When most people think about global warming, they envision rising temperatures and sea levels. Robert Agnew, a professor of sociology at Emory, thinks about rising crime rates.
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In a New York Times article, Elisabeth Rosenthal and Andrew W. Lehren describe how air conditioner use is increasing, and why this could spell trouble for climate change. 
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Once rare brown argus butterflies have been moving north due to a pattern of hot summers, say researchers.
's comment May 25, 2012 3:14 PM
Bonsoir Olivier, j'ai vu la vidéo sur ces différentes sortes de papillons de belles couleurs, c'est de toute beauté lorsqu'ils papillonnent de fleur en fleur. Merci. La nature est belle!
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Since 1980, the volume of this glacier that spills into the Prince William Sound has shrunk by half. Climate change may have nudged the process along, but mechanical forces have played the largest role in the ice loss.
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It's a message no one wants to hear: to slow down global warming, we'll either have to put the brakes on economic growth or transform the way the world's economies work.
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The mating habits of marine turtle may help to protect them against the effects of climate change, according to new research led by the University of Exeter. Published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study shows how the mating patterns of a population of endangered green turtles may be helping them deal with the fact that global warming is leading to a disproportionate number of females being born.
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I completely accept the science of climate warming, yet I don't always do the right thing by my heirs. Why is that? The simple answer is, because I'm human. But scientists offer more nuanced insight into why it's hard to be beneficent to people of the future, even our own. The fancy name for this insight is*"intertemporal discounting," which simply means that we humans are selfish and shortsighted when it comes to using finite resources. We prefer to use our resources -- cash, oil, cool days -- for ourselves, now, in the present. And the further off in the future the beneficiaries are, the less likely we are to sacrifice for them. This is because of a failure of imagination: It's supremely difficult to project ourselves into the future, even harder to take the part of another.
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Installing huge mirrors in space could reverse global warming, but at a price: the Americas and northern Eurasia will receive less rain... More on GEOENGINEERING: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=geoengineering
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Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters.
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Experiments may dramatically underestimate how plants will respond to climate change in the future.
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Although people are quite aware of global warming, their beliefs about it may be malleable; specifically, their beliefs may be constructed in response to questions about global warming. Beliefs may reflect irrelevant but salient information, such as the current day’s temperature.
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