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Gores Message To Climate Change Skeptics, Tells 60 Minutes That Doubting Global …: Mar 30, 11:25pm 9 reviews environment, politics, global-warming
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/27/60minutes/main3974389.shtml; From the page: "while 70 percent of Americans believe global warming is a big problem, they still rank it near the very bottom of their list of top 25 concerns. And so Al Gore is about to wage a new campaign to emphasize the urgency of what he says is the greatest challenge facing our time."

Sign Up: Mar 5, 2:11pm 2 reviews environment, politics, global-warming
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-epa1mar01,1,4355584.story; This is the most lame and illogical excuse I have ever heard. Global warming is a global crisis. So U.S. should not really do a thing either, since it is a uniquely American problem. Maybe that is where he intends to march toward. So look forward to 1/20/09. From the page: "California's states'-rights battle against the Bush administration over global warming was freed to move forward in federal court Friday, after the Environmental Protection Agency issued its long-delayed for blocking the state's 2002 law curbing greenhouse emissions from cars and trucks. EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson had written to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in December that he would not grant a waiver of the Clean Air Act, normally a routine action, allowing the state to enact its own curbs on carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases. The EPA administrator's decision sparked protests from 14 governors, while members of Congress called hearings into why Johnson had overruled EPA staff scientists who recommended he grant the waiver. Congressional Democrats think the decision was politically motivated and have sought correspondence between the agency and the White House."

EarthTheSequel Trailer: Mar 4, 1:33pm 1 review environment, alternative-energy, book, global-warming
http://earththesequel.edf.org/trailer; Save ourselves from ourselves is the theme of the book. I will definitely read this book

Green Wombat: Abu Dhabi: The capital of green energy?: Feb 28, 10:50am 1 review environment, future, energy, global-warming
http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2008/02/abu-dhabi-the-c.html; From the page: "While the United States Congress hems and haws over extending relatively modest tax incentives to encourage renewable energy development, Abu Dhabi is spending $15 billion in a drive to make the oil-rich emirate an epicenter of green technology. Called the Masdar Initiative, it�s best known for plans to build Masdar City, a �oezero-carbon, zero-waste” urban center. But Abu Dhabi�s ambitions extend far beyond making Masdar City a showcase for sustainable development, as Masdar Initiative CEO Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber made clear when Green Wombat sat down with him on Tuesday when he was in San Francisco to accept the �oeCleantech Leader of the Year” award at the annual Cleantech Forum. �oeWe have decided to establish the Silicon Valley of renewables in Abu Dhabi,” says Al Jaber. �oeWe want to cover the whole value chain - from research to labs to manufacturing to the deployment of technologies.”" Too bad, our government doesn't have the vision?

The cold truth about climate change | Salon News: Feb 27, 11:32pm 1 review business, politics, global-warming
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/02/27/global_warming_deniers?source=ne...; Sigh. From the page: "Last year, longtime Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn wrote, "There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. The greenhouse fearmongers rely entirely on unverified, crudely oversimplified computer models to finger mankind's sinful contribution." In fact, the evidence is amazingly strong. Moreover, if the relatively complex climate models are oversimplified in any respect, it is by omitting amplifying feedbacks and other factors that suggest human-caused climate change will be worse than is widely realized. "

Virgin Atlantic flies biofuel jet - USATODAY.com: Feb 25, 11:05pm 1 review alternative-energy, global-warming, biofuel
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-02-24-biofueljet_N.htm?csp=34; From the page: "He said the flight would provide "crucial knowledge that we can use to dramatically reduce our carbon footprint," he said. Sunday's flight was partially fueled with a biofuel mixture of coconut and babassu oil in one of its four main fuel tanks. The jet carried pilots and several technicians, but no passengers.". Coconut and babassu oil? Sounds like someone has to clear tropical forest to grow the plants and extract the oil.

Green Travel Blog, Green Travel By RezHub.com - Major US Travel Destinations Th…: Feb 19, 9:23am 1 review travel, water, global-warming
http://www.rezhub.com/GreenTravel/GreenTravelBlog/tabid/349/EntryID/965/Defau...; From the page: There is a 50% chance that Lake Mead, a key water source for millions of people in the Southwestern US, will be completely dry by 2021. Tim Barnett and David Pierce, scientists for Scripps say that if the climate continues on its expected path of change and water usage is not reduced, millions of people may experience severe water shortages. Without Lake Mead and neighboring Lake Powell, the Colorado River system will not be able to uphold the population of the Southwest through a dry year, or worse, a sustained drought.

Sign Up: Feb 18, 10:15pm 1 review environment, global-warming, ocean
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-deadzone15feb15,1,53052...; From the page: Video images scanned from the seafloor revealed a boneyard of crab skeletons, dead fish and other marine life smothered under a white mat of bacteria. At times, the camera's unblinking eye revealed nothing at all -- a barren undersea desert in waters renowned for their bounty of Dungeness crabs and fat rockfish. "We couldn't believe our eyes," Lubchenco said, recalling her initial impression of the carnage brought about by oxygen-starved waters. "It was so overwhelming and depressing. It appeared that everything that couldn't swim or scuttle away had died."

Register with latimes.com: Feb 18, 10:13pm 1 review environment, global-warming, ocean
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-me-deadzone1_jw93j7nc,1,60...; This is hard to look at. But look at it we must. Piles of dead crabs washed ashore in Oregon after oxygen levels dipped so low that the seawater became lethal to bottom-dwelling sea life.

After rebound, king penguins face warming threat, study finds - Los Angeles Tim…: Feb 11, 11:06pm 1 review global-warming, animal, penguin
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-penguins12feb12,0,6052453.story; Sigh. Do we need another species dying? From the page: "The king penguin, a species that rebounded from near-extinction over the last century, could be wiped out in coming decades due to global warming, researchers reported Monday. If the surface temperature of the Southern Ocean rises 0.47 degrees Fahrenheit -- an increase well below current forecasts of 0.72 degrees over the next 20 years -- declining food availability would lead to a population collapse, the scientists estimated."