research.
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Watch 63 years of climate change in one horrifying GIF
Global warming is still the topic of much debate, but a short video posted recently by NASA is fairly convincing. The 15-second animation, which was posted by NASA last week and picked up on Tuesda...
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January rainfall breaks records
Early figures suggest parts of England have had their wettest January since records began more than 100 years ago.
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12 Graphics that Contain Everything You Need to Know about Climate Change
Climate change is real, it’s here and it will be affecting the planet for a long, long time. That’s the lesson of the latest iteration of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change‘s state of climate science report, released in its entirety on January 30.
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Heat Wave Deaths May Triple by the 2050s
Deaths due to heat waves could rise three to four times in some regions by the middle of this century, according to a new U.K. study.
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Greenland glacier hits record speed
The Jakobshavn Glacier - widely thought to have spawned the iceberg that sank the Titanic - is moving about four times faster than it was in the 1990s.
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Arctic icy lakes lose thickness
The ubiquitous shallow icy lakes that dominate Alaska's Arctic coastal plain have undergone a significant change in recent decades.
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Climate change is slowly but steadily cooking the world’s oceans
Because the ocean's so big—it takes up more than 70% of the planet's surface—it absorbs a lot of energy without anyone being much the wiser. Here's a look at data for the upper 2,000 meters (1.14 miles) of the global ocean. Check out the three-month moving average for the last quarter of 2013, via the...
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New climate hubs aim to help communities cope with extreme weather
Aiming to help rural communities deal with climate change, the Obama administration is creating seven regional “climate hubs”
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Is Australia the world's most environmentally unfriendly country?
In Western Australia, endangered great white sharks are being slaughtered. In Queensland, dredging spoil is to be dumped on the Great Barrier Reef. In Tasmania, ancient forests - harbouring some of the planet's tallest trees - are in danger of being stripped of their World Heritage listing. Australians could be forgiven for wondering if the federal government they elected last September is the most conservation-hostile in living memory.
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Environment chief in Great Britain faces floods anger
Environment Agency chairman Lord Smith has faced anger from residents and a local MP, as he visited the flood-hit Somerset Levels.
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Great Lakes Ice Cover Is the Largest We've Seen This Century
A persistently cold winter has lead to the most widespread Great Lakes ice in almost two decades.
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Freezing Out the Bigger Picture
What seems like unusually cold weather in the Northeast is still milder than what was normal a few decades ago, but it has stoked confusion and given fodder to global warming skeptics.
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'Enjoy life while you can'
Climate science maverick James Lovelock believes catastrophe is inevitable, carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he do, asks Decca Aitkenhead
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Cat parasite found in Arctic Beluga
The cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which can cause blindness in people, has been identified in Beluga in the western Arctic.
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Do the Winter Olympics Have a Future in a Warming World?
Russia's balmy weather could be a sign of things to come, a new study says. We're running out of places cold enough to host the Games.
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Kerry urges climate change action
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Indonesians on Sunday that climate change could threaten their “entire way of life” as he called for all nations to do more to stop global warming. Speaking to students, Kerry derided skeptics of the view that human activity causes global warming as “shoddy scientists” and “extreme ideologues” and he said big companies and special interests should not be allowed to “hijack” the climate debate.
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China's plan to clean up air in cities will doom the climate, scientists say
China is erecting huge industrial complexes in remote areas to convert coal to synthetic fuel that could make the air in its megacities cleaner. But the complexes use so much energy that the carbon footprint of the fuel is almost double that of conventional coal and oil, spelling disaster for earth’s climate, a growing chorus of scientists is warning.
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Snowiest Place on Earth
Few people know it as the snowiest place on earth. But that's exactly what Sukayu Onsen, Japan is: 40-foot snow canyons, blinding blizzards, and the northernmost primates, Japanese snow monkeys. See it all in this episode of Destination Uncharted.
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