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Interactive Map: How A 4 Degree Temperature Rise Will Affect The Planet

guardian.co.uk | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Production, Rising Sea Level, Water, Climate Change, Map, Carbon Dioxide, Extreme Weather, Forest Fire, Global Warming, Global Temperature, Green News

A map launched at the Science Museum in London has been developed using the latest peer-reviewed science from the Met Office Hadley Centre and other l...

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Green News Report - October 1, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Green Building, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Plastic Bottles, Coal, Barbara Boxer, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Green News, Logging, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Landmark clean energy legislation finally drops in the U.S. Senate; EPA plows forward anyway; Scientists revise their pred...

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Oil and Coal Companies to Begin Huge Scuba Giveaway

Jerry Cope | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Marsh-Fork-Elementary, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Massey Energy, Climate Change, Exxon, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Humanitarian Aid, Global Warming, Tuvalu, cop15, Exxonmobil, Satire, Green News
Jerry Cope

After years of climate change denial, a consortium of energy industry giants led by ExxonMobil and Massey Energy are launching a global campaign to provide island nations with equipment to combat rising sea levels.

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Small Pacific Islands Plead For Carbon Cuts Before They Are Swallowed By The Sea

AP | MAKERETI KOMAI | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Small Pacific Islands Call for Big Carbon Cuts, Pacific Islands Plead for Carbon Cuts, Rising Sea Level, Rising Water Levels, Green News

CAIRNS, Australia — A group of tiny Pacific Island countries appealed to the world Wednesday to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent to ...

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GoDaddy Wants You To Know: Tuvalu Is Sinking

Dave Burdick | Posted 05.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Rising Sea Level, The Island Is Sinking, Water, Climate Change, Environment, GoDaddy.Com, Pollution, Tuvalu, Tuvalu Godaddy, Tuvalu Sinking, Green News
Dave Burdick

I love the frantic, attention-span-deprived pace of internet memes. Thanks in no small part to boingboing, the nerd/treehugger/angry media blogger dem...

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Building a Nuke Underwater?

Carl Pope | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Florida, Rising Sea Level, Nuclear Power, Green News
Carl Pope

It is four weeks since April Fool's Day -- but foolishness is not confined, alas, to that one day a year. Here is a snippet from one of the stranger precincts of American politics and economics.

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Islands Could Disappear, Energy Secretary Warns Island Nations

AP | Posted 05.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Steven Chu, Rising Sea Level, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Green News

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is warning that if countries don't do something about climate change, "some island st...

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Green News Report - April 16, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Tom Delay, Rising Sea Level, Tax Credits, Greenwashing, Pacific Gas & Electric, Somali Pirates, Terra Choice, Green News, Solar Energy Projects, Spam, Birds, Green News Report, Coral Reefs, Solar Power, Arctic, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Goodbye Tax Day '08, Hello Tax Day '09 (with big new incentives to sweeten the deal); Birds taking the long way home; "Green...

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Copenhagen 2009; An Interview With Katherine Richardson, Chair of The International Climate Conference

Jerry Cope | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen 2009, Ipcc, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change, Global Warming, Rising Sea Level, The Guardian, Angela Merkel, Bjorn Lomborg, James Hansen, Katherine Richardson.Lord Stern, Bbc News, Green News
Jerry Cope

How many people in the US realize that the UN panel on climate change said there is 90% chance that the climate change we are seeing at the moment is caused by human activity?

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Icemelt Could Shift Earth's Rotation, Moving Water Northward

AP | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Global Warming, Climate Change, Icemelt, Antarctic Icemelt, Rising Sea Level, Oregon, Green News

WASHINGTON — Long-term sea level increases that could have a devastating effect on southern Florida and highly populated coastal areas may be ev...

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Sea Levels Rising: What You Need To Know

Grist | Umbra Fisk | Posted 07.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Glaciers, Rising Sea Level, Antarctica, Climate Change, Environment, Melting Ice Caps, Sea Level, Extreme Weather, Ice Shelf, Green News

Q. Dear Umbra, I'm a bit confused about the possible rise in sea level that may be caused by global warming. I know that in general water expands whe...

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Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice

Janet Ritz | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: No Ice North Pole, The Environmentalist, Green News, North Pole Ice, North Pole, Green, Science, Permafrost, Climate Crisis, Methane, Greenhouse Effect, Arctic, Sea Ice, Rising Sea Level, Greenhouse Gases, Environment, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, c02, Green News
Janet Ritz

A new study warns that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost is threatened by the rapid retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, and this summer may see the first ice-free North Pole for the first time in recorded history.

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