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Ocean heat drives world to new warming record

Climate scientists say this year looks likely to enter the record books as the world’s hottest ...  
Photonic radiative cooling: Hi-tech mirror offers hope for warming planet

As extremes of heat increasingly threaten to become the norm, scientists have invented a new way ...  
Can I get a Hallelujah?

RJ Gosling is a faith healer. He never used to be, but he cracked it at a wedding this year.  
Think For Yourself Interview: Skeptics Convention, Sydney, 28-30 November

The Australian Skeptics are holding a convention in Sydney. Entertainment editor and critical ...  
Murdoch and Abbott: Climate change denialist flat-earthers

It is impossible to speak sense to committed climate change deniers like Rupert Murdoch and Tony ...  
NSW Government clears way for widespread woodland devastation

Ecologists fear that proposed changes to NSW native vegetation laws will lead to unhindered, ad ...  
No way back for West Antarctic glaciers

Satellite data analysis reveals the ominous news that the melting glaciers of West Antarctica have ...  
Think For Yourself: Perception

This week IA critical thinker John Turnbull takes a look at human perception and examines the ...  
Fish on acid lose fear of predators

As carbon dioxide makes the seas more acidic and poses physical problems for some fish, it can ...  
What the frack? IPCC gambles on gas

The latest IPCC report urges a dash for gas to allow us to reduce coal burning, accepting the use ...  
IPCC says future in doubt if we don't act now: Time for climate disobedience

The just released IPCC reports details an horrific scenario for the planet. Mike Marriott from ...  
The climate debate is over: Get over it

The climate debate is over, so debating the science of climate change with skeptics is fruitless. ...  
Arctic ice melt speeding up

It's long been established that Arctic ice is on the retreat but it's the pace of change that's ...  
Morwell fire uncovers coal's hidden costs

The Morwell open-cut coal mine fire means that any further talk of coal being the cheapest prac ...  
Accept climate science and act

Taking action to stabilise climate change is cheaper than doing nothing, writes Dr Adnan Al-Dai ...  
Roy Spencer calls people who accept climate science ‘Nazis’

Creationist climate change skeptic Dr Roy Spencer has come up with a name for people who call him ...  
Duckweed raises hopes for cheap abundant biofuel

A plant famed for the rapidity of its growth and its ability to thrive almost anywhere has raised ...  
Cities' twin heat problems face relief

Climate change aside, cities tend to be warmer than the surrounding countryside. Now researchers ...  

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