photo: m.prinke / Creative Commons Keep this next quick one in mind the next time you start wondering if all that snow falling this winter might mean global warming isn’t actually happening: Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research say that melting Arctic sea ice may lead to colder winters in northern latitudes… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Melting Arctic Sea Ice May Actually Cause Colder Northern Winters
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photo: David Jones / Creative Commons Over the weekend the New York Times ran an article on sea level rise, which for the seasoned TreeHugger reader may not add tons new to the discussion ( Cli… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Roman Ruins Show Modern Sea Level Rise Didn’t Start Until Industrial Revolution
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Photo via the Daily Galaxy Geoengineering a disaster? Ah, geoengineering — the topic every climate-conscious lady or gent has a strong opinion on. It brings up all those fun questions: If things get bad enough, like if man continues to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at alarming rates — can we use science to
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Every Argument You Ever Wanted to Have About Geoengineering
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Image courtesy of Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by Joy Guillemot, an ecological anthropologist and environmental health scientist currently completing a PhD at Johns Hopkins, as part of the Cape Farewell project . “Bring only your passport and dress extremely warmly. The helicopter will arrive in 40 minutes.” Before it was announced, I had already prepared my things to abandon ship. Danger was not retreating against the running clock, and the highly skilled crew was anxious. I felt a bit silly being hyper-prepared, but flashbacks of working i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Cape Farewell Expedition’s Brush with Disaster
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Photo via Travelpod And why we might need to sell forests to save them “Conservation has a place,” says, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana on the final day of the Clinton Global Initiative . “Despite all [the conservation groups’] good work,” he says, 50% of the world’s forests are gone. “The only way to preserve forests in the long term is to find alternative uses” that make saving some of the world’s most diverse and important ecosystems eco… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Why Conservation Won’t Save the World’s Forests (Video)
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Image courtesy of Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by Simon Boxall, a lecturer in Oceanography at the National Oceanography Centre, as part of the Cape Farewell project . The science on this year’s Cape Farewell has been split into two (linked) sections. We want to build on previous visits to Svalbard (2003,04 and 07) by repeating a cross section through the West Spitsbergen current (part of the extension of the Gulf Stream) and measuring the East Spitsbergen current for the first time (the other half of that e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Early Findings Show a Radically Changed Arctic
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Image via Uncyclopedia Or, Why Government and Business Are Locked in a Climate Showdown At a special session focused on energy and the environment at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative , billionaire investor and clean energy entrepreneur Richard Branson joined Christiana Figueres , essentially the world’s top international climate negotiator, to discuss policy and business solutions for global warming. Figuere… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Why Can’t Clean Energy Be More Like Cell Phones? (Video)
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It’s one of the great under-recognized threats around the globe: cooking smoke. In developing nations the world over, women cook with crude wood-burning stoves, often in exceedingly poorly ventilated houses and rooms. The smoke poses not only a dangerous health risk — the toxic smoke coats the lungs of family members, especially endangering women, who typically spend more time indoors by the stove, and children. So this year, at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton announced the creation of the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves, a US-lead effort to bring safer, and yes, cl… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US Invests $50 Million in Cleaner Cook Stoves
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photo: Procsilas Moscas via flickr Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce a $50 million pledge of seed money, distributed over five years, to help the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves provide 100 million clean-burning biomass cookstoves by 2020 to people in Africa, Asia and South America… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US $50 Million Pledge For Cleaner Cookstoves is Big Win For Women, Forests & Climate
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Image: Hello Electric Nice PR Coup! For a few years, BP (originally British Petroleum) has tried to rebrand itself as “Beyond Petroleum”. The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has made obvious that BP was far from being beyond oil (though beyond the pale, at times), but it’s never too late to start. A group called Hello Electric wants to give an electric car to Tony Hayward, who will soon step down as BP CEO, along with a letter encouraging him to become an EV ambassador. Read on for more det… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hello Electric Wants to Give BP CEO Tony Hayward an Electric Car
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