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Did Climate Change Cause Hurricane Sandy?
October 30th, 2012 |
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If you’ve followed the U.S. news and weather in the past 24 hours you have no doubt run across a journalist or blogger explaining why it’s difficult to say that climate change could be causing big storms like Sandy. Well, no doubt here: it is. The hedge expressed by journalists is that many variables go [...]
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Arctic Sea Ice Reaches New Low
August 27th, 2012 |
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The cap of ice that sits atop the North Pole has shrunk to a record extent—and there is likely still more melting to come before the end of the summer of 2012. As of August 26, Arctic sea ice extent had shrunk to 4.1 million square kilometers, below the previous record minimum of 4.17 million [...]
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