GOP uses science to find white bigots…how about climate change?

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Floor Speech by Rep. Raúl Grijalva, Safe Climate Caucus

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Ten Thousand or More ‘City Destroyer’ Asteroids Currently Un-Detected

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Congress Hears Need for Asteroid Protection

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Five Katrinas A Decade? Warming Projected To Boost Extreme Storm Surges Ten-Fold | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/19/1741861/five-katrinas-a-decade-warming-projected-to-boost-extreme-storm-surges-ten-fold/

New Orleans post-Katrina. Credit: NOAA. By Aslak Grinsted via the Nils Bohr Institute.

By Climate Guest Blogger on Mar 19, 2013 at 12:30 pm

Scientist: “With the global warming we have had during the 20th century, we have already crossed the threshold where more than half of all ‘Katrinas’ are due to global warming.”

By examining the frequency of extreme storm surges in the past, previous research has shown that there was an increasing tendency for storm hurricane surges when the climate was warmer. But how much worse will it get as temperatures rise in the future? How many extreme storm surges like that from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the U.S. coast in 2005, will there be as a result of global warming? New research from the Niels Bohr Institute show that there will be a tenfold increase in frequency if the climate becomes two degrees Celcius warmer. The results are published in the scientific journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, PNAS.

The extreme storm surge from Superstorm Sandy in the autumn 2012 flooded large sections of New York and other coastal cities in the region – here you see Marblehead, Massachusetts. New research shows that such hurricane surges will become more frequent in a warmer climate.

Tropical cyclones arise over warm ocean surfaces with strong evaporation and warming of the air. The typically form in the Atlantic Ocean and move towards the U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. If you want to try to calculate the frequency of tropical cyclones in a future with a warmer global climate, researchers have developed various models. One is based on the regional sea temperatures, while another is based on differences between the regional sea temperatures and the average temperatures in the tropical oceans. There is considerable disagreement among researchers about which is best…..(read more).

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Invitation to State of the World 2013 Launch and Symposium

http://www.climate-talks.net/2013-ENVRE130/20130416-2013-Worldwatch-Launch-Symposium.htm

State of the World 2013 Book Launch & Symposium
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
1:30pm – 5:00pm
1st Floor Conference Room
1400 16th st. NW
Washington, DC 20036

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Pope Francis Calls on Leaders to Protect People, Environment

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Published on Mar 19, 2013

Pope Francis called on leaders in all fields to protect people and the environment, and to shun hatred, envy and pride – as he formally began his ministry in front of more than 100,000 people in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Leaders from around the world attended, and millions watched and listened on television, radio and the Internet, six days after his surprise election. VOA’s Al Pessin reports from Vatican City.

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“Going Nowhere Slowly…” – Worldwide Climate Change and the “Global South” – 2009-2013 | Cambridge Community Television

http://www.cctvcambridge.org/node/149043

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Who’s Minding the Movement? | Civil Eats

http://civileats.com/2013/03/14/whos-minding-the-movement/

By Andy Fisher on March 14, 2013

The past year or so has brought some dramatic changes to key organizations in the community food arena. Organizations like the Community Food Security Coalition, Food Alliance, Organic Farming Research Foundation, and Slow Food have gone through either challenging leadership transitions, substantially downsized, and/or closed down. The leadership vacuum left in part by these unfortunate occurrences is compounded by the breakneck growth of the field, as new food-oriented organizations emerge and existing groups discover how food systems work can help them meet their goals.

The result is a dramatically transformed landscape and a lack of clarity as to who will provide the unifying vision and direction to help these organizations become more powerful than the sum of their collective parts. As non-profits tend to fixate on the “four walls of their organization,” otherwise known as their mission, these changes to the flagship organizations lead me to wonder: Who’s minding the movement? …..(read more).

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Act now to keep the climate in the curriculum

http://www.climate-talks.net/2013-ENVRE130/Climate-Curriculum-UK.htm

Under new draft guidelines, climate change is set to be removed from the geography curriculum for under 14s, as reported in the Guardian this weekend.

Think cutting the climate from the curriculum is a bad idea? Please sign our petition at www.peopleandplanet.org/teach-climate

Don’t cut the climate

At People & Planet, our experience working in schools and colleges has shown us that teaching about climate change is absolutely crucial to ensuring that young people understand and are able to be leaders on climate change. ….(read more).

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