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Watch out for those rising seas
Read recently that scientists now think dodos (you remember them) went extinct not at the hands of humans, but because of a natural disaster. Specifically, because of cyclones or rising sea levels.
Those dodos just sat there as sea levels rose? Didn't do anything? Went extinct? Ridiculous.
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Bulldozers in South Central
If you're up for it, go here to see some stomach-churning video of bulldozers taking down the South Central Community Farm, and L.A. police manhandling underage protestors.
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An interview with smart-growth expert and author Anthony Flint
Few debates in the U.S. are more emotionally charged than the one over sprawl — the exodus, since World War II, of America’s middle class from cities to far-flung residential areas. Environmentalists, small farmers, and social-justice activists deplore sprawl for its unhealthy effects on land and communities. Suburbanites bristle at the attacks on their personal […]
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C’est Fin
Sushi popularity means bad news for tuna, WWF warns The popularity of sushi is sending tuna stocks into a downward spiral, says the World Wildlife Fund, warning that Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna will go extinct if commercial fishers continue hooking them at current rates. “The fishery is running out of control,” WWF says […]
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Place Invaders
A warming Antarctica is threatened by invasive species As more tourists and researchers head to Antarctica — gotta see that ice before it’s gone! — scientists are worrying about a different sort of invasion: flora and fauna. “The more individuals of an alien species or nonnative species get there, the more likely something will be […]
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Candid Cameron
Tories and Labor swap positions on nuclear power in U.K. In an interesting switcheroo, the U.K.’s Conservative Party, pro-nuclear in the past, and Prime Minister Tony Blair, skeptical of nuclear in the past, have flip-flopped. Blair this week all but promised to build new nuclear power plants to replace old ones set to go out […]
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Can We Get Back Into the Frying Pan?
Climate change making wildfires worse, study finds Wildfires in the Western U.S. are increasing in frequency and size, and our drier, hotter climate seems to be to blame, says a new study published in Science. Researchers analyzed 1,166 large fires in the West and found that wildfire frequency increased “suddenly and dramatically” in the mid-1980s. […]
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Gore’s sources
I forget who sent me this, but there's a nifty post over on unbossed.com about the sources used for Al Gore's famous slideshow.
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Samuelson’s counsel of despair
A column by Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post has conservatives all a-twitter -- appropriate, I guess, since it gathers all the state-of-the-art conservative talking points on global warming in one place.
Browse around at reactions and the impression you will get above all is that conservatives just don't take the subject very seriously. They're looking for some clever arguments so they can move onto other stuff that gets their viscera churning (terrorism, evil liberals, etc.). This headline is typical: "WaPo: Global Warming a Bunch of Bull."
Of course, that's not what the column says at all. What the column says is that we can't really do anything about global warming, and any politician who says otherwise is a hypocrite. It advocates despair and surrender.
There are two primary points in the column, and one conclusion that follows from the two points. Let's take them in order.
