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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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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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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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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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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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’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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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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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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Climate change blues: how scientists cope
AFP
French glaciologist Claude Lorius, one of
the first scientists to publish, in 1987, evidence that global
warming was real, has despaired of getting the ... |
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Focus on carbon reduction to stay
Emirates Business 24/7 -
Dubai,Dubai,United Arab Emirates
For those concerned about global warming,
we are near a tipping point where the amount of carbon in
the atmosphere starts to have a severe impact on our ... |
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Greenland thaw feared climate shift by 2200
Reuters - USA
The survey issued late on Monday found that
leading experts, when asked, reckoned there was a one in six
chance of triggering at least one tipping point ... |
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Climate 'Tipping Points' Weighed for Likelihood
Discovery Channel - USA
March 16, 2009 -- The risk of Earth's
climate hitting a dangerous inflection point in the next
two centuries is about as likely as a coin flipping on heads,
... |
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Two Billion Cars By Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon
Mother Nature Network -
Atlanta,GA,USA
But with global warming emissions
already at a tipping point of 350 parts per million of
carbon dioxide (plus the specter of peak oil), how is it even
... |
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The President is missing the long-term effects of his policies
Washington Examiner -
Washington,DC,USA
We may be approaching the tipping point
where people who are lending us all that money will begin to worry
about what the dollar will be worth in the future ... |
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Self Published Book Explores Plans for Mitigating Possible Effects
...
Newswire Today (press
release) - London,UK
Among the conclusions they arrived at is the
increased likelihood of the global climate reaching a
dangerous tipping point in the next two centuries. ... |
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Scientists warn on climate tipping points
PhysOrg.com -
Evergreen,VA,USA
Here we have looked at them as one Earth
system and how one tipping point being passed may have an
impact on the others.” More information: Imprecise ... |
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Laughing at the apocalypse with the dire Dr. Dyer
CBC.ca -
Toronto,Ontario,Canada
But really, who knows what number will set
off the global apocalypse? At the tipping point —
the positive feedback marker — the sea ice will melt and ... |
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PHOTOS: Five Global Warming "Tipping Points"
National Geographic -
Washington,DC,USA
... tipping points, presented
here--specifically, judging the likelihood that achieving a
tipping point would lead to potentially dangerous global
warming. ... |
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Population: Some Boom, Some Decline
YaleGlobal Online - CT,USA
In other words, replacement fertility in the
long term is essentially the tipping point for population
change: above it growth and below it decline. ... |
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JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS: Climate Realists
Eurweb.com - Los
Angeles,CA,USA
During an exchange from the WSJ conference,
Gore insisted that America is at a “political tipping point.”
In other words, the political wheels are already ... |
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Antarctic ice close to melting tipping point-study
Reuters - USA
Around four million years ago, rising carbon
dioxide levels in the atmosphere, to around 400 parts per million,
enhanced the warming effect of the tilt ... |
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In Search of the Climate's Tipping Point
TIME - USA
Yet the global response to global
warming — one of fits and starts, with more hot air than real
focus — doesn't exactly resemble the mobilizing opening ... |
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Philippines: PGMA tasks Alvarez to urge international community to
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ISRIA (subscription) -
Washington,DC,USA
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has tasked
Secretary Heherson Alvarez, Presidential Adviser on Global
Warming, to urge the international community to cut ... |
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Gore sees climate-change tipping point
Radio New Zealand -
Wellington,New Zealand
In an interview with the British newspaper
the Guardian, Mr Gore said he thought the world had reached a
"political tipping point" and would reach agreement ... |
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Age of Stupid film highlights climate change problem
Communitycare.co.uk -
Sutton,UK
If no adequate agreement to cut carbon
levels is made, we will condemn our planet to levels of greenhouse
gases that will reach tipping point, resulting in ... |
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Global Green New Deal needed to save planet
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
Noting that the regional impacts of
global warming will vary, they say mitigation must be based on
“common but differentiated” responsibilities to protect ... |
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The Climate Change Tipping Point
Atlantic Online - USA
...at what point do those who accept
the science of climate change but argue that extensive action is
too costly, based on the findings of the IPCC and ... |
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Major Decline Found In Some Bird Groups
Washington Post - United
States
... said losing those grasslands
"could be the tipping point that makes an endangered
species designation for the lesser prairie chicken unavoidable.
