Tragic Planet

From The New York Times
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: April 23, 2009
For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming.
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From Discover…
40 Years After the Cuyahoga Burned, Clevelanders Fish in It.
Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River caught on fire 40 years ago June 22 when oily garbage floating in it was ignited, probably by sparks from a passing train. In turn, the fire sparked the creation of environmental agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, along with passage [...]

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Earth Day: 10 Big, Really Hard Things We Can Do to Save the Planet
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Today is Earth Day and here is a classic video by Carl Sagan to help put things back in perspective…
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Here’s an excellent and thought provoking essay from Environment360:
Consumption Dwarfs Population As Main Environmental Threat
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More than two trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming.
More than half of the loss of landlocked ice in the past five years has occurred in Greenland, based on measurements [...]

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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has revised its World Energy Outlook report, and it’s not pretty. They admitted to having finally done some research, and as a result, have moved their peak-oil date a lot. 2020, that’s in 11 years my friends.
At Last, A Date by George Monbiot

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MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail
December 2, 2008 at 4:27 AM EST

The development of the tar sands could lead to the loss of more than 160 million birds over the next 30 to 50 years because of the elimination of habitat and deaths from drowning in tailings ponds, according to a report being released today.
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Things are melting really fast in the Canadian Arctic this year, causing all kinds of unwelcomed changes.
Here’s an article on another such event.
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An excellent article by journalist Dan Gardner. I very much agree with what he says.
Here’s an excerpt:
Like an addict kicking a habit, we will have to go through a period of painful withdrawal. But the good news is that, in time, we will all agree it was for the best.
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