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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 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 Hobbes | Nov 2, 2007 |
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The statements and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are precisely the sort of offensive, unpopular, marginal viewpoint that the First Amendment was designed from Day One to protect.
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By Hobbes | Oct 31, 2007 |
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Obesity has now reached the point where serious engineering consequences are required.
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By Hobbes | Oct 16, 2007 |
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It does seem slightly odd that the famous Nobel Peace Prize should go to someone who is famous, more or less, for talking loudly.