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    Trump Admin Says 7 Degrees Fahrenheit of Warming Inevitable by 2100

    Trump Admin Says 7 Degrees Fahrenheit of Warming Inevitable by 2100

    The Trump administration acknowledged the existence of climate change in an environmental impact statement released last month, The Washington Post reported Friday, but then used that acknowledgement to draw a surprising conclusion. The statement, written by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), said that global warming would reach a disastrous seven degrees Fahrenheit (around […]

    Taller Arctic Plants Could Speed Dangerous Warming Feedback Loop

    Taller Arctic Plants Could Speed Dangerous Warming Feedback Loop

    Climate change is giving Arctic plants a growth spurt. A study published in Nature Wednesday examined seven key plant characteristics over 30 years of warming at 117 locations in the Arctic or alpine tundra and found that plants were growing taller at all locations studied. The international team of scientists, led by Aarhus University in […]

    Climate Change Could Completely Transform Earth’s Ecosystems

    Climate Change Could Completely Transform Earth’s Ecosystems

    Fifty two million years ago, crocodiles swam in the Arctic. Twenty thousand years ago, an ice sheet covered Manhattan. Earth’s ecosystems have changed dramatically as the climate has shifted, and now scientists are trying to determine how they might respond to the current era of human-caused climate change. Forty-two scientists contributed to a study published […]

    Scientists Warn We May Be on Track for ‘Hothouse Earth’

    Scientists Warn We May Be on Track for ‘Hothouse Earth’

    In two recent studies, scientists have looked into the future and into the past to see what might happen to the global climate if we fail to curb greenhouse gas emissions in time. The results are frightening. A study published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined how, once a certain threshold […]

    California’s Carr Fire Grows Larger and More Deadly

    California’s Carr Fire Grows Larger and More Deadly

    The Carr Fire, which blazed into the northern California town of Redding Thursday, has grown even larger and deadlier over the weekend, offering a fiery vision of California’s future. “This is climate change, for real and in real time. We were warned that the atmospheric buildup of man-made greenhouse gas would eventually be an existential […]

    The Arctic Is Burning: Wildfires Rage from Sweden to Alaska

    The Arctic Is Burning: Wildfires Rage from Sweden to Alaska

    There are currently 11 wildfires blazing in the Arctic circle, The Guardian reported Wednesday. While fires are also raging in Russia, Norway and Finland, Sweden has seen the most extensive Arctic fires, which have forced four communities to evacuate, according to The Guardian. Two Italian water-bombing planes that answered Sweden’s call for help will begin […]

    Wildfires, Record Highs Scorch California

    Wildfires, Record Highs Scorch California

    Wildfires continued to burn across California this weekend, abetted by record high temperatures that caused power outages affecting thousands of customers in Los Angeles, CNN reported Sunday. “Friday’s record-setting heat led to unprecedented peak electricity demand,” the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said, according to CNN. 34,500 customers lost power, about 2.5 percent […]