Posts Tagged with ‘Climate Change’
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A Matter of Degrees
21 Apr 2016These are notes I took while reading Gino Segre’s A Matter of Degrees (2002) when it first came out. This…
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Snowy Owl in Florida
25 Jan 2014Not my photo … just whishin’ ….
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Chasing Ice — A Movie, And Evidence, Not To Miss
28 Dec 2012We’d put Chasing Ice, a new documentary by Jeff Orlowski, on the second tier of movies-to-see over the holidays. But…
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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and Power by Steve Coll
15 Nov 2012The London Review of Books [8 Nov, 2012] reviews Steve Coll’s new, indispensable volume, Private Empire: ExxonMobile and Power. Coll will be…
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
27 Oct 2011Brian Fagan’s The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations contributes another fine book to the growing…
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Jared Diamond on The Most Important (12) Environmental Problems
23 Jun 2011If no video showing, click here. “We are working so hard for our children and grandchildren. All of us parents…
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Climate of Denial — Al Gore
22 Jun 2011Al Gore has a very good article in the current Rolling Stone. Get it! Get 5 and leave them around…
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Climate Change Measurement: Lend a Hand
27 Mar 2011Very useful article in the Sunday SF Chronicle Home and Garden about measuring budding time of local trees, as a…
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Food, Floods and Drought
07 Feb 2011Krugman looks at Egypt, food prices and the fast changing world climate: We’re in the midst of a global food…
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Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Fast
31 Jan 2011New research shows that 2010 set new records for the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, expected to be a…
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GOP Wants to Withdraw from Climate Panel
24 Jan 2011The Republican Study Committee last week released a list of proposed budget cuts totaling $2.5 trillion, including a recommendation to withdraw…
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2010 Wettest Year on Record – and Tied for Hottest
13 Jan 20112010. What more can be said? Queensland, Australia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are being swamped from unprecedented rains. In…