... |
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Kolbert speaks at ONU on climate changes
Ada Herald - Ada,OH,USA
Scientists don't know where the "tipping
point" is but computer models and simulations are being used
in order to find out what needs to be done to correct ... |
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Fox News wins rare praise for student's story linking meat ...
Examiner.com - USA
"The tipping point for him? The
significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions associated with
animal production globally. ... |
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Environmental Planning: From Science to Business
PSFK - London,England,UK
Sir Nicolas Stern made it quite clear, in
2006, that global warming will shrink the economy 20% (at a
minimum), but if we invest 1% of global GDP now we can
... |
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While Rome burns
Webdiary - Australia
In the wake of decades of an
ever-diminishing window of opportunity to mitigate the worse
effects of global warming, the western world’s top science
... |
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Weekly Climate Change Policy Update - March 23, 2009
Mondaq News Alerts
(registration) - London,UK
A temperature rise of more than 4 degrees
would increase the probability of reaching a tipping point
to 56%. The tipping points evaluated included major ... |
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Last chance for a slow dance?
San Antonio Current - san
antonio,tx,USA
That is the point. The burning of
coal and petroleum products is the leading contributor to
global warming through the release of long-lived carbon
dioxide, ... |
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The Days of Armageddon: Earth Hour or Bust!
MorungExpress -
Dimapur,Assam,India
Scientists predict we have 30 or so more
years at current energy consumption rates before we keel over the
‘tipping point’. I could go on and on (and risk ... |
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Hansen: Tax carbon, send every American a check
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -
Milwaukee,WI,USA
Public understanding that the planet is
threatened by global warming is often confused because of
variations in weather patterns – including a finding that ... |
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EPA chief in Aspen: Agency ‘is back on the job’
Aspen Times - Aspen,CO,USA
“We have long since passed the tipping
point — one way or another we have to bring our emissions
down.” She challenged the Aspen crowd to produce “big ... |
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Put People First March
The Ecologist - London,UK
This is the level at which many scientists
believe a tipping point in the earth’s climate system may
occur, beyond which there is no return. ... |
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The Peak Oil Crisis: Pondering the Near Future
Falls Church News Press -
Falls Church,VA,USA
In the long run the depletion of fossil
fuels should help the global warming situation if, as seems
likely, we go over the infamous "tipping point" and the
... |
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Public Opinion's Climate-Change Ping-Pong
Miller-McCune.com - Santa
Barbara,CA,USA
According to poll results, a record-high 41
percent of Americans think global warming, as presented in
the mainstream media, is exaggerated — the highest ... |
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Media Mayhem: A paler shade of green
Mother Nature Network -
Atlanta,GA,USA
As a tipping point nears for dealing
with our climate, the US may still be tipping the wrong
way. Environmentalists who have rejoiced the arrival of a ... |
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Can Earth Hour Galvanize the Fight Against Global Warming?
TIME - USA
Is Earth Hour going to become such a
tipping point, or the movement's defining image? It's
possible, but as important as pictures are, we'll need more.
... |
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Steve Gormezano
Charleston Gazette -
Charleston,WV,USA
Personally, I feel as though we've already
hit, or we will soon inevitably hit, a tipping point when
it comes to global climate change. ... |
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Among Climate Scientists, a Dispute Over ‘Tipping Points’
New York Times - United
States
Dr. Hansen defends the use of the term
tipping point and said that it accurately depicts some
probable consequences of unchecked global warming. ... |
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Coal is killing America
Cape Cod Today - South
Dennis,MA,USA
Such rates of sea level change have occurred
many times in Earth's history in response to global warming
rates no higher than those of the past 30 years. ... |
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Freeman Thinking
Discover Magazine - New
York,NY,USA
The whole question of whether we’ve reached
a “tipping point” seems to be hot right now. The answer
lies in the climate models, so let’s keep our skepticism ... |
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Greenpeace Report Shows that Forests in Carbon Markets Would
...
