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Plus Ca (Climate) Change ...
Ancient empires crushed by changing climate -- not that you should worry |
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04 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Plus Ca (Climate) Change ... Ancient empires crushed by changing climate -- not that you should worry Elizabeth Kolbert continues her exploration of climate change in the second of a three-part series in The New Yorker. She begins with a look at the world's first great empire, founded 4,300 years ago on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Around 25 years ago, archeologist Harvey Weiss uncovered one of that empire's great cities and ... |
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| Topics: climate, news (all these topics) |
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Overwhelming Scientific Consensus Grows Overwhelminger
Climate really changing, oceans reveal to researchers |
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29 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Overwhelming Scientific Consensus Grows Overwhelminger Climate really changing, oceans reveal to researchers Hey, did you know that the globe is warming? Really and for true! A new study by researchers at NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Columbia University, published in the journal Science this week, concludes that global warming is real. Really. Lead scientist James Hansen calls the new data a "smoking g ... |
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| Topics: climate, James Hansen, news, oceans (all these topics) |
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Gettin' Busy
U.S. business getting with it on climate change |
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27 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Gettin' Busy U.S. business getting with it on climate change Talk about how the U.S. private sector is taking global warming seriously often flirts with wishful thinking. But we are nothing if not wishful. And flirty. So here goes: It looks like momentum is gathering in the U.S. business community to forthrightly address the issue of climate change. In part due to shareholder and activist lobbying, a growing number ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Next: Clay Aiken Draws a Line In the Sands of Tuvalu
Hollywood celebs travel to Arctic to raise global-warming awareness |
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26 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Next: Clay Aiken Draws a Line In the Sands of Tuvalu Hollywood celebs travel to Arctic to raise global-warming awareness Matt Petersen of Global Green spends his time pondering this weighty question: "[I]n an age and culture that's celebrity-obsessed, how do you in a smart and savvy way use the celebrity to shine the light on the science, on the facts, and on the solution?" When it comes to global warming, th ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, green living, news (all these topics) |
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Let's Talk About Climate Change
To address global warming, we must harness rationality, good science, and enlightened globalization |
Ian McEwan |
25 Apr 2005 |
Soapbox |
| Getting a bird's eye view of the globe. Photo: Marcelo da Mota Silva. The commonplace view of the earth from an airplane at 35,000 feet -- a vista that would have astounded Dickens or Darwin -- can be instructive when we contemplate the fate of our earth. We see faintly, or imagine we can, the spherical curve of the horizon and, by extrapol ... |
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| Topics: climate, green living (all these topics) |
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Shock and Thaw
New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change |
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25 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Shock and Thaw New Yorker launches three-part exploration of climate change Writer Elizabeth Kolbert must have single-handedly accelerated global warming with the jet fuel she burned visiting the Arctic, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, and the Antarctic to research a big three-part series on climate change for The New Yorker. What did she find? Well, it's all melting. The Alaskan village of Shi ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Greenland, Iceland, news (all these topics) |
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Ice Hassles
Antarctic glaciers rapidly melting |
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22 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Ice Hassles Antarctic glaciers rapidly melting Wanna travel to Antarctica, but worried about all that ice? Worry no more. On the Antarctic Peninsula, a 1,200-mile-long mountain chain 600 miles south of Argentina, about 212 of the 244 glaciers are retreating, fast. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the British Antarctic Survey studied photos and satellite data from the 1940s to 2001, concluding ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, news, US Geological Survey (all these topics) |
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Oh, Right, I Knew We Were Forgetting Something!
