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Virginia politician’s job isn’t to worry about Virginia’s future environment
"I can't ban something because of something that might happen 500 or 1,000 years from now," says dummy.
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It’s official: 2012 was the warmest year on record for the U.S.
Last year was a full degree warmer than the next-warmest year of 1998.
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Rupert Murdoch still stupid about climate, now thinks pollution is good for trees
Rupert Murdoch gets his climate change info from a dickhead and then tweets it like it's true.
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Who will serve on Obama’s second-term green team?
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire could head up EPA. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa could become transportation secretary. Who else? Find out.
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Australia is so damn hot that they had to add new colors to their heat maps
The heat maps previously went to 118 degrees F -- now they go to 129.
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Coral fights back against warming seas
Most of the news on coral reefs is pretty gloomy. But new genetic research shows we shouldn't write off these embattled sea critters just yet.
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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.
