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Entries from June 2007

Cool Music: The National

June 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Me like-y.
The National: About Today

Thanks to BT for the introduction.

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Tags: Culture

UW Wins $125 million Bioenergy Grant

June 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Hoo-ray!
The $125 million, five-year grant, announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Energy, will be supplemented by more than $100 million in state and private-sector funding. It could generate many times that amount in new technology investments aimed at lessening U.S. reliance on imported oil.
The money will spawn a Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center in [...]

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Tags: Business · Science

British Floods Displace Hundreds: A Sign of Things to Come

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments

England has had a sixth of it’s annual rainfall come in the last day. The results have been devastating.
Three people have died and thousands have been forced from their homes after severe flooding hit England and Wales.
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The Environment Agency labelled current weather conditions “phenomenal”.
The agency’s flood expert, Phil Rothwell, said: “We’ve had a [...]

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Tags: Politics

Climate Project Dos and Don’ts

June 24th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve done sixteen global warming slide shows to a couple hundred people. That includes my first presentation to my family (easily the hardest one). It’s been fun. Really. Projectors, people who think about the carbon cycle, Al Gore groupies…. What’s not fun about that?
Better yet, I’ve learned a lot—about climate science [...]

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Tags: The Climate Project

Bush Administration: Global Warming Denial as National Policy

June 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

No kidding?
An examination of thousands of pages of internal documents that the White House has been forced to relinquish under the Freedom of Information Act - as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former administration scientists and climate-policy officials - confirms that the White House has implemented an industry-formulated disinformation campaign [...]

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Tags: Politics