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The Twelve Lies Of Sarah Palin »
Posted by: Neophile 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Politics
These are not hyperbolic claims or rhetorical excess. They are assertions of fact that are demonstrably untrue and remain uncorrected. Every single one of the ...
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What's the Difference Between Palin and Muslim Fundamentalists? Lipstick »
Posted by: Neophile 2 months, 1 week ago in News
John McCain announced that he was running for president to confront the "transcendent challenge" of the 21st century, "radical Islamic extremism," contrasting it with "stability ...
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Somewhere »
Posted by: Spadecaller 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
A Spadecaller music video featuring Charlotte Church and Josh Groban.
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Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930 »
Posted by: Spinward 3 months ago in Science & Technology
August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated ...
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Convincing the climate-change skeptics »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Long-time observers of public debates about environmental threats know that skeptics about such matters tend to move, over time, through three stages. First, they tell ...
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Voodoo Science Blames Climate Change on Immigrants »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months ago in News
According to the anti-immigrant group, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), immigrants to the US are now to blame for extreme weather, rising sea levels ...
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Earth Hotter Now Than in Past 2,000 Years, Study Says »
Posted by: pagey 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The new study is led by Michael Mann, a climatologist who helped develop the famous 1998 "hockey stick" graph— a reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere ...
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Huge ice sheet breaks loose in Canada »
Posted by: pagey 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
TORONTO - A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication ...
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Greenspan: Credit Tsunami to Have Severe Impact »
Posted by: engineer 3 weeks, 5 days ago in Business & Finance
Greenspan: 'Credit tsunami' to have severe impact. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress in prepared testimony Thursday that the current global ...
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Climate Change Caused Widespread Tree Death In California Mountain Range, Study Confirms »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months ago in Science & Technology
Warmer temperatures and longer dry spells have killed thousands of trees and shrubs in a Southern California mountain range, pushing the plants' habitat an average ...
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The North Pole becomes an 'island' for the first time in history as ice melts »
Posted by: Neophile 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Startling satellite pictures taken three days ago show that melting ice has opened up the fabled North-West and North-East Passages - making it possible to sail ...
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Global warming pushes Peru to pick coffee earlier »
Posted by: ameliog 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Rising temperatures and erratic weather patterns are changing historic trends in the coffee season, growers say in Peru, a country closely tied to the impact ...
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Smoke and CO2: How to Spin Global Warming »
Posted by: jovial 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Recently, it was reported that the rate of carbon dioxide emission during the last seven years exceeded even the IPCC's worst-case scenario. Both Barack ...
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'Land that never melts' is melting »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Experts working with Parks Canada say flooding and erosion at Nunavut's Auyuittuq National Park are related to a flood that hit the nearby hamlet ...
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Recycled Bags Help the Environment »
Posted by: sgsmorgan 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
In this day and age, everyone has to do their bit for the environment. One of the most powerful things that we can do as ...
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