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Climate Change and the Deepwater Horizon Accident
Climate change and oil spills, what is the connection? Why should I discuss oil spill on an a site devoted to climate change? The connections are real, are informative, and are important.
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Earth Day 1970
As we approach the 40th Earth Day it is perhaps instructive to look back to the first Earth Day in 1970. In 1970 words such as “ecology” and “environment” had not entered the popular vocabulary and “green” signified nothing beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Earth Day, education, Environment, government, pollution, population, United States
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U.S. Federal Government to Reduce GHG Emissions by 28% by 2020.
On January 29, 2010 President Obama today announced that the Federal Government will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent by 2020. While the base year was not specified in the press release (below) it is elsewhere defined as 2008, … Continue reading
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Tagged emissions, Energy, government, greenhouse gas, President Obama, United States
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Americans Need a Better Understanding of Science
A May, 2009 post on this site presented the results of a cooperative Yale and George Mason Universities study which reported that only about 51% of Americans believe that climate change is real and a serious problem. Other, recent polls … Continue reading
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Progress?
Twelve years ago the nations of the world met in Kyoto, Japan to chart a course of action that would reverse global warming. 187 nations ratified and signed the resulting “Kyoto Protocol”, pledging to reduce their emissions of the four … Continue reading
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New Government Report Describes U.S. Climate Change Impacts
The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released a major, new report on June 15, 2008 detailing the science and impacts of climate change on the United States. The USGCRP was established by the Global Change Research Act of … Continue reading
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President Obama on Climate Change
Text of President-Elect Obama’s video message to the Governors Climate Change Summit. Continue reading
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U.S. Government releases scientific assessment of climate change impacts
On November 14, 2006 the Center for Biological Diversity, and other parties, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the Bush Administration charging that it had failed to meet the requirement of the Global Change Research Act of … Continue reading
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