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Climate Change & Sustainable Development

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2013 confirmed as Australia’s hottest year on record

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Australia smashed its previous annual heat record in 2013, with a summer heatwave and spring hot spell among the outstanding periods of unusual warmth.

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Nationwide Drought Improves Over 2013; West Still Suffers
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Showing a nearly 30% improvement in nationwide drought over Jan. 1, 2013, the first U.S.

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Posted by: gaiatahoe | January 2, 2014

La Niña Influences Melt of Major Antarctic Glacier

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Changes in water masses during La Niña events can significantly slow the melting rate of one of Antarctica’s largest glaciers, according to a new study.

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A prolonged heat wave across northern Argentina has led to blackouts in and around Buenos Aires.

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Posted by: gaiatahoe | January 1, 2014

NASA | Greenland’s Mega Canyon

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Hidden for all of human history, a 460 mile long canyon has been discovered below Greenland’s ice sheet. Using radar data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge and…

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Water risk as world warms

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First comprehensive global-impact project shows that water scarcity is a major worry.

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National Security and the Threat of Climate Change | CNA

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In 2006 CNA convened a Military Advisory Board (MAB) of eleven retired three-star and four-star admirals and generals to assess the impact of global climate change on key matters of national security, and to lay the groundwork for mounting responses to the threats found.

In April 2007, CNA released the MAB’s landmark report, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, that articulates the concept of climate change acting as a “threat multiplier” for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world and identifies key challenges that must be planned for now if they are to be met effectively in the future.

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Posted by: gaiatahoe | January 1, 2014

Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island

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Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth.

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Posted by: gaiatahoe | January 1, 2014

Climate Change 101 With Bill Nye the Science Guy

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The famous scientist cuts through the global warming noise and lays out the facts (Never ceases to amaze me that #tcot GOP cite cold temps as PROOF global warming is BS…Its not funny anymore. Learn!

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