Wednesday, January 30, 2013

ESLD: Climate Scientists "Erring on the Side of Least Drama"

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by Dana Nuccitelli, Skeptical Science , January 30, 2013 A paper recently published in  Global Environmental Change  by  Brysse et al. (...
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Witch hunt of Charles Monnett, polar bear researcher, still ongoing?

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Is polar bear scientist Monnett still under investigation? Photo by Loren Holmes by  Jill Burke , Alaska Dispatch ,...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Confirmation Of Climate Hawk Kerry As Secretary Of State May Doom Dirty Keystone XL Pipeline

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by  Joe Romm , Climate Progress, January 29, 2013  The Senate confirmed John Kerry as a Secretary of State by a vote of  94 to 3 . I belie...

Stephen Colbert nails it on global warming

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Starts at minute 4:30: http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/mon-january-28-2013-michael-shellenberger

In depth article on coral reefs at Skeptical Science

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Figure 6. Example of a  French Polynesian  reef devastated by a COTS outbreak. A, healthy reef with cover in excess of 40%; B, algae hav...

"Limiting global warming to 2 °C is unlikely to save most coral reefs," by K. Frieler et al., Nature Climate Change, 3 (2013); doi: doi:10.1038/nclimate1674

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Nature Climate Change , 3 (2013) 165-170; doi:  doi:10.1038/nclimate1674 Limiting global warming to 2   °C is unlikely to save most cora...
Monday, January 28, 2013

NRDC: New video explains the climate threat from the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline

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by Danielle Droitsch, Switchboard, NRDC, January 28, 2013 A  new video  [see below] released by NRDC and 350.org explains how the  Keyst...

New Arctic Death Spiral Feedback: Melt Ponds Cause Sea Ice To Melt More Rapidly

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Graphic depiction of the amount of sunlight above and underneath the Arctic sea ice. The growing coverage of the ice by darker meltponds in...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Jennifer Francis Unchained, Breckenridge, January 2013

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Nice that she uses Peter Sinclair's montage for about the first 3 minutes. Nothing you don't already know for the first 20 minut...

Portland, ME: Huge crowd turns out to denounce possible transport of tar sands in region to Casco Bay

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Foes and backers dispute whether there are plans to transport the substance to Casco Bay by  Beth Quimby  ( bquimby@mainetoday.com )...