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Start Planning For Disaster, UN Report Urges

Reuters | Posted 03.29.2012

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* Rising population, development put more in harm's way * Policymakers urged to act in next few decades * Less emphasis ...

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Get Ready For Extreme Weather, Science Panel's New Report Says

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 01.18.2012

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WASHINGTON — Think of the Texas drought, floods in Thailand and Russia's devastating heat waves as coming attractions in a warming world. That's...

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Climate Politics Grow Curiouser and Curiouser

Kelly Rigg | Posted 01.07.2012

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Kelly Rigg

Allowing global temperature to rise to a level at which we may not survive, with the poorest and most vulnerable communities as the first casualties, would be the greatest climate injustice of all.

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Extreme Weather Is a Thing of the Future: So Says The IPCC, and We Should Believe Them

Astrid Caldas | Posted 01.02.2012

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Astrid Caldas

Various articles and blogs have recently discussed the issue of extreme weather and its possible link with climate change, but now we have it directly from the top climate scientists: our suspicions are true.

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IPCC Report: Renewable Energy Key to Solving Climate Change

Kelly Rigg | Posted 07.09.2011

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Kelly Rigg

Given the UN climate science panel's proclivity for producing scenarios guaranteed to make any thinking person lose sleep at night, the good news take-home message was a welcome cause for celebration.

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Just in Time for Halloween, Virginia A.G. Cuccinelli Raises His Failed Fraud Investigation From the Dead

Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Ed Markey

In another disturbing instance of politically-motivated intimidation of climate scientists, last week Virginia AG Cuccinelli issued a new civil investigative demand to UVA for emails and documents related to Dr. Michael Mann.

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UN Reviews Climate Report -- But Will It Appease Skeptics?

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

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Evelyn Leopold

It took a while for the United Nations to acknowledge errors by its climate panel and order an independent review. But the study will not tackle past mistakes and probably not change many minds.

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Climate Change Controversies: How Wrong Is the IPCC?

Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 05.25.2011

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What's going at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? After a rash of stories about inaccurate data in the reports produced by the world's pr...

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UN Panel Defends Climate Change Evidence

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

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GENEVA (AFP) -- The UN climate panel has rejected as "baseless and misleading" a newspaper report that raised doubts about the evidence behind a claim...

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Cold Comfort

Dan Lashof | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Lashof

When the IPCC predicts serious consequences from global warming unless emissions are curtailed, it's cold comfort that a few newspapers in the 1970s speculated about global cooling.

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Putting America on a Carbon Diet

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gillian Caldwell

We need to start a carbon diet, and not let the US reach for that donut. Delaying serious short-term cuts in carbon emissions is like saying we will start our diet next January. Why not this January?

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Will President Obama Lead on Climate Change?

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gillian Caldwell

Now that the heat of the campaign season is behind us, we hope Obama will stop pretending that "clean coal" is a realistic way to reduce carbon emissions and achieve energy independence.

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