News Stories relating to "climate change"
Monday, June 6, 2011
Bottlenose dolphins and beluga
whales accumulate more chemical
pollutants in their bodies when they live and feed in waters near...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Despite all the predictions about a
hotter, drier
future (NOTE:
Subscribers can still listen to this show), SOME researchers think...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Whitley Strieber has been warning about
climate change since the publication of
Superstorm in 1999. On Unknowncountry, we have been warning of a very dangerous tornado season this year, and 2011 has turned out to be the...
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Monday, May 16, 2011
In 1998, Whitley Strieber had never heard of
climate change, but the
Master of the Key burst into his hotel room in Toronto and told him all about it (The NEW, revised edition of The Key, with a foreword that talks about how many of his statements...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
In 1998, Whitley Strieber had never heard about
climate change, but the
Master of the Key burst into his hotel room in Toronto and told him all about it (The NEW, revised edition of The Key, with a foreword that talks about how many of his statements...
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Friday, May 6, 2011
In 1998, Whitley Strieber had never heard of
global warming, but the
Master of the Key burst into his hotel room in Toronto and told him all about it (The NEW, revised edition of The Key, with a foreword that talks...
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Master of the Key warned about the danger of polar ice melting in his conversation with Whitley Strieber in 1998 (The NEW, revised edition of The Key, with a foreword that talks about how many of his statements later turned out to be true, will be in bookstores May 12). Now his prediction--like so many others in "The Key"--is coming...
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Friday, April 29, 2011
We've seen
devastating storms across the US lately, as well as floods in Australia, Brazil and Japan. Last summer, heat waves hit Europe, a place with little air conditioning. Cities worldwide are failing to take necessary steps to protect residents from the likely...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Despite the severe storms now raging across the country, the long term future will be a drier one. The
long lull in sunspot activity at the end of the last 11-year solar cycle gave us
more time to work on solving the...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Happy people are more likely to vote, and it turns out that politics ALSO influence whether or not a person believes in
climate change. This could be why important climate change legislation never seems...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The LAST group of people you'd expect to be worried about
climate change is the
military, since you'd think they'd be used to heat by now, since they're current fighting two wars in desert regions and...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
With
global warming comes increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which benefits at least one species: weeds. Carbon dioxide acts as a fertilizer to invasive exotic grasses, resulting in higher growth rates and larger leaves. These stronger plants are also proving more...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
While most glaciers are
melting at an alarming rate, one of them is growing bigger--ALSO as a result of
climate change. Hotter summers may actually slow down the melting rate of glaciers. Researchers have learned that...
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Climate change doesn't just mean global warming (something that people in the Northeast who are experiencing major
blizzards can attest to), it means
oscillations of...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Greenland's ice sheet, which could be a major cause of rising sea levels, melted at a
record rate in 2010. And a look at an ice field atop the highest mountain in the eastern European Alps suggests that the glacier may hold records of ancient climate extending back as much as a...
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Is a California
Superstorm on the way? Earthquakes and foreclosures aren't the only threats to the Golden State--despite the fact that Southern California is a desert, there's a risk of a superstorm. The January 15th edition of the New York Times, Felicity...
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Friday, January 14, 2011
In winter, Greenland is dark for months and this year the first, brief sunrise was expected on January 13. Instead, the sun rose at 12:56 PM on January 11. The precise reason for this remains unknown. There is no apparent astronomical cause, as the constellations, the moon and the sun appear to be in their usual positions in relation to earth. One...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Despite the
recent freezing winter weather, 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year since record keeping began in 1880. The temperature of the earth was over one degrees higher than the 20th-century average the same as it...
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Monday, January 10, 2011
War isn't the only thing that threatens human survival--an even bigger threat is lack of water. Despite the fact that Australia is experiencing incredible floods right...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The military is one of our biggest users of fossil fuels and they want to reduce costs and make units in the field less vulnerable to attacks on supply lines necessary to transport petroleum-based fuels. To do this, they have invented solar cells that soldiers can roll up like a mat, transport, and unroll in a new location to start generating...
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Monday, January 3, 2011
The Master of the Key mentioned that the collapse of an ice dam in the Laurentian sea and subsequent cooling due to winds blowing from the arctic led to the last superstorm. Meteorologists says that there's a link between the
unusually cold winter in the UK and the "superstorm" in...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Did you clean up for
holiday guests? Some of that dust may have traveled a LONG distance to get to
your house. And the amount of dust in your house or apartment is a good predictor of climate change.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Life on earth may have survived a
global freeze that occurred 700 million years ago. Researchers have found evidence in Australia that tiny microorganisms lived despite fierce cold and turbulent seas (so maybe we'll...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
More proof our weather is
out of whack: When it's winter in the US and Europe, it's summer in Australia, which normally has temperatures of around 86 degrees Fahrenheit at this time of year, but
just like the UK,...
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Monday, December 20, 2010
It's been a COLD winter in the UK. Climate change experts are warning that if humans don't moderate our use of fossil fuels, there is a real possibility that we will face the environmental, societal and economic consequences of climate change faster than we can adapt to them. At the same time, the UK (which is on an extreme Northern latitude but...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Pollution at the top produces melting there too. As the ice-capped Arctic Ocean warms,
ship traffic will increase at the top of the world. And if the sea ice continues to melt, a new route connecting...
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