Obama tweeted yesterday: Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous. @BarackObama Read the news release, Obama shared on twitter: Scientists say united on global warming, at odds with public view (Reuters) – Ninety-seven percent of scientists say global warming is mainly man-made but a wide public belief that experts are…
In the most comprehensive study to date, a new survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers has found a 97% consensus in the peer-reviewed literature that humans are causing global warming. http://skepticalscience.com/97-percent-consensus-cook-et-al-2013.html A paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters yesterday found that the number of scientific papers rejecting the thesis that humans…
You can help crowd-fund an important scientific research trip — along with a videographer and journalist to cover it. Climate De-Crocker Peter Sinclair explains: On April 21, 2013, the Dark Snow Project brought a bit of Greenland to Manhattan, to illustrate the importance of this summer’s planned expedition to sample Greenland ice. It kicked off…
Journalist and historian in war studies Gwynne Dyer discusses his book “Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats,” presented by Harvard Book Store. Dyer explores the cultural and political ramifications of climate change, such as dwindling resources, population shifts, natural disasters, epidemics, crashing economies, and political extremism. More lectures at http://forum-network.org
Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but “Medea Hypothesis” author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth’s mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine. Peter Douglas Ward is a paleontologist and professor of Biology and of Earth and Space Sciences at…
By Elliott Negin / Huffington Post: This six-part series, “Unreliable Sources: How the Media Help the Kochs and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation,” documents that the press routinely cites climate contrarian think tanks without reporting their ties to the fossil fuel industry. Part 1: A Glaring Lapse in Climate and Energy Coverage One of my morning rituals is…
Read more: http://bitly.com/SGJGPi Subscribe to The Chopra Well: http://bit.ly/M5z254 Description: Joined by David Gershon, founder and president of the Empowerment Institute, Deepak Chopra addresses climate change and social action. They argue that by taking collective action, we can make an impact on the world and on our environment for the better.* Gershon addresses some of the key…
On November 12, 2012 The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth Institute, Columbia University and Quebec Government Office presented an exciting discussion about the effects of climate change on the Arctic. Experts highlighted how Arctic sea ice, climate, marine mammals, tundra, and indigenous communities have been affected by and are adapting to climate change. In addition, each…
Changes in Arctic sea ice coverage are happening at unprecedented rates, with 2012 setting a new record low for sea ice extent. Our ability to predict changes of sea ice loss and understand the impacts on society, from commercial shipping to resource availability, will be driven by further scientific research in the region. Areas for…