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Countries aren't sitting on the sidelines waiting for a final international climate agreement
One of key outcomes of international global warming negotiations must be a focus on what actions key countries undertake to reduce their emissions. On that front, there are promising signs. Countries accounting for over 80% of the world’s emissions have now committed to specific actions that they will undertake at home to reduce their global […]
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Why do you love the place you live? We want to know
Tell us what makes you care about the place you live, or the place where you grow up. We'll publish your responses.
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Greenhouse gas pledges aren't enough to stop global warming
Even if all the countries that pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions live up to their commitments, it's still not enough to control global warming. Plus, Satan and climate change deniers.
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Why does the American public suddenly believe in climate change less?
In the U.S., belief in human-caused climate change has dropped off considerably since 2008 or so. People have come up with some pretty baroque theories around this, but the explanation seems simple enough: the economy has been in the tank and partisanship has been on the rise.
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A mostly vegetarian school gets bloody over turkeys
When the peace-loving Arthur Morgan School community in North Carolina decided to raise and kill our own turkeys, we found ourselves in the throes of an ethical debate about eating meat.
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Dragging Boulder school food into the computer age
U.S. school food operations are at the end of the line when it comes to adopting modern technology. And that helps account for why they have trouble making ends meet under the federally-funded school meals program.
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What is the Call to Action on Climate?
Today I got a call from a rock concert producer. “We care about climate. We want to get the audience to act. What is the call to action?” This is a deceptively simply question, but it’s also THE question of our age. Meanwhile, I’ve been asked “what should I do?” by audience members, by […]
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Is birth control in our water destroying the environment?
Blaming birth control for estrogen in water is a distraction from the egregious use of synthetic estrogens by chemical companies and factory farms.
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Attention, cap-and-trade fans: the carbon-tax people are not going away
This past weekend, about 500 people gathered at Wesleyan College in Middletown, Conn., for the Pricing Carbon Conference.
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Climate science rapid response team debunks Bjorn Lomborg
In an op-ed in Washington Post, Bjorn Lomborg argued that efforts to reduce global warming pollution can wait, because "coping with climate change is something we know how to do." To bolster that claim, Lomborg claimed global sea levels are not likely to rise more than about 20 inches by 2100. Because the Post did not bother to fact-check Lomborg's column, the Wonk Room and a group of top climate scientists took on the task.
