Oh my.
Seasoned polar scientists believe the chances of a totally ice free North Pole this summer are greater than 50:50 because the normally thick ice formed over many years at the Pole has been blown away and replaced by huge swathes of thinner ice formed over a single year.
This one-year ice is highly vulnerable to [...]

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Joe Zilber has given Milwaukee a chance to reinvent itself with his $50 million commitment to community development across the city. Eugene Kane has some ideas about how to invest the money.
Zilber’s team wants to hear more from the rest of us.
So here goes.

Create a Green Milwaukee Fund to pay for environmental performance improvements [...]

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James Hansen gives us one year to change.
Again a wide gap has developed between what is understood about global warming by the relevant scientific community and what is known by policymakers and the public. Now, as then, frank assessment of scientific data yields conclusions that are shocking to the body politic. Now, as then, [...]

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I have one small quibble.
Clinton’s address at the conference continued the sharp focus on green issues that has colored the four-day meeting: from climate change and rising gas prices to an anti-bottled water campaign and sustainable development.
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”I do not believe we can bring the American economy back with $135 oil and $165 coal unless we [...]

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Greenhouse gasses are bad for business.
A coalition of 99 companies is asking political leaders to set targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and to establish a global carbon market.
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Among the key recommendations are that:

All major economies, including developing ones such as China and India, should be included in the post-Kyoto deal, with richer countries committing [...]

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