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May 11
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Blame it on China and it Will Magically Disappear – Ignoring Climate Warming and Relaxing Air Pollution Standards

By aerosols, Air pollution, Big Bend National Park, BRAVO study, climate pollutants short-lived, climate restoration, climate warming, Deniers and Delayers, Earth systems, Emissions, Impacts, Legacy Policy, ozone, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, sulfur, Temperature, tipping
This is climate pollution. One cannot see the global warming gases, but what we can see are the global cooling particulates created by burning naturally occurring sulfur in fossil fuels.…
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Mar 10
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The Warming Rate for the Last Two Years Has Been 25 Times the Warming Rate of the Last 150 Years

By Abrupt changes, aerosol cooling, aerosols, carbon dioxide removal, Climate Catastrophes, climate change, Climate Culture, climate emergency, climate pollutants short-lived, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, Emissions flip, feedback, feedback emissions, geoengineering, global warming, International Maritime Organization, jump, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, point of no return, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, spike, Temperature, Temperature jump, temperature spike, The Unexpected, tipping, warming rate, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Image: Yale Climate Connections The Warming Rate for the Last Two Years Has Been 25 Times the Warming Rate of the Last 150 Years A review of Hansen 2025. In…
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Aug 17
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Falling Emissions: With Offshored Goods and Fugitive Emissions — Not So Much

By Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, Climate Reform, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, Policy, politics, Scenarios, sequestration, Solutions, Strategy, What we can do
Observations on Declining U.S. Emissions: It's a widely held belief that the U.S. has been reducing emissions since the peak  2005-2007 before the recession. This is just barely valid today,…
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Sep 15
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An Easier Solution to Climate Change

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, aerosols, alternatives, Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, Climate Reform, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, economics, Extreme Weather, in-depth and Popular Press, Policy, Sea Level Rise, sequestration, Shifting Ecology, short-term, Strategy, Temperature, What we can do
The Thermometer Series: The first of six articles on the next steps in climate reform and why we need to advance current climate change strategy. The driver of our climate…
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Dec 27
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Climate Change 2015: The Latest Science

By aerosols, Antarctica, Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions, Gulf Stream, ice sheet, in-depth and Popular Press, Negative emissions, Policy, short-term, Solutions, submarine channel, underice, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
West coast of Greenland. The fastest glacier in the world, Jakobshaven Isbrae, moving at 150 feet per day, dumps ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet into Disko Bay. (Photo: Bruce…
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Aug 21
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The Clean Power Plan Is Barely Better Than Kyoto; IPCC Says: We Must Remove CO2 From the Atmosphere

By adaptation, aerosols, Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, global cooling pollutants, in-depth and Popular Press, Policy, sequestration, summary, Truthout.org
First published on Truthout, August 16, 2015. The EPA's Clean Power Plan is 12 percent more stringent than the Kyoto Protocol, yet since 1978, the US has emitted as much…
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Aug 21
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The Clean Power Plan Is Barely Better Than Kyoto; IPCC Says: We Must Remove CO2 From the Atmosphere

By adaptation, aerosols, Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, global cooling pollutants, in-depth and Popular Press, Policy, sequestration, summary, Truthout.org
First published on Truthout, August 16, 2015. The EPA's Clean Power Plan is 12 percent more stringent than the Kyoto Protocol, yet since 1978, the US has emitted as much…
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Dec 30
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Climate Change 2014: What Do We Do Now?

By Abrupt changes, aerosols, alternatives, Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Fracking, global cooling pollutants, Negative emissions, sequestration, short-term, Solutions, Truthout.org
First published on Truthout, December 26, 2014. As we move into 2015, the latest climate science continues to diverge from policy. New science tells us that, because of short-lived climate…
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Dec 30
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Climate Change 2014: What Do We Do Now?

By Abrupt changes, aerosols, alternatives, Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Fracking, global cooling pollutants, Negative emissions, sequestration, short-term, Solutions, Truthout.org
First published on Truthout, December 26, 2014. As we move into 2015, the latest climate science continues to diverge from policy. New science tells us that, because of short-lived climate…
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