Yale Study Finds Climate Change Skepticism at Six-Year High

 Image © Shutterstock A new study from Yale and George Mason University found that the number of people who don’t believe in global warming has grown 7% since the spring of 2013. That brings the total to 23%, the highest percentage in the past six years . While most American still believe the Earth is warming , the number of people who believe it’s caused by human activity has decreased to a mere 47%. Read the rest of Yale Study Finds Climate Change Skepticism at Six-Year High Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Climate Change , climate change denial , climate change skeptics , conservative media , george mason university , global warming , global warming denial , global warming pause , man-made global warming , new scientific study , yale study        

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New Yale Survey Finds Americans Increasingly Believe Climate Change Is Driving Extreme Weather

Photo from Shutterstock A new report from Yale and George Mason University  finds that 74 percent of Americans now believe global warming is changing the weather in the United States. A September survey shows that figure has climbed 5 percent since March . When asked about six specific weather events, majorities of respondents to the survey said global warming made each event worse, with respondents most likely to connect global warming to the record temperatures experienced in the summer of 2012. Sixty-one percent say that the weather in the country has gotten worse over the past several years; that figure is up 9 percent since March. Read the rest of New Yale Survey Finds Americans Increasingly Believe Climate Change Is Driving Extreme Weather Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Climate Change , Drought , extreme weather , flood , George Mason , George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication , global warming , research , rising temperatures , survey , temperature , Yale , Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

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Concrete Mode Repurpose Waste Cement Bags into Sturdy Totes

Concrete Mode is a Thailand-based company that creates incredibly sturdy totes, bags and pencil cases the discarded bags used to transport concrete. Concrete is the most consumed man-made material on earth and more than half of all the world’s concrete consumption occurs in Asia. Besides immense CO2 emissions , concrete consumption produces waste when transporting it via bags. Instead of these bags ending up in landfill, Concrete Mode’s founders believe these bags should be repurposed into useful, fun, and fashionable items. After a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year, they’ve been at work producing the bags and have even tested out a prototype umbrella from the salvaged fabric. + Concrete Mode The article above was submitted to us by an Inhabitat reader. Want to see your story on Inhabitat ? Send us a tip by following this link . Remember to follow our instructions carefully to boost your chances of being chosen for publishing! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: carbon emissions , cement footprint , concrete mode , industrial byproducts , industrial waste , plastic bags , recycled fabric , recycled umbrella , salvaged materials , waste bags

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A Universal Hurricane Frequency Function

Number of storms predicted per year during the period 1854 — 2006 versus numbers actually observed for the Atlantic (filled diamonds). The model predictions (grey curve) have been normalized to the data.

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A Universal Hurricane Frequency Function

Ecobici: Official Bike Sharing Program Launched in Mexico City

Image: Ecobici’s Facebook page . Although the city already had a private bike-sharing program , the government of the mexican capital has recently launched the official Ecobici . The initial phase includes 85 stations across the city and over 1,000 bikes

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How to Help the Environment

If you are reading this article, I think you are probably more concerned about the environment than most others. I assume that you keep up with environmental news a bit, reading more than the miniscule amount covered in the mainstream media.

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ContainerSpace: A Shipping Container as Zero Carbon Art Gallery

George Mason University is home to over 40 conservative think tanks, many of which think climate change is a hoax; fortunately the School of Art is a different place, where they care about their carbon footprint.

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