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Frank Capra film warned of climate change 50 years ago

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:56 PM
The 1958 Frank Capra educational film The Unchained Goddess contains a specific and prophetic warning about excess carbon dioxide emissions from industry and transportation, and their potential to trigger catastrophic global warming: Even now, Man may
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Growing urgency on climate change

Monday, April 07, 2008 10:29 PM
We've ignored the climate change problem for too long, and it may already be too late to do anything about it. The international targets for atmospheric carbon dioxide are currently pegged at 550 parts per million. According to James Hansen, that level
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Tactical foot-dragging by the Bush gang

Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:15 PM
Two stories from yesterday illustrate the Bush administration's use of foot-dragging as a tactical maneuver in their war against the proper role of government. First, the EPA is refusing to comply in a timely manner with a Supreme Court decision from
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Three cool stories

Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:44 PM
Three very cool stories caught my eye today. 1) Researchers have managed to decipher and play back a recording made nearly two decades before Edison's phonograph. The phonautogram was made in France in 1860 and represents the earliest known recording
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Melting from pole to pole

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:30 PM
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a region of ice in Antarctica roughly the size of Connecticut, and it is collapsing much faster than scientists had predicted. In 1993, the British Antarctic Survey issued a forecast that the shelf would collapse within 30 years;
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Southern Baptists shift on global warming

Monday, March 10, 2008 8:32 PM
In a fairly surprising move, leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have adopted a position on global warming which stands in direct contradiction to their position taken only a year ago : Signaling a significant departure from the Southern Baptist
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Theme of the day: contempt

Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:38 PM
Contempt seems to be a common theme in today's news cycle: Josh Bolten and Karl Rove have been held in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas in the US attorney firing scandal. The White House and the obstructionist Senate Republicans
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Ominous signs

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:53 PM
From the AP via HuffPo : An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would
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Carbon dioxide reduction may be cheaper than you think

Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:55 PM
Perhaps the most frequently cited canard used as an argument against reducing carbon dioxide emissions is the allegation that it would be prohibitively expensive; some extreme analyses have placed the estimate as high as $20 trillion. A new study shows
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A forked tongue speaks in Bali

Monday, December 03, 2007 9:55 PM
The Bali conference on climate change has begun; its goal is to establish a framework for negotiating a treaty which will pick up the slack when the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012. The US delegation and the White House have been making public pronouncements
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When jellyfish attack

Thursday, November 22, 2007 8:04 PM
This sounds like the plot of a bad 50's sci-fi movie, but it's real : Billions of jellyfish in a dense school covering 10 square miles wiped out the entire population of more than 100,000 fish at Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, the business owners
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Applying the brakes, one way or another

Monday, November 19, 2007 10:28 PM
Within the coming years, one (or both) of the following phenomena will force us to apply the brakes to our reckless production of carbon dioxide and our insane habit of burning hydrocarbons for fuel: 1) Peak oil will limit the amount of hydrocarbons we
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Climate change could be "abrupt and irreversible"

Friday, November 16, 2007 2:12 PM
The IPCC is about to release an updated summary report on the looming consequences of climate change : Climate change may bring "abrupt and irreversible" impacts, the UN's climate advisory panel is set to announce. [...] Among its top-line conclusions
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The ongoing environmental impact of Katrina and Rita

Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:17 PM
This is astonishing : New satellite imaging has revealed that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in America -- an essentially unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged some 320 million
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Global warming will be worse than previously thought

Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:04 PM
The IPCC report released earlier this year was unrealistic, according to the IEA : Emissions of greenhouse gases will rise by 57 percent by 2030 compared to current levels, leading to a rise in Earth's surface temperature of at least three degrees Celsius
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Environmental alarm bells are ringing

Friday, October 26, 2007 8:54 PM
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has released a landmark report (called GEO-4) on the state of the global environment. Authored by 388 scientists from around the world and peer-reviewed by another 1,000, the report details the most urgent
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Idiotic White House officials, and a sign of the Apocalypse

Friday, October 19, 2007 8:35 PM
It comes as no surprise that a member of the Bush regime would say something this idiotic about global warming : The president's top science adviser said yesterday there is no solid scientific evidence that the widely cited goal of limiting future global
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Gore's talk on climate change

Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:20 PM
Via Djuggler , this video of Al Gore from February 2006 discusses fifteen things we can do as individuals to help mitigate the effects of global warming. The first several minutes are a hilarious monologue of self-deprecating humor and personal observations
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A widening gap and a justified award

Friday, October 12, 2007 10:04 PM
Two mostly unrelated things struck me today. First, of course, was the news of Al Gore and the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize . Any man who can push right wing zealots and their libertarian enablers to extremes of rage merely by winning an award is
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Oil industry wastes $40 billion per year by "flaring" gas

Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:10 AM
This is incredible: a study conducted by NOAA has concluded that the practice of "flaring" natural gas (burning it at the outlet of an oil well) wastes an amount of gas worth $40 billion per year, resulting in an unnecessary annual injection of 400 million
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