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Even if the sun entered a Grand Solar Minimum--like the one experienced in the late 17th century known as the Maunder Minimum, which brought about the Little Ice Age--it would still only offset less than a tenth of the warming caused by human release of greenhouse gases. That's the word from a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in Read the full story on TreeHugger
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I can't wait to see the comments on this one. Really, I can't. But this is a concept that I think is important to think about, especially at a time when much of the media appears to be buying into the narrative that the science supporting climate change is being 'called into question'. As a result, we're seeing more calls for televised 'debate' than usual, especially from outlets already convinced that global warming is a big hoax. So what's a climate scientist to do when s/he's asked by a skeptic to appear on Fox News to defend the Read the full story on TreeHugger
Filipina beauty queen Miriam Quiambao speaks at a Bangkok, Thailand, rally for gender and climate justice. Photo by ~MVI~ via Flickr.
It's already well known that climate change is not an equal-opportunity threat, with its impacts on food production, severe storms, and drought, among others, hitting the world's Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A lot of us winced whenever anyone conflated the lack of snow on Cypress Mountain in Vancouver with climate change; Vancouver is often springlike in February and this is about weather, not climate. People were questioning Cypress as a venue years ago, noting that it is often raining there instead of snowing.
But now the Premier of British Columbia, Gordon Campbell, is saying that the record-breaking warm weather was the result of climate change. He tells theRead the full story on TreeHugger
Expect a hundred comments about how climate change is a hoax, reminding us of how much snow fell this month, the non-shrinking glaciers or hacked emails. They will probably be from people who will not even bother reading Al Gore's long op-ed in the Sunday New York Times. If they did, they would find that he addresses all of these issues.
To summarize it, he writes:
