Great minds don’t think alike. In fact, offbeat thinking has led to some of the greatest scientific discoveries of our age. James Lovelock explains how his maverick way of thinking led him not only to technical breakthroughs in atmospheric detection systems on Earth and Mars, but also to Gaia – a new way of thinking about…
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Dr. Stephen Hawking on the survival of the human race.
One of the earliest, strongest, and most consistent voices on Climate Change. Stephen Schneider sounded a strikingly prescient alarm in 1979.
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Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) http://amap.no/swipa/ 2011 SWIPA — A Changing Environment + SWIPA — The New Arctic Reality https://climateforce.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/swipa-a-changing-environment
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The Telegraph: Scientists have captured dramatic footage of massive lakes in the Arctic melting away in a matter of hours. Related Greenland ice sheet collapse, triggered ancient sea level rise 400,000 years ago
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What’s the Worst That Could Happen? A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate.
The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880.The finding sustains a trend that has seen the 21st century experience nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York released an analysis of how temperatures around the globe in…
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Global food shortages, waves of refugees, countries at war over dwindling resources. In a new book, Gwynne Dyer offers a terrifying vision of the not-too-distant future, all driven by the effects of global warming. Dyer is a Canadian journalist and historian. His book is called “Climate Wars”.
nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVh7z-0oo6o NOAA Fingerprints of human caused warming SkepticalScience US Global Change Research Program: Impacts in the United States http://globalchange.gov/what-we-do/as… p. 123 – great plains January to June global temps “The January–June 2011 map of temperature anomalies shows that, for the first half of the year, anomalous warm temperatures were present over much of the world,…
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How will world look at 2100?To change our future, first we must imagine it… It’s an idea that most of us would rather not think about — that within the next century, life as we know it could come to an end. Our civilization could crumble, leaving only traces of modern human existence behind. It…
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Groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, NOVA takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms it into dazzling visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate and surprising web of forces that sustains life on earth.
What caused the mother of all extinctions 250 million years ago?