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Some might say these are trying days. Well, I would feel better if [eople would stop saying "true fact" it's either a face or not and any educated person should know the difference. Climate change is a fact and not up to speculation.

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It has now been 45 days since the oil rig explosion in the Gulf began unloading oil and polluting our oceans and there’s only one man that can fix this problem – Mr. James Cameron. After countless problem solvers have come forward to help with the oil spill, what better solution than to have a hot-s...
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At present there is a large oil release in the Gulf of Mexico. It is not the first of its kind. Obviously one must try to confine it and then clean it up but what it is the right and effective way? What is a waste of time and resources and what works? Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well being drill...
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The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf is in my opinion the giant back step that anyone who cares about the environment did not need. So what to do about this? Anybody with an answer please leave a comment.
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The 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes, resembling oversized white shipping containers, are stacked two high and three wide atop a barge at Port Fourchon, the oil industry's hub on the Gulf of Mexico. The words "Martin Quarters" painted in black offer the only clue that they're not stuffed with car...
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BP Top Kill, BP Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010: BP’s hopes to attempt to plug the leaking oil well with their Top Kill plan, turned out to be a failure. Ever since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion took place last month, the leaking oil well has not been fixed, and this has resulted ...
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Posted by on in Water Conservation
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has launched an organization to help protect endangered tigers. The Titanic star has joined forces with the World Wildlife Fund to create Save Tigers Now, with the aim of raising $20 million (£13 million) for the cause. DiCaprio, who is currently in Asia learning about the ...
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Florida’s chief financial officer is asking the Obama administration to stop waiting for BP PLC to stop the oil from spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and start taking matters into its own hands. “For too long, we have relied on BP and its contractors to staunch the flow of oil, and they have failed ...
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Posted by on in Forestry
Deforestation causes up to 1/5 of current greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.After including their forest emissions, Brazil and Indonesia are, respectively, the world’s 4th and 5th largest greenhouse gas emitters. Reducing rates of deforestation can be one effective way of cutting gre...
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"If we find they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing, we'll push them out of the way appropriately," Salazar said, but he did not specify at what point this would occur or what might be the trigger for it.   "This is an existential crisis for one of the world's largest companies," ...
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By Nicole Allan In the latest sci-fi development from the Gulf oil spill, scientists have found enormous oil "plumes" beneath the ocean's surface. With this, and last week's underwater footage of oil and natural gas gushing out of the ruptured well, it's apparent that BP's estimate of the amount of...
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Posted by on in Climate Change
  Current climate policy of emissions targets and trading will not suceed and should be replaced by a 'politically attractive' one based on providing cheap, non-carbon energy, says new paper An international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions is doomed to failure and must ...
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  No one is lowering their guard just yet, but the chances are diminishing that significant amounts of oil from the ongoing Deepwater Horizon spill will soon make it to southern Florida. In part, it is the behavior of the Gulf of Mexico's increasingly infamous Loop Current that could lower the...
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The Deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010 is rapidly moving towards the status of the worst accident in U.S. history, and as the disaster moves into its third week a lot of questions are still unanswered, the most obvious being, when is this thing going to stop spewing? If current estimates fo...
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  (Reuters) - Political pressure mounted on Friday for BP to show progress plugging a massive oil leak while residents of coastal Florida, Mississippi and Alabama learned the growing pool of oil from the leak would not strike their beaches until late on Saturday. The drifting sea of oil could...
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BP said that company assumes full responsibility for the spill that threatens U.S southern coastal area. The company will pay all costs necessary and appropriate cleaning, plus fines and compensation, said BP on its website. Obama toured the affected area and said “BP is responsible for the leak. B...
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Posted by on in Oil Spill
Two weeks ago, the government put out a round estimate of the size of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: 5,000 barrels a day. Repeated endlessly in news reports, it has become conventional wisdom. But scientists and environmental groups are raising sharp questions about that estimate, declaring th...
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May 13, 2010 |  4:34 pm A week ago, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) teamed up with her Democratic senatorial counterpart, Mark Begich, to introduce a bill that would raise the [Correction: liability trust fund for]  economic damages from oil spills to $10 billion. On Thursday, she blocked...
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Posted by on in Transportation
Few people are fooled by Nissan’s claim that the LEAF is a zero emissions vehicle.  Zero tailpipe emissions does not mean zero emissions.  “Electric vehicles just shift emissions from the tailpipe to the smokestack,” many critics claim.  Both of these claims oversimplify the issue and...
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Posted by on in Solar
The so called Climate Bill, formally referred to as the American Power Act (read it in PDF), contains a wealth of information that could impact the environment, transportation, offshore drilling, clean coal and so much more. Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) presented the bill y...
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As engineers try to cap British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon blowout off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists fear the thick, crude oil that is seeping into the gulf at a rate of nearly 210,000 gallons a day will become an environmental catastrophe of unknown proportions to wetl...
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