 The Fossil Fuel Resistance Bill McKibben is back with a new must read article: It got so hot in Australia in January that the weather service had to add two new colors to its charts. A few weeks later, at the other end of the planet, new data from the CryoSat-2 satellite showed 80 percent of Arctic sea ice has disappeared. We're not breaking records anymore; we're breaking the planet. In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?" (04-13-2013) |
 Climate Report Sounds Alarm Again U.S. gov't report, in draft form, states: Sea level is rising, oceans are becoming more acidic, and glaciers and Arctic sea ice are melting. These changes are part of the pattern of global climate change, which is primarily driven by human activity. (01-15-2013) |
 Climate Change Is The Legacy We Should Care About Neglecting the steps necessary to fix the planet out of a desire to reduce the deficit is incredibly irresponsible if we care about future generations. (11-08-2012) |
 Intense Hurricane Systemically Caused By Global Warming Add systemic causation to your vocabulary. Communicate the concept. Explain to others why global warming systemically caused the enormous energy and size of Hurricane Sandy, as well as the major droughts and fires. Email your media whenever you see reporting on extreme weather that doesn't ask scientists if it was systemically caused by global warming. (10-30-2012) |
 Arctic Summer Sea Ice Disappearing Fast Sea ice in the Arctic is disappearing at a far greater rate than previously expected, according to data from the first purpose-built satellite launched to study the thickness of the polar ice caps. New satellite images show polar ice coverage dwindling in extent and thickness. The rate of loss is 50% higher than most scenarios outlined by polar scientists and suggests that global warming, triggered by rising greenhouse gas emissions, is beginning to have a major impact on the region. (08-13-2012) |
 Greenland Ice Sheet Melting According to NASA, satellites showed that an estimated 97% of the surface of the ice sheet had melted at some point by July 12. (07-25-2012) |
| Extreme Weather Tied to Man-Made Climate Change For the first time ever, scientists behind one of the world's most comprehensive weather assessments say they can perceive the likely impact of human-influenced climate change on specific extreme weather events. (07-18-2012) |
 Probability Of Extreme Weather Rising Due To Human Inaction Heat waves like the one affecting the U.S. are 20 times more likely than in the 1960s, according to researchers at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina. (07-18-2012) |
 Arctic Sea Ice At Lowest June Level Ever According to a report of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, recent ice loss rates have been more than double the climatological rate. (06-30-2012) |
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