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Stop arguing about climate change and start getting ready for extreme weather
The IPCC’s latest climate change report has made it clear that global temperature rises will be the cause of more extreme weather events around the world. Indeed, weather disasters increasingly provoke the question: “Was this event (directly) caused by anthropogenic climate change?”—as was the case with the flooding that struck the UK this winter.
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Flood-battered islands push climate treaty negotiators to speed efforts
Marshall Islands president tells negotiators from 30 countries that his people 'stand to lose everything'
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Earth has a fever, but the heat is sloshing into the oceans
Much has been made about the Earth's energy imbalance (extra energy absorbed by the Earth). It is clear the Earth is out of balance, in laypersons' terms, it has a "fever". What isn't clear is how bad the fever is. A new study by Dr. Matt Palmer and Dr. Doug McNeall moves us closer to answering this "fever" question.
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EU ‘unhappy’ climate change is off G20 agenda
EUROPE is unhappy with Australia's decision to drop climate change from the G20 agenda and is lobbying the Abbott government to reconsider.
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In tornado-prone Oklahoma, some better prepared than others
The mayor of Moore, Oklahoma, a municipality twice devastated by tornados in the past 15 years, is fixated on garage doors.
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Cable News Coverage of Climate Science: Science or Spin?
An analysis of 2013 climate change coverage on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC revealed that accuracy varied significantly across networks.
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Is global warming just a giant natural fluctuation?
An analysis of temperature data since 1500 all but rules out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth’s climate, according to a new study by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.
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Cities on frontline of climate change struggle
Half of the world's population now lives in cities - a proportion that's set to rise to two-thirds by 2050. Yet cities are vulnerable to the worst impacts of climate change precisely because their locations are fixed. As the UN's climate panel meets in Berlin, how are urban centres coping with the test?
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World must end 'dirty' fuel use - UN
A long-awaited UN report on how to curb climate change says the world must rapidly move away from carbon-intensive fuels. There must be a "massive shift" to renewable energy, says the 33-page study released in Berlin. It has been finalised after a week of negotiations between scientists and government officials.
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World must end 'dirty' fuel use - UN
A long-awaited UN report on how to curb climate change says the world must rapidly move away from carbon-intensive fuels.
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Greenland ice cores show U.S. Clean Air Act changed climate
A research team studying smog from evidence found in the Greenland ice sheet stumbled on something unexpected when they found a correlation beween smog and acid rain. Then, when they analyzed ice core samples, they discovered that the 1970 U.S. Clean Air Act had a measurable impact on world climate.
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EU green light for UK carbon project
A UK project to capture CO2 and bury it under the North Sea looks set to receive a 300m-euro boost from the EU.
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Swim to Sea? These Salmon Are Catching a Lift
California’s drought has left rivers too shallow for salmon, so the government is trucking and barging them to the sea in the hope they will return.
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Study: Climate Change to Blame For Worsening U.S. Wildfires
Drought, heat and dry weather caused by climate change has dramatically increased the number of wildfires in the U.S., a new study shows. The number of sizable wildfires increased by a rate of seven fires a year between 1984 and 2011
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Flood defence assessment completed in England
For the first time in its history, the Environment Agency has assessed the state of all of its flood defences in England following the winter's storms.
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Today’s Antarctic region once as hot as California, Florida
Parts of ancient Antarctica were as warm as today’s California coast, and polar regions of the southern Pacific Ocean registered 21st-century Florida heat, according to scientists using a new way to measure past temperatures.
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Radioactive krypton assists in hunt for the world's oldest ice
Radioactive krypton could help researchers track down the world's oldest ice, filling a crucial gap in Earth's climate history. Scientists are currently searching for Antarctic ice at least 1.2 million years old. This period marks when the Earth's hot and cold rhythms started shifting from a 41,000-year cycle to today's 100,000-year cycle. Ocean sediments have yet to reveal the reasons for the change, but atmospheric gases and dust locked inside old ice could solve the climate mystery.
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Climate Change Today
Climate Change-Check out this infographic to see what's changing:
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Massive Iceberg Six Times The Size Of Manhattan Breaks Off Of Antarctica
Scientists are monitoring an iceberg roughly six times the size of Manhattan - one of the largest now in existence - that broke off from an Antarctic glacier and is heading into the open ocean.
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This world map shows how different it would be if the polar ice caps melted
This is the first map of its kind on such a scale and level of complexity, depicts our planet as it would look without its polar ice caps, with sea levels 260 ft higher as they are today.
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