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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...
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...
Suri: G8 Retreat on Climate Change
Znet Article, June, 18 2005
Sanjay Suri
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LONDON - A new leaked document on the current stage of negotiations on the G8 position on climate change shows a further retreat from consensus on many fronts. This is the second time a draft agreement has been leaked from talks of the Group of ...
Ward: It's Not Just Eskimos in Bikinis
Znet Article, June, 06 2005
Chip Ward
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When we hear the term "global warming," we usually imagine collapsing Antarctic ice shelves, melting Alaskan glaciers, or perhaps starving polar bears wandering bewildered across an ice-free, alien landscape. Warnings about climate change tend to ...
Street: King George, Prince Abdullah, Global Warming, and the Torture of Thomas Jefferson
Znet Article, May, 01 2005
Paul Street
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“The period of history which is commonly called ‘modern,’†wrote Bertrand Russell in 1945, “has a mental outlook which differs from that of the medieval period in many ways. Of these, two are most importan...
Monbiot: A Different Kind of Revolution
Znet Article, April, 26 2005
George Monbiot
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The people fighting the new wind farm in Cumbria have cheated and exaggerated. They appear to possess little understanding of the dangers of global warming. They are supported by an unsavoury coalition of nuclear power lobbyists and climate change...
Jackson: Hot air and global warming
Znet Article, March, 27 2005
Derrick z. Jackson
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Every time the world calls for action on climate change, the United States emits more White House gases. The latest puff came from James Connaughton, the director of environmental quality, during last week's conference of 20 nations that met in Lo...
Cromwell: Is The Earth Really Finished?
Znet Article, March, 04 2005
David Cromwell
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"What goes against the grain of conditioning is experienced as not credible, or as a hostile act." (John McMurtry, philosopher) Bizarre Conversations Climate crisis is not a future risk. It is today's reality. As Myles Allen, a climate scien...
Herman: Major Bush Themes in Intensifying Class Warfare
Zmag Article, March, 01 2005
Edward Herman
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O ne of the world’s wonders is that the reelected Bush now has the power to carry out an agenda that will be hurtful to the material interests of a majority of the 59 million who gave him their vote. For these vo...
Chamberlain: Studying the Students Can Teach Useful Lessons
Zmag Article, March, 01 2005
Pam Chamberlain
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W hile it’s true that college students were active in the recent election as organizers of get-out-the- vote campaigns, supporters of candidates, and especially as voters, there is much more to student political ...
Gelbspan: People's Ratification Of The Kyoto Global Warming Treaty
Znet Article, February, 17 2005
Ross Gelbspan
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People's Ratification Of The Kyoto Global Warming Treaty
Cromwell: Fears For A Finite Planet
Znet Article, February, 16 2005
David Cromwell
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Rampant Corporate Globalisation And The Climate Crisis "Our continuing uneconomic growth makes us complicit in a process that is triggering an ecological catastrophe for our children and generations beyond them. They will justifiably sit in ju...
Independent: Apocalypse Now
Znet Article, February, 09 2005
Independent
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Floods, storms and droughts. Melting Arctic ice, shrinking glaciers, oceans turning to acid. The world's top scientists warned last week that dangerous climate change is taking place today, not the day after tomorrow. You don't believe it? Then,...
Edwards: Silence Is Green
Znet Article, February, 09 2005
David Edwards
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It is one of the great ironies of our time that, as evidence of environmental catastrophe has inexorably mounted, so the visibility of radical environmental movements has collapsed. In the late 1980s, public outrage at environmental devastation pr...
Engelhardt: Mired in Denial, Lost in the Present
Znet Article, February, 07 2005
Tom Engelhardt
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It's global-warming time again at Tomdispatch; or perhaps it's the more neutral "climate-change" time favored, for its non-apocalyptic mildness, by the fossil-fuel enraptured Bush administration and by others for its temperature inclusiveness (aft...
Walia: Tsunami: A Discourse On Compassion
Zmag Article, February, 01 2005
Harsha Walia
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T he exceptional intensity of the emotions—disbelief, compassion, and global concern—displayed at the recent Asian tsunami disaster is a prime example of the discourse of compassion and humanitarianism crea...
Mckibben: Changing the Climate-Change Climate
Znet Article, January, 28 2005
Bill Mckibben
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Changing the Climate-Change Climate
Davis: The Burden Falls On The Poorest Societies
Znet Article, January, 07 2005
Mike Davis
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THE MAINSTREAM media only focus on the natural causes of disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunamis. What’s the wider context? THE INDIAN Ocean is already the epicenter of the environmental devastation that will be caused in the near fut...
Martinez: ¡No Más! No More! We Must Stop The Dirty Wars!
Zmag Article, January, 01 2005
Elizabeth Martinez
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A s 16,000 people listened, the names of 767 Salvadorans massacred at a single village rang out, one after the other, on a sunny afternoon last November in Columbus, Georgia. After each name we shouted "Presente!"—a ...
Dixon: Runaway Greenhouse?
Znet Article, November, 20 2004
Norm Dixon
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In recent weeks, scientists have released two separate findings that indicate the consequences of global warming due to the emission of "greenhouse gases" -- primarily carbon dioxide (CO2) from the industrial burning of fossil fuels -- may be far ...
