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Fresh Views Climate Scientists as Advocates
2014-01-19 17:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: If You See Something, Say Something, is the headline on a Sunday Op-Ed article by Michael E. Mann, the Penn State climate scientist who, after years of attacks from groups fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases, has become a prominent climate and political campaigner, as well. The piece appropriately defends the right of scientists to be citizens, fighting disinformation and pressing for action a theme explored here starting with a 2008 contribution from Richard Somerville, a longtime climate...
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Climate change: When scientists become revolutionaries
2014-01-19 00:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Green Left: Kevin Anderson, professor of energy and climate change at Manchester University, said on October 29 last year: Today, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2°C budget demands revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony. Anderson is one of Britains most eminent climate scientists. He is also deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Tyndall Centre senior research fellow and Manchester University reader Alice Bows-Larkin was more blunt...
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Enviros and climate scientists continue their fight over nuclear power
2014-01-11 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: More than 300 environmental, peace, and anti-nuclear groups and leaders published an open letter this week urging four prominent climate scientists to stop "embracing nuclear power" as a tool for curbing climate-changing pollution. In response, one the four scientists reaffirmed his reluctant support for nuclear power, denying that he embraces the technology, but saying there`s "no justification" for claims it could never become safe or affordable. The debate among environmentalists over nuclear...
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Scientists to study climate change impact in Sunderbans
2014-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: Researchers from India, Britain and Bangladesh are studying the impact of climate change on livelihoods of those living in Sunderbans mangroves, the world's largest mangrove forests. More than two-thirds of the forest lies in Bangladesh, the focus of the study, and the rest in West Bengal. Under the ongoing Ecosystem Services For Poverty Alleviation (Deltas) project, as many as 50 experts from the three countries are investigating the impact of climate change on ecosystem services (benefits derived...
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Climate Scientists, Then and Now, Espousing Responsible Advocacy
2013-12-20 14:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Ive long appreciated Gavin A. Schmidts approach to doing and communicating climate science. Schmidt, deputy director of NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has endured many slings and arrows, not to mention hacks and legal tangles, in building RealClimate.org into what Ive called a vital online touchstone for anyone trying to understand research on the human influence on the planets thermostat. He was tapped this year to give the Stephen H. Schneider Lecture at the annual meeting of...
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