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Did climate change cause the Great Lobster Invasion of 2012?
The Slow Ride Stories crew takes this question to the guys who know this creature best -- the lobstermen of Glocester, Mass. The answer? Well, depends who you’re asking.
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Obama to college students: ‘Denying climate change won’t make it stop’
Obama doesn't like to talk much about climate change -- except to select audiences of those who will suffer the most from global warming: college students.
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As you enjoy your Labor Day, here’s something to worry about
The negative feedback loop of greenhouse-gas release from thawing permafrost is in full swing in Siberia.
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Global food prices spike 10% in July, thanks largely to drought
Seventy-eight percent of the U.S. corn crop is in fair or worse condition.
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Drought is ruining people’s ability to throw cow dung at things
When it’s really hot and dry out, cows stay near the barn. When cows stay near the barn, they do not poop in open fields. When cows don’t poop in open fields, those fields don’t get full of dried-out manure chips. When the fields don’t get full of dried-out manure chips, people have nothing to […]
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These charts of record temperatures in New York are trying to tell you something
But we can't for the lives of us figure out what.
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Free-market hypocrisy: Why do we hold renewables to different standards?
Calls for a "free-market" approach to energy ignore the fact that recent incentives for renewables are no different than the perks fossil fuels and nuclear energy have enjoyed for decades.
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Obama calls for massive push on industrial efficiency
The president set a goal of 40 gigawatts of combined heat and power (which we explain) in industrial facilities by 2020.
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Mr. Rand Paul wants you to be nice to Mr. Exxon Mobil
Mr. Gristmill scoffs, kicks sand in his face.
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The hurricane (Isaac) is dead. Long live the hurricane (Kirk).
And waiting in the wings -- Leslie, the second-earliest "L" storm in history.
