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Earth’s carbon dioxide levels reach highest point in 800,000 years
Experts blame continuous burning of fossil fuels for enhancing the planet’s natural “greenhouse effect.”
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Earth’s carbon dioxide levels reach highest point in 800,000 years
Experts blame continuous burning of fossil fuels for enhancing the planet’s natural “greenhouse effect.”
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Earth's carbon dioxide levels continue to soar, at highest point in 800,000 years
Carbon dioxide — the gas scientists say is most responsible for global warming — reached its highest level in recorded history last month, at 410 parts per million.
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Bill Gates told Trump that being his science adviser is ‘not a good use of my time’
Trump still hasn’t appointed a science adviser — but he did offer the job to Bill Gates, who said it was “not a good use of my time.” At a meeting between the president and Microsoft founder last month, Gates suggested to Trump that he actually appoint someone to lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. At this point, Gates told STAT, Trump asked Gates if he himself wanted the job. Gates did not.
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99% of These Sea Turtles Are Turning Female—Here’s Why
The turtle wranglers landed on Ingram Island thinking about sex and heat. Pacific green sea turtles spend years cruising this northern Australia feeding ground, fattening up on sea grasses before heading to nesting areas to mate and lay eggs. The scientists simply wanted to know: which of these reptiles were male and which were female?
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Health Benefits Of Chinese Climate Goals Could Offset Costs By 2030chi
A new study from researchers at MIT has concluded that if China follows through on its climate policies targeting the reduction of CO2 emissions, the monetary savings stemming from air quality and human health will greatly exceed the cost of meeting those goals in the first place.
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'We're doomed': Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will dare mention
The 86-year-old social scientist says accepting the impending end of most life on Earth might be the very thing needed to help us prolong it
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The French President Just Criticized Trump's Handling of Climate Change in Front of Congress
French President Emmanuel Macron is not afraid to speak his mind, even when it means disagreeing with the President of the United States.
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'Money talks': A $1.2 trillion fund manager is about to pull investment from companies that won't act on climate change
Legal and General, which oversees more than $1.2 trillion in assets, said it would punish companies with a bad record on climate change and strip them of their funding. Helena Morrissey, head of personal investing, said the firm will be “naming and shaming” companies that have failed to act on climate change next week, and pull investments from those companies. “There comes a time when talk is over, and it’s time to vote with our feet. Money talks as they say,” Morrissey said at a conference in London on Monday.
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Dear leaders: You've failed your children on climate change
Dear leaders, You failed us. It's your responsibility to protect the youth. But when faced with the choice of fossil fuel money for your campaigns, or the wellbeing of your children, you pick fossil fuels. Today is Earth Day. Please save your phony Earth Day tweets and Facebook posts, I don't want to see them. Put those in a bag along with your toothless "thoughts and prayers" tweets for hurricane victims and dump them in the ocean just like you permit corporations to dump their waste.
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Earth Day and the Hockey Stick: A Singular Message
On the 20th anniversary of the graph that galvanized climate action, it is time to speak out boldly
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Antarctica Continues To Melt In Winter Despite Subzero Winter Temperatures
As much as 25 percent of Antarctica’s annual ice melt is occurring during the winter months despite subzero temperatures averaging -48°C (56°F) during the continent’s coldest months
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Canada, France come together on climate-change fight
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron, long billed as kindred political spirits, agreed Monday to a fresh, fortified attack on climate change — hoping to keep a shared priority at the forefront of the global agenda despite Donald Trump’s decision to quit the battlefield. Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna was on hand to sign the new France-Canada partnership on climate and environment in a ceremony at the French presidential palace during the first day of Trudeau’s official visit to Paris.
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It’s not your imagination. Allergy season gets worse every year.
Global warming is spreading pollen and risks from other allergens.
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Carbon dioxide from ships at sea to be regulated for first time
Carbon dioxide from ships at sea will be regulated for the first time following a historic agreement reached after two weeks of detailed talks in London. Shipping companies will halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 under the plan, brokered by the International Maritime Organization and binding across its 170 member states. The agreement will require a revolution among ships, which are overwhelmingly fuelled by heavy oils at present.
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Shipping in 'historic' climate deal
The global shipping industry has for the first time agreed to cut its emissions of greenhouse gases. The move comes after talks all week at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London. Shippings has previously been excluded from climate agreements, but under the deal, emissions will be reduced by 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels. One minister from a Pacific island state described the agreement as "history in the making".
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World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist
In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than coal. In a sobering lecture released this month, a member of that team, Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Cornell University, outlined more precisely the role U.S. fracking is playing in changing the world's climate.
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Climate Change Is Humankind's Greatest Threat, U.N. Chief Says | The Weather Channel
Climate change is the greatest threat to humankind, the head of the United Nations said Thursday, noting that "a tsunami of data that should create a storm of concern." Speaking at a press Q&A at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres called climate change “the most systemic threat to humankind” and called on world leaders to reduce their countries’ greenhouse gas emissions.
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Slow-Motion Ocean: Atlantic's Circulation Is Weakest in 1,600 Years
If hemisphere-spanning currents are slowing, greater flooding and extreme weather could be at hand
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New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future'
The New Zealand government will grant no new offshore oil exploration permits in a move that is being hailed by conservation and environmental groups as a historic victory in the battle against climate change. The ban will apply to new permits and won’t affect the existing 22, some of which have decades left on their exploration rights and cover an area of 100,000 sq km. The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said her government “has a plan to transition towards a carbon-neutral future, one that looks 30 years in advance”.
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