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This is a guest post by Charles J. Reid Jr., professor of law at the University of St. Thomas. It is a line repeated with tiresome regularity in right-wing circles: Pope Francis has no business pro...
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This week the G7 agreed to decarbonise the global economy by the end of the century. But as nations meet in Bonn to craft a global climate agreement to be signed in Paris later this year it is beco...
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This article has been cross-posted from Carbon Brief. A new paper published on June 4 says the much-discussed “slowdown” in warming at Earth's surface may not exist after all. The study, published ...
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The Australian government’s intent to create a “Consensus Centre” to work on the big issues facing the nation signals a welcome revival in interest in using research to inform policy, if it can be ...
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This article by Christine Ottery has been cross-posted from Energydesk. Sajid Javid, the newly appointed secretary of state for the department of Business Innovation and Skills, has accepted over £...
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This is a guest post by John Cook, The University of Queensland. Science denial has real, societal consequences. Denial of the link between HIV and AIDS led to more than 330,000 premature deaths in...
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This is a guest post by John Cook, The University of Queensland. Science denial has real, societal consequences. Denial of the link between HIV and AIDS led to more than 330,000 premature deaths in...
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This has been cross-posted from Carbon Brief The UK's  closest election in a generation is now three weeks away. Carbon Brief is tracking the climate and energy content of the parties' manifestos a...
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Mary Robinson, the United Nations envoy on climate change, warns that the transition away from fossil fuels must happen immediately to achieve climate justice. I am struck by the fact that Eleanor ...
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This is a guest post by Nathan Empsall of Care2 When Congress debates whether to pour money into new tar sands and oil pipelines, and the chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee uses...