Bush climate-change research won't research climate-change effects |
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22 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Oh, Right, I Knew We Were Forgetting Something! Bush climate-change research won't research climate-change effects According to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, the "more research" President Bush is always touting as his response to climate change is overlooking an area some might consider important -- namely, what effects global warming might have on people and the environment (oh, that!). In fact, the G ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics (all these topics) |
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You've Come a Long Way, Maybe
Stats on how far we've come (or haven't) since the first Earth Day |
Todd Hymas |
22 Apr 2005 |
Counter Culture |
| Photo: NASA. 3.7 billion -- world population in 19701 6.4 billion -- world population in 20051 1,535 billion -- kilowatt-hours of electricity used in the U.S. in 19702 3,837 billion -- kilowatt-hours of electricity expected to be used in the U.S. in 20053 6.0 -- percentage of electricity in U.S. consumed in 1970 produced from renewable sources4 6.7 -- percentage of electrici ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, GMOs, oil, placemaking, population, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics) |
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Let's Get Quizzical
On the climate-change literacy of Umbra readers |
Umbra Fisk |
21 Apr 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dearest Readers, Happy Earth Day. I have mixed feelings as I look forward to the planet's special holiday tomorrow. Happiness on the occasion of anniversaries: Grist (six years), me at Grist (three years), Earth Day (35 years). Sadness, for this column shall be my last edited by my august editor, and we are having an argument. We disagree about the climate-change literacy of Umbra readers, and we mus ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate (all these topics) |
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Imagine That
What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art |
Bill McKibben |
21 Apr 2005 |
Soapbox |
| Shall I compare thee to climate change? Here's the paradox: if the scientists are right, we're living through the biggest thing that's happened since human civilization emerged. One species, ours, has by itself in the course of a couple of generations managed to powerfully raise the temperature of an entire planet, to knock its most basic systems out of kilter. But oddly, though we know about it, we don' ... |
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| Topics: art, Bill McKibben, climate, green living (all these topics) |
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Dearth Day
Earth Day goings-on don't measure up to dark drama on Capitol Hill |
Amanda Griscom Little |
21 Apr 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Today, on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the first Earth Day, the House of Representatives is voting on, and widely expected to pass, a grossly porkified energy bill that would dole out billions in subsidies to fossil-fuel industries, shortchange alternative-energy and efficiency initiatives, and indemnify makers of the gasoline additive MTBE against liability for groundwater co ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, League of Conservation Voters, Muckraker, NRDC, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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EIA, EIA ... Oh
Greenhouse-gas limits affordable, study says; 'Told ya so,' E.U. replies |
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20 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| EIA, EIA ... Oh Greenhouse-gas limits affordable, study says; "Told ya so," E.U. replies A new study by the Energy Information Administration, an independent arm of the U.S. Energy Department, reveals that mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions would not significantly affect the country's economic growth through 2025. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, the report contradicts the principal argument the Bush ad ... |
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| Topics: climate, Department of Energy, news (all these topics) |
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Rock the Bloat
Some conservatives getting uncomfortable with energy-bill pork |
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20 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Rock the Bloat Some conservatives getting uncomfortable with energy-bill pork A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, being a conservative meant favoring free markets and smaller, less intrusive federal government. A shrinking number of conservatives still cling to the old ways, and they are disturbed by the energy bill making its way through the House. Though Republican leaders promised to trim the bill down from the ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, news, politics (all these topics) |
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The Best 'Science' Money Can Buy
ExxonMobil plows millions into funding for 40 climate-skeptic groups |
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19 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Best "Science" Money Can Buy ExxonMobil plows millions into funding for 40 climate-skeptic groups In 1998, the American Petroleum Institute outlined a strategy to sow the seeds of doubt about global-warming science "with Congress, the media, and other key audiences." "Victory will be achieved," read an API memo, "when ... recognition of uncertainty becomes part of the 'conventional wisdom. ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, news, oil (all these topics) |
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And By 'Miscellaneous' We Mean 'Nefarious'
Substantial changes to Clean Air Act slipped into energy bill |
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18 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| And By "Miscellaneous" We Mean "Nefarious" Substantial changes to Clean Air Act slipped into energy bill Buried deep in the energy bill, filed under "Miscellaneous," is a tiny bit of text that could affect the Clean Air Act in a big way. The provision, authored by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, would allow "downwind" state ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, energy, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Here's a Solution. Now What Was Your Problem Again?
Bush administration pushes energy bill as solution to high gas prices |
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18 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Here's a Solution. Now What Was Your Problem Again? Bush administration pushes energy bill as solution to high gas prices American citizens -- or "consumers," as they're known these days -- are irritated about high gas prices, and many of them blame President Bush, whose popularity has hit new lows. Of course, presidents are hardly responsible for short-term swings in commodity prices. Nevertheless, ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, gas prices, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Hey Joe, Where You Goin' With That Bill in Your Hand?
