published May 13, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Cartson Drossel via flickr Bolivia's Chacaltaya glacier , at an elevation of 17,400 ft home to the world's highest ski area, has succumbed to rising temperatures and has melted away. All that remains of the 18,000 year old glacier are a few small pieces of ice BBC News reports:...
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Iconic Bolivian Glacier Disappears: Melting ...
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published May 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Image via Gizmodo Google's been catching flak for being ungreen lately , (remember the whole cup of tea thing ?) so in an effort to prove how very environmentally conscious they actually are, the company that does no evil set about assembling a bunch of arbitrary comparisons that point out how little CO2 searches emit. And what do they ...
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published May 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Image via Gizmodo Google's been catching flak for being ungreen lately , (remember the whole cup of tea thing ?) so in an effort to prove how very environmentally conscious they actually are, the company that does no evil set about assembling a bunch of arbitrary comparisons that point out how little CO2 searches emit. And what do they ...
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published May 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Blue Herald Or so says Liz Cheney, the daughter of the recently quite visible Vice President Cheney. She was on MSNBC today to defend her father , who's been popping up on a bevy of talk shows arguing in favor of waterboarding. Which brings us to her choice line, here. In an attempt to answer the critics ...
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published May 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Blue Herald Or so says Liz Cheney, the daughter of the recently quite visible Vice President Cheney. She was on MSNBC today to defend her father , who's been popping up on a bevy of talk shows arguing in favor of waterboarding. Which brings us to her choice line, here. In an attempt to answer the critics ...
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published May 11, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via AFP Just as a band of Carteret Islanders are abandoning their homes due to the effects of climate change--becoming the world's first climate change refugees --word has come that rising sea levels and more severe weather patterns may claim an even greater victim: the entire cultural legacy of Australia's native Aborigines. It would be the world's first ...
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published May 8, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via the Daily Mail The day has finally come, and a critical landmark in the saga of global climate change is occurring as we speak—and hardly anyone has noticed. The Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea have become the world's first entire community to be displaced by climate change. They're the first official refugees of global warming --and ...
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published May 8, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via the Daily Mail The day has finally come, and a critical landmark in the saga of global climate change is occurring as we speak—and hardly anyone has noticed. The Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea have become the world's first entire community to be displaced by climate change. They're the first official refugees of global warming --and ...
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published May 8, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Jan Reurnik via flickr (lots of great photos in his photostream, by the way, check them out...). Much of the focus in discussing the impact of global warming on China has been on densely populated coastal regions and the effect that rise sea levels will have. But the effects of global warming that western China and Tibet will ...
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published May 7, 2009 and has No Comments
The Late Show's Andy Kindler hung out with some climate scientists to try and see if they have any sort of sense of humor. He doesn't find much, though his experiment lends a laugh to viewers. ...
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Comedian Researches Climate Scientists for Evidence of Funny Bone. Doesn't Find One.
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