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The United States Needs to Lead on Climate Finance
This piece was co-written by Sean Sarah, National Press Desk, Alliance for Climate Protection. Today, the Alliance for Climate Protection and the Center for American Progress released a report, based on analysis by Climate Advisers and Project Catalyst, that provides a blueprint for how the United States can show leadership on climate finance, despite current […]
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The Climate Post: Scientific papers paint most accurate portrait of Earth’s future yet
Just in time for the ongoing talks in Cancun, Mexico, the U.K.'s Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research has rounded up a trove of cutting-edge scientific research that paints what may be the most accurate portrait of Earth's future to date. Plus, how to blame extreme weather on climate change (without having to apologize for doing so) and what Tea Partiers and environmentalists agree on.
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King Corn's bad pre-Thanksgiving week
Tomorrow, millions of people will feast on flavorless turkeys raised in tight quarters and stuffed with industrially produced, genetically modified corn. You'd think King Corn would be grinning ear-to-ear this week. Instead, His Majesty is furious!
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Obama, Gates, and Gore come out against Prop 23 as No forces widen lead
This week, Barack Obama and Al Gore came out against California's Prop 23, Bill Gates wrote a fat check, and the No position is ahead in the polls.
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Anatomy of a Senate climate bill death
Ryan Lizza's recent New Yorker piece provides an interesting insider view of the rise and fall of climate legislation in the Senate. But Lizza gives short shrift to the real reasons Senate passage of climate legislation was impossible in 2010: the deep recession, unified and uncompromising opposition in the Senate, and big spending by oil, coal, and other energy interests. Let's take a close look at these factors.
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Latest Gulf oil well explosion was no disaster, but what does it say about offshore drilling?
Thursday's fire in the Gulf had little in common with the BP disaster, but critics of offshore drilling say it highlights how risky the practice is.
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Gigantic wind turbines, flush power, biodegradable coffins, and 7 more tales of green
There's an oil spill in Michigan and the energy bill's now a slip of a thing, but a lot of other stuff happened in recent days that didn't grab big headlines. Here are 10 stories from the greenosphere that you might have missed.
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In a bizarre self-inflicted wound, The New Republic hires right-wing misinformer
Why would you trust a magazine that doesn’t trust itself? In a baffling display of ‘balance as bias’ – or perhaps ‘balance as baloney‘ – The New Republic has hired right-wing misinformer Jim Manzi to spread confusion about their articles. Maybe magazines don’t bother employing fact checkers anymore, but when I coauthored the cover story […]
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Remember when the blizzards killed global warming?
Here in the crock pot they call the East Coast, local news stations are rolling out video from those days last February when we were all snow, all the time. But they keep leaving out the best part — clips showing some of our favorite rants about how two feet of snow proved proved global […]
