Tag: climate change
group name: sustainability
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November 03, 2009 04:07 PM EST --
"We all know, we have no time to lose."
These are the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel today in an address to a joint session of the US Congress.
And she didn't stop there. . . .
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November 25, 2007 01:57 PM EST --
This link to a YouTube video was sent to me by my uncle. I watched it, saved the email as new, and just came across it again today.
This is one of the best presentations I have seen as to why we should . . .
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August 22, 2008 11:02 PM EDT --
I spotted this tidbit today while websurfing:
Observers flying over Alaska's northwest coast spotted nine polar bears in one day swimming in the open ocean.Scientists say this is an increase from . . .
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July 19, 2009 08:54 PM EDT --
* it's a suggestion from another gather participant. I am not making this up!
" Try this physical experiment: lock yourself in a sealed room with a thermometer. Take note of the temperature, then exhale, . . .
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November 09, 2008 10:19 AM EST --
That is the choice that George W. Bush constantly offered you. Sure, climate change is a bad thing, and yes, it might have something to do with the billions of tons of carbon that we add to the sky annually, . . .
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May 29, 2009 10:22 AM EDT --
Try this:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/29/annan.climate.change.human/index.html
Those durn greeniacs at the United Nations, they just won't shut up about climate change, will they? . . .
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March 07, 2009 06:52 AM EST --
It's called, The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change and bills itself as "the world's largest-ever gathering of global warming skeptics." The conference, whose theme is . . .
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April 14, 2009 04:21 PM EDT --
For thousands of years the use of solar energy has shaped human settlements
and cities, farming and forestry, architecture and buildings, landscapes and
territories, religious beliefs and cultures, . . .
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April 13, 2008 06:21 PM EDT --
I am curious about this topic both because of the spike in gas prices and because of climate change. Over the past 20 odd years, we have talked quite a bit about the need to reduce our use of gasoline . . .
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February 07, 2008 08:39 PM EST --
Here are a couple of news items involving climate change, lest you permit that important political, economic, and environmental topic to stray off your personal radar screen.
Tornadoes
Oh come . . .
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July 08, 2008 09:49 PM EDT --
The G8 summit issued a lofty declaration: we are going to reduce our carbon emissions by 50% by the year 2050. No details on how, no timetable between now and then. So I guess the plan is to do nothing . . .
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May 26, 2008 10:29 AM EDT --
Around two hundred thousand people are dead in the Irawaddy delta of Myanmar, and perhaps another two million are homeless, hungry, and thirsty. The weather event causing this was dubbed "Cyclone . . .
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January 30, 2007 04:28 PM EST --
This Friday, February 2 – in Paris – scientists from around the world will release a report that assesses signs of global warming and takes a stand on whether it’s man or nature who holds . . .
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March 07, 2009 10:40 AM EST --
The question occurred to me this morning as I was enjoying David K's thread on the conference in NYC for the climate change denial people. Between the lines was the reality that many of us relate . . .
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November 30, 2007 08:37 AM EST --
At last, the climate change debate has started to move beyond the question "does it exist". It is now possible to begin discussing the real question: "what are we going to do about it". . . .
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March 01, 2009 09:43 AM EST --
The arctic is an odd place. In recent millenia, it has remained cold enough there for the soils to remain frozen year round. Vegetation in much of the arctic is limited to surface plants that are . . .
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April 13, 2009 06:48 AM EDT --
A cardboard cooker which uses the sun's energy to boil water has won a global competition for the best innovation to tackle climate change.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5128004/Cardboard-cooker-wins-global- . . .
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November 01, 2009 10:06 AM EST --
The United States faces the potential for abrupt climate change in the 21st century that could pose clear risks to society in terms of our ability to adapt.
These changes in climate and related . . .
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March 14, 2009 06:40 AM EDT --
As I noted previously , the University of Copenhagen this past week hosted an international scientific congress on climate change under the heading "Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and . . .
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March 25, 2009 05:11 PM EDT --
Just out of curiosity since I've posted some articles related to global warming lately, I checked to see what other articles others who have been commenting on mine have written on the subject. . . .
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