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Author! Author!
Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan waxes poetic on climate change From 35,000 feet above the earth’s surface, you can see awe-inspiring views of vast, open spaces. Unless, that is, you’re flying over spots like Mexico City and Beijing, in which case you’ll see “a great rim of grime — as though detached from an unwashed […]
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Ice Hassles
Antarctic glaciers rapidly melting Wanna travel to Antarctica, but worried about all that ice? Worry no more. On the Antarctic Peninsula, a 1,200-mile-long mountain chain 600 miles south of Argentina, about 212 of the 244 glaciers are retreating, fast. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the British Antarctic Survey studied photos and satellite data […]
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Oh, Right, I Knew We Were Forgetting Something!
Bush climate-change research won’t research climate-change effects According to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, the “more research” President Bush is always touting as his response to climate change is overlooking an area some might consider important — namely, what effects global warming might have on people and the environment (oh, that!). In fact, the GAO […]
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Souuuueeeee!
House passes pork-laden energy bill The House of Representatives approved broad energy legislation yesterday by a vote of 249 to 183. The 1,000-plus-page bill contains some $12 billion in tax breaks and subsidies for energy companies, less than 5 percent of which go to clean energy or energy conservation. It contains a provision that would […]
