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[Climate Chaos]: from Mother Jones, Fri Mar 12 2010:
Americans More Confused About Climate Than Ever
How effective has the resurgence of the climate denial machine been? Look no farther than the latest Gallup poll on American attitudes on global warming, which found significant declines in public concern about the topic.
Forty-eight percent of Americans now believe that the "seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated," up from 41 percent last year and 31 percent in 1997. "[T]he percentage of Americans who now say reports of global warming are generally exaggerated is by a significant margin the highest such reading in the 13-year history of asking the question," Gallup notes.
The majority of Americans still believe that global warming is happening, and 53 percent say the effects of the problem have already begun or will do so in a few years. But the number of people who think climate change is caused by human activity has dropped - from 61 percent in 2003 to 50 percent today. The percentage of people who believe that global warming is "going to affect them or their way of life in their lifetimes" has dropped to 32 percent, down from 40 percent in 2008.
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A confused populace is a passive populace. That's just the way I like it.
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[Climate Chaos]: from National Geographic News, Thu Mar 11 2010:
Sea Spray Detected 900 Miles Inland
Sea spray has been detected in the middle of the United States, some 900 miles (1,400 kilometers) from any ocean, a new study says.
Scientists discovered chlorine -- "a key element in sodium chloride, or the type of salt found in seawater -- "in Boulder, Colorado's (see map) mountain air.
Boulder's sea spray is too sparse to taste or even smell. But it's still much more abundant than previously thought "and it may be contributing to air pollution, said study team member Joel Thornton, an atmospheric chemist at Seattle's University of Washington.
"We discovered chlorine chemistry happening in a region that we didn't expect it to be happening," Thornton said.
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Crazy! You'd think the earth was one, holistic entity!
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[Biology Breach]: from Associated Press, Thu Mar 11 2010:
US coal town above mine fire claims massive fraud
Residents of a coal mining town in the state of Pennsylvania have long believed the government's demolition of it was part of a plot to swipe the mineral rights to anthracite ...
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[Resource Depletion]: from Standard-Freeholder, Thu Mar 11 2010:
Massive water crisis looming: Gwynne Dyer speaks in city
Dyer presented a multitude of "frightening scenarios" which could occur in the next 20-25 years and he did not spare Canada.
He said our country could be confronted ...
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[Resource Depletion]: from IRIN, Thu Mar 11 2010:
Niger: Southern villages emptying as drought bites
"Empty" increasingly describes villages around the southern Niger town of Tanout in Zinder Region: Water wells and pastures, fields and food banks - and slowly - ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from CBC, Wed Mar 10 2010:
Seal pups beached -- lack of sea ice off Newfoundland
An exceptional lack of sea ice on the Gulf of St. Lawrence this winter has left seal mothers with few places to bear their young or to feed their pups.
The conditions have ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Climatewire, Wed Mar 10 2010:
Health and Life Insurers Grapple With Climate Effects
Biting bugs are buzzing northward and asthma has spread like a dust cloud, but there are deep divisions about how concerned health and life insurers should be about disease ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Inter Press Service, Wed Mar 10 2010:
"Famine Marriages" Just One Byproduct of Climate Change
The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Christian Science Monitor, Tue Mar 9 2010:
Global warming doubts could hamper climate legislation
A recent poll suggests that high-profile controversies regarding climate science are weakening public confidence in the validity of global warming, And that could endanger ...
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[Recovery]: from Yale environment 360, Tue Mar 9 2010:
World's Pall of Black Carbon Can Be Eased With New Stoves
With a single, concerted initiative, says Lakshman Guruswami, the world could save millions of people in poor nations from respiratory ailments and early death, while dealing ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from CBC, Tue Mar 9 2010:
Pack ice scarce off Eastern Canada
A Canadian Coast Guard official said Monday that many parts of the ocean near Newfoundland and Labrador are devoid of pack ice -- a condition that hasn't been seen in at least ...
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[Resource Depletion]: from McClatchy, via Miami Herald, Tue Mar 9 2010:
Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists
In some spots off Washington state and Oregon, the almost complete absence of oxygen has left piles of Dungeness crab carcasses littering the ocean floor, killed off 25-year-old ...
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[Biology Breach]: from AP, via PhysOrg.com, Tue Mar 9 2010:
GE: Limit PCB contamination during Hudson dredging
General Electric Co. on Monday proposed a halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second ...
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[Species Collapse]: from Orlando Sentinal, Tue Mar 9 2010:
Orcas have 2nd-biggest brains of all marine mammals
Neuroscientist Lori Marino and a team of researchers explored the brain of a dead killer whale with an MRI and found an astounding potential for intelligence.... It's not ...
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[Recovery]: from PhysOrg.com, Tue Mar 9 2010:
IBM, Stanford cite advance in plastic recycling
When you recycle a plastic bottle, it doesn't necessarily become another plastic bottle. Because of limitations in recycling technology, a common type of plastic used in ...
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[Recovery]: from The ApocaDocs, Mon Mar 8 2010:
The ApocaDocs Seek New Title for their Book
In response to a number of complaints, the ApocaDocs may be forced to retitle their short free book Converging Emergencies: 2010-2020. "I was planning for it to be a ...
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[Plague/Virus]: from IRIN, Mon Mar 8 2010:
Pakistan: Wheat rust threat rising
Experts say it is only a matter of time before wind carries a deadly wheat stem pathogen into Pakistan, the ninth largest wheat producing nation in the world. Known as Ug99, ...
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[Biology Breach]: from Otago Daily Times (NZ), Mon Mar 8 2010:
Tide of acid-ocean fear rolls over oyster industry
The collapse began rather unspectacularly.
In 2005, when most of the millions of Pacific oysters in this tree-lined estuary failed to reproduce, the shellfish growers of ...
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[Recovery]: from MIT, via EurekAlert, Mon Mar 8 2010:
MIT researchers discover new way of producing electricity
A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. ...
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[Climate Chaos]: from Indiana University, via New Scientist, Mon Mar 8 2010:
High-carbon ice age mystery solved
How come a big ice age happened when carbon dioxide levels were high? It's a question climate sceptics often ask. But sometimes the right answer is the simplest: it turns ...
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[Biology Breach]: from Charleston Gazette, Sun Mar 7 2010:
EPA delays action on mountaintop removal plan
The Obama administration has delayed action on a set of broad-ranging and specific measures to reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal, after details of the ...
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[Species Collapse]: from Boston Post-Gazette, Sun Mar 7 2010:
Can bats be saved?
The bats appear to die of starvation during hibernation, but scientists still cannot confirm that the fungus is the primary cause of death. What they know: White-nose Syndrome ...
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