Common Dreams (press
release) - Portland,ME,USA
The report evaluates these proposals and
their ability to avoid a dangerous climate tipping point
(as far below 2 degrees Celsius as possible). ... |
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Bogeymen of the C02 hoax losing ground
Canada Free Press -
Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Hansen increases urgency for action claiming
we are on the verge of a tipping point, defined as
follows. “Tipping points can occur during climate change
... |
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Media promote claims of global cooling despite overwhelming
...
Media Matters for America -
Washington,DC,USA
... of parts per million in
greenhouse gases beyond -- which they call a tipping point
-- beyond which it may be impossible to reverse global warming.
... |
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The 'mote of dust' we call home
Idaho Mountain Express and
Guide - Ketchum,ID,USA
These tipping points are like
sprinkling Miracle-Gro on climate change. Hansen told a panel of
scientists at an American Geophysical Union conference that ... |
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Prehistoric global warning for G20
Financial News
(subscription) - London,England,UK
The crucial point about Stern's new
target is that it implies that the earth is likely to suffer more
than two degrees of warming - a tipping point which
... |
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Yes we Can
Huffington Post - New
York,NY,USA
According to many scientists, we have less
than a decade left to address the issue of climate change before
we reach the "tipping point", or the point of no
... |
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Tipping Point In The Media
Prison Planet.com - USA
Over the last year or so I have been taking an informal survey of
a key news metric - Google news searches for the term “global
warming. ... |
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State of the Nations - The Environment
Palestine Chronicle -
Mountlake Terrace,WA,USA
Somewhere there may be a ‘tipping point’
– the climatic equivalent of the biological ‘keystone species’
(see below) – where after that there is nothing we ... |
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Geoengineering Our Way Out of Global Warming
Washington Post Blogs -
Washington,DC,USA
Some of those who believe the tipping
point is near -- the point beyond which some impacts of
climate change, be they catastrophic or less so, ... |
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Earth's Atmosphere Tracking Toward A Mid Pliocene* - Like State
CounterCurrents.org - India
Some "skeptics" ( http://masterresource.org/?p=1280
) invoke water vapor as a cause of global warming
(evaporation is but a feedback effect). ... |
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Climate clock is ticking
The Gazette (Montreal) -
Quebec,Canada
The effects of accelerated global warming
– including extreme storms and drought – will be devastating,
scientists warn. For most people, news of the ice ... |
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Climate change threatens Channel Islands artifacts
San Jose Mercury News - CA,
USA
The tipping point came last year when
a huge piece broke off, drowning remnants of discarded abalone,
mussel and other shellfish that held clues to an ... |
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UT geologists lead lecture targeting global-warming
projections
UT The Daily Texan -
Austin,TX,USA
Kerry Cook, a professor in the Department of
Geological Sciences, speaks about global-warming
issues Monday afternoon in the Barrow Conference Room. ... |
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"Perfect storm" puts clean tech in investor sights
Reuters - USA
"What's happened is the idea of global
warming and carbon footprint all the way to recycling and the
War on Iraq has been a paradigm shift; ... |
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Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page
RushLimbaugh.com
(subscription) - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
Holdren outlined several 'tipping
points' involving global warming that could be fast
approaching." The world is not warming! It is cooling.
