There’s good news and there’s bad news. That seems to be a common refrain when one takes a broad overview of new research and reporting on topics related to global warming. Observed weather patterns and ecological changes, along with projections of the effects of recent carbon emission data usually constitute bad news. Yet there’s good [...]
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After two weeks of negotiations, the Bonn climate talks ended on Friday and made effectively no progress on efforts to curtail global warming. Participants in the talks are giving credit to all parties for making progress on various technical issues, but the most prominent and crucially important areas of discussion have come to naught, with [...]
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There was an editorial put out online last week, which seems to have been widely circulated among conservative blogs. It says that United States carbon dioxide emissions decreased between 2008 and 2009, then takes that as a jumping-off point for a series of absurd statements about the lack of need for emissions standards, and how [...]
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Once a year, we decide to take a whole 24 hours to acknowledge that the earth is indeed worth our efforts to save. Apologies if that sounds harsh but more often than not, I feel frustration that after 40 years of lobbying, advocacy and mounting evidence to show the impact of humans and industry on [...]
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I land in LA from Australia and the first thing I notice is the cool air brought on by the Northern Hemisphere chill. (I’m from Australia.) The second thing I notice, with a certain amount of jet-lagged induced primal fear, is the eight lane highways jammed packed with cars bigger than houses. After a few [...]
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We have compiled what we believe to be an excellent collection of videos on your favorite celebrities speaking out about the environment, going green, global warming, and other topics that range from humor to documentary style. There are so many things we can do to help in this battle and who better to get us [...]
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