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Can
350.org save the world?
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Groups gear up to issue an emergency alert that carbon dioxide in
the global atmosphere has already passed a tipping point.
By Bill McKibben Writing From ... |
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Poverty, climate twins
Business Mirror -
Philippines
According to Heheson Alvarez, Presidential Adviser on Climate
Change, the world is drifting towards a 'tipping point'
that could lock the poorest countries ... |
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Arctic meltdown
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
Q: What can be done about global warming
once the Arctic passes the tipping point? A: We are now at
that stage where winter's ability to overtake summer ... |
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Travel briefs
The Daily News Online -
Batavia,NY,USA
UCS researchers compared the amount of
carbon dioxide — the chief heat-trapping gas that drives global
warming — from driving, flying, traveling by train or ... |
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An Unrecognized Alternative to Nuclear Power
RenewableEnergyWorld.com -
Peterborough,NH,USA
Although very little known, one tipping
point could threaten an end to most life on earth. Twice
before, 55 million and 251 million years ago, warming
... |
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Planning for seas to rise
Macleay Argus - Kempsey,New
South Wales,Australia
All of their tracking points to a faster
warming than anticipated, such that we will soon reach what
scientists call a tipping point. This is a point
where ... |
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Prince Charles: 100 months to save the world
Examiner.com - USA
The speech, which will be given to Brazilian
business leaders, reminds them that despite the world’s economic
woes, concerns about global warming must trump ... |
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Challenging your concept of reality. . .
Times and Transcript -
Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
To be fair, others believe that there is
still time to change, and have set a cap on how much global
warming would be possible before that tipping point;
... |
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The Carbon Pyramid
Tampa Bay Newspapers -
Seminole,FL,USA
The global warming inverted pyramid is dangerously close to
a tipping point that should lead to its demise. This is
partly due to a small cadre of respected ... |
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President Obama to GOP: Just Say More Than No
ABC News - USA
49% and growing believe that this should not be a priority right
now and a growing number beleive that GLOBAL WARMING is a
HOAX!" ROFLMAO! ... |
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The inescapable apocalypse has been seriously underestimated
Spectator.co.uk - UK
The evidence is now crystal clear to anyone with an unwashed brain
that man-made global warming theory is sheer unadulterated
bunkum. ... |
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Earth's parasites -- that's us
Salt Lake Tribune - United
States
The Earth is approaching a tipping point where warming
begets more warming. Where atmospheric greenhouse gases
trap heat that melts the glaciers and thaws ... |
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Can America Make a Deal to Save the Planet?
The Nation. - New
York,NY,USA
To the extent that global warming is contingent on carbon
emissions, the tipping point will be determined at the UN
Framework Conference for Climate Change ... |
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Al Gore and Prince Charles please stop giving me things to write
about
Examiner.com - USA
Prince Charles is currently on tour in South America to promote
his 'tipping point' claim. Just this weekend he said that
we are down to 100 months to save ... |
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Greenland ice tipping point 'further off than thought'
guardian.co.uk - UK
The finding gives hope that the worst impacts of global warming,
such as the devastating floods depicted in Al Gore's film An
Inconvenient Truth, ... |
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’70s band rises again with Filipino vocalist
Manila Standard Today -
Philippines
By working together on a united front, we can help avert the
tipping point of irreversible climate change.” Joey’s Quirky
World, the newest weekend morning ... |
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The tropics on fire: scientist's grim vision of global warming
guardian.co.uk - UK
Field said that if the tropics became dry enough for fires to
break out, tropical forests would pass a "tipping point"
from absorbing carbon dioxide from ... |
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Gore: Earth Reaching Its 'Tipping Point'
Evening Bulletin -
Philadelphia,PA,USA
But US astronaut Dr. Jack Schmitt — the 12th man to walk on the
Moon — put a wrinkle in Mr. Gore’s talking point when he
openly questioned global warming ... |
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Pass Illinois Clean Cars Act
Chicago Daily Herald -
Chicago,IL,USA
If passed, the Illinois Clean Cars Act would make Illinois the
first state in the Midwest to adopt these standards and create an
economic tipping point for ... |
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Commentary: Coal-Fired Power Stations Are Death Factories. Close
Them.
