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Mitt Romney tells college grads to have lots of babies
Breed early and breed often. That was the gist of Mitt Romney's advice in a commencement address at Southern Virginia University.
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What would ‘wartime mobilization’ to fight climate change look like?
It would look like a lot of big government, according to a pair of new papers. And it would take a very strong climate movement to get there.
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Farmer- and family-owned wind power rises in Iowa
Iowa ranks third in installed wind power capacity in the U.S., it’s 5,500 megawatts behind only Texas and California (and much higher per capita). But like many windy places, the turbines sprouting from the Iowa prairie are often owned by multinational corporations, taking advantage of the local resource and sending the electricity revenue out of […]
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Climate-denying GOP rep wants to take science-funding decisions away from scientists
Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas has drafted a bill that would let Congress set the criteria for grants awarded by the National Science Foundation.
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Peabody Energy: cheating workers and taxpayers to destroy our climate
Peabody held its annual shareholders meeting in Gillette, Wyoming on Monday, hoping to avoid more of the massive protests the coal company has faced at its headquarters in St. Louis. Indeed, while Peabody executives tried to put a positive spin on the company’s outlook for shareholders in Wyoming, thousands of union mine workers converged in […]
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CO2 in atmosphere poised to blow past 400 ppm mark
In May, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration could exceed 400 parts per million -- way past the 350 level we need to be aiming for.
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Why do conservatives like to waste energy?
Want to sell a Republican a greener lightbulb? Don't tell them it's green.
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‘Degradable Plastic Bag’ Manufacturer Makes False Claims About Product
Recently, our dog chewed up our 10-years-old family compost bin. The new, metal bin we purchased came with “degradable” (e.g., not “BIOdegradable”) bags by a company called Norpro. The Norpro bags claim to be safe to throw into your compost pile, where they degrade. But degrade into what exactly? Won’t the bag simply break down into […]
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Why climate change is not an environmental problem: The video
Watch this cool new video about the threat of climate change and why it doesn't fit in the "environmental" box.
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We have known about climate change for 75 years
Global warming was originally known as the Callendar Effect, in honor of an engineer who discovered it in 1938.
