Posts tagged with "global warming"

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Washington’s snowfall, brought to you by global warming

Washington’s snowfall, brought to you by global warming

By Bill McKibbon, Posted February 17th, 2010

The world is still warming. Humanity is still to blame. And we still, urgently, need to do something about it.

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Our Low-Carbon Future

Our Low-Carbon Future

By Nicholas Stern, Posted December 7th, 2009

The United Nations climate change conference, beginning this week in Copenhagen, should provide the climax to two years of international negotiations over a new global treaty…

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Geoengineering – will schemes to reverse global warming do more harm than good?

Geoengineering – will schemes to reverse global warming do more harm than good?

By James Lovelock, The Guardian, Posted September 29th, 2009

Perhaps we had better use our energies to adapt and leave nature to take its course.

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An organic farmer’s perspective on the meat/climate change debate

An organic farmer’s perspective on the meat/climate change debate

By Eliot Coleman, Grist.org, Posted August 20th, 2009

A 2007 UN report called “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” claimed that 18 percent of global human-induced greenhouse gas emissions stem from meat production. Eliot Coleman, a respected small-scale farmer, offers this counterpoint.

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Climate Change Threats Can Be Stabilized

Climate Change Threats Can Be Stabilized

By UCAR, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Posted April 15th, 2009

Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Would Save Arctic Ice, Reduce Sea Level Rise

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Global Warming: background

Global Warming: background

By Greg Seaman, Posted March 27th, 2009

The Union of Concerned Scientists, a group of over two thousand scientists, has concluded that global warming is beyond dispute, and already changing our climate.

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Global Warming / Climate Change: What we can do about it

Global Warming / Climate Change: What we can do about it

By Greg Seaman, Posted March 3rd, 2009

Climate Change is the most serious problem we face in the 21st century. Future generations are depending on us to do whatever we can to turn things around.

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Climate Change – why we can’t wait

Climate Change – why we can’t wait

By James Hansen, Posted January 28th, 2009

The country’s leading climatologist gives us the five necessary steps we need to take to prevent catastrophic climate change.

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Pill stops cow burps, reduces methane

Pill stops cow burps, reduces methane

By Kate Connolly, Guardian Unlimited, Posted January 28th, 2009

“Our aim is to increase the wellbeing of the cow, to reduce the greenhouse gases produced and to increase agricultural production all at once.”

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9 ways NASA can help fight Climate Change

9 ways NASA can help fight Climate Change

By William S. Marshall and James Clay Moltz, Scientific American, Posted January 27th, 2009

Scientists tell President Obama how the space agency could help solve the world’s number-one problem.

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