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Wheee!
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David Roberts |
27 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| More alarmism from scientists: By the end of the century up to two fifths of the land surface of the Earth will have a hotter climate unlike anything that currently exists, according to a study that predicts the effects of global warming on local and regional climates. And in the worst case scenario, the climatic conditions on another 48% of the land surface will no longer exist on the planet at all. The changes - which will have a devastating affect on biodivers ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Getting a jump on waterfront property speculation
Use Google Maps to simulate rising sea levels anywhere in the world |
Corey McKrill |
27 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| One of the most memorable scenes in An Inconvenient Truth is when Al Gore makes the sea level rise 20 feet and inundate various low-lying regions of the world, including Manhattan and Florida. It was suitably squirm-inducing, especially if the viewer happened to live in one of the areas shown. For the rest of us, or at least for me, however, the lingering question has been, "what would it look like where I live?" Now, thanks to Google's mapping API and the in ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Seattle (all these topics) |
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It Seems We've Stood and Talked Like This Before
Climate change could make some climate zones disappear, worsen asthma |
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27 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| It Seems We've Stood and Talked Like This Before Climate change could make some climate zones disappear, worsen asthma It's been a while since we've done a probable-effects-of-climate-change story, and we'd hate to leave you hanging. So: according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, climate change could reinvent the world's climate zones by 2100 (feels closer all the time, don't it?). Ne ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics) |
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Political warfare /= scientific warfare
Time to quit pretending otherwise |
David Roberts |
26 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Late last week Chris Mooney had a long and characteristically careful post on HuffPo clarifying the hurricane/climate change connection, exactly what Gore's said about it, and exactly where Gore can and cannot be legitimately criticized for it. The crucial point in the post, though, is not about hurricanes. It's this: Nevertheless, when it comes to the science of global warming and its impacts, there's a very significant difference between Gore and his would-be detr ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, politics (all these topics) |
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I'm Hot, Sticky Sweet
Vermont's maple-syrup industry braces for climate change |
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26 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| I'm Hot, Sticky Sweet Vermont's maple-syrup industry braces for climate change Will warmer winters stop the flow of Vermont maple syrup? That's the question of the day in the Green Mountain State, where folks worry that climate change will make the $200 million industry -- which provides 32 percent of U.S. syrup output -- dry up. "I've always been, 'Oh, global warming, I don't kno ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, food and agriculture, news, Vermont (all these topics) |
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Feedback frenzy
2006, the year global warming came into focus |
Joseph Romm |
20 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Steve Connor from the U.K.'s The Independent summarized what we learned in 2006 with the article 'Review of the year: Global warming,' subheaded with, 'Our worst fears are exceeded by reality.' According to Connor, '2006 will be remembered by climatologists as the year in which the potential scale of global warming came into focus. And the problem can be summarised in one word: feedback.' Connor has collected and examined research from the last year on positive and ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, messaging (all these topics) |
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Aren't You Glad You Use Dial?
World sweats through warmest winter on record |
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19 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Aren't You Glad You Use Dial? World sweats through warmest winter on record Congratulations, global citizens, for weathering the warmest winter in the Northern Hemisphere since record-keeping began in 1880. From December to February, combined land and ocean temperatures were 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit above average, says a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study published Friday in Scie ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics) |
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Child's Play
Can Al Gore's message be tailored for kids? |
Sarah van Schagen |
16 Mar 2007 |
Main Dish |
| The planet's future is up to you, kids ... but no pressure. Photo: Sarah van Schagen Can Al Gore's message be tailored for kids? Lisa Shimizu thinks so. Over the past few months, Shimizu has been developing a version of the Inconvenient Truth slideshow that would be easily understood by and engaging for children. After testing it out on captive audiences ranging from her 8-year-old daughter Aya to a cl ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, climate change impacts, education, Seattle (all these topics) |
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Get Me Rewrite!
Part two of intergovernmental climate report no sunnier than part one |
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12 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Get Me Rewrite! Part two of intergovernmental climate report no sunnier than part one No Monday would be complete without a dash of grim global-warming news, so here goes. Part deux of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is due out in April, and according to a draft, things are looking quite the opposite of good. The report, the second of four scheduled to be issued by IPCC this year, focuses on the e ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics) |
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Good God, Y'all
U.N. chief says climate change poses as big a threat as war |
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02 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Good God, Y'all U.N. chief says climate change poses as big a threat as war When we were in school, assemblies were a chance to see something fun, like a juggler or a movie. How times change. Two months after taking office, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave his first climate-change speech, saying all kinds of gloomy things to an audience of schoolchildren from around the world. To wit ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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She Will Have Her Way
Hearing held on Inuit climate and human-rights claim against U.S. |
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01 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| She Will Have Her Way Hearing held on Inuit climate and human-rights claim against U.S. In the northern reaches of the world, climate change is more than a theory. For years, native Inuit have seen extreme weather and weak ice interfere with their lives, and they say big emitters like the U.S. are to blame. Today -- more than a year after filing a petition with the Inter-Ame ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics) |
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The scientific debate
Some thoughts |
David Roberts |
05 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Part of the confusion over Revkin's article is that there isn't one "climate debate." There are several. I'm going to taxonomize them in another post, but first I want to say something about the scientific one. This debate, as many folks have pointed out, is pretty much over. The denialists are wrong and they've been completely discredited. Every serious person involved in the climate change discussion accepts the broad conclusions of the IPCC. However, ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change impacts, climate change skepticism, climate science, IPCC (all these topics) |
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Adapting to climate change?
