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Are CO2 Emissions From Deforestation Exaggerated?

It's easy to shrug off climate change deniers who use incomplete or inaccurate data in their arguments, but it's a harder pill to swallow when supposedly reputable organizations dupe us with exaggerated claims. Yet that's exactly ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: The G-20 Carbon Calculator

Tracking the carbon emissions, among G-20 countriesREAD»

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MoMA Hosts Creative Lock-In to Save New York's Waterfronts

The museum is sponsoring a workshop aiming for new solutions for sheltering the city's threatened waterfront.READ»

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Infographic of the Day: What Seven Degrees Does to the Planet

It's hard to imagine the effects of massive warming, which is why British scientists produced this encyclopedic graphic.READ»

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350 parts-per-million is the carbon limit. How will we get back there?READ»

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Infographic of the Day: How Renewables Could Power Us, by 2020

Sun and wind vary throughout the day, and that means they'll have to be cleverly pieced together if we're going to get renewable energy, 24/7.READ»

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6 International Day of Climate Action Events to Watch

Saturday marks the first International Day of Climate Action, a grassroots protest spearheaded by environmentalist Bill McKibben and 350.org, an organization that gets its name from climate expert James Hansen's warning that ...READ»

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Why Don't More Americans Believe Climate Change Is Real?

As politicians around the world gear up for December's UN Climate Change Conference and the International Day of Climate Action moves closer, we should take note of a new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & Press ...READ»

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The Underwater Cabinet Meeting and 5 Other Global Warming PR Stunts

The Maldives government pulled the ultimate global warming PR stunt this past weekend when it held a cabinet meeting on the sea floor. The stunt, meant to highlight the issues facing the lowest-lying country on Earth, received ...READ»

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Soros Invests $1 Billion in Clean Energy as New Study Fuels Global Warming Skepticism

George Soros is going to put a billion dollars of his business fortune into clean energy. But will the cash go to change the political attitude toward global warming or is it offset by recent figures that seem to suggest evidence of ...READ»

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The Greenhouse Gamble: We Still Have a Chance to Stop Climate Change

Here's some news to brighten up your weekend: there's still a 50/50 chance that our planet's temperature won't rise more than two degrees Celsius, and we won't have to suffer the consequences of flooding, starvation, and animal ...READ»

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EPA to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Biggest Industrial Polluters

Instead of waiting around for Congress to approve the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, Obama has authorized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work toward the regulation of large industrial facilities. The announcement ...READ»

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CO2 is Green Takes Climate Change Skepticism to New Heights

Climate change deniers are nothing new, and oil company-sponsored pro-petroleum events are practically legendary. But CO2 is Green, an organization backed by oil and coal executives, unintentionally hints that the anti-CO2 legislation ...READ»

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Green Economy Produces Jobs - But How Many?

It makes perfect sense that overhauling our economy to fight climate change will inevitably produce jobs. After all, someone has to manufacture, produce, sell, and maintain all those turbines, solar panels, electric cars, and fuel ...READ»

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Google Earth Adds Climate Change Tours Narrated By Al Gore

In addition to showing the worldwide impact of climate change scenarios, the Google Earth layers will eventually allow users to zoom in on specific neighborhoods. Hint: New York City, watch out. READ»

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The Global Climate Wake Up Call

Did anyone really expect the United Nations to have a serious, implementable plan for climate change by mid-December's convention in Copenhagen? We were skeptical after negotiations in Bali and Bonn, and apparently we're not alone. A ...READ»

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Should We Geoengineer the Climate to Stop Global Warming?

Last week, we reported on a study from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers that suggested creating forests of synthetic trees and algae-lined buildings to absorb CO2 and delay climate change. And earlier this month, we wrote about a ...READ»

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British Climate Change Supercomputer Is Also a Super Polluter

Scientists already know that climate change has an impact on the environment, but what about the supercomputers that are supposed to predict climate change? It turns out the U.K.'s most powerful supercomputer, which also happens to be ...READ»

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Can Forests of Artificial Trees Stop Global Warming?

As climate change accelerates, scientists keep coming up with increasingly fanciful schemes to fight it. Earlier this month we took a look at a plan to deploy ships that spray climate change-battling clouds, and now comes word from a ...READ»

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Ultra Fast Ethernet Could Combat Global Warming

Ultra-fast Ethernet networks are great for playing graphics-heavy online games, but they could also help fight climate change, according to researchers at the Berkeley National Lab. The Department of Energy recently awarded the lab ...READ»

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Ships That Spray Clouds Into the Sky to Combat Climate Change

Instead fighting climate change with emissions-lowering technologies alone, scientists at the Copenhagen Consensus Center are proposing the use of so-called "cloud ships" to launch clouds into the sky. The 1,900 unmanned ...READ»

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Floating Apartment Complex Goes With the Flow of Rising Sea Levels

Here's a unique way to adapt to global warming: build floating apartment complexes. That's what Dutch designer Koen Olthuis is doing in the Netherlands with the Citadel, a residential complex that will be built on top of a ...READ»

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IPCC: Monetary Benefits of Global Warming Prevention Outweigh Costs

Despite the flailing economy, many major companies--Wal-Mart, McDonald's, and Exxon, to name a few--have invested heavily in sustainable technologies that could mitigate the effects of global warming. Good news: these investments will ...READ»

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Forget Global Warming; Could Wind Farms Affect the Weather?

Everyone (well, mostly everyone) is worried about the effects of climate change on global weather patterns. But what if wind power--one of the most prominent clean energy solutions--affects the weather too? According to scientists at ...READ»

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How Can San Francisco Save Itself From Drowning? Six Pie-in-the-Sky Ideas

The Rising Tides Competition--which sought visionary ideas to deal with climate change--has just announced the winning proposals.READ»

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