National
and International News
Climate
change study forces sceptical scientists to change minds: Earth's land shown to
have warmed by 1.5C over past 250 years, with humans being almost entirely
responsible (By Leo Hickman, The [UK] Guardian, 7/29/12)
The
Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic (By Richard A. Muller, The New York
Times - Opinion Pages, 7/28/12)
Bombshell:
Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real', ‘On The High End' And
‘Essentially All' Due To Carbon Pollution (By Joe Romm, Thinkprogress.org -
Climate Progress, 7/28/12)
US
agricultural exports become costly amid drought: The US drought will be little
more than a nuisance for China, but it's a nuisance the government could do
without (By Benjamin Carlson, Global Post as reported by Salon.com, 7/26/12)
'Not a Mistake': NASA
in Disbelief over Area of Melting Ice: Greenland ice sheet melted an
unprecedented area during July (By Common Dreams Staff, CommonDreams.org,
7/25/12)
Weather
Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling (By Matthew L. Wald and John
Schwartz, The New York Times - US, 7/25/12)
London's
showcase of sustainable living (By Kaid Benfield, Natural Resources Defense
Council - Switchboard Blog, 7/24/12)
What
Five Oil Companies Did With Their $375 Million In Daily Profits (By Rebecca
Leber, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress, 7/24/12)
Climate
change and the American West: Fires and drought point to a new normal for the
region (By William deBuys, TomDispatch as reported by Salon.com, 7/24/12)
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