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Sorry Climate Change Skeptics: Arctic Melting Trend Continues Despite Milder Year"This is simply natural variability," said National Snow and Ice Data Center director Mark Serreze, who wasn't part of the NOAA report but praised it. "There is nothing about the year 2013 that provides any evidence that the Arctic is starting a path toward recovery."
Why Climate Change Could Create a Mental Health Crisis | Care2 CausesAt 6 am on Tuesday, my phone rang and an automated voice announced that my son’s autism school was closed all day due to “inclement weather.” It’s not unusual for it to snow in December in New Jersey but, as a result of climate change, the past few winters have been for the most part mild with only a snowstorm or two. We, and quite a few New Jerseyans, have gotten out of the habit of numerous snow days. For Charlie, who (like many autistic individuals) struggles with change, an unexpected day off from school is an anxiety-creating disruption.
The dark side of the West’s oil and gas boomOil production in North Dakota has now jumped eight-fold since 2006, to a level undreamed of in the 1980s
James Hansen Calls for the Light That Only Science Can Provide | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The MediaPerhaps no one in the world speaks with more authority about climate change than Hansen
Fieldwork in Solomon IslandsThere were some intriguing exceptions to this. For instance, as a component of the all-round-fascinating Pacific-Australia Climate Change Science and Adaptation Planning Program and a huge, multi-donor transport infrastructure development program, some risk management specialists are developing manuals and guidelines to help the Solomon Islands Ministry of Infrastructure Development consider climate change projections. Some civil engineers proclaim that their engineering approach and systems can easily incorporate future climate change impacts – for them, it’s really no big deal. Yet, ‘mainstreaming’ in one instance led to some wharves being vastly over-specified, to the extent that even at high tide, they are inoperable.
Anti-Capitalist Aerobics[Video, via Ben Pile] A film by Emma Crouch documenting 'Anti-Capitalist Aerobics' - a new performance by Ellie Harrison commissioned by Invisible Dust for the 'Ways of Seeing Climate Change' conference in Manchester on 30 October 2013 as part of the 'Invisible Heat' programme supported by the Wellcome Trust.
John Podesta will recuse himself from Keystone, W.H. aide says - Alex Guillen - POLITICO.comIn news sure to deflate the hopes of climate activists, green energy advocate John Podesta will recuse himself from issues related to the Keystone XL oil pipeline when he begins working as a special adviser to President Barack Obama, a White House aide confirmed to POLITICO late Tuesday.
Wind farms get extended leeway on eagle deaths - latimes.com[Peter Kelley, vice president of public affairs for the American Wind Energy Assn.] said the new regulations would "increase the protection of eagles and will help develop more wind farms, a leading solution to climate change, which is the No. 1 threat to all eagles and all wildlife."
Swarthmore Police Going Green, Thanks to Engineering Professor and Sophomore Student | Daily GazetteMayor of Swarthmore Rick Lowe approached Everbach in 2010 with the idea to outfit a Swarthmore police car with solar panels...When Lowe approached President Rebecca Chopp last April to propose the project, she agreed to devote $5,000 to fund the initiative...the only mishap that has occurred since the first panels were installed this past summer has been a manufacturing malfunction in one panel that caused the system to short and begin smoking
Why have scientists stopped doing science? – Telegraph Blogs[Delingpole] When they see me in the flesh and hear what I've got to say, I think they feel a bit disappointed – not least because they realise that I believe in many the same things they do: stuff like empiricism, integrity, evidence, rigour and the scientific method. What they usually can't quite bring themselves to believe though is that I might actually be right.
Public engagement and communicating uncertainty | Climate Etc.[Curry] So why is there such a perception of a ‘communication problem’ surrounding climate science among climate scientists and scientific organizations? It is because they expect their science to be translated into the ‘obvious’ policy prescriptions that they believe obviously follows from their science. This unfortunate linear thinking, motivated and institutionalized by the UNFCCC/IPCC, has led climate communication efforts in the direction of propaganda, which gives rise to public skepticism and loss of trust.
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