climate

Meltdown: A global warming travelogue

10.06.2008

The American public has been slow to appreciate the slowly unfolding disaster known as global warming.  Until recently, it was hard to see the impacts of climate change. Not anymore.  In the last couple of years, pictures of melting glaciers, swimming polar bears and storm damage have become common.  It may be that the appearance [...]

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Look out, Oregon, for a global warming land rush

10.06.2008

What happens when global warming makes parts of the US uninhabitable, or less attractive as a place to live. It is likely that the southwestern US will become so dry and water so expensive that people will choose to live elsewhere. People currently living along coasts that become inundated by sea level rise and increasingly [...]

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Climate Progress – Has runaway climate change begun?

09.25.2008

A very important article from Joe Romm at Climate Progress this morning. Evidence is growing that methane in the atmosphere is increasing, and methane is a powerful greenhouse gas (20 times the heat absorption of CO2 One source of methane may be deep sea-bed deposits that are released as the Arctic Ocean warms.   Joe points [...]

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Global warming goes on – Britain’s Met Office

09.24.2008

The Meteorological Office, Britain’s equivalent of our Weather Service, has a great short article that refutes the notion that global warming has slowed down.  The key paragraph is the first one: "Anyone who thinks global warming has stopped has their head in the sand. The evidence is clear – the long-term trend in global temperatures [...]

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Energizing Kentucky

09.19.2008

Blogging about the Energizing Kentucky conference at Sustainable Kentucky.

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Andrew Revkin (New York Times) Receives Prestigious Journalism Award.

09.17.2008

Andrew Revkin, New York Times reporter and the proprietor of Dot Earth, the Times’ climate change blog, has received the prestigious John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism. The award recognizes Andy’s sustained examination of global warming, including science, politics and economics. Revkin shares this year’s award with Jane Mayer, a staff writer for the [...]

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Drought claiming thousands of olive trees in Jordan

09.17.2008

Jordan, one of the driest countries in the world, has long produced valuable olive trees irrigated by spring and well water. Prolonged drought in southern Jordan now threatens to kill up to 30,000 trees around the southern city of Karak. Farmers have no access to irrigation water as springs and wells dry up. Jordan is [...]

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Spain to plant 45 million trees before 2012

09.15.2008

Spain wil plant 45 million trees from 2009-2012 to slow desertification and combat climate change. The project will cost $127 million and employ nearly 3,000 people. Nearly 1/3 of Spain is in prolonged severe drought and at risk of desertification due to climate change. Spain is also establishing a new research center to fight desertification [...]

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