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Charlie's Angles
Prince Charles sends veiled message to White House on climate change |
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04 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Charlie's Angles Prince Charles sends veiled message to White House on climate change Britain's Prince Charles has made it clear he views global warming as the direst problem facing the world community. The $6 million question has been: Would he say as much to the notoriously intransigent George Bush during a state dinner this week at the White House? You could cut the diplomatic tension with a fine ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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There's No Progress Like Slow Progress
Lots of talk, no targets at Brit-hosted climate meetings |
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03 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| There's No Progress Like Slow Progress Lots of talk, no targets at Brit-hosted climate meetings Twenty nations participating in a climate-change confab in London this week vowed to take dramatic action to stop global warming. Hee hee ... we never get tired of pulling your chain, do we? Actually, the energy-hungry attendees -- the G8 industrial nations and up-and-coming economic powers like China, India, and Brazil -- ... |
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| Topics: climate, London, news, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Vacation tips for a climate-changed world
WSJ ranks island getaways by how they'll hold during global warming |
Lisa Hymas |
31 Oct 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Power players in the U.S. are finally sitting up and taking note of climate change. But don't get hopeful just yet. They're not leaping to figure out how to retool our industrial system and stave off disaster. Rather, they're calculating which islands will make the best vacation getaways for the rich and famous in a globally warmed world. Yes, The Wall Street Journal has helpfully published 'The Global Climate-Change Island Guide' [subscribers only, alas], informed by t ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, green living, travel (all these topics) |
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Thank you Alanis, thank you PBS, thank you ...
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Chris Schults |
31 Oct 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Looks like Oprah and Leo aren't the only celebs concerned about climate change. This week (Wednesday, Nov. 2, 8-9 PM ET/PT), Alanis Morissette will host and narrate a PBS documentary on global warming: International recording artist Alanis Morissette hosts and narrates a one-hour PBS network prime time documentary on global warming, people across America facing the possibilities of grave consequences of a changing climate, and the innovative individuals, communities ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, TV (all these topics) |
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Lather, Prince, Repeat
Prince Charles frets over climate change, promotes organic foods |
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31 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Lather, Prince, Repeat Prince Charles frets over climate change, promotes organic foods Britain's Prince Charles is getting dreadfully worried about climate change. In an interview with the BBC last week, he called it the "greatest challenge" to face humanity. And on CBS's 60 Minutes last night, he said, "You know, if you look at the latest figures on clima ... |
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| Topics: climate, food and agriculture, news, San Francisco, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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Better Lucky Than Hapless
Study predicts major shifts in European climate during next century |
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28 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Better Lucky Than Hapless Study predicts major shifts in European climate during next century Europe's mountain and Mediterranean regions will be dramatically altered by 21st century climate change, and suffice to say they will not improve as vacation destinations. In a new study in the journal Science, researchers modeled the impacts of a heating planet -- and human responses to it -- on soil conditions, forest cover, and ov ... |
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| Topics: climate, European Union, news (all these topics) |
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Stickin' to the Mann
'Hockey stick' climate study largely holds up to collegial scrutiny |
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26 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Stickin' to the Mann "Hockey stick" climate study largely holds up to collegial scrutiny The dispute over global-warming science has become something of a soap opera in the U.S., and the latest episode portrays a stinging blow to skeptics. Previously, on As the World Burns: In June, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), chair of the House Energy Committee, ordered an inquiry into the famous "hockey stick" study by climatologist Micha ... |
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| Topics: climate, news (all these topics) |
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Noah Man's Land
Major new study says severe weather is likely on the way |
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18 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Noah Man's Land Major new study says severe weather is likely on the way Winter as we know it in the northeast U.S. will vanish. Summers across the country will be hotter, particularly in the parched Southwest. Rain will be less frequent but more torrential when it happens. Loss of property will be "catastrophic," exotic diseases will spread, species will die off. Skippee doo! These apocalyptic scenarios are ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, Northeast, Southwest (all these topics) |