... |
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How Warming Really Turns Up The Heat Robert M. Thorson
Hartford Courant - United
States
Their improved estimates of coastal flooding
from these two sources point to more than a meter of
global rise by the end of the century, ... |
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White House Sees 'Radical' Climate Ideas as Last Resort
LiveScience.com - New
York,NY,USA
Holdren (and presumably his boss) are
worried we'll reach a tipping point on global warming
before emissions can be reigned in. ... |
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Blowing smoke
Washington Times -
Washington,DC,USA
Not only is the world at a "tipping point,"
but we also face "really intolerable consequences" if drastic
action isn't taken immediately. ... |
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Philosopher John Gray: 'We're not facing our problems. We've got
...
Independent -
London,England,UK
If you say actually, possibly, we're past
the tipping point for preventing a two-degree change.
That's despair: 'I can't get out of bed. I'll get drunk. ... |
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The Top Ten Reasons for Energy Independence
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
According to many scientists, we may already
be past the temperature "tipping point" where runaway
synergistic effects will make warming inevitable, |
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Restructuring in the Face of Climate Change
New York Times - United
States
The thunderous crash of massive blocks of
ice into frigid waters is, for many, the iconic image of global
warming and, at least in my opinion, ... |
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Demand answers on climate proposals
Hilton Head Island Packet -
Hilton Head Island,SC,USA
The director of climate and energy for the
SC Wildlife Federation writes that "scientists tell us" we are
dangerously approaching a "tipping point" with our ... |
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‘In the Great Ship Titanic’
Newsweek - USA
Excerpts: Zakaria: Skeptics say there's
still conflicting evidence on global warming. Chu: I urge
everyone to do this: Google the 2007 IPCC report. ... |
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The Accidental Geo-Engineer
American Daily Review -
Austin,Texas,USA
... core of the cataclysmic 1* of
warming in the 20th century, and that we are approaching a “tipping
point” where temperatures will skyrocket worldwide, ... |
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Poor prognosis for our planet
Sydney Morning Herald -
Sydney,Australia
Climate change is often described as linear
decline followed by some kind of distant "tipping point".
But consider these statistics: in 1979 Arctic sea ice ... |
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[Green Growth:Korea's New Strategy (27)]Power green growth ...
Korea Herald (subscription)
- Seoul,South Korea
Scientists say the pace of global warming is accelerating.
According to evidence presented in March at a major international
scientific congress, ... |
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Andrew Glikson Earth & paleo-climate scientist Australian National
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The People's Voice -
Nashville,TN,USA
Other skeptics (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html)
claim global warming occurs on other planets and is thus of
... |
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Eco Everest Expedition 2009 Carries Climate Warning
Environment News Service -
USA
"It is a warning to the mankind before it reaches a tipping
point." Nepal is already subject to climate change and its
effects are visible from the tops of ... |
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Will EPA's carbon cap plan work?
Pittsburg Morning Sun -
Pittsburg,KS,USA
Those ready to tackle carbon emissions suspected of causing
global warming, and those who are not, will be out in full
force as Congress debates cap and ... |
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Climate change explained - the impact of temperature rises
guardian.co.uk - UK
Another tipping point sees massive amounts of methane - a
potent greenhouse gas - released by melting Siberian permafrost,
further boosting global warming. ... |
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Debate on energy, climate bill to begin next week
CNET News - San
Francisco,CA,USA
Yes, the debate is over. by btalex1990 April 13, 2009 10:33 PM PDT
Are you brainwashed or something, Global warming is not
because of too much CO2, ... |
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The Tea Party Movement: Why Now?
Dakota Voice - Rapid
City,SD,USA
A tipping point was reached, and those who had been silent
and complacent could remain so no longer. Thus, the Tea Party
movement was born–in 1773…and ... |
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70 percent emissions cuts needed to avert worst of climate change
The Tech Herald -
Indianapolis,IN,USA
... global increase in temperature above around a
single degree in Centigrade (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) could prove
to be a dangerous "tipping point" for the ... |
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Scary Green Monsters
Wall Street Journal - USA
Shades of the global warming debate, anyone? Children a
step younger who open the latest in the popular "Grk" books by
Joshua Doder, "Operation Tortoise" ... |
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We must get past ‘urgency denial' on climate change
The Carrboro Citizen -
Carrboro,NC,USA
If successful, such delaying tactics will virtually ensure that we
cross tipping points that Hansen says “will cause rapid
changes out of humanity's ... |
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Long pattern of West Africa droughts could worsen with climate
change
The Plain Dealer -
cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
With global warming pushing ocean surface temperatures
higher, the scientists worry that could be the tipping point.
