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2012 has been the hottest year ever in the United States
So far in 2012, the average temperature has been 3.4 degrees above average, and 1.1 degrees above the previous warmest year ever. Also, the drought continues.
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Roll ’em: A dispatch from 350.org’s Do the Math bus
Eight activists, four wifi hotspots, one bus: Trying to jump-start a grassroots fossil-fuel divestiture movement, and seeing some sparks.
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Climate and Hurricane Sandy: What’s in a name?
Plumbing the storm's names and nicknames leads to some useful takeaways for communicating about climate change.
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Climate change and overfishing hurt our cutest, tiniest fish
Sardines and other forage fish are struggling. Is it climate change, plankton decline, overfishing -- or all of the above?
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As gas prices drop elsewhere, New York begins rationing
Nationally, Hurricane Sandy doesn't seem to have affected gas prices, which are continuing to decline.
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What a Cabinet shake-up could mean for energy and the climate
Lisa Jackson at EPA, Steven Chu at the Dept. of Energy, and Ken Salazar at Interior are all rumored to be on the way out. Who might replace them?
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Climate change made Sandy worse. Period.
One symptom of climate change -- rising sea levels -- made superstorm Sandy directly and unmistakably worse.
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Does Michigan’s clean-energy loss mean that greens are outgunned at the state level?
Michiganders voted down a requirement for 25 percent clean power by 2025. Blame a torrent of dirty-energy spending, which we'll be seeing more of in the future, says David Roberts.
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The Times’ thorough overview of climate change’s new political moment
In the New York Times today is a handy overview of environmental politics over the course of Obama’s first term, focused on the new, post-Sandy reality. Just getting up to speed after, like, a Rip van Winkle-sort-of thing? Read it. Well, everyone else might want to take a look, too; that’s why I’m putting up […]
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Colorado district wants to hoard drinking water so oil companies can maybe use it
Who could complain about that?
