May 24, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- Al Gore's new film opens in the United States today carrying the same scary message that he's been spreading for two decades: that the world is facing catastrophic climate change because of the negligence of mankind.
But ``An Inconvenient Truth" is debuting with a sort of exquisite timing that Gore has rarely been accused of possessing in his long career in public life, according to members of Congress of both parties. A convergence of factors -- including soaring gasoline prices, devastating hurricanes, and growing Evangelical concern about environmental degradation Read more
But ``An Inconvenient Truth" is debuting with a sort of exquisite timing that Gore has rarely been accused of possessing in his long career in public life, according to members of Congress of both parties. A convergence of factors -- including soaring gasoline prices, devastating hurricanes, and growing Evangelical concern about environmental degradation Read more
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HURRICANES/ EXTREME WEATHER:
Extreme weather- hurricanes, droughts, floods, etc.- damage and destroy crops. Hurricane Katrina did $2 billion damage to agriculture, not including the devastation to the shrimp and sea crops of the fishermen.
Wilma followed, causing a possible additional $2 billion to Florida's citrus, avocados, vegetables, sugar cane, with more damage expected from diseases spread by the winds. Avocadoes are mostly coming from Central America now.
Orange supplies were briefly disrupted when Florida's trees Read more
Extreme weather- hurricanes, droughts, floods, etc.- damage and destroy crops. Hurricane Katrina did $2 billion damage to agriculture, not including the devastation to the shrimp and sea crops of the fishermen.
Wilma followed, causing a possible additional $2 billion to Florida's citrus, avocados, vegetables, sugar cane, with more damage expected from diseases spread by the winds. Avocadoes are mostly coming from Central America now.
Orange supplies were briefly disrupted when Florida's trees Read more
May 18, 2006
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LOS ANGELES, California, (ENS) - Hollywood put out a green welcome mat Tuesday for former Vice President Al Gore and his film about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth."
Larry David, David Duchovny, Sharon Stone, and Garry Shandling were among the actors and activists who entered the theatre on a green carpet instead of the usual red one.
The documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and will be in theatres in New York and Los Angeles on May 24. Plans are to show it in every major city across the country.
In the film, director Davis Read more
Larry David, David Duchovny, Sharon Stone, and Garry Shandling were among the actors and activists who entered the theatre on a green carpet instead of the usual red one.
The documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and will be in theatres in New York and Los Angeles on May 24. Plans are to show it in every major city across the country.
In the film, director Davis Read more
May 15, 2006
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All bird flu viruses seem to start out harmless, arising out of the perpetual, benign, stable reservoir of innocuous waterfowl influenza. They begin as mild, low grade, so-called LPAI viruses, which stands for low pathogenicity avian influenza. H5 and H7 viruses, however, have the potential to mutate into virulent, high-grade "fowl plague" viruses, now known as HPAI The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) consider it "prove[n]"(1) that once low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses gain access to poultry facilities, Read more
May 11, 2003
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PAULDING, Ohio, May 8 Robert Thornell says that five years ago an invisible swirling poison invaded his family farm and the house he had built with his hands. It robbed him of his memory, his balance and his ability to work. It left him with mood swings, a stutter and fistfuls of pills. He went from doctor to doctor, unable to understand what was happening to him.
The 14th doctor finally said he knew the source of the maladies: cesspools the size of football fields belonging to the industrial hog farm a half-mile from the Thornell home.
"I never related it to the hogs Read more
The 14th doctor finally said he knew the source of the maladies: cesspools the size of football fields belonging to the industrial hog farm a half-mile from the Thornell home.
"I never related it to the hogs Read more
May 13, 2006
Reuters
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COLOGNE, GERMANY, MAY 12: The world should do more to develop drought-resistant crops or new flood controls as part of a drive to ease the damaging impact of climate change, the head of environment at the World Bank said.
"As a development institution we have to focus on the fact that millions of people will suffer from climate change," Warren Evans told Reuters on the fringes of a carbon markets trade fair in Cologne, Germany.
He said that countries had so far put most emphasis on trying to slow global warming without focusing enough on how to help societies adapt to Read more
"As a development institution we have to focus on the fact that millions of people will suffer from climate change," Warren Evans told Reuters on the fringes of a carbon markets trade fair in Cologne, Germany.
He said that countries had so far put most emphasis on trying to slow global warming without focusing enough on how to help societies adapt to Read more
May 2, 2006
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Former Vice President Al Gore is visiting Seattle like he's back on the campaign trail.
Actually he is. It's just a campaign of a different sort.
When he arrives in Seattle today, for the second time in two months, the man who narrowly missed becoming president in 2000 is coming in a new role: elder statesman and itinerant preacher about the dangers of global warming.
Just this year, Gore has been on the covers of Vanity Fair and Wired magazines. In March, more than 500 people at Seattle's Benaroya Hall saw a computerized slide show about climate change Read more
Actually he is. It's just a campaign of a different sort.
When he arrives in Seattle today, for the second time in two months, the man who narrowly missed becoming president in 2000 is coming in a new role: elder statesman and itinerant preacher about the dangers of global warming.
Just this year, Gore has been on the covers of Vanity Fair and Wired magazines. In March, more than 500 people at Seattle's Benaroya Hall saw a computerized slide show about climate change Read more
May 2, 2006
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MIAMI - For a brief time in October, the pressure inside 185-mph (298 kph) Hurricane Wilma dropped to an astonishing low, making it the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic and Caribbean.
That historic cyclone happened during a record-shattering hurricane season that produced 28 storms and occurred only weeks after Katrina swamped New Orleans, causing $80 billion in damage.
The ferocity of last year's season gave ammunition to a growing chorus of voices that says humans and their greenhouse gas-spewing cars and factories could be making hurricanes more Read more
That historic cyclone happened during a record-shattering hurricane season that produced 28 storms and occurred only weeks after Katrina swamped New Orleans, causing $80 billion in damage.
The ferocity of last year's season gave ammunition to a growing chorus of voices that says humans and their greenhouse gas-spewing cars and factories could be making hurricanes more Read more
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GREEN LIVING: CONSUMER NEWS
For financial, political and environmental reasons we may soon reach the peak of oil production, after which fossil fuels will get increasingly expensive vehicles and (mainly in the Northeast) for home heating.
Biodiesel emits 78 percent less carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions than petroleum diesel, according to the National Biodiesel Board, but it's not necessarily squeaky green. According to Kathryn Phillips, manager of Environmental Defense's California Clean Air for Life campaign, it actually increases nitrous oxide (NOX) emissions, which react
Read moreApril 4, 2006
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VIENNA, Austria, April 4, 2006 (ENS) - Large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane will be released into the atmosphere in the near future, according to a Dutch scientist speaking today at the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2006) meeting in Vienna. He said global warming could lead to melting of the arctic tundras, setting free large volumes of methane, which would in its turn increase global warming.
Methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide said Dr. J. (Ko) van Huissteden of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He explained that methane fluxes from the arctic
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