Free Internet Press - New
York,NY,USA
He was the first scientist to publicly warn the US Congress of the
impacts of global warming and climate change. Dr. Hansen's
commentary appeared in The ... |
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Australian Bushfire Inferno
MWC News - Vancouver,Canada
The melting Arctic sea ice could be the first such tipping
point. Beyond 2ºC of warming, seemingly inevitable
unless greenhouse gas reduction targets are ... |
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Scientists must rein in misleading climate change claims
guardian.co.uk - UK
Recent headlines have proclaimed that Arctic summer sea ice has
decreased so much in the past few years that it has reached a
tipping point and will ... |
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NBCC students talk climate change
Miramichi Leader -
Miramichi,New Brunswick,Canada
But one of the issues mentioned by every group was the sense the
world is reaching a tipping point on climate change. We
will start to see a loss of things ... |
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Global warming may drive the Amazon rainforest toward
seasonal ...
Mongabay.com - USA
This may be enough to navigate Eastern Amazonia away from a
possible 'tipping point,' beyond which extensive rainforest
would become unsustainable. ... |
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Artists offered £30k to engage with climate change
Stage - London,England,UK
Arts and climate change organisation TippingPoint has
launched a new project offering artists commissions of up to
£30000 to create works about global ... |
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GAMBLING ON ICE
Canada.com - Don
Mills,Ontario,Canada
Many polar watchers believe the ice has passed a “tipping point”
and will soon give way to open water in late summer. Barber says
sediments from the sea ... |
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Study links carbon, melting arctic
Canada.com - Don
Mills,Ontario,Canada
Johannessen’s study, describing the state of Arctic Ocean ice as a
“keystone indicator” of global climate change, concludes
that “90 per cent of the ... |
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Holdren and the eco-doom predicitions
jetzt.de -
München,Bayern,Germany
In 1986, you predicted that global warming could cause the
deaths of one billion people by 2020. Would you stick to that
statement today? ... |
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North Atlantic Ocean is world’s ‘climate superpower’
SINDH TODAY - Sindh,Pakistan
Today’s climate is changing most dramatically in the far North
Atlantic, with record warming and ice loss in recent years.
If the climate’s “tipping point” ... |
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Scientists Explain How to Cause a Mass Extinction
io9 - San Francisco,CA,USA
... because climate change is a common form of press event,
and all we really need is one big pulse event to reach the total
apocalypse tipping point. |
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Getting a Grip
Artvoice - Buffalo,NY,USA
Through denial and fraud, we managed to keep the party careening
into the 21st century as phrases like “tipping point” and
“peak oil” became de rigueur. ... |
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Arthur D. Little: New Report Explores ‘The Beginning of the End
...
Business Wire (press
release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
In contrast to a widely held industry consensus that, for the
foreseeable future, oil will retain its leading role in satisfying
ever growing global energy ... |
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Corporate Social Responsibility Weekly Recap (February 11 ...
TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA
Tipping Point Community to Receive $250000 in Cash and HP
Technology to Fight Bay Area Poverty (February 12, 2009 07:45 AM)
Source: HP LAKE WORTH, Fla. ... |
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How Seattle can help green roofs to really grow
Seattle Daily Journal of
Commerce (subscription) - Seattle,WA,USA
“We are headed towards a tipping point for eco-roofs in
Seattle” says Joel Banslaben, a sustainable strategies specialist
at Seattle Public Utilities. ... |
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Corporate Social Responsibility Weekly Recap (February 11 ...
TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA
Tipping Point Community to Receive $250000 in Cash and HP
Technology to Fight Bay Area Poverty (February 12, 2009 07:45 AM)
Source: HP LAKE WORTH, Fla. ... |
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Oil demand may begin to peak soon - report
Alibaba News Channel - New
York,NEW YORK,USA
"Depending upon how quickly the transportation sector begins its
migration away from oil dependence, we could find ourselves at a
tipping point in which ... |
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock and
...
Times Online - UK
In his latest book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, he warns, as he
has before, that global warming is probably irreversible,
and that once a tipping point is ... |
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The rise of ‘socialism for the 21 st century’
Green Left Weekly -
Chippendale,NSW,Australia
The dramatic financial collapse that began last September has
escalated into a full scale global economic meltdown. No
part of the world is immune. ... |
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Will Climate Go Over The Edge?
Newsweek - USA
Can a diplomatic miracle in Copenhagen save the planet from the
dreaded tipping point? Sea ice in the Antarctic was
supposed to last for 5000 years until ... |
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A financial house of cards
Aljazeera.net - Qatar
After all, a long-term drop in global consumption is one of
the few conceivable ways to stop the slide toward the tipping
point of global warming and ... |
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10 Ways to Trade Up
Mother Jones - San
Francisco,CA,USA
As nasa climatologist James Hansen has warned, we are nearing—if
we haven't already passed—the tipping point at which the
concentration of carbon in the ... |
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What do you have to do in this town to get serious about climate
...
