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2012 Expected to be Ninth Warmest Year on Record

World Meteorological Organisation data shows average global temperature to date is 14.45C, higher than long-term average. USDAgov/Flickr This year is likely to be the ninth warmest on record, with...

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Coral Fights Back Against Warming Seas

New genetic research shows we shouldn’t write coral off just yet. Photo by Dan Barshis In the world of coral reefs, most of the news is pretty gloomy. Rising ocean temperatures have led to massive...

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Debunking the Denial: “16 Years of No Global Warming”

How to untangle a dangerous lie. kakela/Flickr The difficulties in debunking blatant antireality are legion. You can make up any old nonsense and state it in a few seconds, but it takes much longer to...

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Could This Scary Report Get Americans to Care About Climate?

Yes, it’s only a draft, but here’s why the National Climate Assessment is a BFD. National Climate Assessment Lately we’re being bombarded by news about just how dramatically climate change is...

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What Would Jesus Do (About Climate Change)?

Or, how you can understand global warming even if you think the earth is 6,000 years old. @Doug88888/Flickr You may remember Katharine Hayhoe as the climate scientist who wrote a chapter for Newt...

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VIDEO: Is it Obama? Is it Gore? No! It’s the Green Ninja!

A group of researchers and educators based at San Jose State University think climate science needs a superhero. So they created one. President Obama’s high-profile statements about climate change in...

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Explained in 90 Seconds: It’s Cold. That Doesn’t Mean Global Warming is Fake.

This crash course on climate modeling will come in handy if you ever have to explain a cold snap to a climate denier. At Climate Desk, we like to call them—affectionately—our “pet trolls.” (You know...

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Why Greenland’s Melting Could Be the Biggest Climate Disaster of All

Glaciologist Jason Box is racing to figure out just how rapidly we’re pushing the 7 meters of sea rise level locked up in the Greenland ice sheet onto our shores. Jason Box speaks the language of...

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SLIDESHOW: The Art of Visualizing Climate Change

Graphics and game designers translate climate science into interactive visual media. This week we’ve taken a spin inside POLARSEEDS, a new exhibit at the City College of New York open through next...

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After Sandy, Scientists Hunt for Sewage in New York City’s Harbors

Researchers are heading out to sea for a forensic look at the storm’s impacts. For most people affected by Superstorm Sandy, the damage was plain to see: Devastated homes, impossible traffic, even lost...

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How NASA Scientists Are Turning L.A. into One Big Climate-Change Lab

From airborne to chemicals to sunshine itself, measuring change in the West Coast’s biggest city. Ben Amstutz/Flickr Southern California’s Mount Wilson is a lonesome, hostile peak — prone to sudden...

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This Cheat Sheet Will Make You Win Every Climate Argument

Ever find yourself around the dinner table at a loss for good climate arguments? Follow the flowchart! “I don’t see what all those environmentalists are worried about,” sneers your Great Uncle Joe....

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A Bigger, Badder Climate “Hockey Stick”

New research takes the deepest dive ever into historic climate records—and comes up still blaming humans for recent warming. Average global temperature over the last ~2,000 years. Note the massive...

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Large Rise in CO2 Emissions Sounds Climate Change Alarm

Hopes for ‘safe’ temperature increase within 2C fade as Hawaii station documents second-greatest emissions increase. leahleaf/Flickr The chances of the world holding temperature rises to 2C – the level...

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Climate Change Is Making Canada Look More Like the United States

A new study sees forests slowly creeping north. Courtesy NASA Observant people who’ve driven through Canada their entire lives may have noticed a shift in their natural surroundings. That is, it’s...

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Climate Change Could Mean Seven Times As Many Katrinas

If only a fraction of predicted global warming happens, the US East Coast could be in for a rough century. Mike Kane/San Antonio Express-News via ZUMAPress Batten down the hatches, East Coasters: A new...

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VIDEO: Can We 3D Print Our Way Out of Climate Change?

3D printing could slash the carbon footprint of manufacturing and provide nifty solutions for a disaster-prone world. Tech optimists’ crush of the decade is surely 3D printing. It has been heralded as...

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For Cleveland, Climate Change Could Mean Tons of Toxic Green Algae

Look out, Cleveland. NASA A vast plain of poisonous green slime stretching to the horizon, bobbing gently on the waves – that was the view of Lake Erie from Cleveland just a couple years ago. It could...

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Scientists Map Swirling Ocean Eddies for Clues to Climate Change

Can we read the future in the ocean’s movements? Guille Avalos/Flickr In January 2010, a crew of scientists voyaged by ship from the southern tip of Chile into the frigid Antarctic to search for clues...

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Views Differ on Fracking’s Impact

Do the economic benefits outweigh the environmental risks? CREDO.fracking/Flickr The practice of hydraulic fracturing is under debate across the country in areas impacted by America’s ongoing natural...

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