"In a future warmer world, ... |
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"Wet Office" Issues a Scarewatch
Right Side News -
Kennesaw,GA,USA
This rapid and continuing increase in ice thickness scarcely
indicates that "global warming" is melting the ice-sheet
away, and it more than compensates for ... |
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Staten Island AWE's Earth Day guide
Staten Island Advance -
SILive.com - Staten Island,NY,USA
You don't live in a solar-powered house, film eco-documentaries,
or fly to Scotland to lecture on global warming (while, of
course, purchasing a carbon ... |
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Tea Parties & Environmentalism
EcoWorld.com - Fair
Oaks,CA,USA
... find the tipping point. One the most insidious,
to-date effectively invisible agents of socialism is
environmentalism in general, and global warming ... |
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Steve Schmidt: Political Ambulance Chaser
Huffington Post - New
York,NY,USA
These folks generally have few core values and try to anticipate a
tipping point on a major issue and then quickly shift
allegiances so that they can be on ... |
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Sellafield: the most hazardous place in Europe
guardian.co.uk - UK
Atomic power will be the nation's salvation as it battles
global warming and seeks to cut its carbon emissions, they
insisted. But the condition of edifices ... |
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We need an eco-revolution
Green Left Weekly -
Chippendale,NSW,Australia
More heat is absorbed, leading to further warming. As the
icecap retreats, another tipping point emerges. The
normally frozen soil — permafrost — in places ... |
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Combating Ecocide Without a Major Economic Sacrifice?
Press Action -
Arlington,VA,USA
“We know things have passed the proverbial tipping point
and that immediate action is 100% needed and justified, but we're
far too spineless to do anything ... |
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Ethanol entrepreneur committed to Lake County despite doubts,
setbacks
Times - Munster,IN,USA
She argues ethanol production and consumption only add to
global warming and that traditional recycling is the greener
and more affordable option to deal ... |
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Tampering with nature?
Buffalo News - NY, United
States
Holdren worries the United States and other nations won't slow
global warming fast enough and that several “tipping
points” could be fast approaching. ... |
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294 |
‘Where's the Runaway Warming?‘
American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
Hansen maintains that recent warming has pushed the planet
close to a “tipping point” for runaway warming. What
recent warming? Three hundredths of a degree ... |
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Smart Grid May Make Miami More Energy Savvy
CBS 4 - Miami,FL,USA
The fact is, observers say, companies realize they may be at a
tipping point when "going green" may finally promise long term
profits and competitive ...
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The EPA's Assault On Carbon Dioxide
Forbes - NY,USA
The rub is that too much carbon dioxide might choke the
environment--assuming we could find that tipping point,
which looks more uncertain with each passing ... |
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Forests: Climate ally could turn enemy
Carbon Positive -
Hague,Netherlands
Climate change damage could cause the world's forests to worsen
global warming in coming decades rather than mitigate it,
according to a report by forest ... |
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RP urges ‘fast and deep' cuts to greenhouse gas
Manila Bulletin -
Philippines
“But even before that tipping point in the year 2050 is
reached, the Philippines is already experiencing the early brunt
of a phenomenon we now call ... |
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Talking Climate Change with Anthony Watts
Town Hall -
Washington,DC,USA
A: There is a belief out there that we will get into a runaway
condition where at some point a tipping point would
occur and that at that point there is no ... |
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Earth nowhere near 'tipping point'
Arizona Republic -
Phoenix,AZ,USA
The poor reader from Chandler has fallen prey to the media
hysteria surrounding global warming without doing much
research. Truth be told, Arctic sea ice is ... |