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By Kermit Frosch  |  Jan 7, 2008  |   
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                    The planet Mars is getting warmer too.  As far as we can tell from SEC filings, neither Exxon nor Halliburton have significant operations on that planet; nor does it fall under the authority of the Bush administration.
                 
            
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By Kermit Frosch  |  Jan 4, 2008  |   
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                    Over time, it's been both much colder and a good bit warmer, than it is today.  It's been reported that the hottest years of the past century was 2006 until NASA found their math was wrong: it was actually 1934.
                 
            
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By Kermit Frosch  |  Jan 2, 2008  |   
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                    The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's classic "Silent Spring" marks the beginning of a sea change: the mass attack on technology and progress as a whole, for environmental reasons.
                 
            
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By Demosthenes  |  Dec 31, 2007  |   
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                    The recent, less-than-informed coverage of the death of Benazir Bhutto reminds us of Neville Chamberlain's infamous comment about Czechsolovakia as " a faraway country about which we know nothing."
                 
            
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By Will Offensicht  |  Dec 27, 2007  |   
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                    How come all the environmentalists keep proposing things people don't want to do?  Real solutions nedn't require deprivation.
                 
            
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By Hobbes  |  Dec 24, 2007  |   
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                    It is claimed that this boat runs on biodiesel made form the crew's fat and that it is carbon-neutral.  But how is that calculated?
                 
            
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By Kermit Frosch  |  Dec 20, 2007  |   
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                    Somebody in Europe has realized what's crystal clear to anyone with a brain: reducing carbon emissions destroys your economy.
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Dec 5, 2007  |   
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                    By taking this preposterous action, the CIA has provided a signal service.
                 
            
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By Hobbes  |  Nov 30, 2007  |   
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                    It's the teddy bear being insulted, by being given such a disreputable name.
                 
            
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By Petrarch  |  Nov 26, 2007  |   
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                    Unlimited money, unlimited visibility, unlimited clout - what could possibly go wrong?