drought
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EIA projects climate catastrophe
The EIA has projected that the United States will lead the world into catastrophic global warming over the next twenty five years.
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What can one person do, when 6.8 billion are frying the planet?
Climate change got you down? Don't despair. Here's a visual exploration of what you can do to make a difference, featuring art, video, and dinosaurs.
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What La Nina means for winter weather [VIDEO]
The cooler ocean temperatures of La Nina this year could have a significant effect on our winter weather. Learn more in this Climate Central video.
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The worst part of climate change may be severe drought
Sure, global warming is a big problem, but analysis of a bunch of computer models suggests severe drought could be a bigger one.
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Dust Bowl 2: Drought detective predicts drier future for American Southwest
If you’re one of the tens of millions of people who live in the southwestern United States, get ready for drier weather. That’s the message from Richard Seager, a climate scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observa
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Past decade the hottest on record
The first decade of the twenty-first century was the hottest since recordkeeping began in 1880. With an average global temperature of 14.52 degrees C (58.1 degrees F), this decade was 0.2 degrees C (0.36 degrees F) warmer than any previous decade. The year 2005 was the hottest on record, while 2007 and 2009 tied for […]
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Are crippling droughts the next great threat to Iraq?
Cross-posted from TomDispatch. This report appears in the winter 2009/10 issue of World Policy Journal and is posted here with the kind permission of the editors of that magazine. BAGHDAD — From his mud brick home on the edge of the Garden of Eden, Awda Khasaf has twice seen his country’s lifeblood seep away. The […]
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At SEJ, doom and gloom without the sense of humor
It’s a wonder I continue to show up at Society of Environmental Journalists conferences when you consider how much of a downer some of these panels can be. And that’s doubly true about the ones on climate change. This afternoon’s session on global warming as a national security issue was an even darker affair than […]
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Weather Channel expert on Georgia’s record-smashing global-warming-type deluge
Stu Ostro, Senior Meteorologist at the Weather Channel, has written a must-read post on the recent record Georgia deluges, “Off the chain without a ‘cane” (reprinted below). He makes a key point that had not occurred to me about the devastating September rainstorms: Usually during that month when there’s wild weather, including precipitation extremes, it’s […]