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Global warming ...
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David Roberts |
16 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| ... will eat your flesh! |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, health (all these topics) |
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Dust to Dust
NASA recalculates, 1998 becomes second-hottest year in U.S. |
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16 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Dust to Dust NASA recalculates, 1998 becomes second-hottest year in U.S. The year 1998 has dropped from the hottest-year-ever-in-the-U.S. throne after NASA revised calculations, allowing Dust-Bowl-affected 1934 to claim the title. Despite triumphant cackling from climate skeptics, the rejiggering does not affect global climate records, and really is, for all intents and purposes, a technicality -- gl ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news (all these topics) |
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Climate change: From 'know how' to 'do now'
Renowned ecological economist Herman Daly says climate action can't wait |
Grist |
15 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This guest essay comes from Herman E. Daly, an ecological economist and professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He's one of the experts featured in Leonardo DiCaprio's new eco-documentary The 11th Hour, which opens in L.A. and New York on Aug. 17 and in other spots around North America on Aug. 24. The recent increase in attention to climate change is very welcome. Most of the attention seems to be given to complex climate ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics) |
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Global warming and empty calories
High CO2 crops could be low on nutrition |
Maywa Montenegro |
14 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| One of the silver linings of climate change, some have argued, is that high carbon dioxide levels will mean increased crop yields, which will, in turn, be good for combating global hunger (the logic, I suppose, being that if we're frying fifty years from now, at least we won't be hot and hungry). But some underpublicized studies, reported this month in Nature, cast a long shadow on this sunny assertion. (Sorry! It looks like the the article is subscription only, so ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, food (all these topics) |
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Shrinky-Dinky Do
Great Lakes, Arctic sea ice shrinking to record lows |
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14 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Shrinky-Dinky Do Great Lakes, Arctic sea ice shrinking to record lows It could be a summer of record lows in two of the world's iconic places: the Great Lakes and the Arctic seas. Water levels in Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior are well below normal, and Superior could soon hit a record low set in 1926. The U.S. and Canada have undertaken a five-year study that c ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, Canada, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Shameless self-promotion Friday
Writing about Mooney, writing about storms |
Kate Sheppard |
10 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I reviewed Chris Mooney's new book, Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, for The American Prospect, and it's up today. Gristmiller Kit Stolz reviewed it here a while ago, but uh, mine is ... longer. Anyway, the book is good, though not the galvanizing polemic that made his first book, The Republican War on Science, a bestseller. But Mooney's got quite the knack for telling the back story on how science and politics became friends w ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, severe weather, shameless self-promotion (all these topics) |
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A Jolly Good Rockefeller
Rockefeller Foundation offers climate aid to Asia, Africa |
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10 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| A Jolly Good Rockefeller Rockefeller Foundation offers climate aid to Asia, Africa Comin' on over to the dirty-hippie side, the Rockefeller Foundation has announced an investment of $70 million over the next five years to help communities in Asia and Africa withstand the effects of climate change. The foundation will focus on developing adaptation strategies for affected pop ... |
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| Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, news (all these topics) |
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Hansen 2: Iowa edition of Declaration of Stewardship
Hansen gives a talk in Iowa about climate change impacts |
Joseph Romm |
09 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Hansen writes faster than I can blog. He has posted a 'talk given at Des Moines last Sunday, with description of Declaration of Stewardship slightly edited for clarity.' He talks about the 'three major consequences of global warming, if we go down the business-as-usual path, with fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions continuing to increase': First, there is the extermination of species. We could drive half of the plant and animal species on the planet to extincti ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, oceans, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Hansen 1: Sea-level rise
More thoughts on how sea level will be influenced by global warming |
Joseph Romm |
09 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Hansen has posted some important thoughts about sea level rise on his website. In particular, he has shortened his 'Scientific reticence and sea level rise' paper and New Scientist has published it. The key conclusion: [I]ce sheets will respond in a non-linear fashion to global warming --- and are already beginning to do so. There is enough information now, in my opinion, to make it a near certainty that business-as-usual [emissions] scenarios will lead to disastro ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, oceans (all these topics) |
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Early 2007 saw record-breaking extreme weather
More evidence of the link to climate change |
Joseph Romm |
07 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The weather is getting more extreme thanks to human-caused climate change (as I've pointed out many times, see here, here, and here). Now the World Meteorological Organization reports more evidence: In January and April 2007 it is likely that global land surface temperatures ranked warmest since records began in 1880, 1.89°C warmer than average for January and 1.37°C warmer than average for April. Several regions have experienced extremely heavy p ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Did climate change contribute to the Minneapolis bridge collapse?
