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No Venus envy here: Earth’s evil twin shows us the climate change endgame
Astrobiologist David Grinspoon says Venus used to be a lot like Earth, but then this little thing called the greenhouse effect turned it into a scorched, uninhabitable wasteland. Worried yet?
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Sea-level rise could be way, way worse than we already thought
Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could push sea levels up more than three feet by 2100, according to a survey of top glaciologists.
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Climate change could lead to more volcanic eruptions
Over the last million years, glacier melt might have increased volcanic eruptions tenfold. But I'm sure that doesn't mean it'll happen again!
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Natural gas: It’s a hedge, not a bridge
Boosters of natural gas argue that it can serve as a "bridge fuel" between coal and renewables, but a new analysis calls their bluff.
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Solar Mosaic: Kind of a big deal for clean energy
The "Kickstarter of solar" just started accepting investments. Here's why you should be excited.
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Could Chuck Hagel, defense secretary nominee, turn out to be a climate hawk?
Hagel has long been confused about climate change ... and yet concerned about it too, particularly as a national security issue.
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Obama vs. physics: Why climate change won’t wait for the president
Climate change is not a fight, like abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. It's a fight between human beings and physics.
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How one small sentence kicked up a storm of climate controversy
In 1996, 12 words in an international climate report set off a firestorm. The man responsible for that sentence, Benjamin Santer, says things have never been the same.
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League of Women Voters ad asks Obama for climate action
Here's hoping the president reads the newspaper while on vacation.
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W.Va. congressmember compares EPA head to Gadhafi
Rep. David McKinley doesn't much like EPA chief Lisa Jackson. We have a theory why.