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“The Father of the 2 Degrees Limit”: Schellnhuber receives Blue Planet Prize
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10/19/2017 - The world’s most prestigious award for pioneers in environmental science was given to Hans Joachim Schellnhuber this week in Tokyo. He is Director ...
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Successful earliest forecast of onset and withdrawal of the Indian Summer Monsoon
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10/18/2017 – For the second year in a row, a team of scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) successfully predicted the onset ...
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Counting the true costs of climate change: Impacts World Conference in Potsdam
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10/11/2017 - Destabilizing the climate can also destabilize societies. Global warming impacts cause substantial economic damages, hurts human health in many ...
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"Coal formation almost plunged Earth into a snowball state"
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The Daily Mail (UK) - A new study shows: While burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago the formation of that same coal brought ...
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Formation of coal almost turned our planet into a snowball
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2017/10/10 - While burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago the formation of that same coal brought our planet close to global ...
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Turning the Climate Tide by 2020
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06/28/2017 - The world needs high-speed climate action for an immediate bending-down of the global greenhouse-gas emissions curve, leading experts caution. ...
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Investigating teleconnections of weather extremes: GOTHAM Summer School
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09/22/2017 - To investigate teleconnections and their role in causing extreme weather events, twenty-five young scientists from all over the world have been ...
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A Brief History of CO2 Emissions – new film online
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Extending periods of changing weather, rising sea levels, shifting vegetation zones, even economic losses, social upheaval, and migration of people across the ...
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Climate change and the German election campaign
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Hurricane Irma hit the US state of Florida this weekend. At the same time, climate change seems to be no issue along the German election campaign. The Potsdam ...
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