How wildfires are threatening one of the largest carbon stores on earth.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/23/2343641/increased-wildfire
How wildfires are threatening one of the largest carbon stores on earth.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/23/2343641/increased-wildfire
Some 90% of total global warming goes into heating the oceans. NOAA has several charts showing that the oceans are rapidly heating, just as climate scientists predicted. Here one: As the saying goes, what goes down must come up. Ocean heat is going to come back up. That is precisely why climatologi
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/23/2344691/in-hot-water-ocean
Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago: Two different very different studies were released this week. But if you look at them together, they paint a potentially alarming picture for both pollinators, like bees and butterflies, and the native grasslands and prairies they depend on
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/awetzler/_v_behaviorurldefaultvml_o_
As grassroots climate activists greet Google employees in Mountain View, CA, to protest Google support of climate deniers today, several of the world top climate scientists are also speaking out. Despite Inhofe long record of attacking climate science on behalf of carbon polluters, the professe
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/24/2339781/climate-scientists
Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C.: Having lived in the DC metro region for a few years now, I’ve noticed there is a bit of a rivalry between those who live in Maryland and those who live in Virginia (don’t get me started on those who...
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/bchou/on_climate_change_action_the_d
Conspiracy theorists, rejoice! The Central Intelligence Agency is funding a scientific study that will investigate whether humans could use geoengineering to alter Earth environment and stop climate change. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will run the 21-month project, which is the first NAS
http://climatedesk.org/2013/07/cia-backs-630000-scientific-study-on-co
Climate sceptics have seized on a pause in warming over the past five years, but the long-term trend is still upwards. A recent slowdown in the upward march of global temperatures is likely to be the result of the slow warming of the deep oceans, British scientists said on Monday. Oceans are some of
http://climatedesk.org/2013/07/climate-change-slowdown-is-due-to-warmi