Hill Times (subscription) -
Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
Green Leader Elizabeth May co-authors Global Warming for
Dummies and takes her fight against catastrophic climate change
international. ... |
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Racing against time: 2009 ‘crucial’ year for climate-change action
Business Mirror -
Philippines
Science tells us that we must stabilize global emissions
within the next 10 to 15 years or we will reach a tipping point,
and then any remedy will become ... |
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Politicians see Antarctic melt in close-up
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The visitors will gain "hands-on experience of the colossal
magnitude of the Antarctic continent and its role in global
climate change," said the mission's ... |
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How much is Antarctica warming? Officials get firsthand
look
Minneapolis Star Tribune -
Minneapolis,MN,USA
They'll also learn about the uncertainties plaguing research about
this southernmost continent and its link to global warming:
How much is Antarctica ... |
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COLUMN: Coal: cheap and (partly) domestic, but deadly to planet
Marblehead Reporter -
Marblehead,MA,USA
Although awareness of global warming is growing, carbon
emissions and atmospheric concentrations continue to climb at
accelerating rates. ... |
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UN and the World Bank Warning: Urgent Action Needed to Avoid
...
PR Newswire (press release)
- New York,NY,USA
Hence, reducing black carbon emissions has an immediate effect on
global warming. Reductions also have major health benefits
for millions who currently live ... |
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Say YES to nuclear power
The Sun - London,UK
The tipping point for me was in August 2005 when it was
reported that large parts of the Siberian permafrost were melting,
giving off large quantities of ... |
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U. venture creates clean carbon energy
Deseret News - Salt Lake
City,UT,USA
While global concerns about the effects of carbon-dioxide
emissions are reaching a tipping point, many experts
believe carbon-dioxide storage is one of the ... |
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Weekly Climate Change Policy Update - February 23, 2009
Mondaq News Alerts
(registration) - London,UK
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency would reconsider
(but would not, at this point, stay the effectiveness of)
the Deseret memo issued by her ... |
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Small climate changes may have large impact
Princeton University The
Daily Princetonian - NJ, United States
By Chetan Narain Though global warming may not boil the
oceans dry, a new study suggests that even small increases in
temperature may have more catastrophic ... |
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The Geoengineering Option
Foreign Affairs Magazine -
USA
At some point in the near future, it is conceivable that a
nation that has not done enough to confront climate change will
conclude that global warming has ... |
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Briggs: Climate change may be unstoppable
Indian Country Today -
Canastota,NY,USA
A tipping point occurs when so many things are out of whack
that one change can set off large, long-term consequences. Think
of the effects of melting ... |
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Flick the switch for Earth Hour and beyond
Aurora Beacon News -
Aurora,IL,USA
When we all join the party, who knows what may happen at that most
wonderful moment when the tipping point is reached and it
falls in favor of our Mother ... |
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Member of UN Environment Panel Warns Greenhouse Emissions Rising
...
Democracy Now - New
York,NY,USA
We don’t have evidence that it’sa clear tipping point, or
we don’t know where there might be a tipping point out
there. And one of the things that I’m ... |
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Critical eye: Face to face with the apocalypse
guardian.co.uk - UK
"Lovelock warns, as he has before, that global warming is
probably irreversible, and that once a tipping point is
reached change to a new climate may be ... |
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An Extravagant Hypothesis
Whole Life Times -
Malibu,CA,USA
Currently, the first wave of individuals who are part of this
tipping point phenomenon are learning to observe themselves as
participators within the cosmos ... |
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Anti-coal activists turn to Washington for mass protest
Taipei Times - Taiwan
Organizers say this could be the tipping point in the fight
against coal, after years of steady activism. Since the middle of
2006, plans for more than 83 ... |
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Emissions trading - how to avoid action on climate change
Green Left Weekly -
Chippendale,NSW,Australia
The harsh reality is that climate tipping points — what
scientists refer to as “points of no return” — are being passed
now. A serious climate policy would ... |
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Global Warming and Climate Change in Perspective: Truths
and Myths ...
