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Photo via Boston Politico, the right-leaning, beltway-insider political magazine, has run a must-read op-ed by four of the nation’s leading climate scientists. These four scientists have recently testified before Congress about the urgent need to act on climate change, and the piece explains why. Here’s the gist of it: …Read the full story on TreeHugger

LONDON, UK, July 8, 2010 (ENS) – Climate scientists at a UK research unit whose emails were hacked and published in a scandal known as Climategate have been found to be both honest and credible after… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

Photo via Nature Blog By now, it’s become quite clear that climate change presents a number of threats to life on Earth. So while manipulative politicians and skeptical media outlets continue to voice dissent, institutions like the US military are already in the process of planning, with the aid of climate scientists, how to cope [...]

TOKYO, Japan, June 21, 2010 (ENS) – Two prominent climate scientists – one from Great Britain and one from the United States – have been are the winners of the 2010 Blue Planet Prize, an… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

Photo via Sam W A little less than a year ago, we reported about the findings that global warming is causing the Soay sheep of Scotland to shrink and get lighter in color, all to adapt to higher temperatures. However, it turns out that chalking the changes up to global warming is causing quite a [...]

Photo via Seed Magazine Do climate scientists seem too angry? Mathew Nesbit, a professor of communications, has an interesting piece in Slate today arguing that they do, and that it’s going to have a negative impact on the public’s understanding of climate science. It’s a pertinent topic, as a recent editorial in the esteemed scientific [...]

Photo via LimJunYing It’s been a couple months of seriously bad PR for climate science, both due to unfortunate errors made by scientists and (okay, mostly) a well-funded noise machine intent on preserving the status quo at any cost. So how can climate scientists dig themselves out of the negative publicity trench and help reeducate [...]

Climate scientists disagree on what to do to gain public support for global warming action. While some see a head-on-assault against skeptics as the only answer, others think that climate science… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

Photo via Read the Hook Charges that climate scientists are “out to line their pockets” get bandied about with such preposterous frequency, that when I stumbled upon this investigative report into one of the leading climate skeptics and his income, a post became necessary. The man in question is Patrick Michaels, one of the few [...]