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Tidy List of What Aliens Are Doing to the Earth

By dniemeier | Published: December 8, 2009
From the National Wildlife Federation’s Dr. Amanda Staudt (full post), While opponents want to draw attention to decade-old emails, here is what is happening right now to the planet: Temperatures this decade have been higher than any other decade on record, and one degree (F) higher than average temperatures in the 20th century. Ocean temperatures [...]
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Latest from the UK Met Office

By dniemeier | Published: December 8, 2009
Today BBC ran this article with this graph, It’s worth noting that, The WMO uses three temperature sets – one from the UK Met Office and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), and two from the US, maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) and the space agency Nasa. Asked [...]
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We should have…

By dniemeier | Published: December 5, 2009
David Orr recently completed his last Conservation in Context column in Conservation Biology. I don’t know him and I’m not a conservationist biologist, but through the years I have frequently found myself reading his column. His last, and perhaps most poignant of those I’ve read, was just published. I quote a short section here, “Furthermore, [...]
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2020 Targets in Context

By dniemeier | Published: November 22, 2009
There is nearly universal agreement that GHG emissions must come down quickly to constrain future temperature increases to the 2 degree C mark. As we go into Copenhagen, with two US bills on the table, the Senate hopefully to pass soon, I thought it might be worth showing some of the targets associated with other [...]
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