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It will count when numbers man takes on climate change

Source: The Age, Nov 23 2012, 10:28am CST

NATE Silver is hardly less radical than Julian Assange. But whereas Assange is intrinsically and stridently political, Silver is not. He's a baseball fan and former poker player who saw that his method for describing statistical probabilities and ...

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8 hours ago

The conversation about climate change is stuck. This American Life investigates why.

Source: Treehugger  |   May 23 2013, 8:39am CDT

After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift — just a little — last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest f ...

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13 hours ago

The policy climate

Source: Eldis.gov  |   May 23 2013, 3:51am CDT

This report offers an overview of climate change policy issues across the world. It focuses on: 1) Brazil, China, India, Europe and the United States, which represent the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions but vary widely in terms of eco ...

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25 weeks ago


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"We tend to over-weight new information"


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23 hours ago

"The US disconnect over climate change"

Source: Climate Science Watch  |   May 22 2013, 5:31pm CDT

We joined scientists Michael Mann and Dana Nucitelli on the Al Jazeera English "Inside Story Americas" program on May 17 to talk about the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change, U.S. public ...

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Lots of talk, few conclusions on climate change and tornadoes

Source: The Washington Post  |   May 22 2013, 1:46pm CDT

Tornado passes across south Oklahoma City, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern) Following the horrific Moore, Okla. tornado, an abundance of bandwidth has been expended on one particular topic (apologies in advance for ...

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Letter: Reduce effects of climate change

Source: The Columbian  |   May 22 2013, 8:05am CDT

A review of 12,000 papers on climate change, in the May 15 issue of Environmental Research Letters, found that 97 percent of scientists attribute climate change to human activities. Although we're unlikely to reve ...

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2 days ago

Chris Christie Denies Climate Change Has Anything To Do With Hurricane Sandy

Source: Think Progress  |   May 21 2013, 1:35pm CDT

Yesterday, Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) rejected the notion that Hurricane Sandy’s damage was worsened by climate change. Well, first of all, I don’t agree with the premise of your question because I don’t think there’s bee ...

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2 days ago

UK Met Office: "It is currently not possible to make a link between climate change and tornado activity"

Source: Tom Nelson  |   May 21 2013, 12:46pm CDT

What are tornadoes? | Met Office News Blog How will climate change affect tornadoes? - It is currently not possible to make a link between climate change and tornado activity. Climate change may have a number of effects on atmospheric conditions that ...

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2 days ago

Is Climate Change Increasing Tornadoes?

Source: Good Magazine  |   May 21 2013, 11:56am CDT

With the tragic Moore, Oklahoma tornado one of the largest in history—if not the largest—it's easy to wonder if there's a connection to climate change, especially as we've just passed all-time record levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But the a ...

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2 days ago

U.S. Must Cut Climate Pollutants

Source: Real Clear Energy  |   May 21 2013, 6:02am CDT

Last Thursday, the eight-country Arctic Council was reminded of the issues they face by an event faraway in Hawaii. For the first time in probably three million years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere averaged above.. ...

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