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Ice-Free Arctic Is “Uncharted Territory”
Arctic ice half of what it was 30 years ago. Now affecting weather patterns Heading for +4C and catastrophe – CBD By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 20 2012 (IPS) The melt of Arctic sea ice has...
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Ocean Acidification Leaves Mollusks Naked and Confused
Climate change is making oceans warmer and more acidic…expect the worst By Stephen Leahy When the carbon dioxide absorbed by the oceans dissolves in seawater, carbonic acid is formed and calcium...
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Sandy Says: “Bigger Superstorms Coming Unless Dial Down Thermostat”
I was born just over a week ago and more than 100 people have died in the US and Caribbean region as a result. For the rest of today please take care as I will continue to bring strong winds, heavy...
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Hurricane Sandy a Taste of More Extreme Weather to Come
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 2 2012 (IPS) Killing nearly 200 people in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean and crippling much of New York City and surrounding areas earlier this week,...
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America Bears Risks of Keystone XL – Canada Gets Dirty Oil Profits
Canada’s Alberta Tar Sands Mining Pits “The only way Keystone XL could be considered in the national interest is if you equate that with profits for the oil industry” [Re-post from my Sept 2011 article...
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Wild and Weird Weather Getting Worse
It doesn’t have to be this way – typical family could reduce their energy use 60 to 75 percent By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 29 2013 (IPS) Weird is the only way to describe January...
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Climate Inaction Is a Clear Failure of Democracy
Re-engineering our societies to prosper on green alternatives is only option By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 4 2013 (IPS) Around the world, 2012 was the year of extreme weather, when we...
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US Climate Rally Draws “Line in the Sand” on Keystone Pipeline
The tar sands in Alberta, Canada. Credit: howlmonteal/cc by 2.0 By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 16 2013 (IPS) The largest climate rally in U.S. history is expected Sunday in Washington DC with...
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Jail Before Climate-Wrecking Tar Sands, Canadians Say
[Repost: After the rally against Keystone XL in Washington last Sunday, a reminder that Canadians are willing to be arrested to stop growth of climate-destroying tar sands. -- Stephen ] By Stephen...
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The Most Important Number in Human History
That number was 52 billion tonnes of CO2 in 2012 Only when this number declines will we know we’re making the shift to climate protection By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Dec 17 2012 (IPS) The most...
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Japan Bails Out on CO2 Emissions Target
By Stephen Leahy WARSAW, Nov 15 2013 (IPS) Japan announced Friday that it will renege on its carbon emissions pledge, likely ending any hope global warming can be kept to 2.0 degrees C. The shocking...
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2013 Carbon Emissions On Deadly Path to 5C
By Stephen Leahy WARSAW, Nov 19 2013 (IPS) Burning of fossil fuels added a record 36 billion tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere in 2013, locking in even more heating of the planet. Global CO2 emissions...
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No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans
Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the world’s oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 15 2013 (IPS) Oil, gas and coal...
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Inside The International Climate Treaty Negotiations
What: A 15 minute informal update on current state of the UN climate negotiations by award-winning journalist Stephen Leahy including his personal observations on the process. Who: Stephen Leahy is...
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We Have Five Years to Stop Building Coal Plants and Gas-Powered Cars
By Stephen Leahy [Authors note: One of the most difficult and important articles I've written in 20 years of journalism. Originally published Sept 6 2014 @Vice Motherboard] Here’s the frightening...
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For an Ailing Planet, the Cure Already Exists
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 1, 2012 (IPS) The planet’s climate recently reached a new milestone of 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the Arctic. The last time Earth saw...
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Film Exposes Slick US Industry Behind Climate Denial
Robert Kenner’s forthcoming documentary lifts the lid on the ‘professional deceivers’ manipulating US debate on climate change OPENS MARCH 6 in US Merchants of Doubt looks at professionals working for...
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Global Experts Call for Moratorium New Tarsands Development Until Climate,...
By STEPHEN LEAHY A moratorium on any new oilsands expansion is imperative given Canada’s failure to properly assess the total environmental and climate impacts Canadian and U.S. experts say in the...
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High Seas Represent $148 Billion Carbon Sink But Overfishing is Destroying It
By STEPHEN LEAHY Marine life in the high seas soak up twice as much CO2 from the atmosphere as Canada emits every year, a new study by the Global Ocean Commission revealed Tuesday. Scientists...
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“It doesn’t cost the world to save the planet” — Economist
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Apr 22 2014 (IPS) Hopefully, on Earth Day today, high-level ministers from all countries are thinking about what they can bring to the table at a key set of meetings...
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