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The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has broken above 400 parts per million for the first time in human history, US monitors announced Friday, indicating a record level for greenhouse gases. Climate scientists say that the symbolic threshold should serve as a call for action to begin reversing ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Climate Change, greenhouse gas, Science, Sustainability (1 comment)
The National Sustainability Council has used the launch of its first public report to challenge Australians from all walks of life to become involved in a national conversation about the kind of Australia we want for ourselves and future generations. Sustainable Australia Report 2013: Conversations with the Future (‘the Report ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Children and Families, Climate Change, Population, Sustainability
NASA has produced this amazing and very short animation that depicts how temperatures around the globe have warmed over the past years. The data come from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York (GISS), which monitors global surface temperatures. NASA notes, “All 10 of the warmest years ... keep reading
Written by NASA Video this month, about Climate Change, Emissions, Weather (1 comment)
It seems that the weather may be getting through to Americans in a way that scientists have not managed to in the past . A study at George Mason University shows that a majority of Americans Say Global Warming Is Affecting Weather in the United States. About six in ten ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Climate Change, Climate Scepticism, Environmental Disasters, Population, Weather
Write a regular column on sustainability and it’s natural to discuss climate change facts and issues from time to time. Do it often enough and the climate change deniers will be happy to tell you what they think. Letters to the editor “rebuttals” can offer some wacky stuff, but ... keep reading
Written by Gord Stewart this month, about Climate Change, Climate Scepticism, Coal & Oil, Education
This week the World Met. Organization released its annual ‘Statement on the Status of the Global Climate’. The report, which investigates the major climate & weather events of the past year, found 2012 to be the 27th consecutive year with above average global temperatures. Global average temperature in 2012 was ... keep reading
Written by Kennedy Graham MP this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Weather
So it seems that global carbon dioxide levels will likely reach 400 parts per million within days. And it didn’t even make the news here. This will be a level unprecedented in human history since our atmosphere has probably not contained so much C02 since the Pliocene Epoch which ... keep reading
Written by Glenys D this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change (2 comments)
The World Meteorological Organization’s Statement on the Status of the Global Climate which put 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest — at ninth place — on record made number of other significant observations. Above-average temperatures were observed during 2012 across most of the globe’s ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, Weather
The World Meteorological Organization’s Statement on the Status of the Global Climate says that 2012 joined the ten previous years as one of the warmest — at ninth place — on record despite the cooling influence of a La Niña episode early in the year. “Although the rate of warming ... keep reading
Written by Celsias this month, about Climate Change, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans
Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the US intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you. Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never before experienced ... keep reading
Written by Michael Klare/The Nation this month, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Consumerism, Industry & Business, Polar Sea Ice, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans, Water
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