"Pollution Playing A Major Role In Sea Temperatures"
Scientists say aerosols -- which encourage the formation of clouds, which in turn cool the earth -- may be changing ocean currents in ways that promote climate change.
Source: NPR, 04/05/2012
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"Architects' Answer to Rising Seas: Floating Homes"
"BANGKOK -- A floating mosque and golf course for the submerging Maldives islands. Amphibious homes in the Netherlands lifted to safety as waters surge beneath them. A hospital perched on 400 stilts to protect patients from Thailand's devastating floods and the encroaching sea."
Source: AP, 04/05/2012
As Climate Gets Less Certain, So Does China's Ability To Feed Itself
"DUJIADUN, China -- Liu Changxiong has been farming in this southwestern Chinese village for more than a decade, but his years of experience aren't of much use these days."
Source: ClimateWire, 04/05/2012
"Global Warming May Bring More Lyme Disease, Ticks"
"Darren Collins doesn't know life without Lyme disease. He was just 11 months old when he came home from Wisconsin's Mauthe Lake Campground pasty white, lethargic and running a fever of 105. Darren's flu-like illness eventually subsided, but a host of other troubling Lyme-related symptoms -- stomachaches, irritability and concentration problems -- have since plagued the boy, now 10."
Source: Huffington Post, 04/05/2012
Are Data Behind Companies' Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trade Secrets?
EPA's upcoming rulings on confidentiality for data going into the companies' GHG calculations will be important. Those determinations may impact whether companies' reporting is accurate — and whether they can ever be held accountable for their emissions.
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Integrity Problems at Interior's Science Integrity Program?
One sign of problems came when Interior's Inspector General office launched what seemed to be a ham-handed investigation, later dropped, into activities of the scientist who sounded the alarm on polar bears losing habitat to global warming. Now Interior has fired one of its scientific integrity officers — who is defending himself by saying he was just doing his job.
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Dykstra Returns to the Calling of Journalism, Climate Change and the Next Best Story
Bill Dawson has the "Inside Story" on ex-CNN science, environment, weather and technology executive producer Peter Dykstra's return to the journalism fold.
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"Arctic Warming is Altering Weather Patterns, Study Shows"
"By showing that Arctic climate change is no longer just a problem for the polar bear, a new study may finally dispel the view that what happens in the Arctic, stays in the Arctic."
Source: Climate Central, 04/04/2012
"Q&A: The NYT’s Justin Gillis"
“We’ve never seen newspaper stories like this and we’re using them in our classes to teach students the basics of environmental science.”
Source: Columbia Journalism Review, 04/04/2012
"Warmest March On Record Across Half The U.S., Expert Says"
"Last month was the warmest March on record across half of the United States with summer-like temperatures providing some welcome news to the country's farmers and clothing retailers, a weather expert said."
Source: Reuters, 04/04/2012
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