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Helter Swelter
2005 shaping up to be the warmest year on record |
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13 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Helter Swelter 2005 shaping up to be the warmest year on record Is it warm in here? Readings from about 7,200 weather stations worldwide indicate that 2005 will probably be the hottest ... year ... ever -- breaking 1998's record by about one-tenth of a degree Fahrenheit. The Northern Hemisphere is heating faster, with the average 2005 temperature two-tenths of a degree warmer than in 1998. David Rind from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space St ... |
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| Topics: climate, news (all these topics) |
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Seattle Times on climate
Big front-page report says scientists agree: earth warming |
Lisa Hymas |
09 Oct 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Kudos to The Seattle Times and reporter Sandi Doughton for an extensive report on climate change that cuts through the bullshit. Dominating the front page of the Sunday paper, this headline and subhead: The truth about global warming Scientists overwhelmingly agree: The Earth is getting warmer at an alarming pace, and humans are the cause -- no matter what the skeptics say.In a nice touch, the main article highlights some initially skeptical climate scientists who've be ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics) |
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We Mar the World
World Bank study says pollution, climate change hurt millions |
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06 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| We Mar the World World Bank study says pollution, climate change hurt millions The World Bank is not the first institution that comes to mind when you're looking for hard-hitting environmental analysis. But a new report from the powerful development agency asserts that while alcohol, tobacco, and unsafe sex are still the most common threats to human health in developing nations, millions of deaths and a full ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, pollution and waste, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Can 30 million evangelicals be a bad thing?
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Chris Schults |
05 Oct 2005 |
Gristmill |
| 'Environmentalism and the religious worldview' is in the top ten Gristmill posts ranked by the number of comments. Apparently combining these two issues strikes a chord, or at least gets you all riled up. So I'm wondering what y'all think of the Grist interview with Richard Cizik. Regardless of your views on religion, Richard can reach out to over 30 million people -- and he wants them to fight global warming. And if if that isn't enough scripture for you, the Seattl ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental movement, Religion and Spirituality (all these topics) |
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A New Hope
When inheriting the earth isn't such a good deal |
Jihan Gearon |
05 Oct 2005 |
Soapbox |
| I've seen my future, and it's scary. It involves hurricanes, floods, destruction, mass evacuations, disease, and death. Hurricane Katrina and the week after it were a serious wakeup call for me. Youth the force, Luke. Climate change promises me that in my lifetime, I will experience many more events like this. As a young person, I can't help but gnash my teeth at the people and events that have led us to this ... |
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Cizik Matters
An interview with green evangelical leader Richard Cizik |
Amanda Griscom Little |
05 Oct 2005 |
Main Dish |
| Richard Cizik. Photo: National Association of Evangelicals. Polluters will have to answer to God, not just government, according to Richard Cizik. Vice president of governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, Cizik is a pro-Bush Bible-brandishing reverend zealously opposed to abortion, gay marriage, and embryonic stem-cell research. He is also on a mission to convert ... |
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| Topics: climate, God and the Environment, heroes, interview, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Rank and Rile
We must hit the streets to demand action on global warming |
Ted Glick |
30 Sep 2005 |
Soapbox |
| "Given the urgency and magnitude of the escalating pace of climate change, the only hope lies in a rapid and unprecedented mobilization of humanity around this issue ... that some spark might ignite a massive uprising of popular will around a unifying movement for social survival and the promise it holds for a more prosperous, more equitable, and more peaceful world." -- Ross Gelbspan, B ... |
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| Topics: climate, non-government organizations, Washington DC (all these topics) |
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Toujours Gas
France contending with bovine-source greenhouse gases |
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29 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Toujours Gas France contending with bovine-source greenhouse gases France's 20 million cows account for 6.5 percent of the country's greenhouse-gas emissions. Researcher Benoit Leguet of the Climate Mission of Caisse des Depots, a state-owned French bank, contends that bovine belches produce about 28.6 million tons of globe-warming gases annually, primarily methane and nitrous oxide. Cow poop (or as the French ... |
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| Topics: climate, food and agriculture, France, news (all these topics) |
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What Pricey Glory
Carbon sequestration a pricey but feasible way to curb global warming |
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29 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| What Pricey Glory Carbon sequestration a pricey but feasible way to curb global warming Carbon sequestration -- capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions -- isn't a cheap or easy solution to global warming, but it's doable. A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds that with major investments, up to 40 percent of CO2 emissions from large industrial facilities around the ... |
