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Hacker Releases Thousands of New Climategate Emails from University of East Anglia
 Trove of New 
 Climategate 
 Emails Released 
AS UN OPENS WARMING TALKS
Nov 23, 2011 7:49 AM CST

Trove of New Climategate Emails Released

Communications offer look at scientists facing skepticism

(Newser) - Soon after it was debunked, Climategate is back—on the eve of new UN talks seeking a global deal on climate change. A hacker has unveiled a new batch of some 5,000 emails from the same trove of University of East Anglia files initially hacked, the Washington Post reports....

Greenhouse Gases Surging: US Report

Carbon dioxide emissions take biggest jump on record

(Newser) - Carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases continued to build in the atmosphere last year, a federal report finds: Between 2009 and 2010, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s yearly index of greenhouse gases—which measures said gases' combined heating effect—jumped 1.5%, to 1.29. It has...

Climate Change Health Costs Will Be Colossal

'This is a problem with a human face'

(Newser) - The health care costs that climate change will cause have been overlooked—and they'll be staggering, according to a new study. Researchers looked at six climate-related disasters in the US, including wildfires, a hurricane, and a flood, and calculated that those six disasters alone cost the US $14 billion...

American Forests Not Coping With Climate Change

Study shows they're not migrating as expected

(Newser) - Conventional wisdom has always held that America’s forests would shamble northward in the face of rising temperatures, but a new Duke University study shows that the majority of Eastern US tree species are remaining stubbornly, well, rooted in place. Almost 59% of species actually showed that their geographic ranges...

Climategate Debunked, Media Pounces on ... McRib?

Cable news cares more about McDonald's, he complains

(Newser) - When climate scientists were accused of massaging data in 2009, cable news networks pounced on the "Climategate" story, offering up a slew of talking heads to declare global warming a hoax, Jon Stewart noted last night. A new independent study, however—funded in part by none other than the...

California OKs Cap-and-Trade
 California OKs Cap-and-Trade 
Oct 21, 2011 7:39 AM CDT

California OKs Cap-and-Trade

Other states are watching to see how well program works

(Newser) - California became the first state in the nation to adopt its own cap-and-trade system yesterday, as its Air Resources Board voted unanimously to approve the regulations. The vote came after a grueling eight-hour meeting filled with the opinions of angry union members, disapproving industry representatives, and miscellaneous plan supporters, the...

Climate Change Makes Animals, People 'Shrink'

Warmer, drier weather makes plants and animals get smaller

(Newser) - Plants, polar bears, and people are among the living things likely to shrink thanks to global warming, scientists say. Drawing on several scientific papers, the Telegraph reports that warmer, drier weather makes plants and animals get smaller, which reduces food supplies for those higher up the food chain. "The...

Scientists Revolt in Perry Climate Change Clash

Authors of Texas report want their names deleted

(Newser) - Officials appointed by Rick Perry have sparked a new firestorm in Texas over climate change science, the Guardian reports. Every scientist behind a recent 200-page environmental report is demanding to have his name stricken from the document after state officials deleted references to climate change. "This is simply antithetical...

Starbucks: Coffee Faces Climate Risk

Farmers already hit by hurricanes, new rainfall patterns

(Newser) - Melting ice caps, unpredictable weather, and ... no more coffee? Starbucks says climate change could put your morning joe in jeopardy. Global warming creates "a potentially significant risk to our supply chain, which is the Arabica coffee bean," the company's sustainability director tells the Guardian . Coffee farmers are...

Scientists Hunt for Life in Buried Antarctic Lake

They're hoping pristine ancient habitat could hold life

(Newser) - A team of British scientists begins a trek to Antarctica this week for an expedition that hopes to discover new life forms lurking in a lake that’s been untouched for a million years. The lake is buried under about two miles of ice, but its water is still liquid...

Cold Weather Depleted Arctic Ozone Layer: Scientists

 80% Loss of  
 Arctic Ozone 
 Caused by... 
'nature' report
Oct 2, 2011 4:59 PM CDT

80% Loss of Arctic Ozone Caused by...

