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Danger Zone

March 27, 2008

Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
carboncaps, climatechange, climatefeedbacks, co2, globalwarming, globalwarmingscience

Jim Hansen, NASA’s top climate scientist, put global warming on the policy agenda with his 1988 Congressional testimony that he was 99% confident that a long term global warming trend was underway and that heat-trapping gases were probably to blame....continued

Skating on Thin Ice

September 6, 2007

Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
arctic, glaciers, globalwarmingscience, seaice

One of the most dramatic and visual manifestations of global warming is the declining expanse of arctic sea ice. The data coming out of the Arctic now are shocking even to those of us who read bad news about global...continued

Beetle versus Bear

July 16, 2007

Posted by Dan Lashof in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
barkbeetle, bear, climatechange, ecosystems, globalwarming, globalwarmingscience, grizzlybears, science, whitebarkpine

How can a tiny beetle threaten the survival of Yellowstone's famed Grizzly bears? The answer was revealed at a meeting I attended this weekend at the beautiful B Bar ranch, situated on the northern border of Yellowstone National Park. The...continued

Dan Lashof
Dan Lashof
Director, Climate Center
Washington, D.C.
I am the director of NRDC's climate center. My main focus is solutions to global...
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