Tag: global warming
member name: Chris W.
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March 25, 2008 10:21 PM EDT --
If climate change is so imaginary, then how come there is a shelf of ice the size of Connecticut on the coast of Antarctica that is now hanging by a thread? Professor Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the . . .
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November 03, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
The Mexican state of Tabasco experienced a nightmare of flooding this week in the wake of a week of extremely heavy rains. 900,000 people were effected by the high waters, either flooded out or cut off. . . .
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October 19, 2007 12:57 PM EDT --
The National Climate Data Center reported on Tuesday that around 43 percent of the continental USA is in a state of moderate to extreme drought. California and Georgia are having serious trouble, but . . .
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April 19, 2008 09:06 AM EDT --
The two things go together like peanut butter and jelly. As voters, we need to avoid both. The item that causes this thought to percolate through my head is an item that I notice in my local newspaper . . .
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April 25, 2009 06:30 PM EDT --
" Carbon dioxide, Mister Speaker, is a natural byproduct of nature. Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth . . .
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September 13, 2007 09:56 PM EDT --
As a crank, two focal points for my whining in recent months have been 1. the utter idiocy and lack of respect for science exhibited by the climate change denial squad and 2. the general short-sightedness . . .
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October 20, 2007 11:51 PM EDT --
I just watched most of tonight's episode of "Planet in Peril" with Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta, and other CNN staff. My initial reaction is that it is not a bad summary of where we . . .
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August 18, 2007 07:36 PM EDT --
There was a time that I admired Robert Samuelson. He's the syndicated writer who used to pen incisive opinion pieces on real-world economics like budget deficits and globalization. But unfortunately . . .
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November 10, 2007 01:50 PM EST --
Repeat after me:
"I pledge to find out what materials I can and cannot recycle in ___________ ( your community's name).I pledge to lead by example in my community by recycling. I pledge . . .
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December 23, 2008 02:33 PM EST --
Embrace your wife, laugh with the children
bake a new kind of cookie, sing if so moved
love is invisible; it cannot be sensed
like carbon dioxide- it is proven only
by the . . .
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August 09, 2007 08:07 AM EDT --
A big hello from Virginia to the climate change denial squad today. You are fond of gleefully pointing out cold weather whenever and wherever it occurs, in an effort to selectively deflate the perceived . . .
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August 18, 2007 09:45 PM EDT --
Newsflash, Caribbean. Hurricane Dean is expected to deal a heavy blow to Jamaica on its way to the Yucatan peninsula. It is believed likely that Dean may reach category five status, with core winds exceeding . . .
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September 03, 2007 10:28 AM EDT --
I realize that this is very unfashionable, but here goes. We had a category 5 hurricane a couple weeks ago that hit Mexico and fortunately broke up at landfall and did not cause major damage. Now we have . . .
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January 04, 2008 10:26 PM EST --
The Walrus is a massive and unattractive mammal that hangs out in the Arctic. It is a much weaker swimmer than seals, and needs access to floating sea ice during the summer when it dives several hundred . . .
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April 06, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
I read an interesting debate this morning between Rick Warren, pastor, and Sam Harris, atheist. The author of The purpose driven life and the author of Letter to a Christian Nation recently met to . . .
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July 08, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
In the wake of the Live Earth concert series yesterday, it occurs to me that we need to have a conversation about global warming. Oh please, not again, you reply. Yes my friends, for this has been a slow . . .
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October 12, 2007 06:50 AM EDT --
Al Gore and the two thousand scientists in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will share this year's Nobel Peace prize for their work in publicizing the threat posed to humanity's . . .
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November 30, 2007 08:37 AM EST --
At last, the climate change debate has started to move beyond the question "does it exist". It is now possible to begin discussing the real question: "what are we going to do about it". . . .
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May 30, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
That's the question that came to me as I read an article this morning in my local newspaper. Dominion Power here in Virginia is proposing to allow consumers to opt into a program to receive their . . .
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October 24, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? okay, good news first. GM is getting ready to build the Chevy Volt, a new sort of hybrid vehicle that will be powered primarily by an electric engine and . . .
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