Capitalism Magazine -
Freeport,Bahamas
We have been in a period of global warming over the past
200 years, but there have been several periods, like the last ten
years, when the warming has ... |
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The World Crisis of Capitalist Globalization and its Impact on
China
Monthly Review -
Herndon,VA,USA
Meanwhile, the melting of the ice sheets in West Antarctica and
Greenland points to an irreversible “tipping point” within
a decade that portends rising ... |
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Nature gets makeover in forest lab
Boston Globe - United States
Keeton is quick to point out that other factors outside the
forest itself have to be considered when weighing the pros and
cons of various forest management ... |
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Opinion: Simitian bill would help housing developers meet ...
San Jose Mercury News - CA,
USA
Given recent predictions by climate scientists that we will reach
the irrevocable "tipping point" on climate change within 11
years, conversion to renewable ... |
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Is Geo-Engineering Our Only Hope?
ScienceBlog.com - Los
Angeles,CA,USA
Climatologists have hit a "social tipping point" says Tim
Lenton of the University of East Anglia, UK.... Previously, the
idea of tweaking the climate in ... |
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Big problems need big solutions
BBC News - UK
This may be too much for elements of the climate system, including
the Arctic sea ice and Greenland ice sheet, which could pass a
tipping point on the way ... |
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Climate change won't wait for recession's end
WA today -
Perth,WA,Australia
But the overwhelming fact is that, even with a 0.8 degree increase
in global warming since pre-industrial times, tipping
points have already been reached. ... |
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Switch off and turn on to Earth Day 2009
Canada Western Catholic
Reporter - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
While one single hour isn’t going to stop the relentless onset of
climate change, Earth Hour is a symbolic event designed to create
a tipping point in ... |
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How We Can Help Save the Planet
Pinoy Press -
Manila,Philippines
If this goes on and the amount of CO2 released reaches 3000
gigatones, then that’s the tipping point for the Greenland
ice sheet, it melts. ... |
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Ellis: How to save the world
Daily Camera - CO,USA
But, he warns, every year we don't move toward the goal we are
closer to an irreversible tipping point that will
drastically change this planet. ... |
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America's Wind Power Imperative: A Call to Action
Huffington Post - New
York,NY,USA
We are near a tipping point, a point of no return,
beyond which the built-in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to
levels of climate change with ... |
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Methane is the new scapegoat for global-warming
alarmists
The Plain Dealer -
cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
"There can be no doubt," they said, "the science is in; we have
reached a tipping point," from which there was no turning
back. Of course, they were wrong, ... |
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Al Gore: Global Warming Struggle Akin to Civil Rights
American Thinker -
Bellevue,WA,USA
When their parents couldn't really give them good answers, that's
when the tipping point came there. And I think we're close
to a similar situation now, ... |
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The toxic sea
Times Online - UK
Experiments have shown that the tipping point at which
shell growth ceases comes at a pH of 7.8. This is the level which,
on current trends, ... |
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A good trip, or just window dressing?
Sunday Herald -
Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Brown came to Washington to get what help he could in his efforts
to turn the G20 meeting into a personal tipping point where
a global agreement on ... |
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I'll Get You My Pretty.. .and That Little Wolf Too! Palin's War on
...
Huffington Post - New
York,NY,USA
I suppose that with global warming, oil and gas industry
activities, clean-energy initiatives and other big-picture items,
their plates are pretty full and ... |
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Colorado, hyper-population, peak oil, energy: perfect storm
Examiner.com - USA
How can we maintain enough water and farmland to feed ourselves
instead of depending on elusive imports from other countries as
global warming and gasoline ... |
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Climate sceptics fight tide of alarmism
Sydney Morning Herald -
Sydney,Australia
Kininmonth said predictions that global temperature "might
pass a 'tipping point' and even go into a phase of 'runaway
global warming' are an outcome of the ... |
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UK: Gore Optimistic For New Climate Deal In Copenhagen
Sin Chew Jit Poh - Malaysia
In an interview with The Guardian, the Nobel Prize winner said he
thought the world had reached a "political tipping point"
and would reach agreement when ... |
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UK: Gore Optimistic For New Climate Deal In Copenhagen
Sin Chew Jit Poh - Malaysia
In an interview with The Guardian, the Nobel Prize winner said he
thought the world had reached a "political tipping point"
and would reach agreement when ... |
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Americans cool as activists cry wolf over global warming
The Daily Citizen -
Dalton,GA,USA
"Experts" tell us a "tipping point" is near, beyond which
we won't be able to control the warming. One would think
that after two decades, ... |
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Challenging your concept of reality. . .
Times and Transcript -
Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
To be fair, others believe that there is still time to change, and
have set a cap on how much global warming would be possible
before that tipping point; ... |