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Climate of North American cities will shift hundreds of miles in one generation | University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
In one generation, the climate experienced in many North American cities is projected to change to that of locations hundreds of miles away—or to a new climate unlike any found in North America today. A new study and interactive web application aim to help the public understand how climate change will impact the lives of people who live in urban areas of the United States and Canada.
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40 percent of states across the country are committed to Paris climate goals
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) announced on Tuesday that the state had joined the U.S. Climate Alliance, making it the 20th state, plus Puerto Rico, to pledge to uphold the Paris climate agreement goals. Momentum behind local-level climate action continues to grow, and since the start of the year, three others have also joined the alliance: Michigan, New Mexico, and Illinois. This comes as federal action on climate change under the Trump administration continues to slide backwards.
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Where Glaciers Melt Away, Switzerland Sees Opportunity
In parts of the Alps, the warming climate is making glaciers disappear. Now the Swiss have a plan to make use of the valleys left behind.
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Green New Deal is good economics
After years of failing to pass a carbon tax, climate hawks are now rallying behind a bold new proposal for tackling global warming. Known as the Green New Deal, this economic stimulus package for the planet promises to dramatically cut carbon emissions through government spending on clean energy jobs, technologies, and infrastructure.
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Harrison Ford: leaders who deny climate change are 'on the wrong side of history'
Harrison Ford has launched a scorching attack on Donald Trump and other world leaders, for denying science in order to justify doing nothing to face the “moral crisis” of climate change. The actor best known for fighting off Imperial stormtroopers as Han Solo and writhing in snake pits as Indiana Jones has now taken on the combined might of climate change deniers, with Trump a top target.
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50 Polar Bears Searching For Food Invade Russian Town, Terrifying Residents
"People are scared. They are frightened to leave homes, and their daily routines are broken."
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The truth about big oil and climate change
In america, the world’s largest economy and its second biggest polluter, climate change is becoming hard to ignore. Extreme weather has grown more frequent. In November wildfires scorched California; last week Chicago was colder than parts of Mars. Scientists are sounding the alarm more urgently and people have noticed—73% of Americans polled by Yale University late last year said that climate change is real. The left of the Democratic Party wants to put a “Green New Deal” at the heart of the election in 2020. As expectations shift, the private sector is showing signs of adapting.
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Donald Trump just sent this extremely idiotic tweet about Amy Klobuchar running for president.
I regret to you inform you that the President of the United States still does not understand climate change or the science behind our warming planet. On Sunday at a rally in Minneapolis, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) announced that she is running for president. In her speech, Klobuchar said that as president she would take steps to mitigate climate change. It was snowing heavily while she spoke, a fact that President Trump, despite all of the scientific evidence, still seems to think disproves that global warming is happening.
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Russian islands under 'mass invasion' of polar bears
There are reports of bears attacking people and entering homes in Russia.
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Doomsday postponed? The takeaway from the big new Antarctica studies
There’s grim, mixed news out about Antarctica. Two new papers on melting Antarctic ice come just days after NASA scientists announced the discovery of a massive subterranean hole in West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, the Florida-sized hunk of ice which alone could unleash more than two feet of sea-level rise should it collapse. One study found that all this melting could have surprising and profound impacts on weather while the other (controversial) study scaled back previous Doomsday estimates. Still, the takeaway from both studies is clear: If we keep on our current path, things could go downhill for humanity very, very quickly.
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Hard numbers help visualize climate change. And it’s not pretty.
When it comes to anthropogenic climate change, one of the biggest problems is grasping the problem’s sheer scale—and what its follow-on effects could mean for the everyday life of us fortunate enough to live in developed countries. After all, it is one thing to say that the Paris agreement could allow global average temperatures to rise by as much as an intolerable 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). But it’s still just a bunch of numbers.
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A hole big enough to fit two-thirds of Manhattan has formed under an Antarctic glacier
Scientists say if Thwaites collapses, it could trigger a catastrophic rise in global sea levels, flooding coastal cities around the world.
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Cavity two-thirds the size of Manhattan discovered under Antarctic glacier
Scientists have discovered a giant cavity at the bottom of a disintegrating glacier in Antarctica, sparking concerns that the ice sheet is melting more rapidly than expected. Researchers working as part of a Nasa-led study found the cavern, which they said was 300 metres tall and two-thirds the size of Manhattan, at the bottom of the massive Thwaites glacier. The space is big enough to have contained 14bn tonnes of ice and most of that ice has melted during the past three years.
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Colonists Brought Death, Disease and Climate Change to the Americas, Study Finds
When they arrived in the Americas centuries ago, European colonists brought pestilence and death. Their arrival was so devastating, in fact, that it may have contributed to a period of global cooling, according to a new study. The research, to be published in the March issue of the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, represents an ambitious attempt to show that, through a series of events, human activity was affecting the climate long before the industrial revolution and global warming.
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Thousands demonstrate for climate action
Tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating in thirteen towns across Switzerland calling for more action on climate change. The initiative was called by students, but people of all ages turned out despite cold weather on Saturday, carrying banners with messages such as "trees instead of cars", “we want clean lungs” and “has your brain already melted?”
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Climate Change As A Matter Of International Security
When we think of “global threats”, we usually imagine terrorist attacks, cyberwars, and weapons of mass destructions. Or maybe, trespassing into the realm of fiction, of James Bond’s Dr. No and other, similar, cats-owning villains. Obviously, these are all fearsome scenarios and risks (especially Dr.No). However, there’s another “global threat” that is looming above us, even though we probably wouldn’t think of calling it that way. Such a threat is climate change.
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Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century: study
Climate change is causing significant changes to phytoplankton in the world's oceans, and a new MIT study finds that over the coming decades these changes will affect the ocean's color, intensifying its blue regions and its green ones. Satellites should detect these changes in hue, providing early warning of wide-scale changes to marine ecosystems.
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David Wallace-Wells on climate: ‘People should be scared – I'm scared’
David Wallace-Wells’s apocalyptic depiction of a world made uninhabitable by climate chaos caused an outcry when it was published in New York magazine in 2017. Based on the worst-case scenarios foreseen by science, his article portrayed a world of drought, plague and famine, in which acidified oceans drown coastal homelands, dormant diseases are released from ancient ice, conflicts surge, economies collapse, human cognitive abilities decline and heat stress becomes more intolerable in New York City than in present-day Bahrain.
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Watch Ellen Page’s impassioned speech on climate change, racism, and the Trump administration
“Sorry,” said Ellen Page sheepishly, seven minutes into her Thursday-night appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “I’m, like, really fired up tonight.” After apologizing, she proceeded to give an impassioned speech on the looming dangers of climate change, how the Trump/Pence administration has helped give rise to more hate crimes, and the complacent media that enables it all.
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Global warming is unstoppable while capitalism blocks prevention
The tenacious refusal of the world’s business and political leaders to heed the warnings of climate scientists about global warming raises the stark possibility that it may already be too late. The tipping point beyond which concerted preventive action becomes impracticable is just 12 years away, according to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That’s all the time the IPCC scientists give us to keep the global temperature from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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