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A Bird Whose Life Depends on a Crab – NYTimes.com

A Bird Whose Life Depends on a Crab – NYTimes.com.

The Pacific Ocean is now warming 15 times faster than it used to

The Pacific Ocean is now warming 15 times faster than it used to.

Climate Change Is Happening but We Can Meet the Challenge by Sarah van Gelder — YES! Magazine

Climate Change Is Happening but We Can Meet the Challenge by Sarah van Gelder — YES! Magazine.

Climate Change is Different

Two reasons climate change is not like other environmental problems

By David Roberts

If you’ll forgive me for stating the obvious: Most people don’t understand climate change very well. This includes a large proportion of the nation’s politicians, journalists, and pundits — even the pundits who write about it. (I’m looking at you, Joe Nocera.)

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Why Curbing the Climate Crisis Will Take More Than Summits and Divestment by Jim Shultz — YES! Magazine

Why Curbing the Climate Crisis Will Take More Than Summits and Divestment by Jim Shultz — YES! Magazine.

Disappearing Ice

Disappearing ice Dec 17th 2012, 10:27 by G.D. The Economist

JAMES BALOG, a photographer and avid mountaineer, used to believe that climate change was over-hyped and over-politicised. But after visiting the Arctic to photograph glaciers in 2005 he was convinced that the impact was undeniable. “You could see landscapes that physically evoked a sense of […]

Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard

The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard Copyright 2012 Bill McKibben If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look […]

2011 was ninth-warmest year since 1880: NASA

2011 was ninth-warmest year since 1880: NASA Thu Jan 19 21:57:37 UTC 2012 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said on Thursday.

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