Global Warming Debate Needs Cooler Heads To Prevail

Friday, August 10, 2012 Global Warming Debate Needs Cooler Heads To Prevail Over the course of the last two weeks, two scientists -- James E. Hansen of Columbia University and Richard A. Muller at the University of California, Berkeley -- took to the pages of two prominent American newspapers to present new and compelling evidence that climate change is real, that it is driven overwhelmingly by human activity, and that its dire effects are already upon us. U.S. Corn Production Could Fall To Lowest Average Yield In 17 Years List Reveals The States With Worst Power Plant Polluters U.S. Farmers And Ranchers Look To Adapt To Climate Change Company Vows To Clean Pellet Spill From Hong Kong Beaches Fearing World Food Crisis, U.N. Presses U.S. On Biofuels BLOG POSTS Yao Ming: A Lesson in Extinction Since learning more about threats to wildlife, I wanted to go and see what's happening to some of these animals myself and so I'm heading to Africa for the first time to learn about elephants and rhinos, two species in peril as a result of demand for ivory and rhino horn. Wm. Robert Irvin: Extreme Drought and its Challenges to the U.S.'s Clean Water Supply While the most extreme effects are being felt in the middle of the country, even regions that typically have greater rainfall, such as the Great Lakes, Southeast and Northeast, are also parched. Frances Moore Lappe: From Global Pariah to Green Giant: Does Germany Hold a Key to Our Sustainable Future? In the early 1990s, Germany had virtually no renewable energy, so I was astonished to learn that in 2010 Germany -- slightly smaller in area than Montana and hardly a Sunbelt -- generated almost half the world's solar energy. Jeff Danziger: TeaPartyGlobalWarming Julie Brothers: Farm to Fork Across America: Nature, An Instrument of Restoration Some ideas don't fade, they simply adapt to changing circumstances. So we found in the rolling hills outside of Sonoma, California, home of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center on 80 acres of organic gardens, orchards and wild lands.

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