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Switching from coal to natural gas would accelerate climate change, say scientists
Here is a terrifying, crazy-making truth: Getting off coal will accelerate climate change, at least in the short term.
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Two good (and overlooked) ideas in Obama's jobs plan
David Roberts highlights two great ideas from Obama's jobs plan: greening schools and expanding job-sharing.
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It's raining chemicals
It starts with a distant, unmistakable whine, like a fly in another room you've been too lazy to swat. As the sound grows, I make sure the dog is inside, then grab the camera and head to the pasture.
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How Obama kinda completely missed the boat in his jobs speech
Let's you and me sit down and have some RealTalk™ for a minute: President Obama's jobs speech last night was about as good as it could get -- in the absence of any mention of the core driver of our ongoing global economic recession, which, need I remind you, is probably going to go double-dip.
Here's what he left out, neatly described in a hip, watchable video produced by the folks at the Post Carbon Institute.
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Cartoon version of Rick Perry indistinguishable from the real thing
I wish this Taiwanese animated explainer on Rick Perry said more about his laughable positions on climate science, but you gotta love watching a cartoon version of the Republican front-runner pray for rain and get smacked down by God.
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Gaze upon the eight circles of commuting hell
Take solace, Los Angelenos, in others' pain: In the larger scheme of horrible, horrible commutes, Los Angeles barely rates as moderately painful. On IBM's Commuter Pain Index, L.A. rates a 34. New Delhi, at 72, is more than twice as torturous, and in Mexico City, which ranks the worst, the pain index hits 108.
No matter where you live, though, commuting just sucks and makes the rest of your life suck as well, Infrastructurist reports: -
Superweeds go mainstream
Yikes. Even the business press has begun to notice that pesticide-resistant "superweeds" are dangerous.
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The gas tax is actually super low, thanks to inflation
Eric Cantor thinks that bike sharing is siphoning off way too much of the country's gas tax revenue. And for a Republican like him, raising the tax is out of the question, never mind that, as Greater Greater Washington's Matt Johnson points out, in inflation-adjusted dollars, the gas tax has gone down by 34 percent since 1994, the last time it was raised. And, again in inflation-adjusted dollars, the gas tax was actually highest in 1960.
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First Ozone Standards, Now This?
I woke up this morning wondering if my ears had deceived me. I didn’t remember hearing anything in Obama’s speech last night about clean energy investments or clean energy jobs. So I looked up the transcript and went through it. It turns out Obama did say something along these lines. One thing, one part […]
