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Climate change may force French ski resort to shut down
A modest ski area in the French Alps is ready to unbolt its chairlifts and rope off slopes as the local mayor concludes that climate change means the trails ahead will be rocky. Henri-Victor Tournier, the mayor of Biot, wants to clear cable towers from the 1,230-metre-high (4,000-foot) resort of Drouzin-le-Mont before the next elections in 2014 and convert the…
Koch-funded climate scientist: I was wrong, humans are to blame
The founder and director of a climate change study project funded heavily by the Koch brothers, who last year reversed course and said he believed global warming was real, has gone one step further, writing in a weekend op-ed in the New York Times that he is now convinced the…
Are climate skeptics more likely to be conspiracy theorists?
New research finds that sceptics also tend to support conspiracy theories such as the moon landing being faked It’s time to come clean: climate change is a hoax. And the moon landings were faked, 9/11 was an inside job, and the CIA is hiding the identity of the gunman on…
Study: Radical decline in Arctic ice is ‘at least 70 percent’ man-made
The radical decline in sea ice around the Arctic is at least 70% due to human-induced climate change, according to a new study, and may even be up to 95% down to humans – rather higher than scientists had previously thought. The loss of ice around the Arctic has adverse…
Research: Climate change drives rise in food poisoning
Research published Sunday in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change claims that warning sea levels in the Baltic Sea are strongly linked to recent blooms of the Vibrios bacteria group, which have corresponded with an uptick in humans reporting foodborne illnesses in northern Europe. And while the study notes that…
Scientists to directly link extreme weather to man-made climate change
Climate change researchers have been able to attribute recent examples of extreme weather to the effects of human activity on the planet’s climate systems for the first time, marking a major step forward in climate research. The findings make it much more likely that we will soon – within the…
Former GOP Rep.: Republicans should stop climate change ‘denial’
A former Republican congressman from South Carolina is calling on conservatives to take measures to combat climate change instead of “retreating in denial.” George Mason University announced on Tuesday that former Rep. Bob Inglis would be leading a nationwide public engagement campaign on behalf of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative’s…
George Will: Historic heat wave is just ‘summer… get over it’
Conservative columnist George Will is denying that the historic heat wave that’s cooking most of the United States has any relation to global warming or climate change. ABC News reported on Sunday that more than 2,000 heat records had been broken across the U.S. just since the beginning of July.…
Scientists: Bizarre summer weather offers proof of climate change
The bizarre weather of early summer in the US – from heatwave, wildfires, drought to freak storms – is just a sampling of what is to come for 2012 and a window to the future under climate change, scientists have said. Scientists are wary of linking specific weather events to…
Climate change no longer tops U.S. environment worries
Americans no longer see climate change as the world’s number-one environmental issue, according to a public opinion poll released Tuesday amid an ongoing heat wave in much of the United States. Twenty-nine percent cited water and air pollution as the most pressing concern, the Washington Post-Stanford University poll indicated, followed…
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