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In early April, Duarte warned that the Arctic summer sea ice was melting at a rate faster than predicted by conventional climate models, and could be ice free as early as 2015 – rather than toward the end of the century, as the …

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It’s reported here that many of the climate science boatpeople are actually from renowned media outlets, like The Guardian, who we can safely assume were onboard hoping to capture dramatic images of vast areas of open …

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“DAVID GREENE, HOST:

And in these last days of 2013 we’ve been having conversations about the future. Rather than grand predictions, we’ve been seeking a realistic assessment of what lies ahead. So far we’ve explored cybersecurity, we’ve looked at the changing electorate. When it comes to climate change, the topic for today, Andrew Steer of the World Resources Institute told my colleague Steve Inskeep that the trends don’t look very good.

ANDREW STEER: And I don’t want to imply we are heading in the right direction. We are not. We’re heading in the wrong direction at the moment. We’re heading for three degrees Celsius, four degrees Celsius.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

You’re talking about the increase in the average global temperature.

STEER: It’s the increase in the average temperature, and associated with that, of course, a lot more extreme weather events which we’re seeing already. Associated with that will be a, you know, perhaps a one meter rise in sea level. And most cruel of all associated with that, shifts in rain patterns. And so add these together and agricultural yields in poor areas of Africa will fall by 30 percent.

And these farmers today can’t even hardly eke out a living as it is.”

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Earthweek – A Diary of the Planet
Fierce Typhoons Spread Japan’s Nuclear Contamination
Earthweek – A Diary of the Planet
Radiation levels in 10 prefectures surrounding the Fukushima No.

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Hans Rosling lecture 19 mins – 28 September 2013200 years of Global Change, Climate Science, History Projections & the IPCC AR5 Report explainedProfessor Hans Rosling, Karolinska Institutet.

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Title, Water rights and conflict resolution processes in Afghanistan: The case of the Sar-i-Pul sub-basin. Publisher, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU). Author, Vincent Thomas with Mujib Ahmad Azizi and …

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Most major American TV stations seldom mention climate change in their coverage of extreme weather events, according to a new survey released by the the media criticism group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).

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It looks like past IPCC predictions of sea level rise were too conservative; things are worse than we thought. That is the takeaway message from a new study out in Quaternary Science Reviews and from updates to the IPCC …

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All the mangrove expansion noted in the study occurred north of Palm Beach County, with mangroves between Cape Canaveral and St. Augustine doubling their area. Mangroves do best along the calm, shallow waters of …

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By Suzanne York. A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that climate change is likely to put 40 percent more …

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