Tag: global
group name: changeyourlife
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April 19, 2008 09:06 AM EDT --
The two things go together like peanut butter and jelly. As voters, we need to avoid both. The item that causes this thought to percolate through my head is an item that I notice in my local newspaper . . . more
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November 30, 2007 08:37 AM EST --
At last, the climate change debate has started to move beyond the question "does it exist". It is now possible to begin discussing the real question: "what are we going to do about it". . . . more
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March 06, 2008 06:27 AM EST --
The Stop Global Warming Virtual March is an initiative to promote awareness about global warming. It has attracted over one million people who declare that global warming is here . . . more
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February 12, 2008 04:21 PM EST --
There is a danger that Lake Mead, a large reservoir on the Colorado River that is a major source of water for 22 million humans of the southwest USA, may go dry. According to a new study, there is . . . more
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May 30, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
That's the question that came to me as I read an article this morning in my local newspaper. Dominion Power here in Virginia is proposing to allow consumers to opt into a program to receive their . . . more
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November 28, 2007 11:18 PM EST --
Venus was transformed from a haven for water to a fiery hell by an runaway greenhouse effect, concludes the European Space Agency (ESA), after studying data from the Venus Express, which has been orbiting . . . more
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March 03, 2008 10:11 PM EST --
Damon Matthews , from Concordia University in Canada, and Ken Caldeira , from the Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA, used a global climate model to study the impact of reductions of greenhouse . . . more
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March 27, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
A huge ice shelf, measuring 5,282 square miles (13,680 square kilometers), has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change on Antarctica. The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a broad plate of permanent floating . . . more
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November 15, 2007 04:26 PM EST --
In recent days, you may have read that the congressional democratic leadership has backed away from renewable energy by dropping from the current energy bill the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) and . . . more
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December 04, 2007 05:41 PM EST --
Sierra Club is reporting that Pelosi will introduce the energy bill in the House this week, including CAFE standards of 35 mpg by 2020. In releasing her press statement, Pelosi said, "This comprehensive . . . more
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November 18, 2007 11:47 AM EST --
Many Gatherites seem to have trouble understanding or relating to the science news regarding climate change. Worldwide temperatures have risen about one degree, and will rise another one degree over the . . . more
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December 13, 2007 02:12 PM EST --
So I guess I put too much in the title to have to say much about this, except you earn the right to eat a judicious amount of 70-80% dark chocolate, or whatever your comfort food is, for answering the . . . more
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March 21, 2008 10:25 PM EDT --
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that France will reduce its number of airborne nuclear weapons by one third, leaving France with fewer than 300 warheads, mostly on submarines.
"By . . . more
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November 23, 2007 09:18 PM EST --
How is nuclear waste contained?
How do we assure that the waste produced by nuclear power plants do not contaminate our environment?
Before I did some basic research into nuclear waste I was under . . . more
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February 01, 2008 10:58 PM EST --
Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet by Mark Lynas
National Geographic January 2008 . . . more
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January 19, 2008 04:27 PM EST --
We are barraged by press reports about the dread sedentary lifestyle of Americans. New adverse health consequences seem to be discovered daily. In response to all that, I have donned a virtual . . . more
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November 30, 2007 12:18 AM EST --
What can we expect from the United Nations Climate Change Conference , to be held in Bali, from 3 to 14 December 2007?
One outcome could be an international cap and trade system, allowing nations . . . more
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February 16, 2008 06:41 AM EST --
For more than a year, a panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists looked at ways to improve life on Earth. They came up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges , featured at the National Academy . . . more
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April 16, 2008 06:20 AM EDT --
After publication of Ten Dangers of Global Warming , now more than a year ago, some said that the article was 'alarmist' and had 'dramatized' the impact of global warming. After the Intergovernmental . . . more
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May 15, 2008 03:46 AM EDT --
The US government has listed polar bears as a threatened species, as Arctic sea ice shows dramatic reductions. On Wednesday, US Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne referred to the Endangered Species Act . . . more
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