The question must be asked |
Joseph Romm |
07 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The thought didn't cross my mind until my Minneapolis-based brother suggested it. I had asked him for his thoughts on the collapse, and that is the question he posed. I was skeptical at first, but after doing a Google search -- and after NBC reported Sunday that National Transportation Safety Board investigators are 'looking at everything' including 'the weather' -- I think it is a legitimate question to ask. First, though, why is it an important question to as ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, James Hansen, urban planning (all these topics) |
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Hit 'em where it hurts!
Climate change impacts on wineries: Could this be the last straw for some? |
Andrew Dessler |
03 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Many of those opposed to action on global warming might change their tune if they knew that it would actually affect their beverage of choice. That's right, global warming might change wine. For more info on this, check out this story from KQED Public Broadcasting in San Francisco. |
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| Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, food (all these topics) |
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Desert Flowers
Legendary Burning Man festival gets an eco-conscience |
Judith Lewis |
03 Aug 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Armen Zeitounian leads the way up the staircase of the house he's living in, a two-story colonial nestled in the smoggy hills north of Los Angeles, complete with a view and a pool and a black Ford Explorer in the driveway. In a room on the top floor, a two-by-six-inch plank, painted white, protrudes about five feet through a hole halfway up the wall; in the next room, the other half of the plank emer ... |
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| Topics: art, carbon offsets, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, green living, Nevada, recycling (all these topics) |
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Hansen thinks we're going under water
Sleep tight! |
David Roberts |
31 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I would be remiss if I did not point out that legendary climate scientist Jim Hansen finds it "almost inconceivable that 'business as usual' climate change will not result in a rise in sea level measured in metres within a century." That's some scary sh*t. Hansen seems way out ahead of what any glaciologist is willing to say, which he attributes to "scientific reticence." I'm a little leery casting my lot in with an outlier on matters like this, b ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts (all these topics) |
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Hansen on 'trains of death'
Yeah, coal again |
Joseph Romm |
26 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Still more from James Hansen's email: Ed Wilson explains that the 21st century is a "bottleneck" for species, because of extreme stresses they will experience, most of all from climate change. He foresees a potentially brighter future beyond the fossil fuel era, beyond the peak human population will occur if developing countries follow the path of the developed world to lower fertility rates. Air and water can be clean and we will learn to live wi ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, coal, energy, James Hansen, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Polar Expression
An interview with the directors of Arctic Tale |
Kate Sheppard |
24 Jul 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Adam Ravetch gets up close and personal with his subject. Photo: Arctic Bear Productions After the surprise success of March of the Penguins in 2005 -- a film about, well, penguins ... marching -- it's pretty clear that people like movies about cute animals in cold places. So it's no surprise that National Geographic Films, the company behind Penguins, is back this summer with a new movie documenting the ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, movies, wildlife (all these topics) |
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A word of caution on climate change and 'refugees'
It's sometimes problematic to attribute migration specifically to climate change |
Geoff Dabelko |
24 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Scholars, policy analysts, and even military officers are breaking down climate change's impacts into what they hope are more manageable topics for examination. The migration that climate change could cause is one such topic. For instance, the Center for American Progress recently posted a piece entitled 'Climate Refugees: Global Warming will Spur Migration.' The International Peace Academy analyzed 'Climate Change and Conflict: The Migration Link' (PDF) in a May ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts (all these topics) |
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Just Call Us the Rainmakers
Study confirms connection between human activity and increased rainfall |
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24 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Just Call Us the Rainmakers Study confirms connection between human activity and increased rainfall A study led by Canadian scientists shows that peeps have an effect on precip: "For the first time, climate scientists have clearly detected the human fingerprint on changing global precipitation patterns over the past century," the team says. Comparing rainfall records from 1925 to 1 ... |