Vancouver's submerged seawall |
Coby Beck |
30 Dec 2006 |
Gristmill |
| I took these pictures a couple of days ago along the seawall in downtown Vancouver. Every month there are a few high tides that flood the sidewalk, not always completely like this, but sometimes a good 20 cm (8 inches) over. How many cities will lose similar attractions with, say, a meter more of sea level rise? |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Vancouver (all these topics) |
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Global warming: worry, don't panic
It's a disaster, not a catastrophe |
Gar Lipow |
02 Dec 2006 |
Gristmill |
| A Guardian story suggests that we may have as much as eight degrees of global warming already locked in, in the form of stored heat in the ocean. But a substantial stored-heat backlog in the ocean has been well-known for some time. That it is greater than expected is bad news -- but (as I've confirmed in correspondence with Gavin Schmidt of Real Climate) this does not mean that all or most of that stored heat is going to 'come back' and fry the planet, provided we take act ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics) |
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Heat and Serve
Can industrial agriculture withstand climate change? |
Tom Philpott |
04 Oct 2006 |
Victual Reality |
| If the fossil fuels don't getcha, the genetics will. Photo: iStockphoto In the United States, the clearest signs of climate change so far have been stern words from Al Gore and a few hotter-than-normal summers. In Greenland, by contrast, global warming has sparked a revolution -- at least, when it comes to agriculture. A recent article in the German magazine Der Spiegel explores the dramatic new op ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, fossil fuels, industrial ag, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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Something Fishy: Smack is wack
Overfishing, global warming causing increases in jellyfish populations |
Sarah van Schagen |
27 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Ahoy, me hearties! Me hopes ye've now recovered from Talk Like a Pirate Day. Turned out to be a jolly good time here at Grist HQ aboard me ship -- a good lot of pirate jokes and a few noggins o' rum and me timbers were shivered, if ye know what I mean. Well, this week mateys, me post was inspired by the maritime adventures of a coworker shipmate during his travels in Cabo. Apparently, after a dip in the refreshing waters, his partner started to develop a large wel ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, oceans, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Early warning system set up to detect global warming
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Chris Schults |
17 Jul 2006 |
Gristmill |
| This sounds cool: MOUNT ALBION - University of Colorado biologists began installing an alarm system atop this craggy summit Friday, near the Continental Divide west of Boulder.Like the alarm systems in your car or home, this one is designed to detect intruders.But in this case, the invaders are tundra plants moving up from lower elevations in response to global warming. The alarm system is a cluster of mountaintop vegetation plots that will be monitored periodically ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Colorado, scientific research (all these topics) |
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Funny
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Chris Schults |
17 Jul 2006 |
Gristmill |
| (from SFGate via Groovy Green) |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, fashion, green living (all these topics) |
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Au revoir, Greenland
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David Roberts |
24 Jun 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Meanwhile, over at the L.A. Times, we find that the Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than climate models predicted. Hey, I figure, more freshwater for us! Our grandkids? Eff them. |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Greenland (all these topics) |
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Laid to Waste
Portraits of loss in the wake of Katrina |
Chris Jordan |
02 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Click image to watch slide show. Photo by Chris Jordan. On a misty November morning in 2005, I was photographing in New Orleans' Ninth Ward neighborhood a few blocks from where one of the levees had failed 10 weeks earlier. Squatting in a driveway in foul-smelling mud, adjusting the knobs on my camera, I stood up to stretch my back and noticed a man sitting on some concrete s ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics) |
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Walk the plankton
Global warming could wipe out the bottom of the food chain. |
Sarah K. Burkhalter |
19 Jan 2006 |
Gristmill |
| When you woke up this morning, did you thank [God, your lucky stars, the Big Bang] for plankton? If you didn't, consider adding it to your daily routine. Sure plankton are teeny-tiny and look like scary aliens, but they're also moderately important, in that sustaining-life sort of way. Sadly, global warming could kill them off. The Independent wins my nomination for 'Most Sinister Opening Paragraph o' the Day': The microscopic plants that underpin all life in ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, oceans (all these topics) |
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Polar bears drowning
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David Roberts |
14 Dec 2005 |
Gristmill |
| I thought this new Greenpeace commercial was kind of a cutesy joke. But no: Turns out polar bears really are drowning. (Yeah, it's subscription only, so there's an excerpt below the fold.) Scientists for the first time have documented multiple deaths of polar bears off Alaska, where they likely drowned after swimming long distances in the ocean amid the melting of the Arctic ice shelf. ... In a quarter-century of aerial surveys of the Alaskan coastline befo ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, polar bears (all these topics) |
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Vacation tips for a climate-changed world
WSJ ranks island getaways by how they'll hold during global warming |
Lisa Hymas |
31 Oct 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Power players in the U.S. are finally sitting up and taking note of climate change. But don't get hopeful just yet. They're not leaping to figure out how to retool our industrial system and stave off disaster. Rather, they're calculating which islands will make the best vacation getaways for the rich and famous in a globally warmed world. Yes, The Wall Street Journal has helpfully published 'The Global Climate-Change Island Guide' [subscribers only, alas], informed by t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, green living, travel (all these topics) |
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Storm Front and Center
The environmental take on Hurricane Katrina |
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12 Sep 2005 |
Main Dish |
| When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast, it stirred up not just gale-force winds and untold misery, but a host of difficult environmental questions. How did heedless coastal development exacerbate the hurricane's toll? What's behind the socio-economic disparity in environmental planning -- and emergency response to environmental disasters? Did global warming make the storm more intense? What new ecolo ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Meet the New Loss
Hurricane Katrina brings a foretaste of environmental disasters to come |
Bill McKibben |
07 Sep 2005 |
Soapbox |
| If the images of skyscrapers collapsed in heaps of ash were the end of one story -- the U.S. safe on its isolated continent from the turmoil of the world -- then the picture of the sodden Superdome with its peeling roof marks the beginning of the next story, the one that will dominate our politics in the coming decades: America befuddled about how to cope with a planet suddenly ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics) |
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