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The state of the climate [VIDEO]
2009 tied for fifth-warmest year since the 1880s, and 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record, according to NOAA. Watch a Climate Central video.
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Restore honor to America on August 29, 2010
On Aug. 29, 2010, thousands will gather at the location where the levees broke in the lower 9th Ward to remember those who died in the flood.
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Billionaire polluter David Koch: Global warming is good for you
In a recently published New York Magazine profile, pollution billionaire David Koch lies about his support for tea-party radicalism, cracks racist jokes, and denies the threat of global warming.
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Unexpected consequence of climate change: animals getting horny
One thing we know about climate change is that the world is going to be getting weirder. For example, a hotter world may mean certain critters are getting their freak on more often. That's right, hot animal sex!
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China's now a leader in the good, the bad, and the ugly
Crack open the flat seltzer. The U.S. is no longer the world's top energy hog. That dubious distinction now goes to China, although China insists there's been a terrible mistake.
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Game Changer: EPA Asserts Tar Sands Pipeline Environmental Analysis is Inadequate
This post was co-written by Lena Moffitt, Washington Representative for the Sierra Club Dirty Fuels Campaign. This week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) blasted the State Department’s draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline – asserting that the EIS is “woefully deficient” because “the Draft EIS does not provide the […]
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CSI: Climate scene investigator
How do we know that human activities are responsible for warming the planet? Because just like criminals, climate change culprits, such as smokestack or tailpipe emissions, leave behind distinctive signatures or patterns. All climate investigators have to do is look closely enough, and hardly anyone has been looking longer or more carefully than Benjamin Santer.
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Amanda Little Needs to Rinse the Oil Out of Her Brain
I’ve always loved Amanda Little’s writing – and her news-breaking, hard-hitting interviews. But her latest incarnation as a “pro-drilling environmentalist,” while clearly well-meaning, is so divorced from the economic and political reality of oil that it deserves an open plea to escape what is clearly too much time spent in the barrel of Big Oil’s […]
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Imminent UN vote on the right to water
On July 28, after years of grassroots pressure, the United Nations’ General Assembly will consider and debate a resolution supporting the right to “safe and clean drinking water and sanitation”. Maude Barlow, former Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly described the denial of access to clean water as […]
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Global CO2 emissions fall in 2009, but the past decade still sees rapid emissions growth
The temperature’s rising; can the big carbon-emitting countries take the heat? In 2009, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China — the world’s leading emitter — grew by nearly nine percent. At the same time, emissions in most industrial countries dropped, bringing global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use down from a high of 8.5 billion […]
