President Bush held a press conference today to announce a broad new initiative intended to combat global warming. Aside from a few inexplicable sidetracks, like:
Right way - reduce carbon emissions
Wrong way - abandon coal industry and “nucular power”

in which he seemingly forgot that coal IS carbon (which when burned, becomes smoke, which…typically gets emitted…) it [...]

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This, ladies and gentlemen, truly is the future.
If you’re like me, you’ve kept a close eye on alternative-energy cars over the years, chuckling at the advent of “hybrid” SUVs and watching, stunned but pleasantly surprised, as the Prius’ sales and profile spiked through the roof.
Then again, you’ve also been wondering when this sort of car [...]

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Brendan Koerner from Slate.com has got a great article up about the environmental economics of beer, in light of the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day, commonly associated with the drink. (and green-colored beer at that) The irony of that is that many common beers have enormous carbon footprints, based mainly on the containers that [...]

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Yahoo has got a new Buzz article up about all the baby seals that will die this season as a result of global warming. The World Wildlife Fund is reporting out of Germany that the loss of arctic ice will severely hamper the babies’ development, but the fight over the Arctic [...]

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Sharks make hot news, and CNN is there: a 14 foot Great Hammerhead was killed today off of Florida.So why am I not excited ? I’m sure by now you know I don’t think random killing is cool, but sharks in particular? 6 reasons why:

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Great - The endangered gray wolf is off the endangered species list - thanks Department of the Interior! The good news here is the the gray wolf population in the American Rockies has grown by leaps and bounds in the decade or so since scientists began the effort to reintroduce them to the continental United [...]

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The polar trifecta is complete - another big news story about yet another angle of the polar conservation push. I’m not sure who decided it, but I’d say that all these articles in the last few weeks are a clear sign that some group or another has decided that polar-hotspots are the buzz issue for 2008. I [...]

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 The polar bear may soon have to share the spotlight with another charismatic polar animal from the other side of the world - apparently, the King penguin is facing dire pressures from global warming as well. Scientists have tied increased water temperature in the Southern Ocean to a decrease in fish availability, and subsequently found a correlation between [...]

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Have you ever said something sarcastically, only to wake in the night and regret it?
I don’t mean to overestimate the readership of this blog, but I can’t help but feel guilty somehow to sign onto Yahoo.com this week to the Featured cover-story splashed across the front page:
 
“Find out how scientists plan to colonize the moon [...]

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