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Climate and Empire

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On February 10, 2016
The question about climate change and empire is sadly ever more relevant as climate change drastically transforms the world. So more research like this is valuable: A new paper, just published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, proposes a link between a marked cooling event in the fifth and sixth centuries AD and a period […]
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Climate Change and Archaeology

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On February 3, 2016
Climate change, especially the large storms that result as well as rising ocean levels are both uncovering incredibly archaeological finds on coasts and also threatening to destroy them. It’s quite fascinating and quite depressing, as is so much about climate change: Most 4,000-year-old archaeological sites don’t get dug up and moved. When the team dared […]

Warm!

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On January 3, 2016

December in the east, was, to say the least, a bit warm. Now that we have hit the New Year, temperatures have cooled down to normal. But if you think it was warm in the east, why not try the North Pol

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A Climate Change Christmas

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On December 25, 2015
Did everyone enjoy wearing shorts and t-shirts in the Northeast on Christmas Eve yesterday? Yeah, that’s just great. Of course, such freakish temperatures are not entirely about climate change–El Niño and luck are part of it too–but they are indeed about climate change as 2015 sets another record for the world’s warmest year on record. […]

Miami

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On December 19, 2015

Elizabeth Kolbert has a good discussion on the end of Miami due to climate change. There’s almost no way around this conclusion, not with Miami’s limestone allowing water to flow undergrou

Meat Tax

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On December 13, 2015

I don’t know that a meat tax could work in reducing consumption to fight climate change, but at least it’s good to see environmentalists understanding that any such move would need to incl

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The Climate Agreement

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On December 13, 2015
I’m a little surprised at the vigor of the Paris climate agreement. Of course the nations of the world now have to follow through and I’m super skeptical of that, in no small part because of the Republican Party in the world’s largest economy. Certainly President Obama and John Kerry showed a lot of leadership […]
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