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The Twelve Lies Of Sarah Palin »
Posted by: Neophile 2 months ago in Politics
These are not hyperbolic claims or rhetorical excess. They are assertions of fact that are demonstrably untrue and remain uncorrected. Every single one of the ...
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What's the Difference Between Palin and Muslim Fundamentalists? Lipstick »
Posted by: Neophile 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
John McCain announced that he was running for president to confront the "transcendent challenge" of the 21st century, "radical Islamic extremism," contrasting it with "stability ...
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Could Global Warming Cause a Mini Ice Age? »
Posted by: socialexpert 4 days, 6 hours ago in Science & Technology
In the early 1900s, near the Berezovka river in Ukraine, frozen Woolly Mammoths were found with half chewed food still in their mouths, and more ...
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Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930 »
Posted by: Spinward 3 months ago in Science & Technology
August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated ...
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IPCC, UN Agree: Climate Change Must Be Reversed in 6-7 Years »
Posted by: DiffeeOnline 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
If the results hold true, it would mean a far more limited amount of time left to reverse global warming process. “I would say about ...
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Convincing the climate-change skeptics »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Long-time observers of public debates about environmental threats know that skeptics about such matters tend to move, over time, through three stages. First, they tell ...
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Voodoo Science Blames Climate Change on Immigrants »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months ago in News
According to the anti-immigrant group, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), immigrants to the US are now to blame for extreme weather, rising sea levels ...
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Marine 'dead zones' leave crabs gasping »
Posted by: ameliog 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The findings, based on a review of 872 published studies of 206 ocean-floor dwelling species, also suggest that a much greater area than we thought ...
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Arctic Breakup Growing Each Week »
Posted by: DiffeeOnline 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Fears about the Arctic melting away during northern summers are proving to be far from unfounded, with the latest reports rolling in from Alaska and ...
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Why the Sun seems to be 'dimming' »
Posted by: berkeley 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
But it now appears the warming from greenhouse gases has been offset by a strong cooling effect from dimming - in effect two of our pollutants ...
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Climate Change Caused Widespread Tree Death In California Mountain Range, Study Confirms »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Warmer temperatures and longer dry spells have killed thousands of trees and shrubs in a Southern California mountain range, pushing the plants' habitat an average ...
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Deadly by the Dozen: 12 Diseases Climate Change May Make Worse »
Posted by: pagey 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
Bird flu, cholera, Ebola, plague and tuberculosis are just a few of the diseases likely to spread and get worse as a result of climate ...
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The North Pole becomes an 'island' for the first time in history as ice melts »
Posted by: Neophile 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Startling satellite pictures taken three days ago show that melting ice has opened up the fabled North-West and North-East Passages - making it possible to sail ...
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Global warming pushes Peru to pick coffee earlier »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months ago in Science & Technology
Rising temperatures and erratic weather patterns are changing historic trends in the coffee season, growers say in Peru, a country closely tied to the impact ...
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'Land that never melts' is melting »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Experts working with Parks Canada say flooding and erosion at Nunavut's Auyuittuq National Park are related to a flood that hit the nearby hamlet ...
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