Joe Barton leading GOP charge to push energy bill through House |
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14 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Hey Joe, Where You Goin' With That Bill in Your Hand? Joe Barton leading GOP charge to push energy bill through House Undaunted by repeated defeats, House Republicans are having yet another go at crafting energy legislation that can make it through the Senate while still preserving massive energy-industry subsidies and tax breaks. This time around, they'll have a powerful ally in the new chair of the House Energy and Comme ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Star Wars: The Celebs Strike Back
Hollywood infuses green movement with star power |
Amanda Griscom Little |
14 Apr 2005 |
Muckraker |
| All signs on Capitol Hill point to a royally depressing Earth Day 2005 (that would be next Friday): inertia on global warming, revival of the industry-friendly energy bill, a widely reviled plan to address mercury pollution, the looming prospect of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And though it's the 35th anniversary of the first Earth Day, D.C.-based environm ... |
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| Topics: Cameron Diaz, celebrity, climate, green living, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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Paul, Returned From Damascus
Duke Energy CEO has climate-change conversion, proposes carbon tax |
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08 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Paul, Returned From Damascus Duke Energy CEO has climate-change conversion, proposes carbon tax In a letter to shareholders last week, Duke Energy Corp. CEO Paul Anderson announced his company's decision to lobby for a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions -- a move that shocked shareholders and has some greens scratching their heads. Anderson said in a speech yesterday that he realized the tax would mean bigger bills and higher gas pric ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, news (all these topics) |
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Giuliani-Come-Lately
Giuliani joins law firm renowned for defending energy interests |
Amanda Griscom Little |
08 Apr 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani -- whose name is often bandied about as a possible 2008 GOP presidential contender -- added a splash of deep red to his moderate-Republican profile when he announced last week his decision to join a Texas-based law firm known for representing heavy-hitting energy companies. Rudy Giuliani. Photo: NYC.gov. Enron, ChevronTexaco, Pacific G ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, Muckraker, New York, politics, Rudy Giuliani (all these topics) |
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Friedman Fighter
An interview with New York Times columnist and 'geo-green' advocate Thomas Friedman |
Amanda Griscom Little |
05 Apr 2005 |
Main Dish |
| An interview with New York Times columnist and "geo-green" advocate Thomas Friedman By Amanda Griscom Little 05 Apr 2005 Thomas Friedman. Photo: Greg Martin. As the green movement fends off accusations of impotence, Thomas Friedman has hatched an idea that could make a man out of environmentalism. In January, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times debuted his "geo-green" strategy, a powerful proposal for reframing America's ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, interview, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Diamonds Are Forever
Swiss glacier to be wrapped up, saved for later |
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05 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Diamonds Are Forever Swiss glacier to be wrapped up, saved for later A Swiss ski resort worried about global warming's ill effects on its future is taking matters into its own mittened hands. At the ski season's end in May, the Andermatt resort will cover some 32,200 square feet of the Gurschen glacier with an insulating PVC foam in hopes of keeping its black diamonds from melting in ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental planning, news, outdoor recreation, Switzerland (all these topics) |
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Today a Report, Tomorrow ... Well, We'll See
Ford acknowledges global warming, but makes no big promises |
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31 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Today a Report, Tomorrow ... Well, We'll See Ford acknowledges global warming, but makes no big promises Pressure from shareholder activists is producing effects at large companies -- if not yet concrete proposals to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, at least notable signals that they're starting to take global warming seriously. The latest to hop on the bandwagon is Ford Motor Co., expected to announce today that it w ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, news, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Emission Creep
Critics question World Bank's role as carbon trader, fossil-fuel funder |
Daphne Wysham |
25 Mar 2005 |
Soapbox |
| For as long as it's been around, the World Bank has been prone to mission creep. Established 60 years ago to rebuild war-torn Europe, it morphed into an institution whose raison d'etre was to help developing countries advance, then refined its focus on poverty alleviation and sustainable development in the 1980s and '90s. During that time, it took on the role of effectively creatin ... |
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| Topics: Brazil, business, climate, India, pollution and waste, South Africa (all these topics) |
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