It used to be that rising tides due to climate change were just a far-off fear - now they're a present-day reality. But we all know that humans are a race of survivors, and some of the best designs come out of the necessity to adapt to environmental changes and challenges. So while we're working on actually mitigating global warming, architects, designers and visionaries are one step ahead, imagining homes, buildings and entire cities situated above or e...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo via EHP This might be the most depressing story I've read all day (and that's saying something when your job description includes reading depressing stories all day): a recent survey found that most Africans 'blame themselves' for climate change, citing the damage they've done to the environment in their homelands. Remember, all of Africa combined is only responsible for some 4% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions--they're among the least responsible for global warming in the world. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image via NBC And Really Cover It? Over the last few years, the mainstream media seemed to tire of covering advances in climate science in any real depth. Instead, it turned to the admittedly more dramatic non-scandals du jour, easily debunked memes (the snow-in-winter-so-climate-change-is-false being particularly eye roll-worthy), and interviewing climate skeptics. It all seemed to serve to craft a 'Global Warming: Is It Real or Not?" narrative that was in theory more compelling tha...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo via SpaceTime Australian Scientists Evidently In On Plot to Socialize America According to an article in the radical left-wing communist pamphlet known as 'Reuters', Australia's climate scientists have convened in order to file a 'State of the Climate' report. Their findings? Three guesses, and the first two don't count. Yes, Australia's climate is changing--both its surface sea temperatures and mean temperatures have risen over the last 50 years. And this report was issued by Australian scientists--who have nothing to do with Michael Mann, Al Gore, or anyo...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Acid ocean "SOS." Image credit:Alaska Marine Conservation Council US EPA has decided to consider ways that US states can, under already delegated authorities, curb pollutants that may otherwise add to the power of global warming's evil twin: Ocean Acidification. (Note: many US States regulate stack emissions to reduce acid rain and also have the delegated Federal authority to limit the acidity of effluent discharges within their boundaries. So, this would be an extension of State's rights, by interpretation of existing Federal and State la...Read the full story on TreeHugger