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Year 2010 Global Investment in Green Energy Reached USD $211 …

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Just Science iPhone App Simplifies Climate Change Information

This handy app helps anyone take a look at climate change data and make sense of it. These are pictures you can’t deny.

River Runs Free After Dramatic Dam Explosion (Video)

YouTube /Video screen capture There may be no more potent symbol of our propensity to manipulate nature than a dam — and perhaps no greater testament to changing attitudes than in knocking them down. For nearly a century, Washington’s Condit Dam strangled the White Salmon River, forming a lake which profoundly reshaped the landscape and tipped the local ecosystem’s delicate balance, that is, until last week. In what may be the most dramatic dam removal operation ever caught on film, engineers blew a hole in the Condit Dam, unleashing a torrent water and setti…

Yes, We’re Still Causing Climate Change & Yes, It’s Still Bad

The following piece, by Dana Nuccitelli, originally appeared in Skeptical Science . Now that the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) study results are in, and have confirmed the accuracy of the surface temperature record (see here and here ), those “skeptics” who spent years disputing the accuracy of the record despite all the evidence pointing to…