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• The 2011 Senate and Healthcare

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 618
  By Dave Anderson: At this point, no one likes the healthcare bill in the Senate.  Lets accept that as a given.  Let us also accept that there are some good things in the bill (notably recission, the framework of an exchange and regulation), some not so good things in the bill (mandate without adequate subsidies) ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• I agree with Howard

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 618
  Commentary By Ron Beasley Nate Silver disagrees but I dont: Howard Dean: “Kill The Senate Bill” In a blow to the bill grinding through the Senate, Howard Dean bluntly called for the bill to be killed in a pre-recorded interviewset to air later this afternoon, denouncing it as “the collapse ofhealth care ...
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
  5 days ago

• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
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• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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• Altmires recent votes

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 618
  By Dave Anderson: Ive been tough on Altmire and I still think that he faces an uphill battle for re-election as I have a very hard time seeing where he will get his doorknockers to rouse an apathetic Democratic base in a Tea Party friendly district.  He has voted against unions, healthcare, progressive ...
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• Swagger and Spoonfuls of Sugar

  
  Wolking's World — Authority: 103
  “One of the things I think the next President has to do is to stop fanning people’s fears. If we spend all of our time feeding the American people fear, and conflict, and division, then they become fearful, and conflicted, and divided. And if we feed them hope and if we feed them reason and tolerance then they ...
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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
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• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
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• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
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• Palin Admits Climate Change, Has No Idea What To Do About It

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 618
  By Steve Hynd Thanks to Marc Ambinder for posting the comprehensive takedown of Sarah Palins ghost-written climate change op-ed in the Washington Post today. Truly, as one of Marcs commenters notes, the only thing to be said in Dubyas favor is that hes smarter than Sarah . But theres one thing in the ...
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• Minding our Ps and Qs (reprise)

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 618
  By Dave Anderson: Carbon taxes and cap and trade are both attempts to create price incentives to reduce carbon emissions.  The goal is to raise the dispersed and mostly externalized cost of pollution into a concentrated and internalized cost for the polluter.  From here, most polluters will seek to reduce emissions ...
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• Senate rejects abortion curbs in health care bill (AP)

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
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• Senate rejects tougher abortion restrictions

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 460
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Tuesday rejected an effort by abortion opponents to tighten restrictions in the health care overhaul bill on taxpayer dollars for the procedure, but it was unlikely to be the last word on the divisive issue. By a vote of 54-45, the Senate sidetracked an amendment by Democratic Sen. Ben ...
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