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Cheat sheet: How climate change affects our weather
This article discusses how climate affects weather.
One way we’re each experiencing climate change today is in the form of extreme weather.
Why it matters: According to numerous studies, climate change is making some events, like heatwaves and heavy downpours, more intense and more likely to occur. These can be […]
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Too hot to handle: Politics of warming part of culture wars
This article discusses the political climate that punishes candidates on the Right who even mention climate change.
When it comes to global warming, America’s political climate may have changed more than the Earth’s over the past three decades.
NASA scientist James Hansen put the world on notice about global warming on […]
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‘The doomsayers were right’: James Hansen’s 30-year-old climate warning rings true today
This article discusses scientist James Hansen’s documenting climate change, and how deniers now rule the landscape. 30 years after a brave scientist warned us about global warming, deniers run America. This is a good article showing how deniers mobilized to stop the truth from getting out.
On June 23, 1988 […]
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Study: After Decades of Losing Ice, Antarctica Is Now Hemorrhaging It
This article discusses the rapid increase in glaciers melting in Antarctica. Global warming has already cost the continent 2.7 trillion tons of mass.
Climate change has not been kind to Antarctica. According to a comprehensive new study, global warming has already bled the frigid continent, which is larger than Europe, […]
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NASA chief signals reprieve for endangered climate missions
This article discusses the new NASA Chief’s change of heart on climate change, with the result being that science on climate change will continue.
For the past 2 years, climate science at NASA has been on edge, as several missions in development—or already flying in space—have been targeted for elimination […]
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AMERICANS THINK CLIMATE CHANGE SHOULD BE NASA’S TOP PRIORITY, NOT SENDING ASTRONAUTS TO MARS
This article discusses recent polling of American attitudes towards NASA and climate change.
We chose to go the Moon because it was hard, but it turns out difficulty might not be a compelling enough argument to sway Americans these days.
That’s according to a new […]
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Troubled Gas Firm Drops Request to Dodge Drilling Limits Near New Mexico’s Methane Hot Spot
This article discusses one of New Mexico’s largest oil and gas producers, Hilcorp Energy, withdrawing its recently filed request to increase the number of wells it can drill or frack in the San Juan Basin, already home to tens of thousands of gas wells. Hilcorp’s proposal also would have shut the public out […]
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Scientists race to reveal how surging wildfire smoke is affecting climate and health
This article discusses how bad smoke is to health.
Emily Fischer is likely one of the few people whose summer plans were buoyed by a recent forecast that much of the western United States faces another worse-than-normal wildfire season. Unusually warm weather and drought, together with plenty of dry grass […]
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Humans are causing massive changes in the location of water around the world, NASA says
This article discusses the impact that humans are having on the planet’s water resources.
A 14-year NASA mission has confirmed that a massive redistribution of freshwater is occurring across Earth, with middle-latitude belts drying and the tropics and higher latitudes gaining water supplies.
The results, which are probably a combination of […]
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Climate change is already making droughts worse
This article, by Dr Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discusses the impact that climate change is having on global water supplies. Few areas of the world are completely immune to droughts and […]
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