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Trump’s climate expert is wrong: The world’s plants don’t need more CO2

sudshr47 February 22, 2019

Plants on Earth have flourished for hundreds of millions of years, yet President Donald Trump’s pick to lead his new climate team insists that they need more carbon dioxide to thrive.

Princeton physicist and carbon dioxide-advocate William Happer has been selected to head the brand new Presidential Committee on Climate Security, reports The Washington Post. The atomic scientist — who achieved recognition for his work on atomic collisions and telescope optics, not climate science — maintains that the planet’s atmosphere needs significantly more CO2, the potent greenhouse gas that U.S. government scientists — and a bevy of independent scientists — have repeatedly underscored is stoking accelerating climate change. Read more…

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44 years ago, this legendary scientist predicted Earth’s rapid warming trend

sudshr47 February 19, 2019

In 1975, geologist Wallace Broecker penned a scientific paper warning about the still little-discussed concept of “global warming.” Forty-four years later Broecker has died at 87, but not before proving himself a legendary earth scientist, repeatedly underscoring that amassing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has stoked relentless climate change.

Ancient air found in ice cores proves, indisputably, that Earth’s carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations are the highest they’ve been in at least 800,000 years — though other measures show that CO2 concentrations are now likely the highest they’ve been in 15 million years. The planet is responding: 18 of the last 19 years have been the warmest on record. Read more…

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The most glorious protest signs from UK kids skipping class for climate change

sudshr47 February 15, 2019

Thousands of school children in the UK are currently skipping class in favour of marching the streets in a call for world leaders to act on climate change.
Inspired by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg, who organised her own month-long strik…

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The Green New Deal: Historians weigh in on the immense scale required to pull it off

sudshr47 February 13, 2019

In an attempt to cure his paralysis, a 42-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt began to visit Warm Springs, Georgia in the mid-1920s, soaking his weak legs in the town’s soothing mineral waters. It was here that Roosevelt — who in less than a decade would become President of the United States — would see a part of the nation new to him.

And it was miserable.

“He saw the reality. He had never seen poverty like that. He saw a family of eight living in a tar paper shack, farming on depleted soil,” Paul Sparrow, director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, said in an interview.

Roosevelt never could cure his late-onset paralysis. But FDR would heal many of the economic plagues of the nation with a massive government-funded work mobilization: the New Deal. By the early 1930s, the woes Roosevelt saw in the South had become pervasive after the Great Depression set in. “People were starving in the streets,” said Sparrow. Read more…

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Earth is greener than it was 20 years ago, but not why you think

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

Two NASA satellites have watched Earth grow greener over the last 20 years — in large part because China is hellbent on planting millions of trees.

Earth’s greening — meaning the increase in areas covered by green leaves — has made the greatest gains in China and India since the mid-1990s. “The effect comes mostly from ambitious tree-planting programs in China and intensive agriculture in both countries,” NASA wrote on Tuesday as it released maps of the planet-wide changes.

China kickstarted its tree-planting mobilizations in the 1990s to combat erosion, climate change, and air pollution. This dedicated planting — sometimes done by soldiers — equated to over 40 percent of China’s greening, so far. Read more…

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Go green, save money: Grab a Nest Learning Thermostat for $51 off and slash your energy bill

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

Adulting and paying bills go hand and hand. It seems like you just paid rent or the credit card bill last week, and the next one is somehow already showing up in the mail.

Most of these payments are inevitable, but that doesn’t mean you’re totally helpless. The third generation Nest Learning Thermostat adjusts your settings as it learns your habits and can help you slash your energy bill significantly — and it’s up to $50.99 off at Amazon today.

Sure, telling Alexa to crank the heat without having to move is awesome. But Nest’s smart thermostats do so much more than encouraging our laziness: These little guys learn and adapt to your behaviors, adjusting the temperature accordingly. You probably won’t notice the few degrees difference, but that small decrease will prove itself worthy when you see your next bill. Read more…

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Climate Change Energy Efficient Mashable Shopping Nest Smart Home

Go green, save money: Grab a Nest Learning Thermostat for $51 off and slash your energy bill

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

Adulting and paying bills go hand and hand. It seems like you just paid rent or the credit card bill last week, and the next one is somehow already showing up in the mail.

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This is probably the very real and very grim reason why polar bears have invaded a Russian island

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

Stories careening around the web over the past few days have sounded the alarm about an “invasion” of polar bears on an archipelago at the northern reaches of Russia. But for all the sensationalist headlines, there’s a likely explanation.
The local R…

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Captain America just absolutely destroyed Trump’s latest tweet about global warming

sudshr47 February 12, 2019

A superheroes’ number one job is to protect the planet.

And while there are probably plenty of threats to a country like America’s national security, climate change has been identified numerous times as one of the biggest.

Not if you ask the president, though. Judging by his tweets, Trump is still treating global warming as something to joke about.

Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10, 2019 Read more…

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Earth’s coldest years on record all happened over 90 years ago

sudshr47 February 9, 2019

Here’s a statistic: On Earth, 18 of the last 19 years have been the warmest in recorded history.

And as both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Wednesday, the last five years have been the five hottest in history — since quality record-keeping began in the 1880s. It’s an unmistakable, accelerating warming trend.

The globe’s 21st-century heating, however, becomes all the more stark when compared to the coldest years on record. As climate scientist Simon Donner, who researches human-induced climate change at The University of British Columbia, underscored via a list posted on Twitter, the planet’s 20 coldest years all occurred nearly a century ago, between 1884 and 1929. Read more…

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2018 was officially one of Earth’s hottest years

sudshr47 February 8, 2019

According to NASA scientists, last year was the fourth hottest ever, since data collection on the planet started in 1880. 2018 only ranks behind the four previous years. This means that the earth’s top 5 hottest periods have been in the last half deca…

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Giant crater discovered under glacier in Antarctica

sudshr47 February 7, 2019

The cavity found underneath the Thwaites Glacier is said to be the size of Florida. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Global Warming, Antarctica, Climate Change, and Glacier