Energy and Environment
Time Wasting on Nuclear Waste
Written by The Heritage Foundation
July 16, 2008
The Heritage Foundation recently released the chart below called, U.S. a Nonstarter in Nuclear Power. The point of the chart was to show those that continue to question the value of nuclear power that other countries are making concrete decisions and moving forward in earnest.
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For the World's Poor, Climate Change can Take a Hike
Written by Julia Seymour
July 13, 2008
Energy Expert: Poverty Stricken Don't "Give a Damn" About Warming
By Julia Seymour
Business & Media Institute
According to one energy security expert, unless prosperity exists people simply will not care about climate change. Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the ...
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Report States Antartic Ice Shelf Not Expected to Survive
Written by Joseph D'Aleo
Wilkins Back in the News Read more: Report States Antartic Ice Shelf Not Expected to Survive
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, Fellow, AMS
ICECAP
In another in an endless series of half the story articles, Livescience staffreported on the further fracturing of the Wilkins Ice sheet. "A vast shelf of ice in Antarctica is hanging on to the continent by a thread and is not ...
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Rising Oil Prices Affect Militaries
Written by James Carafano
by James Carafano
The Heritage Foundation
How far would you go to save money at the gas pump? Would you calculate the precise amount of fuel required for the daily commute? Would you remove the air conditioning system, extra seats and other unnecessary weight from your car that lowers MPG? If ...
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C02, A Breath of Fresh Air
Written by Right Side News
by – by Stephen Wilde
C02Skeptics
“But we must have power, power to order all things as we will, for that good which only the Wise can see.” The power-corrupted Saruman of Many Colours declaiming in J. R. R. Tolkien’s masterpiece, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954, p. 272)
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Global South Vetoes Carbon Control
Written by Vinod K. Dar
July 10, 2008
by Vinod K. Dar, Managing Director, Dar&Company
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The Global South is, of course, neither global nor south but the name given to the poor and developing nations south of the U.S, Europe ...
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Scientific Evidence Shows Secondhand Smoke Is No Danger
Written by Jerome Arnett, Jr., M.D.
July 8, 2008
by Jerome Arnett, Jr., M.D.
Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) is an unpleasant experience for many nonsmokers, and for decades was considered a nuisance. But the idea that it might actually cause disease in nonsmokers has been around only since the 1970s.
Recent surveys show more ... Read more: Scientific Evidence Shows Secondhand Smoke Is No Danger
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G8 Agrees to Cut Carbon Emissions by Half
Written by VOA
July 8, 2008
By Kurt Achin
Rusutsu, Japan
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Leaders of the world's advanced economies have committed to a long-term goal of slashing their emissions of carbon blamed for global warming. Officials say the plan is a first step toward building consensus but activist groups and at least one ...
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Going Down: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events
Written by Anthony Watts
July 5, 2008
Anthony Watts
During our discussion of the preposterous news story from Pravda, claiming this headline: "Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate" a scientist dropped in to provide us some insight into his latest paper. It was highly relevant at the time since one of ... Read more: Going Down: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events
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