These are a list of monthly science reports written by ACE Staff Scientist, Rebecca Anderson. You can keep up with these reports as they come out by following Rebecca as she blogs on the Huffington Post here.

Climate Info

• Black Carbon: The Dirty (and doubly evil) Sidekick of CO2 -- It's bad for our health AND bad for the climate.
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• Cleaning Up Coal-- Coal really is the dirtiest fossil fuel.
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• El Nino -- We've all heard of El Nino. Now learn what it means.
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• Global Temperature and the Oceans -- Turns out the oceans have a lot to do with the temps we feel on land.
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• How to Make a Fossil Fuel -- Learn how fossil fuels are formed.
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• How to Date an Ice Core -- It's more than just taking it out to dinner...
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• How to Get Past Temperature from an Ice Core -- It has to do with something called an isotope...
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• Ocean Fertilization -- Can we hide that extra CO2 in the ocean?
   
• Really Old Climate -- Wasn't it a lot hotter back when the dinosaurs were around?
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• What's Up with 350? -- Is a CO2 level of 350 ppm a magic number for the planet?
   
• What the heck is a Methane Hydrate!? -- Also known as the mysterious "fire ice."
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• Why Global Warming means Global WEIRDING -- Climate change means more than just warmer weather...

Climate Science in the News

• Feb. 12, 2013: A Dummy's Guide to Keystone XL -- All you ever wanted to know, but were afraid to ask.
   
• Feb. 4, 2013: Climate Recap of 2012 -- #9 on the hottest-years list, plus some big events to boot...
   
• Oct. 31, 2012: Superstorm Sandy -- Connecting the dots to climate change...
   
• June 29, 2012: Burning Up: Colorado Wildfires and Climate Change -- What's the link?
   
• Feb. 8, 2012: Where's All My Snow? -- And what's making it disappear?
   
• Jan. 9, 2012: Watch Out Cows, the Siberian Shelf Makes Lots of Methane, too -- A look into the surprisingly large plumes of methane in the Arctic Ocean.
   
• July 2, 2011: Too Hot to Handle -- Putting 2011 summer heat waves into perspective.
   
• May 19, 2011: Climate Change's Role in the Flooding of the Mississippi -- Did climate change cause the floods?
   
• April 15, 2011: Snowmageddon -- All that snow - was it caused by climate change?
   
• Feb. 23, 2011: The More We Know, The Worse it Gets -- New science reports can be depressing...

• March 23, 2010: Low-down on the IPCC Errors -- Does the most-research science report in history contain mistakes?

• November 18, 2009: Science for Copenhagen -- Climate science for the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark.