Climate change

Dot Earth Blog: An Earth Scientist Explores the Biggest Climate Threat: Fear

Originally Published by The NY Times

– A veteran earth scientist pushes back against dystopian depictions of global warming and the human response.    

Scientists look to ancient past to better predict how species may respond climate change

Originally Published by EurekAlert!

– Researchers have received an award from the National Science Foundation to study how plants and animals responded to changes in climate during the ice age to better predict what we can expect in the near future.

Dot Earth Blog: Fresh Thoughts from Authors of a Paper on 11,300 Years of Global Climate Changes

Originally Published by The NY Times

– The authors of an important new study comparing recent warming with the last 11,300 years answer questions.

Over 35,000 march on Washington demanding climate action and rejection of Canada’s ‘carbon bomb’

 ENNOriginally Published by ENN - Over 35,000 people rallied in Washington D.C. for urgent action on climate change, which, according to organizers, was the largest climate march in U.S. history.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Snapshot of wins and losses at the Doha talks

JOHANNESBURG 09 December 2012 (IRIN) - Like last year’s UN climate change talks, this year’s conference in Doha culminated in an all-night session to hammer out a deal on preventing further global warming and protecting people from the effects of climate change.

A Closer Look at Moderating Views of Climate Sensitivity

Originally Published by NY Times

– An experienced climate scientist joins those seeing less warming from the building greenhouse effect.

Has the Kyoto protocol done more harm than good?

 WestEnd61/Rex Features)Originally Published by New Scientist - Fifteen years after its painful birth in Kyoto, Japan, the world's first legally binding agreement to limit emissions of greenhouse gases has now ended.

The world to burn as much coal as oil by 2017

Originally Published by New Scientist

– Capturing the emissions of the most polluting fossil fuel is the only hope of reducing climate change

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