Entries Tagged as 'global warming'

MIT: Earth temperature may rise higher than previously projected

May 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The big story this week is the piece of news that came out of of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The organization carried out the most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century. It showed that without rapid and massive action, [...]

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Tags: eco friendly · global warming · miscellaneous

Wind, water and sun are the best types of renewable energy, says Stanford professor

December 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

After so many disappointments with biofuels, it comes no surprise that a new independent study has concluded that “the best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside [...]

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Tags: Biofuel · Fauna · Renewable energy · Solar power · Solar thermal power · Tidal energy · ethanol · global warming · transportation · wind energy

Obama and Climate Change

November 7th, 2008 · No Comments

From the Newsweek teaser on the 2008 presidential race,

The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, “I don’t consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, [...]

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Tags: US presidential elections · global warming · miscellaneous

Can We Buy Ourselves Out of Our Problems?

November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

First what are these problems? Decreasing energy supplies to go around, higher prices and costs for our energy, and environmental damage.
“But, gas prices are going down!” you are all shouting. But the war for oil: Iraq, Iran and Russia, is still going on. The pollution (a cost of petrochemical fuels) is not going away [...]

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Tags: US presidential elections · alternative energy · global warming · green politics

State of Alaska fights Act that protects bears

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

The state of Alaska has filed a lawsuit in federal district court (District of Columbia) challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to global warming. The Act was hailed as a breakthrough political gesture that officially acknowledged global warming [...]

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Tags: Fauna · global warming · green politics