Not 'If' But 'How': New Study Shows Why All Extreme Weather Is Climate Related

The debate over climate change has long focused on determining attribution—whether rising greenhouse gases and global warming caused a particular storm, drought, flood, or blizzard. Now, a new study in Nature Climate Change published Monday seeks to shift the underlying question from “if” to “how.” “The climate is changing,” wrote National Center for Atmospheric Research […]

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Another Canary Squawks: Annual Report Shows Unstoppable Ocean Warming

More than 400 scientists from 58 countries on three continents determined in their annual planetary exam that the temperatures of the earth’s surfaces are rising to historic highs, greenhouse gases continue to climb, and when it comes to the oceans, warming is unstoppable. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the American Meteorological Society’s State […]

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Meet Studs: The NYC- based jewelry retailer reimagining the piercing experience

Los Angeles – In an era where direct-to-consumer brands have become increasingly popular with shopping malls and brick-and-mortar locations working to market themselves for the digital consumer, Studs—a piercing and jewelry retail experience and brand—has launched for today’s shopping experience. Creating a safe, high-quality piercing experience at an accessible price point, as well as a […]

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Bulgaria, from post-communism to post-democracy

Six months, six years, six decades – this is how Ralf Dahrendorf (1990) summed up, in a remarkably succinct way, the post-democratic transition: creating the institutions of parliamentary democracy, laying the foundations of a market economy, building civil society. The future looked clear and bright as a single three-dimensional transformation joining the ‘end of history’. […]

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US and Iran both need a new deal

Despite the harsh anti-Iranian rhetoric employed by Donald Trump before and after his unilateral withdrawal from JCPOA in May 2018, it appears that the US would now prefer a new negotiated deal with Iran over the more complicated and costly option of going for regime change. But the US hopes of forcing Iran to the […]

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Why do progressive movements struggle to answer populists? Because they are technocrats

Click:cement block machine This article is part of an editorial partnership with The Fund for Global Human Rights. Recent elections in Australia, Europe and India have showed that politics is not working the way experts want it to. Voters are still choosing politicians whose policies fail. What is persuading them is a dangerous combination of […]

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