... months of stratospheric cold weather

(Newser) - Amid our heated political debate on climate change, it's cold air that apparently depleted the Arctic's ozone layer, the BBC reports. An article in the journal Nature says an 80% reduction of Arctic ozone, noted earlier this year , was caused by cold air hanging around the stratosphere for...

Dying Forests May Mean Hotter World

We're losing a major sponge of carbon dioxide: New York Times

(Newser) - The New York Times has a gloomy story on the state of forests in the US and around the world and the potential effect on the environment. Vast swaths are dying off: Pine beetles that used to be kept in check by cold winters are gorging on trees in the...

Maldives: No, Our Country Isn't Underwater

Satirical 'Telegraph' global warming column irks island nation.

(Newser) - Atlas makers have decided to omit the Maldives from future editions because global warming threatens to submerge the island nation, a climate-change skeptic Telegraph writer claimed in a satirical column . Sound ludicrous? Not to some newspapers and opposition politicians in the Maldives, who took the bogus story seriously and demanded...

Warming Oceans Could Spread Bacteria
 Warming Oceans 
 Could Spread 
 Bacteria 
report warns
Sep 14, 2011 2:15 PM CDT

Warming Oceans Could Spread Bacteria

And that could cost millions in health care spending

(Newser) - Global warming could make you sick—literally. As the oceans get warmer, they're also proving a more hospitable home for Vibrio bacteria, helping to spread it around the world, according to a paper presented yesterday in Brussels. Scientists warned that, left unchecked, the phenomenon could lead to millions of...

Gore to Launch 24-Hour Assault on Climate Skeptics

Multimedia presentation will cross 24 time zones

(Newser) - For those who just can't get enough Al Gore, this might be overkill even for you: The former vice president will attempt to take over the globe this week, by way of a 24-hour worldwide multimedia presentation aimed at winning over climate-change skeptics. "24 Hours of Reality" will...

Coral Reefs Gone By Century&#39;s End


 Coral Reefs Gone 
 by Century's End 
NEW BOOK
Sep 11, 2011 8:50 AM CDT

Coral Reefs Gone by Century's End

Not just pretty: end of reefs often signals mass extinction events

(Newser) - Climate change and the acidification of the oceans—along with overfishing, coastal development, and pollution—will destroy the Earth's coral reefs in as little as 30 years, reports the Independent . The mass-bleaching in the Indian Ocean in 1998 alone destroyed 16% of the world's reefs in just a...

Journal Editor Quits Over Climate Change Hullabaloo

Takes responsibility for article that deliberately ignored counter-arguments

(Newser) - The editor-in-chief of a scientific journal that published a revisionist paper against climate change has quit, reports the BBC . "If a paper presents interesting scientific arguments, even if controversial, it should be published and responded to in the open literature," said Wolfgang Wagner in his resignation letter . The...

Team Plots 'Fake Volcano' to Cool Planet

Giant hose will pump particles into stratosphere

(Newser) - Volcanic eruptions cool the planet by injecting particles into the stratosphere that reflect the sun's rays, so could an artificial volcano counter global warming? A British scientific team is aiming to find out in what may be the biggest geo-engineering experiment ever conducted, the Guardian reports. The team plans...

Climate Change to Prompt Rise in Mental Illness

Severe weather leaves anxiety, depression in its wake: report

(Newser) - Continuing climate change could lead to an increase in mental illness—particularly following severe weather events like what we've seen this weekend, according to a new report. Such events can damage social cohesion, the report says, leaving behind increased anxiety, depression, drug abuse, and post-traumatic stress, the Sydney Morning ...

Gore Compares Climate Skeptics to Racists

Says people should urge them not to 'talk that way'

(Newser) - Al Gore is so sick of climate change skeptics that he views them a little bit like racists. During an interview yesterday with Fear Less , Gore urged his supporters to "win the conversation" on global warming, much as civil rights supporters won the fight against racism, according to Politico...

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