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The complete Work Group 1 IPCC 4th Assessment report (AR4) is now available online.
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Many of those who try to deny the reality of anthropogenic climate change say that scientists are talking up climate change to get grant money. Well, here is America’s top climate researcher and head of the NASA Goddard Institute, a man who needs no grants to earn a living, and a man who  is putting his job at [...]

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LiveScience has prepared this list of the top 10 most surprising effects of global warming. Some of these are surprising indeed!
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If you missed this excellent show on PBS last night, you can find it all online here. It shows how the last three administrations went out of their way to do nothing to stop global warming, although I’m sure some will still call it liberal propaganda.
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Today is Earth day. Hopefully people all over the word will pause and think about what were doing to our planet; it is afterall the only one we have.
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Here’s the first episode of DeSmogBlog TV’ news update.
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It’s happening, it’s systematic, and it is precisely the opposite story to the one the papers are telling.
(source) By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 10th April 2007.
The drafting of reports by the world’s pre-eminent group of climate scientists is an odd process. For many months scientists contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...]

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Scientific American discusses the summary report of the second working group of the IPCC.
The second report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reveals that global warming impacts are already advancing, and will get worse
From space, climate change is obvious. For more than 20 years satellite images have shown springtime greenery bursting forth earlier and [...]

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