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• Artic Expedition Investigates Climate Change, Alternative Fuel

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  An Arctic expedition may yield clues about climate change, while also providing the impetus to exploit an alternative fuel that may be mined from under the Beaufort Sea.International scientists took part in surveys that sampled three regions of the Alaskan shelf to determine methane cycling into the atmosphere.The ...
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• Early new year’s gift

  
  Lifes Lessons — Authority: 129
  Guess who’s the lucky one who received this new Fossil wrist watch.
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• Atmospheric CO2 levels to hit million-year high

  
  GreenTech Pastures — Authority: 543
  CO2 levels in atmosphere to hit million year high.
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• The Case of the 1,069 Purloined Letters

  
  Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log — Authority: 110
  Around eleven this morning, Gretchen let me know that my nephew, Henry Palikowski, Junior, wished to arrange for a telephone consultation today whenever I had the free time in my schedule.  I certainly had no problem with that - because while Congress sometimes stages a circus this time of year, as it is doing at the ...
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• E-Mails Of Climate Researchers Buttress Case Of Warming Fraud

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Junk Science: Hacked e-mails from Britains Climate Research Unit are only the latest evidence of climate fraud. Just ask NASAs James Hansen about the faking of climate data or EPA employees about the suppression of climate fact. For years, noted scientists and other global warming skeptics have been accused of being ...
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• Selling automobiles

  
  Toban Black — Authority: 104
  A car advertisement on the back of a local bus — Andy Rowell on the Oil Change blog - “ Electric Vehicles May Increase CO2 ” (I think it’s too much of a stretch to say that electric vehicles are “all the rage”; but some people definitely are looking toward them as ’solutions.’) Brad Aaron on the ...
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• Those “climategate” emails

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 491
  The current “scandal” erupting around the hacking of servers at the University of East Anglias’ Climate Research Centre is rather predictable. The public release of stolen emails has been seized on by climate change deniers as evidence for their claims of manipulated data and faulty peer-review. Even more ...
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• Simpler, cheaper, biodegradable plastic without using fossil fuels

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  Image via Wikipedia In recent years, polylactic acid (PLA) has attracted attention as a replacement for petroleum-based plastics. It is made from corn-starch, or other starch-rich substances like maize, sugar or wheat, and is biodegradable – reverting in less than 60 days in ideal conditions. PLA is already ...
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• Burning Fossil Fuels Negatively Impacting Alpine Ecosystems

  
  The Sietch Blog — Authority: 419
  Burning fossil fuels does a lot more than warm up the earth. The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and widespread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater than previously recognized, according to research results published in this week’s issue of the journal Science. ...
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• Renewables Sector Impact of the Economic Downturn Detailed in a New Report

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 427
  Energy Business Reports (http://www.energybusinessreports.com), a leading publisher in the energy industry, provides a detailed guide on the impact of the economic downturn on the renewables market. The report, “Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Renewables Sector,” offers an in-depth analysis of the ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Greenhouse is for the Birds

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 127
  The urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is portrayed as dubious science today. There are Pros and Cons. Serious scientists with long list of credentials duking it out. And a religious war has erupted between the right to Life – virtuous Climate scientists and the Death eaters – Climate change denying ...
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• Greenpeace welcomes India’s ambitious solar energy plan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Greenpeace has welcomed the Indian government’s ambitious solar energy plan - the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), which was released Monday, ahead of the climate summit at Copenhagen.Sidddharth Pathak, climate and energy policy officer from Greenpeace India, said: “We ...
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• Eric’s Pet Plant: Ginkgo

  
  Leslie Land — Authority: 119
  Over in Connecticut, our friend Eric at Yale’s Marsh Garden has lifted his eyes from his greenhouse’s travails and fastened them on the ginkgo trees. Herewith his overview of their unique place in the plant kingdom, their fascinating history – and their worthiness in the garden. Ginkgo biloba, a late-bloomer ...
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• Kraft Rolls Up 50M Miles Saved Through Transportation Efficiency

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  Since 2005, Kraft has saved more than 50 million miles in its transportation and distribution processes globally.The savings came from a variety of initiatives, according to a press release.By shifting to barge shipments of wheat to its Toledo, Ohio, flour Mill, Kraft knocked out 10,000 truck shipments and reduced ...
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• India unveils ambitious solar power mission (Lead, With Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) India’s ambitious mission to ramp up its solar power hundredfold in the next 13 years and reduce dependence on fossil fuels was unveiled here Monday.The mission anticipates achieving parity with cost of electricity on the grid by 2022 and parity with coal-based thermal power by 2030. The ...
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• A bit of history on fossil fuel usage

  
  LyfLines — Authority: 139
  An interesting piece from George Will : in 1901, a new well named for an East Texas hillock, Spindletop, began gushing more per day than all other U.S. wells combined. Since then, America has exhausted its hydrocarbon supplies. Repeatedly. In 1914, the Bureau of Mines said that U.S. oil reserves would be ...
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• Scientists successfully bio-engineer ‘green’ plastic

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, Nov 23 (IANS) Scientists have successfully bio-engineered polymers, completely bypassing fossil fuel based chemicals.This breakthrough opens the way for the commercial production of ‘green’ plastics. Polymers are molecules found in the form of plastics and rubbers. The team, from KAIST University, ...
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• Tories to end taxpayer investment in dirty fossil fuels

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A Conservative government would scrap the Export Credit Guarantee Department that invests in dirty power stations and instead use the fund to encourage green technology A Conservative UK government would bring to an end the practice of the government underwriting investment in "dirty" fossil fuel power stations ...
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• Latte Links (11/22)

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 142
    Some miscellany for a rainy Sunday evening (here in Des Moines anyway): Des Moines Register: Iowa poll shows Obama approval rating below 50% (not good in a state that overwhelmingly went for him) CQPolitics: Rating Change: Iowa GOP Gets Serious About Boswell Challenge (HT: Dave Price ) The Iowa ...
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