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| Topics: Canada, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news (all these topics) |
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Too, Too Sullied Flesh
Meat production spews more greenhouse gases than a three-hour joyride |
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20 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Too, Too Sullied Flesh Meat production spews more greenhouse gases than a three-hour joyride The next time you chomp a hamburger, think of this: the process of getting that beef to your bun may have spewed more greenhouse-gas emissions than leaving all your house lights blazing while taking a three-hour joyride in your car. Researchers looked at b ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, food, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, health, news (all these topics) |
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It ain't natural
What global warming could do to national parks |
Kate Sheppard |
17 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The National Parks Conservation Association released a new report last week, 'Unnatural Disaster' (PDF), which explores the impact of global warming on national parks, and as you'd expect, the news is pretty grim. From the intro: The gradual, accelerated warming of our planet will have disastrous consequences for America's national parks. Glaciers in the national parks of Alaska as well as North Cascades and Mount Rainier National Parks will continue to disappear; Jos ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, national parks (all these topics) |
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The Story of Us
An interview with Tom Kiernan of the National Parks Conservation Association |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 Jul 2007 |
Main Dish |
| A moment of reflection at Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Photo: Richard and Robin via flickr Every year, millions of Americans pack up their families and head out to visit one of America's national parks. My family was no different: I vividly recall the patchwork of reds, oranges, and yellows blanketing the Appalachian mountains as autumn made its big ent ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, environmental movement, national parks (all these topics) |
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First grants from $100 million Duke Foundation Climate Initiative announced
The winners? ED, NRDC, The Pew Center for Climate Change, and other familiar faces ... |
Ken Ward |
17 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The first round of grants (PDF) from the $100 million climate fund established last year by the Doris Duke Foundation were announced last week. Funding priorities and grant recipients were identified in an exhaustive 18-month process of extensive literature reviews and interviews with more than 75 distinguished scientists, economists, environmental leaders, investors, energy industry representatives, and public policy experts. The result? A total of $3.6 million ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics) |
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A river runs through it
Literally |
Kate Sheppard |
13 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The International Rivers Network has a new study out, 'Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing Climate,' which details the failures of flood control techniques like dams and levees and presents other options for areas that may face flooding from severe weather and rising shorelines. Turns out traditional flood control measures like embankments and dams can sometimes actually make flooding worse since they force rivers to run straighter and faster, making ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, severe weather (all these topics) |
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As Long As the Sox Are OK
Study says climate threatens Northeast icons like lobsters and foliage |
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13 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| As Long As the Sox Are OK Study says climate threatens Northeast icons like lobsters and foliage Imagine the Northeast without lobsters, snow, cranberries, and colorful foliage. Without that, you'd have -- what, white churches and crusty old lumberjacks? But all those natural icons are at risk from climate change, says a report the Union of Concerned Scientists put ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, New England, New York, news (all these topics) |
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Tell Us What You Flaunt, What You Really Really Flaunt
Spice Girls reunion tour will be -- gasp -- carbon-intensive |
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12 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Tell Us What You Flaunt, What You Really Really Flaunt Spice Girls reunion tour will be -- gasp -- carbon-intensive We've been looking for an excuse to mention the Spice Girls reunion since it was announced two weeks ago, and we've finally got one. It seems that -- brace yourself -- the group's world tour will not be eco-friendly. In fact, each Girl will get a private Lear j ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change impacts, green living, music, news, travel (all these topics) |
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