Posted on 04 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
In this third in a series of six videos TreeHugger has done in collaboration with the good folks (and sometimes guest writers here) from Skeptical Science, John Cook explains how climate change deniers and the polluting industries that they are often linked to use the same sort of tactics the tobacco industry employed in trying to convince people that smoking isn’t bad for your health….Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 13 January 2011 by Sustainability Digest
photo: Woodley Wonderworks/Creative Commons
Think mainstream media exaggerates how bad sea level rise might get, pays too much attention to it? Well, a new media analysis published in Environmental Research Letters finds that by and large in the past two decades decade mainstream media in the US and UK have accurately portrayed scientific reports on Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 26 August 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Photo via Science Daily, Credit University of Plymouth
There’s little good news about the ocean these days, unfortunately. We’ve taken it past the point of any sort of speedy recovery, from rising shorelines to over-fished species, from plastic pollution to acidification. And for this last problem, it looks like dire consequences are inevitable within this century, according to new research from the University of Plymouth and the University of Santa Catarina, Braz…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 17 June 2010 by Sustainability Digest
photo: Dominic Alves via flickr
Taking a look back to past global climate changes, researchers led by Timothy Herbert of Brown University have determined that for at least the past 2.7 million years tropical temperatures have “changed in lockstep” with the cyclical spread and retreat of ice sheets, and that CO2 has been the main factor dictating global climate patterns. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 28 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Posted on 18 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Well, at least for the past 120 years or so… image: NOAA
Oh, and the warmest January-April on record too. That’s the word from NOAA and refers to the combined global land and ocean surface temperatures, which at 14.5°C (58.1°F) was 0.76°C (1.37°F) above the average for the 20th century….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 05 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
CalTech scientists discuss Pandora with James Cameron.
Avatar‘s director James Cameron is busy following up his monstrously successful film with an environmental campaign, from visiting the Amazon with Al Gore to CalTech last week to join a panel of scientists discussing the film and its “powerful environmental messages and impact.” The event …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 05 May 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Image: BBC Lovelock Interview
James Lovelock, the scientist who put forth the Gaia Theory, has told the BBC it is too late for us to save the planet. According to Gaia Theory, the entire earth is a single organism, connected and interactive. Only just over a month ago, Lovelock called for authoritarian intervention while question…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 29 April 2010 by Sustainability Digest
Comparison of Arctic summer sea ice image: EPA
It’s long been known that melting Arctic ice could help speed global warming. As the ice melts, surface reflectivity changes, more heat is absorbed than reflected, more warming. But now a new study in Nature confirms that this is already happening, with melting Arctic ice being the main cause of the higher than average warming the region has experienced….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 27 April 2010 by Sustainability Digest
photo: Brandon Fick via flickr.
In some tentative (as in, more research is needed) global warming science good news, scientists from UC Irvine, and Colorado State and Yale universities have discovered that microbes in soil begin emitting less CO2 as their environment warms. This contradicts previous studies which anticipated an ever-increasing amount of emissions from soil as average temperatures climb. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
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