Climate Science
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What is PPM, and what does it have to do with capitalism and climate change?
The nitty gritty of measuring atmospheric CO2 involves Algerian monks and Mongolian schoolteachers, and has some pretty major real-world implications.
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The rising oceans could drown a lot of NASA launch sites
The agency's five coastal facilities can expect between 5 and 27 inches of sea level rise by 2050.
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What’s the best way to communicate about climate change? This expert offers some insights
Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication has done groundbreaking research on people's understanding of global warming.
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Use behavioral science to help fight climate change, says Obama executive order
The first annual report from the administration's Social and Behavioral Sciences Team offers promising psychological nudges.
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You don’t even wanna know what happens if we burn all the fossil fuels
But it involves no more Antarctic ice and WAY more ocean.
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New York’s natural gas pipelines are leakier than your grandpa
Old infrastructure is spewing a greenhouse gas all over Manhattan.
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A surprising link between superintelligent robots, global warming, and mass extinction? Nope, not really
It takes a lot of scientific stretching to suggest robots will rise from the ashes of climate change. But apparently this is an argument.
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Climate change will destroy the planet’s circulatory system
You never thought you cared so much about ocean currents ... until now! Two new studies suggest that melting ice sheets could disrupt the oceans' flow.
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High temperatures linger over the U.S.
It's after Labor Day, but some parts of the United States are still experiencing record heat.
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We’re basically putting the cast of Finding Nemo in a blender
Warming ocean temperatures are scrambling ecosystems, as species migrate to cooler waters.