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UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen
4 hours ago
by Karina
Today, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Steny Hoyer, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, and Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Edward Markey held a press briefing at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the UN Climate Conference, the bipartisan delegat ...
The Gavel - speaker.gov/blog · Rank: 2,595 ·  957 references
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The Problem of Denial
12 hours ago
by Will
At Master Resource, Jim Manzi synthesizes several objections he’s aired to comprehensive greenhouse gas regulations in one easy-to-read Thomas Friedman take-down. I find this stuff pretty persuasive, but it’s worth noting that there’s real tension between objections to cap-and-trade grounded in rigo ...
The League of Ordinary ... - ordinary-gentlemen.com · Rank: 2,139 · 353 references
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Motiviation to give up meat? (and save the planet, maybe)
14 hours ago
by Isobel Hoskins
My colleagues and I have blogged about how eating less meat could reduce one's carbon footprint. But how to motivate people to do this is a problem - people like meat. Here is a reason for men to consider giving up meat - I stumbled over it while searching on Nutrition and Food Sciences Database. Co ...
CABI Blogs: hand picked... ... - cabiblog.typepad.com/hand_picked · Rank: 113,015 · 22 references
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The technology that could save the world is ...
15 hours ago
by Malcolm Woods
... we're not going to tell you. You'll have to click through to the ClimateBiz story that does. Via Digg.com.
Malcolm Woods - blog.outpostnaturalfoods.coop/post_script · Rank: 123,924 · 2 references
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Food was off the table in Copenhagen
15 hours ago
by Malcolm Woods
Climate talks in Copenhagen skipped the issue of food, according to the head of the U.N.'s food agency (Food & Agriculture Organization, or FAO). Jacques Diouf points out the obvious in his interview with Reuters, which is that agriculture is degrading lands and contributing to climate change. But i ...
Malcolm Woods - blog.outpostnaturalfoods.coop/post_script · Rank: 123,924 · 2 references
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Six Reasons Why Earth Won't Cope for Long
16 hours ago
by John
Published on Thursday, December 17, 2009 by The Irish Times by John Gibbons As world leaders arrive in Copenhagen for the crunch phase of the climate conference, the focus turns to what kind of deal is likely to emerge. Pre-eminent climate scientist Prof James Hansen of the Nasa Goddard Institute ha ...
Will Blog for Food - willblogforfood.typepad.com/will_blog_for_food · Rank: 43,636 · 11 references
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NYC takes charge
18 hours ago
by Malcolm Woods
Tweeted by Inhabitat: New York City gets its first electric car charging station, following in the footsteps of west coast sister, San Francisco. This raises all the usual questions about gas, the grid, and public transportation. Call it growing pains for humanity.
Malcolm Woods - blog.outpostnaturalfoods.coop/post_script · Rank: 123,924 · 2 references
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Gas by gas, or all together?
19 hours ago
by Milan
The various chemicals that cause the climate system to warm vary considerably in their characteristics: How strong a warming effect they have How long they remain in the atmosphere What processes produce them Whether they have other positive or negative effects Etc For instance, methane is a much mo ...
a sibilant intake of breath - sindark.com · Rank: 23,851 · 70 references
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Coordinating Controlled Burns
21 hours ago
by Gordie Dickinson
When I first entered the Air Force nearly three decades ago, one of my first environmental duties was to coordinate a controlled burn at our fire training facility with local environmental officials. The county would disapprove a burn if for instance there was an inversion or the winds were expected ...
RoguePundit - roguepundit.typepad.com/roguepundit · Rank: 45,021 · 42 references
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