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| Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, news (all these topics) |
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Arctic You Glad We Didn't Say Banana
Arctic ice cap is melting fast, say scientists |
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29 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Arctic You Glad We Didn't Say Banana Arctic ice cap is melting fast, say scientists The Arctic ice cap has shriveled to its smallest size in a century; at this rate of shrinkage, the summer cap may vanish by 2060. Researchers who compiled the data say the process appears to have become self-sustaining: As ice melts, there's more water, which absorbs more solar radiation (white ice reflects better), thus creating more heat, thus makin ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, news (all these topics) |
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Next Up: Jerry Bruckheimer on Defense Policy
Novelist Michael Crichton testifies before Senate on climate change |
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29 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Next Up: Jerry Bruckheimer on Defense Policy Novelist Michael Crichton testifies before Senate on climate change As part of his ongoing attempts to defy parody, Senate Environment Committee chair James Inhofe (R-Okla.) convened a hearing yesterday on climate science, featuring as an "expert" witness ... a novelist. Yup, it was Michael Crichton, whose latest thriller State of ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living, Hillary Clinton, James Inhofe, news, politics (all these topics) |
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London Brawling
Leading U.K. scientist excoriates U.S. on climate-disruption obstruction |
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23 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| London Brawling Leading U.K. scientist excoriates U.S. on climate-disruption obstruction As superstorm Hurricane Rita bears down on Texas and Louisiana, Sir John Lawton, chairman of the U.K.'s Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, told the Independent that neoconservatives in the U.S. ought to reconsider their obstructionist stance on climate change. "If this makes the climate loonies in the States ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics) |
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Quick on the Thaw
Melting Arctic sea ice may have hit point of no return, scientists fear |
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16 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Quick on the Thaw Melting Arctic sea ice may have hit point of no return, scientists fear Experts on the climate of the Arctic have been busy this summer altering their dire predictions for a globally warmed future -- to make them even direr. According to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, the Arctic's sea ice has been gradually retreating since about 1978 -- no surprise there -- but th ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, news (all these topics) |
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Gas Dismissed
Federal judge throws out multistate suit against CO2-spewing utilities |
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16 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Gas Dismissed Federal judge throws out multistate suit against CO2-spewing utilities A U.S. federal judge yesterday delivered a big blow to eight states that had been pushing for power plants to cut their carbon dioxide emissions in an effort to stave off global warming. A coalition of the states plus New York City had filed suit against five utility companies that together own 174 fossil fuel-burning power plants, ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Hurricane You Hear Me Now?
Warming oceans linked to increase in powerful hurricanes and storms |
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16 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Hurricane You Hear Me Now? Warming oceans linked to increase in powerful hurricanes and storms Severe hurricanes and cyclones have become more common worldwide as ocean temperatures have increased, according to a study published today in the journal Science. Georgia Tech climatologist Judith Curry and colleagues studied satellite data from the past 35 years as well as computer models before reaching their conclusion: Category 4 and 5 ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, oceans (all these topics) |
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If You Don't Like the Climate, Wait a Minute
The Weather Channel's climate ace chats about Katrina and sexing up global warming |
Amanda Griscom Little |
15 Sep 2005 |
Main Dish |
| As Hurricane Katrina raged toward the Gulf Coast in late August, more than 4.5 million American homes tuned in to The Weather Channel -- many times the network's average audience. The channel's bright-eyed climate-change expert, Heidi Cullen, was standing by to address the question that was confounding Americans nationwide: Was Katri ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living (all these topics) |
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Giving Us the Business
World's biggest firms give lip service to cutting CO2 but lag on results |
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15 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Giving Us the Business World's biggest firms give lip service to cutting CO2 but lag on results More than 70 percent of the world's 500 largest companies by market capitalization volunteered information on how climate change is affecting their businesses for a survey this year, but the info they released is not exactly heartening. According to a new report by the Carbon Disclosure Project, a London-based initi ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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