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19 July 2013 (Climate Science Watch) – Two decisions handed down July 19 in DC Superior Court affirmed climate scientist Michael Mann’s right to proceed in his defamation lawsuit against the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the National Review Online for their statements accusing him of data manipulation and fraud. The Court is not buying the […]
By Nancy Kaffer, Stephen Henderson, and Matt Helms 18 July 2013 (Detroit Free Press) – The City of Detroit is in final preparations to file for federal bankruptcy as early as Friday morning, several sources told the Free Press today. The filing would begin a 30- to 90-day period that will determine whether the city […]
By by Adam Voiland17 July 2013 (NASA) – On July 14, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of three large wildfires burning in the Yukon territory of western Canada. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fire. The image is […]
17 July 2013 (BBC News) – Hundreds of dead stingrays have been found on a beach in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz. The stingrays – more than 250 in total – were spotted on Chachalacas beach near the town of Ursulo Galvan on Tuesday. Some locals reported seeing fishermen dumping the rays on the […]
Mutated tomato (left) from Mata-Hyun, compared with normal tomato (right). 15 July 2013 (MSN) – It might be wise to steer clear of vegetables from Japan’s Fukushima area for, oh, say a few hundred years. A Korean website assembled this image collection of produce from towns and villages surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. […]
16 July 2013 (Climate Nexus) – Next time someone claims #climatechange has paused, show them this great graphic. Climate Nexus Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,propaganda,glacier,deglaciation,Arctic,sea ice,sea level
By Lacey Avery 15 July 2013 (mongabay.com) – In the next few months, the beating of fragile fiery orange and black wings will transport the monarch butterfly south. But the number of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) reaching their final destination has steadily declined, dropping to its lowest level in two decades last winter, according to […]
BEIJING, 16 July 2013 (AFP) – At least 295 people have been confirmed dead or missing after rainstorms and Typhoon Soulik hit China, causing floods, landslides and buildings to collapse, the government said today. Torrential rains have battered the southwestern province of Sichuan since July 7 and have led to 68 deaths, with another 179 […]
By Ritchie King and Josh Kadis 12 July 2013 (Quartz) – The Tour de France has seen better days. A spate of recent doping scandals in the cycling world has severely undercut the sport’s credibility, starting with the discovery of a French team’s rolling pharmacy in 1998′s Tour and culminating in Lance Armstrong’s televised admission […]
By Dr. Jeff Masters 13 July 2013 (wunderground.com) – A massive fire burning in northern Quebec is Canada’s second largest fire since fire records began in 1959, according to the Canadian Forest Service. The fire was more than twice the size of Rhode Island on Tuesday–1,621,000 acres. Called the Eastmain fire, the near-record blaze was […]
