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Global energy outlook: not so great

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:34 PM
The International Energy Agency has published an updated forecast of the world's energy consumption and the current trajectory of our changing climate, and the outlook isn't very optimistic. The usually staid organization opens its World Energy Outlook
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EPA admits the problem, refuses to act

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:03 PM
A Supreme Court decision from 2007 ( PDF here ) mandated that the Environmental Protection Agency was required under the Clean Air Act to determine if anthropogenic carbon dioxide represents a threat to human health. In December, the EPA sent an email
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Cheney's office tampered with testimony

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:50 PM
This is hardly shocking : Members of Vice President Cheney's staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official on the health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said today. In a letter to Sen.
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GOP obstructionism and collapsing ice shelves

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 7:32 PM
Today, GOP obstructionists in the Senate filibustered a bill which would have provided tax incentives to build out renewable energy sources and which would have extended tax credits for individuals to purchase plug-in hybrid automobiles. The bill would
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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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