Tag: international politics
member name: Ethan G.
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April 09, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Protestors are massing in San Francisco ( Yahoo ) after the Olympic torch was disrupted and had to be extinguished five times, before finally being carried by bus, in Paris. ( NPR ) I think this . . .
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July 29, 2007 09:24 PM EDT --
Scorching heat, swarming insects, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, drought, fever. These could be coming soon to a neighborhood near you
Scientists warn that extreme weather events are likely to . . .
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May 14, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
In 1999, when the Senate rejected by 95-0 the Kyoto Climate Treaty designed to reduce global warming gasses, treaty opponents made a good point. Kyoto excluded developing countries, such as China . . .
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November 05, 2007 08:55 PM EST --
The environment doesn’t recognize international boundaries. Vast dust storms from China blow over neighboring countries and reach as far as the United States. Israel and neighboring . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:25 PM EST --
We are living in a time of escalating extremes. Climate change devastation may be arriving faster than expected, but wondrous new technologies may allow us to stop the worst.
Global climate skeptics . . .
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March 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
The word is now out: many biofuels, such as corn ethanol, actually cause global warming according to two studies published in Science in February. Why? Their production leads to clearing of . . .
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May 05, 2008 02:35 PM EDT --
Global warming is in the middle of a ten-year pause according to an article in Nature . Because this is a peer reviewed scientific article published in a major journal it must be taken . . .
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December 03, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
The Kyoto Treaty, intended to decrease global warming, is set to expire in 2012. Leaders from around the world are meeting in Bali , Indonesia to discuss what will replace it.
The Kyoto Treaty . . .
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June 17, 2008 09:07 AM EDT --
Renewable energy is expanding voraciously and will do so even faster, according to experts at a Worldwatch Institute panel ( Tipping Point ). Wind power is already in the midst of an explosion, . . .
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August 07, 2008 03:35 PM EDT --
I’ve just finished reading James Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World, which includes a powerful analysis of our environmental dangers along with a visionary approach to solving them. Unlike . . .
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February 09, 2008 02:42 PM EST --
Two great environmental champions have, for me, long smacked of hypocrisy. One is Robert F. Kennedy Junior, a great advocate of clean energy—until it comes to wind farms off the coast of his . . .
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November 19, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
Ever feel the urge to make bold decisions that influence the future of the world? To balance economic and environmental factors through tough negotiations? Now you can, if only in play. . . .
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March 12, 2008 08:13 PM EDT --
**I posted this three weeks ago but didn't post it to my "groups" because I didn't realize that the way to do so had changed. So I am re-posting.
With oil prices reaching . . .
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May 18, 2008 10:08 PM EDT --
With oil prices hitting another record, this time $128 a barrel, a voracious energy appetite worldwide, and a faltering economy, the demand is likely to grow to take any steps necessary to get extra energy, . . .
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October 06, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
“Laissez-faire, it's finished. The all-powerful market that is always right, it's finished," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, adding that we need "to rebuild the entire global . . .
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