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April 26, 2010 5:32 PM
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Military Officials Have a Hard Time Using Climate Data, New Report Says
A new report suggests that "multiple barriers" are impeding the flow of information between climate scientists and U.S. national security officials who need the work to inform their decisions....
April 19, 2010 4:54 PM
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Volcano Wreaking Havoc on Science Meetings
Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano has snarled air traffic across Europe thanks to the ash cloud it has been belching into the sky, and traveling scientists are feeling the impact like...
April 14, 2010 2:20 PM
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Oxburgh Report Clears Controversial Climate Research Unit
Just over 2 months since the University of East Anglia (UEA) announced an independent "reappraisal of the science" of its Climatic Research Unit's (CRU's) key publications, the result is in....
April 5, 2010 2:39 PM
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A Month After Brutal Quake, Chilean Scientists Seek Funds
A month after a magnitude-8.8 earthquake rocked Chile, the country's scientific community says it needs millions in aid and wants control over the country's tsunami early-warning system. The 27...
April 2, 2010 5:08 PM
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French Researchers Ask Science Minister to Disavow Climate Skeptic
PARIS—More than 400 French climate scientists want science minister Valérie Pécresse to take a clear stand against the country's most vocal climate skeptic, geochemist Claude Allègre of the Institute...
March 30, 2010 8:01 PM
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U.K. Parliament Committee Gently Chides Climate Scientists
A new report on the brouhaha over the hacking of e-mails at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom is...
March 26, 2010 4:18 PM
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Scientists Call for 'Climate Intervention' Research With 'Humility'
PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA—An international group of scientists, ethicists, and governance experts meeting here this week has agreed that research into large-scale modification of the planet is "indispensable" given the...
March 22, 2010 6:05 PM
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University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit Panel Named
The members of the panel conducting a scientific assessment of the work done by the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit have been named. ...
March 22, 2010 1:54 PM
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Tackling Human-Relevant Climate Change
Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday of a joint program to predict climate change and its impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that decision makers...
March 17, 2010 4:00 PM
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New Ways the U.S. Could Target Soot
Scientists at a hearing yesterday held by the House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming tackled the question of regulating black carbon. Researchers know the...
March 10, 2010 5:28 PM
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Review of Climate Panel Aims for Summer Release
Yesterday the United Nations announced that a panel of scientists appointed by a global coalition of national science academies would launch an investigation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
March 4, 2010 5:35 PM
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Elephant Research Facility Doomed
A flash flood of the Ewaso Ng'iro River in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, washed away a major research center devoted to the study of wild elephants this morning. The...
March 4, 2010 5:18 PM
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Researchers Seek Funding to Study How Climate Change Influenced Human Evolution
Researchers have often proposed that dramatic changes in ancient climates triggered major events in human evolution, such as the emergence of a new species or migrations of our ancestors...
March 1, 2010 11:37 AM
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Live Coverage of House of Commons Climategate Hearing via Twitter
ScienceInsider's Eli Kintisch is live-tweeting today's hearing on Climategate at the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (see details). Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia, among...
March 1, 2010 8:37 AM
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More Details From IPCC Official on Coming Review
Turns out the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change review will be jointly requested by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) and IPCC, which will greatly add to the influence of the...
February 26, 2010 5:00 PM
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Possible U.N. Review of IPCC Would Break New Ground
The organization that created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says it plans to investigate its controversial offspring. But there's no roadmap for such a review. A spokesman...
February 25, 2010 2:52 PM
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Live Geoengineering Coverage From the American Enterprise Institute on Twitter
ScienceInsider's Eli Kintisch is tweeting at a meeting on geoengineering and policy at the American Enterprise Institute from now until 3:30pm this afternoon.
February 18, 2010 1:17 PM
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U.N. Climate Leader Yvo de Boer to Step Down
In an unexpected move, the head of a major United Nations climate body resigned today. Yvo de Boer, secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), announced...
February 15, 2010 3:53 PM
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IPCC/Climategate Criticism Roundup
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has always had a highly polished reputation, but it’s facing an unprecedented amount of criticism now. Here’s a roundup of recent criticism...
February 12, 2010 3:56 PM
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Pielke Jr. on Weather vs. Climate
While the debate over the East Coast "snowpocalypse" rages—does it disprove global warming, or is it a harbinger of things to come in a warmer world—policy guru Roger Pielke...
February 12, 2010 5:40 AM
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Take a Deep Breath, Beijing! U.S. Embassy Deploys Ozone Monitor
BEIJING—For many of the expats here in one of the world’s most polluted cities, a morning ritual is checking the latest local air-quality readings. This week, a trusted source—the...
