Day 38: My beef with the Great Global Warming Debate, Part 2

Yesterday, I wrote about my disenchantment with the plummeted quality of the global warming debate, because it distracts well-meaning people from action that could address the problem. And I promised I’d dedicate some of the posts on this blog to solutions.
Here’s one I’ve recommitted to in my own life, thanks to a solution-oriented blog I’ve really [...]

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Day 37: My beef with the Great Global Warming Debate, Part 1

After a couple of days off from my usual Twitter-checking and blog reading, I returned to discover a global warming flap that’s been simmering for a week or two has come into full bloom.
In case you haven’t heard, here’s a recap: Washington Post columnist George Will wrote about the follies of global warming believers, just after former vice president Al [...]

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Day 33: East Antarctica’s lost mountains

There’s a whole new world buried under more than two miles (4.5 km) of ice in East Antarctica — or at least a whole new mountain range. 
An international team of researchers, braving insanely bone-chilling conditions, has used twin-engine light aircraft, along with a network of seismic instruments that would span Texas, to map the mammoth range. [...]

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NASA’s Earth-observing satellite crashes after launch

 
Well, that was about the saddest news briefing I’ve ever seen.
At a hastily-arranged press conference, three NASA officials spoke on NASA TV this morning about the failed launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a satellite that was supposed to fill in some missing links about the role of human-emitted carbon in climate change.
Undoubtedly, the NASA [...]

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Day 25: Rescuing seeds to save mankind

 

Svalbarg Global Seed Bank, in Norway. Credit (both images): Mari Tefre, Global Crop Diversity Trust

The Obama administration has ushered in an “Era of Responsibility” and brows are furrowed all over the globe about climate change.
One man is taking the opportunity to suggest an area of responsibility — and a way to boost the chance for human survival [...]

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