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Heartland Institute gets called on their shameless revisionism—by the Chinese	18.6.2013	Daily Kos
The Boulder Glacier retreated 450 m (1,480 ft) from 1987 to 2003. Click for more info on receding glaciers The Heartland Institute is a fossil-fuel front tasked with convincing as many people as possible to ignore their lying eyes. They were originally cooked up in 1984 to downplay the dangers of tobacco use. When last we heard from Heartland, they were for online theft before they were against it and comparing climate scientists to serial killers on public billboards. Recently Heartland bragged the Chinese were shying away from the idea of human-induced climate change because the science did not support it. This was so egregiously false the Chinese issued a stern correction reading in part : The claim of the Heartland Institute about CAS’ endorsement of its report is completely false. ... The false claim by the Heartland Institute was made public without any knowledge of the translator group. ... we have requested by email to the president of the Heartland Institute that the false news on ...
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Climate change on the Tibetan plateau - audio slideshow	10.6.2013	Guardian: Environment
Photojournalist Sean Gallagher talks about his latest project that captures melting glaciers, grassland degradation and the loss of Tibetan culture Eric Hilaire
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Here's What Antartica Looks Like Under All That Ice	6.6.2013	Mother Jones
This story first appeared on the Wired website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Check out the most detailed map of a continent never truly seen by human eyes: the de-iced surface of Antarctica. By virtually peeling back the frozen ice sheet and studying the land beneath, researchers can get a better sense of how the southern pole of our planet could react to climate change. Bedmap2 was created by the British Antarctic Survey , and used decades of data to produce this detailed view of the frozen continent. NASA"s contribution to the dataset includes surface measurements from its now-retired orbiting Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and results from several years of flyovers by specialized aircraft that collected radar and other data measuring changes in the thickness of sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets as part of Operation IceBridge . The work improves on the decade-old Bedmap project, which virtually thawed the continent, but at ...
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Video: Peeling Back the Ice of Antarctica	5.6.2013	Wired Top Stories
Video: Peeling Back the Ice of Antarctica
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Accelerating Ice Sheet Melt Is Raising Sea Levels, Says New Study Accurately Reported By Wall Street Journal	4.6.2013	Think Progres
Accelerating Ice Sheet Melt Is Raising Sea Levels, Says New Study Accurately Reported By Wall Street Journal
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Green diary rescue: President Obama's pipeline decision, Germany's beer drinkers vs. fracking	2.6.2013	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 228 of these spotlighting more than 12,801 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 92 that appeared in the past seven days. That's four more than the previous record in the 13 weeks since the GDR was resurrected, and it makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] WATCH: The "Obama Pipeline"? —by Van Jones : "But if President Obama approves a pipeline equal to more than seven new coal-fired power plants? And does so just months after promising to act AGAINST climate change? Now THAT'S a scandal. President Obama said in his second inaugural address that failing to act on climate change would ...
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Climate Change Bags Mount Everest	31.5.2013	Mother Jones
This story first appeared on the Slate website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest 60 years ago Wednesday, the mountaineers gazed over a view from the top of the world that had never been seen before. The view has changed since that historic day. Pollution and rising mountain temperatures are relentlessly shearing away at the Himalayas' frozen façade. Photographs taken around the time of the 1953 expedition show hulking ridges of ice that have since shrunk or disappeared. Glaciers and snow are melting throughout the sprawling mountain range, which stretches across India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibetan China. The waning glaciers are leaving precarious mountainside lakes of cyan blue water in their wake. Continue Reading ...
