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Climate wars damage the scientists but we all stand to lose in the battle Mar 1, 2010

It is open season on climate scientists, but such hand-wringing has allowed the creeping rehabilitation of climate scepticism (from the Guardian)

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Nearly half of Americans believe climate change threat is exaggerated

Mar 12, 2010

US belief in climate science lowest since polling began 13 years ago (from the Guardian)

Concerns raised over Institute of Physics climate submission

Mar 12, 2010

Institute faces criticism over its evidence to UK parliamentary inquiry on climate change

UK music industry greens up

Mar 11, 2010

Three-quarters of greenhouse emissions due to live music performances, finds study

Measuring energy savings

Mar 10, 2010

Unit named after Arthur Rosenfeld equivalent to not running an average 500 MW coal-fired power plant

Arctic shelf belches methane

Mar 9, 2010

East Siberian Arctic Shelf releases same amount of greenhouse gas each year as rest of ocean

Halogens soar above Arctic sea ice

Mar 8, 2010

First measurements of atmospheric bromine oxide above sea ice find unexpectedly high concentrations

Met Office analysis reveals 'clear fingerprints' of man-made climate change

Mar 8, 2010

Climate scientists say the 100 studies of sea ice, rainfall and temperature should help the public to make up their own minds on global warming (from the Guardian)

Taking stock of environmental robots

Mar 4, 2010

Autonomous devices such as Argo floats, Spray gliders and UAVs have been providing scientists with valuable data

Climate change not to blame for golden toad extinction

Mar 3, 2010

Dry period caused by 1986–1987 El Niño, not climate change, and introduced chytrid fungus appear to have killed off the Monteverde golden toad

Deep insight improves decadal predictions

Mar 2, 2010

Including data on ocean temperature and salinity from the sea's upper 2000 m, in addition to sea surface temperature, makes decadal predictions more accurate

Media play hockey with climate change

Mar 1, 2010

Senior climate scientists urged to become active voices, following ‘hockey-stick curve’-style increase in press coverage

Could carbon credit schemes save the whale?

Feb 26, 2010

Restoring populations of large marine organisms such as whale, tuna and shark could store carbon as well as protecting ecosystems

A solid future for lighting?

Feb 25, 2010

Solid-state lighting based on light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) can cut energy use but rates less well when device manufacture and recycling are taken into account.

A home from home: saving species from climate change

Feb 24, 2010

How can we save some of our most charismatic animals from extinction due to climate change? One US biologist, Camille Parmesan, has a radical suggestion: just pick them up and move them (from the Guardian)

Geoengineering divides scientists

Feb 24, 2010 2 comments

Testing, domoic acid poisoning and public response prove problematic issues

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