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Headline	Author	Published	Section
What will we look like in 2050? America's climate and energy future	Joseph Romm	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. A few weeks ago, one of the presidential candidates' advisors challenged a group of climate leaders to describe America's future. His challenge triggered a flurry of e-mails as we attempted to articulate a vision. We talked about carbon caps and price signals and new investments in R&D. That's fine, the advisor responded, but what it the v ...
Topics: United States, climate, energy, green living, placemaking, politics, economy (all these topics)

The Big Picture Climate change too slow for Hollywood, too fast for the rest of us	Bill McKibben	04 May 2004	Soapbox
It's always been hard to get people to take global warming seriously because it happens too slowly. Not slowly in geological terms -- by century's end, according to the consensus scientific prediction, we'll have made the planet warmer than it's been in tens of millions of years. But slowly in NBC Nightly News terms. From day to day, it's hard to discern the catastrophe, so we don't ge ...
Topics: climate, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Terror Error Top British Scientist Calls Global Warming Bigger Threat Than Terrorism		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Terror Error Top British Scientist Calls Global Warming Bigger Threat Than Terrorism Which menacing global problem should be keeping you up at night: terrorism or climate change? Britain's top government scientist is creating a bit of a stir by arguing that it's the latter, and lambasting President Bush for having his priorities all out of whack. In an article in today's issue of the U.S. jo ...
Topics: climate, green living, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

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