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NPR Airs Story On Melting Glaciers Without Explaining Why They Are Melting	30.5.2013	Think Progres
NPR Airs Story On Melting Glaciers Without Explaining Why They Are Melting
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Has Everest been good for Nepal's development? \| John Vidal	29.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Once among the world's poorest people, the Sherpas have benefited hugely from the growth of the mountaineering industry Dawa Steven Sherpa is the new face of Nepal. Born in Khumjung, a village just 12 miles from Everest, he is in his 20s, speaks five languages, has a business degree from a British university, and is the director of a highly successful trekking and guiding company based in Kathmandu. He has climbed Everest twice and this week was airlifted off Mount Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest peak, after a Japanese climber died of exhaustion at 7,700m (25,260ft). Everest and mountaineering have been the catalyst to enable three generations of his family to prosper. His father, Ang Tshering, used to climb with British mountaineer Chris Bonington and was one of the first pupils to study at the school Sir Edmund Hillary founded with the Himalayan Trust after the successful 1955 expedition. His grandfather, who portered for Hillary, barely had an education, eking a living from ...
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Syria Today Is A Preview Of Memorial Day, 2030	27.5.2013	Think Progres
Syria Today Is A Preview Of Memorial Day, 2030
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Sea level rise: Drowning in numbers	27.5.2013	New Scientist: Focus on America
Sea level rise: Drowning in numbers
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Trenberth: Global Warming Is Here To Stay, Whichever Way You Look At It	25.5.2013	Think Progres
Trenberth: Global Warming Is Here To Stay, Whichever Way You Look At It
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Green diary rescue: Pedal power, electric cars, OFA on climate change	19.5.2013	Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 226 of these spotlighting more than 12,645 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 64 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] Mr. President, Arctic Ice Loss Portends a Climate Tsunami: The National Arctic Strategy is Suicidal —by FishOutofWater : "President Obama, your advisers just don't get it. We should be running as fast as we can from fossil fuels, not going out to sea to get more of them. The loss of summer sea ice portends a climate tsunami. The ice is keeping the Arctic cold, even in summer. Retreat of the ice is accelerating the ...
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Because It's There, Just Less Of It Than There Was	16.5.2013	Esquire
Because It's There, Just Less Of It Than There Was
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Glacial Change: Will The Arctic Council Meeting Be Just Another Missed Opportunity for Climate Action?	15.5.2013	Think Progres
Glacial Change: Will The Arctic Council Meeting Be Just Another Missed Opportunity for Climate Action?
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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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By Degrees: What Will a Doubling of Carbon Dioxide Mean for Climate?	13.5.2013	NYT: Home Page
By Degrees: What Will a Doubling of Carbon Dioxide Mean for Climate?
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Op-Ed Contributors: Hands Across the Melting Arctic	13.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Editorials
Op-Ed Contributors: Hands Across the Melting Arctic
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The Evidence for Climate Change Without Using Computer Models or the IPCC	13.5.2013	Little Green Footballs
YouTube SOURCES are listed in the next video, because of space constraints. Predictable posts are answered here. Please spend your time and effort in addressing the evidence presented in the video: "This is a straw man argument. Of course skeptics [sic] accept that CO2 warms the atmosphere, We just don't think the warming will be catastrophic." Answer: "Skeptics" have all kinds of positions on climate science, depending on their personal beliefs and feelings. This video addresses those critics who claim there is no evidence for the link between CO2 and global temperature. Whether you want to call such changes "catastrophic" or benign, or terrible, or bad, or good is your feeling, and therefore outside the scope of the science. "Correlation does not mean causation." Answer: It is still consistent with the theory. And where a mechanism has been shown that should produce a correlation, then the correlation is yet more confirmation that a theory is correct. "Here's a piece of evidence ...
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Drumbeat: May 10, 2013	10.5.2013	The Oil Drum
At Least 9 More Decades for North Sea Oil Oil and gas production in the UK North Sea can continue until the end of this century provided the right government policy decisions are made, according to Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing. ..."In domestic terms, the [Scottish] industry is having a second major opportunity with a huge number major new developments going ahead, some of which are extensions of existing developments. For example, the Clair Ridge field has the potential to produce oil until 2055 according to BP." ..."The Clair field was actually discovered in 1977, and that's ironic because we were told by London that the oil would run out in the 90s, and then in the 90s that it was going to run out in the Noughties," Ewing said. "I think it's a theme that's losing credibility because if BP comes along and says the Clair Ridge field will continue to produce until 2055 it's a bit liberal to say the oil is going to run out because it ain't." Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude ...
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