The Economist: European climate policy is worse than useless

25 January 2014 (The Economist) – Since climate change was identified as a serious threat to the planet, Europe has been in the vanguard of the effort to mitigate it. The policies it has adopted are designed with two aims in mind: to cut European emissions drastically and to push other big emitters into adopting […]

DC judge denies National Review and CEI’s motion to dismiss climate scientist’s defamation complaint – Defendants’ lawyers jump ship

23 January 2014 (Climate Science Watch) –  Accusing a scientist of conducting his research fraudulently is a factual allegation that can be proven true or false, not mere hyperbolic opinionating. If it is false it is defamatory, and if it is made with actual malice it is actionable. So said DC Superior Court Frederick Weisberg […]

California has driest year ever recorded – ‘The 2013–14 water year is off to a rotten start’

By Robin Wilkey15 January 2014 SAN FRANCISCO (The Huffington Post) – The shore of California’s Lake Oroville hasn’t looked this way in modern history. Cracked dry mud shatters the canyon floor, and buoys rest 10 feet up the side of a shale hill. The remains of two vehicles — crashed long ago — rise from […]

Study finds sea levels rising fast – New Jersey Shore is one of the regions of highest concern in the U.S.

By Sandy Bauers8 January 2014 (Philadelphia Inquirer) – As the planet warms, one of the biggest questions is how fast sea level will rise. A team of Rutgers University researchers has attempted to answer that question and localize it by studying past sea-level rise along the East Coast, as well as other factors that could […]

China pollution wafting across Pacific to blanket U.S.–‘We’ve outsourced our manufacturing and much of our pollution, but some of it is blowing back across the Pacific to haunt us’

By Stian Reklev; Editing by Nick Macfie21 January 2014 BEIJING (Reuters) – Pollution from China travels in large quantities across the Pacific Ocean to the United States, a new study has found, making environmental and health problems unexpected side effects of U.S. demand for cheap China-manufactured goods. On some days, acid rain-inducing sulphate from burning […]

Boiling over: Extreme heat causes stir at Australian Open

By Jason Samenow    14 January 2014 (Washington Post) – A controversy is simmering Down Under over blistering temperatures and the safety of tennis players at the Australian Open, played in Melbourne. “The Canadian Frank Dancevic slammed Australian Open organisers for forcing players to compete in “inhumane” conditions after he collapsed on court as temperatures rose […]

Antarctica’s massive Pine Island Glacier ‘has started a phase of self-sustained retreat and will irreversibly continue its decline’ – Could raise sea level by 1 centimeter

By Ari Phillips    13 January 2014 (Climate Progress) – After last week’s Arctic-fueled cold snap — dubbed the ‘Polar Vortex’ — brought freezing temperatures and claims of climate change denial to the attention of the general public, the situation has now returned to normal. Or the new normal at least — in which climate change […]

Off The Charts: 2013 Australia’s Hottest Year – The unbelievable list of heat records broken in 2013

Off The Charts: 2013 Australia’s Hottest Year. Technorati Tags: Australia,heat wave,global warming,climate change

Australia protesters lock themselves to bulldozers to fight coalmine development

13 January 2014 (AAP) – Protesters have locked themselves on to bulldozers as they fight the development of the controversial Maules Creek coalmine in north-west New South Wales. About 30 activists, including local Indigenous community members, on Monday blockaded heavy vehicles which are at the Boggabri site to build roads and a rail line, Georgina […]

Video: ‘Years of Living Dangerously’ to air in April 2014

31 October 2013 (Showtime) – From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, this groundbreaking documentary event series provides first-hand reports on those affected by, and seeking solutions to, climate change. Coming in April 2014. Years of Living Dangerously trailer Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change

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