Christian and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe on ending the gridlock between politics, science and faith. BillMoyers.com: The latest in a string of dire reports on climate change came this week from the United Nations’ meteorological advisory body, which said that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2013,…
Der SPIEGEL berichtet aktuell über den tagelangen Starkregen der Flüße ansteigen ließ und so für die verheerendsten Fluten seit Jahrzehnten sorgte. Tagelanger Starkregen löste die Fluten aus SPIEGEL: Durch die Anfang September von tagelangem Starkregen im Himalaya ausgelösten Überflutungen sind laut der Katastrophenschutzbehörde (NDMA) bereits rund 280 Menschen in der ostpakistanischen Provinz Punjab und im…
Climatecrocks: First Yale video to include new Greenland footage from last month. See what you think.
Upworthy: It Might Be The Most Mind-Boggling Photograph Humanity Has Ever Taken The Sagan Series is an educational project working in the hopes of promoting scientific literacy in the general population. Created by @ReidGower http://twitter.com/reidgower As seen in 2014’s COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey Written by Ann Druyan and Steven Soter Cosmos Studios RelatedEarth from Space,…
Andy Lee Robinson (https://twitter.com/ahaveland) recently challenged Jason Box (https://twitter.com/climate_ice) to a sea ice bucket challenge, offering to support the Dark Snow Project (http://darksnow.org). How could Jason say no? Watch Jason’s response Jason passed the challenge onto climate communicators: Peter Sinclair (http://climatecrocks.com); Dana Nuccitelli (https://twitter.com/dana1981); and John Cook of http://www.skepticalscience.com Related http://climatesciencedefensefund.org/ http://www.alsa.org/fight-als/ice-bucket-challenge.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sea_ice_decline
The eruption of Mount Tavurvur volcano on August 29th, 2014. Captured by Phil McNamara. Related Volcano at night – Iceland (September 4, 2014)
CARBON is the first film in the Green World Rising Series. “Carbon” is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, presented by Thom Hartmann and directed by Leila Conners. Executive Producers are George DiCaprio, Earl Katz and Roee Sharon Peled. Carbon is produced by Mathew Schmid and was written by Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks, Leila Conners and Mathew…
The Climate State staff interviewed Stefan Rahmstorf, Head of Earth System Analysis, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Robert Bristow: To get CO2 emissions under control – do you think some form of geoengineering (i.e CO2 scrubbing) will be desirable? Stefan Rahmstorf: The term geoengineering or climate engineering, encompasses a wide range…
As the seas rise, a slow-motion disaster gnaws at America’s shores A REUTERS investigation: Analysis finds that flooding is increasing along much of the nation’s coastline, forcing many communities into costly, controversial struggles with a relentless foe. From centuries-old fishing communities on Chesapeake Bay to a NASA space center on the Atlantic coast, a Virginia…