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Climate Change Impacts To Our Surf and Turf
Earlier this year, the United States Global Change Research Program released its draft of the Third National Climate Assessment (NCA), which consolidates our current understanding of climate change and...
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The U.S. National Climate Assessment: A Detailed Evaluation of the Scientific...
We have heard a lot in the past few weeks about the latest international assessment of climate change impacts as new reports have been finalized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Of...
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Water, Climate, and You: the 2014 National Climate Assessment
Today we expect to have water flowing at our kitchen sink and our food supplied by farms with sufficient water. The 2014 National Climate Assessment, released today, points to opportunities and...
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If Climate Science Were Your Doctor, You’d Quit Burning Fossil Fuels Immediately
The Third National Climate Assessment was released on Tuesday. The headline messages were not actually news: the climate is changing, average temperatures are increasing, sea levels are rising, humans...
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The National Climate Assessment and Opportunities to Cut U.S. Emissions
Today the U.S. Global Change Research Program released the third National Climate Assessment. While the report serves as a sobering stock-taking of how climate change is already affecting our lives and...
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The Silent Killer: Extreme Heat in the Western U.S.
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) makes an important statement: the trends in heat waves for the western U.S. are alarmingly clear and pose a major threat for the local population. Heat waves are...
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The Human Toll of Sea Level Rise: What the 2014 National Climate Assessment...
The good news about the 2014 National Climate Assessment (NCA) is that, unlike past assessments, it is able to connect climate change much more directly to our lives. The authors have looked well past...
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Farms, Forests, and Climate Change: Few Opportunities, Many Challenges
Farmers and foresters already face a great deal of uncertainty in their professions. All it takes is a few weeks of intense drought, a single hailstorm, or an uncontrolled wildfire to destroy the...
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House Science Committee Chairman Smith: Please Read the National Climate...
The Third National Climate Assessment is out, fully available to the public, and gives the most detailed picture yet of how global warming is affecting the United States. It was an exhausting effort...
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Three Major Mistakes the House Science Committee Chairman Made in the Wall...
Yesterday, the House Science Committee approved the Secret Science Reform Act on a party line vote. The bill purports to provide full access to the scientific basis for EPA decision making, but in...
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Connecting the Dots on Climate Science: The Importance of a Complete Science...
A 2014 session of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—a crucial "dot" in a connected climate science narrative. Photo: IPCC (Flickr)In Walter M. Miller’s classic apocalyptic novel, A...
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Fast and Getting Faster: The Verdict on Sea Level Rise from the Latest...
Sea level rose more rapidly during the 20th century than during any of the previous 27 centuries, and humans bear the lion’s share of the responsibility for that rise. That’s just one of the sobering...
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View ArticleNCA4 warns climate change puts our workforce at risk. The case of Latinos...
May Day, NYC, 2017. Photo: Alec Perkins CC-BY-2.0 (Flickr). Climate change is putting people of color at risk, and this is very bad news for everyone. The very sobering second volume of the fourth...
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Let’s Celebrate Soil! New Science and Stories for World Soils Day
Photo: NRCS Soil Health/CC BY 2.0 (Flickr)There’s never a bad time to celebrate soil—it’s an incredible living ecosystem and a foundation for much of the food, fiber, and fuel we use every day. But if...
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You Can’t Ignore the Future: 5 Reasons Climate Science Looks Beyond 2040
Photo: Julian Osley/GeographYesterday it was reported that the Trump administration is redoubling its efforts to undermine climate science. James Reilly, head of the US Geological Survey, reportedly...
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Scientists Advocating for Climate Action in Oregon: Why we are stepping up...
Photo: BLM Oregon We are two climate scientists, currently teaching about climate change at two universities in Portland, Oregon. We are also two concerned scientists who understand the severe threats...
View ArticleMayors, Governors, CEOs, and Citizens Take Note – National Climate Assessment...
Imagine a world where lives and property are saved despite a torrential flood arising from a category 1 Hurricane disgorging the immense load of water it picked up over the warming tropical ocean. The...
View ArticleClimate Change Impacts To Our Surf and Turf
Earlier this year, the United States Global Change Research Program released its draft of the Third National Climate Assessment (NCA), which consolidates our current understanding of climate change and...
View ArticleThe U.S. National Climate Assessment: A Detailed Evaluation of the Scientific...
We have heard a lot in the past few weeks about the latest international assessment of climate change impacts as new reports have been finalized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Of...
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