February 10, 2010 1:24 PM
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Top U.S. Climate Negotiator: IPCC Woes "Shouldn't" Slow Emission Efforts
Speaking yesterday in Washington, D.C., U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern was asked whether recent questions about the accuracy of certain statements in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
February 10, 2010 4:22 AM
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Much Ado About Spoofing; Climate Economist Has E-mail Hijacked
Every climate scientist in the world must be begging their information technology experts for the latest antivirus, spam, and firewall software. In the latest e-mail fracas, Nicholas Stern, who in 2006 led an influential review...
February 8, 2010 6:46 PM
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Feds Announce New Actions to Battle Asian Carp
For years, Asian carp have been slowly moving up the Mississippi River. In addition to competing with native fish, they jump out of the water when startled—sometimes even posing...
February 8, 2010 4:53 PM
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NOAA Launches "Climate Services" With Website
Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as long as 4 years ago, hoped that NOAA would be the home of what they were calling Climate Services. Today,...
February 8, 2010 1:58 PM
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Give Peas a Chance: Germans Bring GM Plants to North Dakota (Corrected)
German researchers are moving their field tests of genetically modified peas to North Dakota. University of Hannover plant geneticist Hans-Jörg Jacobsen says that Germany's unclear regulations regarding field trials of GM plants...
February 5, 2010 12:05 PM
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Indian Prime Minister Lends Support To IPCC, Pachauri
Speaking at a development summit, India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came out in full support of the beleaguered IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri, the first time Singh had addressed the...
February 4, 2010 5:50 PM
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Roundup 2/4: Four Degrees of Separation Edition
Hit by the poor economy and lower funding from the government, King’s College London is considering “draconian” cuts of more than 200 jobs and may abandon teaching engineering, even...
February 3, 2010 6:36 PM
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Obama Rescues Al Gore's Earth Satellite for Sun Duty ... and Maybe More
The long and winding story of DSCOVR, the satellite proposed in 1998 by then-Vice President Al Gore and killed by the George W. Bush Administration, has taken a new...
February 3, 2010 4:35 PM
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Climate Scientist Mann Partially Absolved by Penn State
A panel convened by Pennsylvania State University has mostly absolved Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann wrongdoing on allegations stemming from e-mails he sent as part of the Climatic...
February 3, 2010 1:09 PM
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Is Obama Scaling Back Cap-and-Trade Goals?
A strong energy package approved last year by a key Senate panel is seen as a sweetener for passing a much more controversial cap-and-trade system to regulate the emissions of...
February 2, 2010 5:18 PM
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Ocean Science Gets Big Boost in 2011 Budget
For the last few years the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been an also-ran among federal science programs. But if NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco gets her way...
February 1, 2010 6:31 PM
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UPDATED: A Boost for Competitive Grants at USDA and EPA
Competitive grants are catching on at two agencies—the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency—that haven't been big investors in such awards in the past. At USDA,...
February 1, 2010 2:59 PM
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Shell Oil Bets on Brazilian Biofuels
SÃO PAULO—Big Oil is making one of its biggest biofuel investments to date with a $12 billion venture here that joins a major petroleum company with an ethanol producer....
January 28, 2010 11:47 AM
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Climatic Research Unit Broke British Information Law
Climate researchers at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom broke the law by withholding data from public scrutiny, say various reports today. The university’s Climatic Research...
January 27, 2010 10:12 PM
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What Obama Didn't Say While Making a "Climate Bill" Part of the Jobs Pitch
"Copenhagen"? Omitted. His pledge of "17% by 2020"? No mention. Even "cap and trade" was left on the cutting-room floor for tonight's State of the Union address, if it...
January 26, 2010 2:10 PM
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Bill Gates Funding Geoengineering Research
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has been supporting a wide array of research on geoengineering since 2007, ScienceInsider has learned. The world’s richest man has provided at least $4.5 million...
January 26, 2010 1:29 PM
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CDC Director Demotes Chief of Environmental Health
Howard Frumkin, the controversial director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's environmental health branch, has been reassigned by CDC Director Thomas Frieden. Frumkin directed the Agency for...
January 25, 2010 4:01 PM
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Three Scientists Criticize IPCC, Pachauri's Leadership
The German magazine Der Spiegel has an op-ed today by climate researchers Richard Tol, Roger Pielke, and Hans von Storch criticizing a range of procedures at the Intergovernmental Panel on...
January 25, 2010 2:42 PM
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China Questions Warming Cause While Backing IPCC
by Pallava Bagla and Eli KintischAs outsiders continue to heap criticism on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, China has to introduce new doubt on the scientific consensus regarding the...
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