CLIMATE COMMUNICATION
A just-released poll from the Yale and George Mason climate change communication programs finds that more Americans support action to reduce global warming than the media and Beltway insiders would have you believe.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
The earth is warming. But can we be sure that humans are the cause? Yes. The same way cycling officials were sure that biker Floyd Landis doped with synthetic testosterone while winning the 2006 Tour de France.
CLIMATE SECURITY
A new analysis from CAP assesses how climate change is exacerbating human conflict and migration patterns in one of the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped regions and suggests a policy response that cuts across many spheres of governance.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
New heat records swamped cold records across the country in the month of march by a startling margin, prompting some in the climate science community to ask whether we are seeing evidence of global warming feedback loops.
CLIMATE POLICY
For the first time in U.S. history, greenhouse gasses from new power plants will be regulated at the federal level, representing the first, small step toward a coherent climate policy in the United States. Here are the top five facts to keep in mind.
OCEAN SCIENCE
Fifty-six million years ago, a surge of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere raised the acidity of the world’s oceans, driving many organisms to extinction. Anthropogenic carbon emissions are doing the same thing today, only 10 times faster.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
“Although not initially of his own choosing, Michael Mann has been the most important, resilient, and outspoken warrior in the climate battle–responding to threats and persecution with courage and resolve every step of the way.”
OCEANS
A new report from the UN Environment Program outlines the economic imperative to protect our oceans from pollution, overfishing, climate change while at the same time developing new marine industries.
ENERGY INNOVATION
As BrightSource Energy adds cutting-edge molten salt storage to its new solar plants, the choice between clean energy and cheap energy is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
OCEANS POLICY
Michael Conathan explains why even though our oceans aren’t exactly part of the “interior,” moving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration out of the Department of Commerce isn’t a bad idea if it’s done right.
CLIMATE CHANGE
If by going dark for a day to protest anti-piracy legislation, Wikipedia and other websites can cause the US Congress to change course, could they do the same for global warming? James L. Powell imagines how it could work.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
The third and final installment of James Powell’s series examining whether there is a case against human caused global warming in the peer reviewed literature.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
As delegates from 194 parties meet in Durban, South Africa, for the annual U.N. climate change conference, they should take note of the recent evidence linking climate change and public health.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
The proposed Climate Service would have made it easier for the government to collect, distribute, and utilize climate data.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
This is part two in James Powell’s series examining the peer-reviewed scientific publications of 115 climate skeptics. His findings: despite ample opportunity, climate skeptics have failed to present any coherent alternative to the theory that carbon emissions are the primary driver of observed warming
CLIMATE SCIENCE
James L. Powell investigates the most prominent climate deniers to see how many of them have actually ever published peer-reviewed papers about climate science.
CLIMATE AND SPACE
As the current crop of weather and climate satellites ages, Congress needs to summon the political will to fund the next generation of space-based climate monitoring technology.
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Eight great charts that explain why we know that climate change is being caused by humans.
BOOK REVIEW
Powell’s “Rough Wind” is just the kind of e-book you should send anyone who wants to get up to speed on the staggering weather extremes of the past year and their connection to global warming. At 99¢, it’s worth every penny.
GENETIC ENGINEERING
Further study is unlikely to turn up any reason why AquaBounty’s fast-growing genetically engineered salmon shouldn’t be fit for human consumption, but whether the product will succeed in the market is another question.
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