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Quantifying climate change impacts on ecosystems.
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Bill Nye shows some outcomes.
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The Peterman Glacier is a river of ice in northern Greenland. In a dramatic pair of satellite images of the glacier from the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University-- taken two weeks apart last year --shows the creation of a gigantic iceberg and the beginnings of an ice free fjord.
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Equally dramatic is ...
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The YouTube video says it all:
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Like other victories for just causes, the fight against climate change -- many call it climate justice, although that phrase has an odd ring to my ear -- may come through the courts.
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Dear deniers of climate change:
Anybody know what a gigaton is? Especially when used in this sentence, about the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and colleagues found that the two sheets lost a combined average of 36.3 gigatonnes more than they did the previous year.
Giga- means billion. So the ice sheets lost 36 billion tons MORE ice than they did the previous years. That seems like a lot.
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By Reilly Capps
There are a lot of things that can be debated honestly. The designated hitter. Abortion. Whether the Kardashians ought to be famous.
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But climate change is not one of them.
Thankfully, an honest voice spoke up today.
In a surprising editorial for the Washington Post, the editorial page editor there, Fred Hiatt, who often leans conservative, calls out Republicans ...