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Greenland ice could fuel severe U.S. sea
level rise . . .
Wed May 27, 2009 ...
Reuters reports that Sea levels off the northeast coast of North America could
rise by 12 to 20 inches more than other coastal areas if the Greenland
glacier-melt continues to accelerate at its present pace, the researchers
reported. . .
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Climate change hits Australia first, and
hard . . . Floods, fires, droughts, disease,
extinctions and a dying Great Barrier Reef may be a hint of things to come
globally. In the 1959 Gregory Peck classic “On the Beach,” humanity's last
holdouts in the aftermath of a global nuclear war huddle in Australia and wait
for the inevitable atomic wind to carry the rest of the species away. When it
comes to today's real-world climate crisis, though, Australia is going first,
not last . . .
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Climate Change Myths and Facts . . .
A recent controversy over claims about climate
science by Washington Post op-ed columnist George F. Will raises a critical
question: Can we ever know, on any contentious or politicized topic, how to
recognize the real conclusions of science and how to distinguish them from
scientific-sounding spin or misinformation? . . .
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100's of Years Needed to Undo Global Warming
Effects ... Even if the world can cap carbon dioxide
emissions tied to global warming, expect to see droughts and sea level rise that
span centuries, not just decades, according to a new study sponsored by the U.S.
government ...
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Cliffside lawsuit gets under way ...
ASHEVILLE – A federal judge was expected to hear arguments
beginning Oct. 16 to determine if construction of Duke Energy's new coal-fired
generator in Rutherford County should be put on hold. A hearing was set for 10
a.m. Oct. 16 in U.S. District Court in Asheville ...
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You will experience global warming in your
mailbox ... Most people assume that the effects
of climate change are going to be felt through another big disaster, like
Katrina. Not necessarily, says Minik Thorleif Rosing, a top geologist at
Denmark’s National History Museum .... “Most people will actually feel climate
change delivered to them by the postman,” he explains. It will come in the form
of higher water bills, because of increased droughts in some areas; higher
energy bills, because the use of fossil fuels becomes prohibitive; and higher
insurance and mortgage rates, because of much more violently unpredictable
weather. ...
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Candidates showing weakness on energy
issue ... A nation that uses one-quarter of the
world’s oil while possessing less than 3 percent of its reserves cannot drill
its way to happiness at the pump, much less self-sufficiency. The only plausible
strategy is to cut consumption while embarking on a serious program of
alternative fuels and energy sources.
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Population Growth Driving Global Warming
... since 1960 the United States population has
increased by 70%, from 180 million to 300 million today. China’s
population has more than doubled since 1960, from 600 million to 1.3 billion,
and India has practically tripled its population in the same period, growing
from 443 million to 1.14 billion today ....
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President's Commission Confirms Human
Complicity in Global Warming
LA Times - Thursday, May 29 ... President
Bush's top science advisors issued a comprehensive report Thursday that for the
first time endorses what most scientific experts have long asserted: that
greenhouse gases from fossil fuel combustion "are very likely the single largest
cause" of Earth's warming.... Continued
Idle Not and help clear the
air ... (by Eva Ritchey)
Posted May 22, 2008 ... Ever stood on a home plate, had your eye firmly on the
ball and missed it? Most of us have a keen gaze on those ever climbing gasoline
numbers and can quote to the decimal that 49-cent state and federal gasoline
tax. However, there's another slider pitch out there that sneaks right on by us
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An epidemic of extinctions: Decimation of
life on earth...
Friday, 16 May 2008 ... Species are dying out at a
rate not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs, according to a report published
today – and human behaviour is to blame.
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NASA Scientist Warns Carbon Dioxide Targets Too Low...
England ... One of the
world's leading climate scientists warns today that the EU and its international
partners must urgently rethink targets for cutting carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere because of fears they have grossly underestimated the scale of the
problem.
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Coal Destructive and Dirty ...
Citizen-Times, Mar. 28, Asheville ... Armed with behemoth
earth-moving machines, bunker-busting explosives and other terrors of modern
technology, surface mining operations exact a devastating, far too often deadly,
toll on the people, communities and ecosystems in which they occur. Rapaciously
transforming majestic forested mountain ranges into flattened, eerily lifeless
moonscapes, mountaintop-removal coal mining in the Appalachian Mountains is by
far the most egregious type of surface mining.
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