The IPCC's message is clear: it's the end of business as usual for fossil fuel users
The UN's climate change panel is unambiguous - we need to make huge policy changes to wean ourselves off CO2 producers


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Scientists are more convinced that human activity is behind the increase in global temperatures since the 1950s, which has boosted sea levels and the odds of extreme storms, according to a leaked draft of an upcoming U.N. report ( Read more... )

(Idt I'd call this a ~rant, but okay)

While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

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Is scientific breakthrough a milestone on the road to clean energy ( Read more... )

As many of you know, Colorado has has record warmth this year (like many other places). Yesterday, a pretty big sinkhole opened up on US Highway 24 high in the mountains between Leadville and Minturn, CO. Kind of speaks to climate change, doesn't it?

Sinkhole on U.S. 24 near Leadville determined to be railroad tunnel

A giant sinkhole that ( Read more... )

Damn the Torpedoes: NC Lawmakers Attempt to Legislate Away Ocean ProjectionsJune 1st, 2012 ( Read more... )

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Industrial pollution linked to 'natural' disasters

Met Office research suggests industrial air pollution is largely responsible for changes in the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean which are linked to drought, flooding and hurricane activity.

Published in the journal Nature, the study is the first to clearly link aerosol 'dirty pollution' and, to a ( Read more... )