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05.08.2012
How New Zealand’s megabirds survived climate change
About 11,000 years ago, the final Ice Age end and humans began to spread out to all corners of the globe. Shortly thereafter, the world's megafauna went extinct. So was it climate or humanity that killed the last megafauna?
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04.08.2012
Treaty that saved the ozone may worsen climate change
The Montreal Protocol, a climate treaty that gathers all UN member-countries behind the goal of protecting the ozone layer, may not be the “most successful international agreement” anymore, as former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan used to put it.
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04.08.2012
New study links current events to climate change
The relentless, weather-gone-crazy type of heat that has blistered the United States and other parts of the world in recent years is so rare that it can't be anything but man-made global warming, says a new statistical analysis from a top government scientist.
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02.08.2012
Drought, Heat Shows Climate Change Is Real, Democrats Say
Wildfires in the U.S. West, heat in the East and drought across most of the nation show the climate is changing, Democrats said today as they sought to revive an issue the Obama administration and Republicans had dropped.
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02.08.2012
Earth absorbs more of our CO2 emissions: science
PARIS — Even as Man's output of Earth-warming CO2 has risen, so has the capacity of plants and the oceans to absorb it, scientists said Wednesday, but warned this may not last forever.
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31.07.2012
Richard Muller's volte face on climate change is good for science
It's tempting to infer from the reports of University of California physicist Richard Muller's conversion that climate sceptics really can change their spots. Analyses by Muller's Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, which have been made publicly available, reveal that the Earth's land surface is on average 1.5C warmer than it was when Mozart was born, and that, as Muller puts it "humans are almost entirely the cause". He says that his findings are even stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which presents the consensus of the climate-science community that most of the warming in the past half century is almost certainly due to human activities. "Call me a converted sceptic", says Muller in the New York Times.
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30.07.2012
What evidence will it take to convince climate sceptics?
So, that's it then. The climate wars are over. Climate sceptics have accepted the main tenets of climate science – that the world is warming and that humans are largely to blame – and we can all now get on to debating the real issue at hand: what, if anything, do we do about it?
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27.07.2012
Natural gas future clouded by CO2
Natural gas has strong political support in Britain, shown by a tax break choreographed this week to balance support for wind power, but it is also on a collision course with the country's carbon emissions targets.
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27.07.2012
UN undertakes initiative to monitor national forests
Ten Central African countries will take part in a United Nations-backed initiative that will help them set up national forest monitoring systems and strengthen cooperation among nations in the region, it was announced Thursday.
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26.07.2012
Climate change on investors' minds
The majority of investors have boosted their committment to addressing climate change, and are making changes to their investment strategies based on climate risk assessments a report has found.
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26.07.2012
Climate carbon technologies considered
Pulling carbon dioxide from the air and storing it to stabilize climate may become increasingly important with ongoing global warming, U.S. scientists say.
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