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Let’s Shut Down Lord Monckton’s Latest Nonsense – Support Prof. John Abraham & Sign This Letter

Image from the presentation in question: John Abraham In case you missed it, back in May Professor John Abraham of the University of St Thomas, Minnesota gave prominent climate change skeptic Lord Monckton a point-by-point debunking . Abraham found that, by and large, each of Monckton’s claims was, well, bluntly, entirel… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NASA Witnesses Greenland Glacier Breakup, Retreat One Mile Overnight

image: NASA NASA ‘s just released so pretty dramatic satellite photos of the north branch of Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier from July 6 and 7–when an area of ice 7 square kilometers in size (that’s more than twice the size of New York City’s Central Park), where the glacier meets the ocean, broke up over one night and the glacier retreated 1.5 kilometers inland. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rising Temperatures Could Drastically Alter Yellowstone Meadow Ecosystems

Photos via Iowa State University . Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . There is plenty of debate surrounding the potential effects of climate change , but a new study published in the journal

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Earth First! Maine Anti-Wind Power Protest Keeps Green Movement Honest

When Earth First! recently protested a large scale wind farm in northern Maine it raised a few eyebrows around the TreeHugger virtual office. John Laumer worryingly wondered if “the protesters and their supporters thought seriously about climate change before they embarked on the protest. The lynx there are anxious to protect from wind power development need more than wilderness; they need a climate suitable for the eco… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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American Sea Otters Could Be Worth $700 Million in Carbon Credits

photo: Mike Baird via flickr Yes, really… An interesting presentation at the annual meeting for the Society of Conservation Biology explains how if sea otters were restored to historically high populations along the coasts of North America, the amount of carbon stored by their activities would be worth more than $700 million on the European carbon trading market. Here’s why:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Irreversible Changes in Oceans Leading to Global Mass Extinction

Photo by coolmikeol It feels like reading a tabloid headline when we see reports about irreversible damage to ocean systems and the worldwide mass extinctions that could result. Unfortunately, it’s an all too real possibility. Renowned marine scientists Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of The University of Queensland’s Global Change Institute, and Dr John F. Bruno, an Associate Professor at The University of North Carolina, have completed a comprehensive study pulling together information from the most recent oceanographic research. Their … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Spoonflower: ‘Online Social Networking’ Meets ‘Print Your Own Fabric’

Move over Amy Butler , there’s a new kid on the block for designer fabrics. All custom-designed by a growing online network of DIYers and printed in Mebane, North Carolina, fabric pattern buffs will appreciate Spoonflower , a print-on-demand service that is also an Etsy -type of online community and marketplace where users can upload, share and purchase a mind-boggling variety of unique pattern designs. From the quirky to the sublime, the site probably has a pattern to … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Why is Climate Change Coverage Still Lacking in the Media?

Photo via Isiria This week saw a couple lively debates over cap and trade and media coverage and public understanding of climate change. Central to the latter seems to be the question of whether industry interests that go to certain lengths to sew doubt in the public about climate change really have all that much influence over how the average American perceives the threat of global warming… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scrubbing CO2 From Atmosphere Could Be A Centuries-Long Commitment

photo: Sarah McD via flickr Regardless of what methods are used, from hard geoengineering artificial CO2 scrubbers to softer methods like reforestation projects , actively removing carbon from the atmosphere will likely require a decades or centuries-long commitment if it is to really reverse global wa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scrubbing CO2 From Atmosphere Could Be A Centuries-Long Commitment

Artist Builds Giant Sculpture Out Of Shipping Containers, Pallets, Trailers and

Swedish artist Michael Johansson builds a tower out of three of our favourite things: shipping containers, pallets and trailers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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