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Climate change study with a large side-order of caveats	24.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
New climate study just one step to understanding future climate change, but Australia is already feeling the heat For anyone who loves to eat chocolate, drink lots of lovely espresso coffee or quaff plentiful amounts of red wine, there's much comfort to be sought from scientific studies. You can pick the studies saying you'll live long and prosper from your chosen potions and ignore the caveats or contradictory warnings. You might also forget to check back to see if any follow-up studies were done that might spoil your fun. Essentially, you fall foul of what's known as "single-study syndrome" – you make a decision based on one scientific study, which is most likely just one step in the process of understanding a particular problem. When it comes to understanding the impact of human emissions on the climate, thousands of studies published over decades (over which time probably many bars of chocolate and coffee were consumed) are what builds understanding. And so we come to new ...
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Dot Earth Blog: Science Group Criticizes Politicians for Global Warming Distortions	23.5.2013	NY Times: Science
Dot Earth Blog: Science Group Criticizes Politicians for Global Warming Distortions
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Climate change pushes farmers in India to the tipping point – in pictures	21.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Gerry Judah, born in Kolkata, returned to India after more than 50 years to see how people are tackling the effects of global warming
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Sea level change influenced tropical climate during last ice age (Cached)	20.5.2013	New Kerala: World News
Washington, May 20 : A new study looks to the past to learn about the future of tropical climate change, and our ability to simulate it with numerical models.
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Editorial: Climate Warnings, Growing Louder	18.5.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Editorial: Climate Warnings, Growing Louder
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Hot and getting hotter	18.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Mark Reynolds Published May 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT In the rarefied air of Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, 11,141 feet above sea level, scientists have charted the passing of a milestone that, if ignored, heralds a future for civilization both tragic and chaotic. I’m referring to the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which Charles David Keeling began monitoring in 1958. At that time, CO2 concentration was 313 parts per million. We are now at 400 ppm and that is not good news. Why is this number so important? For hundreds of thou... ...
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State Of the Beaches: Rebuilding the Coastline, but at What Cost?	18.5.2013	NYT > Environment
State Of the Beaches: Rebuilding the Coastline, but at What Cost?
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Climate refugees? Where's the dignity in that?	17.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
We need a new narrative in which we frame migration as a way for people to adapt to climate change This week the Guardian has been running a major series on "climate refugees" about the village of Newtok in Alaska, which faces an imminent threat to its existence from erosion. The term is problematic for a number of reasons. The first being that people who are facing movement do not like the term. The word "refugee" brings to mind a number of (not always accurate) images: tented camps, long lines of people walking, dangerous boat crossings. People facing the prospect moving hope that they will have some choice in the timing and circumstances of their movement and that when they arrive they will find work and become active members of their new communities. Their hope is that they will move with dignity. President Anote Tong of Kiribati, an island nation in the Pacific, told Australia's ABC Radio that the people of Kiribati do not want to leave as refugees but as skilled migrants . ...
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Letter: Mold After the Hurricane	17.5.2013	NY Times: Editorials
Letter: Mold After the Hurricane
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IHT Rendezvous: Scientists Agree Overwhelmingly on Global Warming. Why Doesn’t the Public Know That?	17.5.2013	NYT > World
IHT Rendezvous: Scientists Agree Overwhelmingly on Global Warming. Why Doesn’t the Public Know That?
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Meet the Alaskans poised to become 'America's first climate refugees'	16.5.2013	MinnPost
If we think of them at all, Americans still tend to think of "climate refugees" as remote —far away and off in the future somewhere, driven by rising sea levels to flee Pacific islands or the plains of south Asia, places of which we know next to nothing. The 100,000 people of Kiribati, say, who are imploring Australia and New Zealand ( so far without success ) to accept them as displaced persons before the ocean erases the 10 feet now separating their homes from sea level. A crisis much closer to home, in both time and territory, is documented in a remarkable series published this week in Britain's Guardian: Climate-driven havoc in nearly 200 native villages across Alaska, whose residents are positioned to become, probably within the decade, "America's First Climate Refugees." Richly illustrated and highly interactive, the project portrays the communities' approaching doom with an intimacy that may border on unbearable for some. But it's a story we need to know. Suzanne Goldenberg, ...
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Alaska's erosion accelerated by climate change	15.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Warmer temperatures, heavy rain, flooding, sea-level rise and retreating sea ice are stealing the ground from beneath Alaskans' feet Guardian US interactive team Greg Chen Gabriel Dance Feilding Cage Suzanne Goldenberg
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Economic Scene: Insurers Stray From the Conservative Line on Climate Change	15.5.2013	NYT > Environment
Economic Scene: Insurers Stray From the Conservative Line on Climate Change
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Seas will rise no more than 69 centimetres by 2100	14.5.2013	New Scientist: Opinion
Seas will rise no more than 69 centimetres by 2100
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Floods could 'overwhelm Thames Barrier by end of century'	14.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Sea-level rises could send storm floods over the barrier if nothing is done to bolster the UK's flood defences Sea-level rises could send floods driven by storm surges over London's Thames Barrier regularly by the end of the century, if nothing is done to bolster the UK's flood defences, scientists warned on Tuesday. But around the world sea level rises from melting ice alone are likely to be "in the tens of centimetres" rather than several metres by 2100, as some outlying estimates had predicted, according to Ice2Sea , a project bringing together scientists from around Europe in order to improve predictions of sea level rises under climate change. The scientists also said there was only a one-in-20 chance that melting ice would contribute more than 84cm to sea level rises by 2100. Their work has helped to narrow down some of the vast differences in estimates of sea level rises. But their central estimate range is still large – that ice melting is likely to contribute between 3.5 to ...
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'Best estimate' of melting ice caps	14.5.2013	BBC News - Science & Environment
Experts have come up with their most accurate estimate yet for the impact of melting ice sheets and glaciers on sea level.
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Join the debate: America's first climate refugees	13.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Have your say on the fate of native Alaskan communities under threat from climate change The people of Newtok, on the west coast of Alaska and about 400 miles south of the Bering Strait that separates the state from Russia, are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away. The Ninglick River coils around Newtok on three sides before emptying into the Bering Sea. It has steadily been eating away at the land, carrying off 100ft or more some years, in a process moving at unusual speed because of climate change. Eventually all of the villagers will have to leave, becoming America's first climate change refugees. It is not a label or a future embraced by people living in Newtok. Yup'ik Eskimo have been fishing and hunting by the shores of the Bering Sea for centuries and the villagers reject the notion they will now be forced to run in chaos from ancestral lands. But exile is undeniable. A report by the US ...
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Experts: CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend	12.5.2013	Star Tribune: Latest
The old saying that "what goes up must come down" doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone.
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Climate change: swift political action can avert a carbon dioxide crisis \| Observer editorial	12.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Carbon dioxide levels have reached an all-time high. But there is some hope if governments take the figures seriously The news that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reached a level of 400 parts per million last week might not appear to have immediate significance. The level is only a couple of units higher than last year, after all. Yet the development has undoubted importance. With the realisation that carbon dioxide levels have achieved that symbolic 400ppm figure, it is now clear that two decades of warnings from scientists have fallen on deaf ears and that our leaders have failed completely to curtail rising outputs of greenhouse gases across the world. Indeed, they have allowed them to accelerate. In the 1960s, levels rose at 0.7ppm a year. Today, they rise at 2.1ppm, as more and more nations become industrialised and increase outputs from their factories and power plants. As a result, the most conservative of scientific calculations suggest Earth now faces a 50-50 ...
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Experts: CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend	12.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Experts: CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend
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