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A Story of Climate Change Told In 15 Graphs

Recently, on Twitter and Facebook I noticed graphs of climate change and its impacts being posted. These were often unaccompanied with data sources or links. A…

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From the Editor’s Desk: The Grand Challenge of Ocean Acidification and Fisheries

Kevin Zelnio January 24, 2011 Best of Zelnio carbon dioxide climate change CO2 fisheries ocean acidification pH physiology

Anthropogenic climate change has been hypothesized for centuries (discussed in Le Treut 2007) before the careful measurements of scientists in the mid-20th century. From 1833…

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Scientist In Residence: Danny Richter on Confronting Climate Change Skeptics

Archie Teuthis January 19, 2011 carbon dioxide climate change denier fossil fuel global warming IPCC John Tyndall NASA Scientist In Residence skeptic

I thought it a good time to lay down a primer on how to talk with a climate skeptic, especially when they’re trying to swindle…

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From the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the Environment

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Obama’s Pledge on the Environment “We cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming…

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From the Editor’s Desk: Confronting Climate Contrarianism

Kevin Zelnio November 8, 2010 Best of Zelnio carbon dioxide climate change Climate Contrarianism CO2 communication From the Editor's Desk global warming Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

In 2007, there was a peer-reviewed article published by Arthur Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon titles “Environmental Effects of Increased Carbon Dioxide.” Just focusing…

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First Fuel Cell Ship

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Scientific American discusses why cargo ships need to be cleaner In fact, emissions of nitrogen oxides from one ship burning diesel in a year are…

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Ohh! Ocean Fertilzation Snap!

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From Nature Adding iron to the ocean is not an effective way to fight climate change, and we don’t need further research to establish that,…

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Solar-Powered Ferries

Dr. M August 10, 2009 boats carbon dioxide energy ferry Hong Kong hybrid Prius solar power Solar Sailor

In November, Hong Kong’s harbor will see four solar-powered ferries. On a sunny day, 3/4 of ferries’ energy needs will be met by solar power.…

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UK Launches Bold Ocean Acidification Research Program

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Way to go brits! The BBC reports: “The UK government has launched an £11m ($16m) five-year research programme into ocean acidification… The study will focus…

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Ocean Acidification, Not Good For Living

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Two recent papers in Nature GeoScience demonstrate the real effects of ocean acidification. For those not in know, there is an ongoing decrease in the…

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