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In a warming world, climate scientists consider category 6 hurricanes

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

But as increasing ocean temperatures contribute to ever more intense and destructive hurricanes, climate scientists wondered whether the open-ended Category 5 is sufficient to communicate the risk of hurricane damage in a warming climate.

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Impact Alpha

8 – Climate scientists are having a moment, decades overdue. Private investment funds are seeking out climate soothsayers to inform decision-making. The post Climate scientists appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Oct.

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US climate scientist Michael Mann wins $1m in defamation lawsuit

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The high-profile climate scientist Michael Mann has been awarded $1m by a jury in a defamation lawsuit against two conservative writers who compared his depictions of global heating to the work of a convicted child molester. Read the full story in The Guardian.

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Americans continue to have doubts about climate scientists’ understanding of climate change

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Only about one-third of Americans think climate scientists understand very well whether climate change is happening, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Read the full story from Pew.

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What do climate scientists tell their kids about the future?

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Climate change threatens sweltering global temperatures, rising seas, catastrophic storms and disappearing wildlife. Many of us worry about the data climate scientists generate—about the future we are leaving to our children. Yet many of these experts are parents themselves.

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Climate scientist finds new way to measure the Earth’s ability to offset carbon emissions

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Plants that currently take up a quarter to a third of humanity’s carbon emissions might not be … Continue reading Climate scientist finds new way to measure the Earth’s ability to offset carbon emissions Their study is the first to find the temperature-carbon dioxide release relationship at the landscape level.

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A climate scientist on the planet’s simultaneous disasters, from Pakistan’s horror floods to Europe’s record drought

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Pakistan’s climate chief has said one-third … Continue reading A climate scientist on the planet’s simultaneous disasters, from Pakistan’s horror floods to Europe’s record drought.