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May 21, 2012

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Climate science education graduates to the next level.

http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/05/climate-education-

Like evolution, climate science has opened rifts in classrooms across the United States. Educators are lifting climate out of its narrow unit in middle school science – an effort, they hope, that will improve science literacy overall.

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Conflict abounds in climate education.

http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/05/climate-science-co

Teachers are loath to teach climate science because it exposes them to charges of politicizing the classroom. They have reason to be cautious.

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Joint climate effort pushes science literacy.

http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/05/climate-science-pr

An innovative program developed jointly by Maryland and Delaware educators bolsters climate science with the hope of improving overall scientific literacy in public schools.

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Heartland Institute facing uncertain future as staff depart and cash dries up.

http://bit.ly/LaqFzL

As the latest Heartland climate conference opens in a Chicago hotel on Monday, the thinktank's claims to reasoned debate lie in shreds and its financial future remains uncertain.

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Source found for missing water in sea-level rise.

http://www.nature.com/news/source-found-for-missing-water-in-

Climate change, with its associated melting ice caps and shrinking glaciers, is the usual suspect when it comes to explaining rising sea levels. But a recent study now shows that human water use has a major impact on sea-level change that has been overlooked.

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California's deadlocked Delta: Is carbon farming the future?

http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/californias-deadlocked-delt

California is setting up a market for carbon, as part of the state's effort to cut global warming emissions. Early next year, companies that need to reduce their emissions could pay farmers to store carbon in wetlands that could in turn help bolster California's aging levy system.

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G8 leaders open new front in battle to control global warming.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100159272/g8-leaders-

It seems to have gone virtually unnoticed, but the world leaders at the weekend's G8 summit look as if they have taken the biggest step in years in tackling climate change. The summit's final communiqué supports “comprehensive actions” to reduce “short-lived climate pollutants”.

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Colorado River changing with the climate.

http://www.hcn.org/hcn/blogs/goat/selling-water-to-the-hig

At some point, the way Colorado River water gets divvied up is going to have to change. The lower basin states of Arizona and Nevada use more water than they're allowed to under the compact that runs the river. Climate change will likely make droughts worse.

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Arctic melt releasing ancient methane.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18120093

Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere. The methane has been trapped by ice, but is able to escape as the ice melts.

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Can 'blue forests' mitigate climate change?

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107851

Recent discoveries about the efficiency of ocean vegetation in mitigating greenhouse gases and about the ability of ocean ecosystems to store atmospheric carbon dioxide have scientists considering the potential role "blue forests" can play in global efforts to lessen climate change.

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