By Brandon Keim 
December 9, 2009
‘Even as the science of global warming gets stronger, fewer Americans believe it’s real. In some ways, it’s nearly as jarring a disconnect as enduring disbelief in evolution or carbon dating. And according to Kari Marie Norgaard, a Whitman University sociologist who’s studied public attitudes towards climate science, we’re in denial…’
Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today. The agricultural state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels. "The water level has gone down below 250 feet here. It used to be at 40 feet a few years ago," Shatrughan Sahu, a villager in one of the districts...
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It is not often that we get to combine our passion for music, good design, green technologies, and hot 1950’s classic vehicles. Neil Young recently released his latest album “Fork in the Road”, which is dedicated to the Lincvolt 
project that transformed his classic Lincoln Continental into a hot zero emissions vehicle that gets 100mpg.
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The forest service said the blaze near the town of Wheeler destroyed eight homes and 26 outbuildings. The largest fire, an 11,000-acre blaze near the Texas-Oklahoma state line, was about 25 percent contained, but wind gusting to 35 mph made it difficult to maintain fire lines, Texas Forest Service spokeswoman Jeanne Eastham said Sunday.
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Breathing Earth. Real-time tracker of carbon dioxide emissions in countries all over world; also births/deaths, constantly updating real-time tracking while you're on the site. E.g; US (1000 tons CO2 every 5.4 seconds); China (1000 tons CO2 every 9.2 seconds); Chad (1000 tons CO2 every 66.4 hours). [FYI...click on "Enter" on site to get to map]
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"SAN FRANCISCO, CA - (satire) - Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency released the highly anticipated results of a year-long study, confirming a long suspected link between right-wing media blowhards and current global warming trends."
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Arctic sea ice minimum shatters all-time record low, report University of Colorado scientists -- Signs of the Times News:
"Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center said today that the extent of Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its minimum for 2007 on Sept. 16, shattering all previous lows since satellite record-keeping began nearly 30 years ago."
Global Warming - can Earth explode?
The real danger for our entire civilization comes not from slow climate changes, but from overheating the planetary interior.
What causes an 8-fold increase in Antarctic glacier melting in just 3 years? Sun does not deliver 8 times the energy under the Antarctic ice does it? Some scientists predict that effects of "global warming" will take many decades. Can they explain the increase of the melting rate of Antarctic glaciers 8 times in 3 years? Overheating of the fission heated planetary interior can...
Discovery Channel :: News - Earth :: Arctic Ice Melt Gets Stark Reassessment
Summertime sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is on track for shrinking by 40 percent below 1980 and 1990 levels by the year 2050, say oceanographers. That's twice as fast as the rate of loss estimated in the most recent ...
Scientists fear ice caps melting faster than predicted The Guardian Guardian Unlimited: "The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off. "
ZAHARO, Greece - Fires pushed by gale-force winds tore through more parched
forests, swallowed villages and scorched the edges of Athens on Saturday with
ashes raining onto the Acropolis. The death toll rose to at least 49 as the
government declared a nationwide state of emergency.
Hurricane Dean's devastation: Tuesday from Guardian Unlimited: News blog: "Hurricane Dean is the ninth most intense hurricane ever recorded. Eric Berger, of the Houston Chronicle points out that five of the top 10 hurricanes have occured in the past three years."
Discovery Channel :: News - Earth :: Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to New Low: "'Today is a historic day,' said Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist at the center. 'This is the least sea ice we've ever seen in the satellite record and we have another month left to go in the melt season this year.'"
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