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# science
The beer industry has a plan to keep their product affordable in spite of climate change. But they’re not the only ones having to come up with climate mitigation plans to stay in business.
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Scientists are debating how humanity will be remembered millions of years from now and it won’t be by our sprawling cities and historical sites. It will be by our pollution, garbage, and weapons.
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The House's Denialist-in-Chief Lamar Smith invites his favorite climate change denialists for an afternoon of ego stroking and kvetching.
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Climate change denialists have ran out of contrarian theories so they decided to recycle an old one.
# oddities
To keep their jobs, climate change denialists erected a conspiracy theory that's buckling under its own weight.
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Global warming is making tornado outbreaks more unpredictable and pushing them to extremes.
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Lamar Smith refuses to give up on manufacturing a scandal, demanding publicly available data from NOAA
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Another scary side-effect of global warming may be the resurrection of ancient viruses from melting permafrost.
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The founder of Soylent is trying to make outsourcing your carbon footprint an accomplishment. It's not.
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Massive volcanic eruptions leave their mark on the climate record we can gleam from tree rings. And some scientists have new ideas for how to best track them...