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Znet Article Constantino: Wait For Ruin Or Embrace Opportunity

Znet Article, October, 13 2005 Red Constantino
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Wait For Ruin Or Embrace Opportunity

Znet Article Dewit: What Me Worry?

Znet Article, October, 12 2005 Andrew Dewit
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The October 2 edition of the Nikkei, Japan's leading business newspaper, carried a review, by Tokyo University Professor Kikkawa Takeo, of two recently translated books that discuss peak oil. As most readers will know, peak oil is the theory that ...

Znet Article Epstein: Climate Change and Human Health

Znet Article, October, 07 2005 Paul r. Epstein
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In 1998, Hurricane Mitch dropped six feet of rain on Central America in three days. In its wake, the incidence of malaria, dengue fever, cholera, and leptospirosis soared. In 2000, rain and three cyclones inundated Mozambique for six weeks, and th...

Znet Article Davis: The Other Hurricane

Znet Article, October, 05 2005 Mike Davis
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The genesis of two category-five hurricanes (Katrina and Rita) in a row over the Gulf of Mexico is an unprecedented and troubling occurrence. But for most tropical meteorologists the truly astonishing "storm of the decade" took place in March 2004...

Znet Article Buncombe: Melting Planet

Znet Article, October, 03 2005 Andrew Buncombe
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The polar bear is one of the natural world's most famous predators - the king of the Arctic wastelands. But, like its vast Arctic home, the polar bear is under unprecedented threat. Both are disappearing with alarming speed. Thinning ice and long...

Znet Article Mccarthy: This Is Global Warming

Znet Article, September, 24 2005 Michael Mccarthy
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Super-powerful hurricanes now hitting the United States are the "smoking gun" of global warming, one of Britain's leading scientists believes. The growing violence of storms such as Katrina, which wrecked New Orleans, and Rita, now threatening Te...

Znet Article Monbiot: A World Turned Upside Down

Znet Article, September, 20 2005 George Monbiot
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Climate change denial has gone through four stages. First the fossil fuel lobbyists told us that global warming was a myth. Then they agreed that it was happening, but insisted it was a good thing: we could grow wine in the Pennines and take Medit...

Znet Article Connor: Global Warming 'Past The Point Of No Return'

Znet Article, September, 18 2005 Steve Connor
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A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversi...

Znet Article Mckibben: Sucker's Bets for the New Century

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Bill Mckibben
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If the images of skyscrapers collapsed in heaps of ash were the end of one story -- the U.S. safe on its isolated continent from the turmoil of the world -- then the picture of the sodden Superdome with its peeling roof marks the beginning of the ...

Znet Article Howard: The Silent Oil Crisis

Znet Article, September, 05 2005 James Howard
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The Silent Oil Crisis

Znet Article Engelhardt: At the Front of Nowhere at All

Znet Article, September, 04 2005 Tom Engelhardt
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The headline was: "Direct hit in New Orleans could mean a modern Atlantis," and the first paragraph of the story read: "More than 1.2...

Znet Article Cromwell: Cheerleading The Climate Criminals - Part 2

Znet Article, September, 03 2005 David Cromwell
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The Independent: As Good As It Gets? The Independent - like the Guardian, a newspaper with supposed progressive credentials - noted blandly in a recent editorial that "Global warming is given little coverage by the US media." (Leader, 'The Americ...

Znet Article Cromwell: Cheerleading The Climate Criminals - Part 1

Znet Article, September, 01 2005 David Cromwell
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A Raging Debate in Nowhere Land Earlier this month, New Scientist reported the astonishing news that the world's largest frozen peat bog, comprising an area the size of France and Germany combined, was melting. According to researchers who have b...

Znet Article Glick: Detroit, Washington and Montreal

Znet Article, August, 30 2005 Ted Glick
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"Rise Up, Keep the Sprit Alive,Come Together, Got to Organize,Rise Up, It Won't Be Long,Come Together, Keep our Movement Strong!"            -song by Alli Starr "Wow, this sure is a new experience," I said to myself last Saturday as the Detroit p...

Znet Article Pearce: Siberia Melting...

Znet Article, August, 13 2005 Fred Pearce
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THE world's largest frozen peat bog is melting. An area stretching for a million square kilometres across the permafrost of western Siberia is turning into a mass of shallow lakes as the ground melts, according to Russian researchers just back fro...

Znet Article Sample: Warming Hits 'Tipping Point'

Znet Article, August, 11 2005 Ian Sample
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A vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn today. Researchers who have recently returned from the region found that an area of permafr...

Znet Article Engelhardt: Some Belated Acknowledgments

Znet Article, August, 05 2005 Tom Engelhardt
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The Chevron ad began: "It took us 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil. We'll use the next trillion in 30. Energy will be one of the defining issues of this century. One thing is clear: the ...

Znet Article Monbiot: Faced With This Crisis

Znet Article, July, 26 2005 George Monbiot
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One day we will look back on the effort to deny the effects of climate change as we now look back on the work of Trofim Lysenko. Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist who insisted that the entire canon of genetics was wrong. There was no limit to an o...

Znet Article Leahy: Ozone, Heal Thyself, US declares

Znet Article, June, 25 2005 Stephen Leahy
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BROOKLIN, Canada, Jun (IPS) - Holes in the ozone layer over the Earth's polar regions remain dangerously large, even as international efforts to solve the problem are flagging, scientists warn. The Arctic region suffered its greatest ever loss of...

Znet Article Townsend: New US Move To Spoil Climate Accord

Znet Article, June, 20 2005 Mark Townsend
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Extraordinary efforts by the White House to scupper Britain's attempts to tackle global warming have been revealed in leaked US government documents obtained by The Observer. These papers - part of the Bush administration's submission to the G8 a...

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