Chemistry Lessons: Living With Rachel Carson's Legacy

Monday, July 23, 2012 Chemistry Lessons: Living With Rachel Carson's Legacy As you read this, a menagerie of chemical pollutants is coursing through your body. What you do and how you live doesn't matter. You have inhaled them, you've eaten them, you've absorbed them through your skin. You're doing it right now. The Worst Country For Wildlife Crime Paul McCartney: Come Together, To Save The Arctic Alaska Sues Over New Fuel Standard For Ships A Much Needed Reprieve Deadly Storms Wreak Havoc In China BLOG POSTS Paul McCartney: Come Together, to Save the Arctic Since Earthrise was taken we've been so busy warming our world that it now looks radically different from space. We've put so much carbon into the atmosphere that today's astronauts are looking at a different planet. Steven Cohen: Climate Change and the American Political Agenda Climate has never been an easy issue for the American political system. We do much better with problems that have a geographic home, can be seen and felt, and have an immediate visible impact. Frances Beinecke: Drought Grips Nation and Shows What Climate Change Does to Our Communities The summer from hell continues to bring wave after wave of extreme weather events, and each one provides yet another example of what climate change is doing to our families and businesses. Carl Pope: Hard Right -- or Hired Right? So what we are seeing this summer from the Tea Party is the sad old story coming true -- he who pays the piper calls the tune, and monopoly energy and agribusiness are the paymasters behind the far right -- not Frederick Hayek and Ayn Rand. Heather Taylor-Miesle: Don't Fire Me for Not Knowing Romney's Position on Global Warming Heat waves and droughts are showing average Americans what a warmer world feels like -- and it hurts. It would be nice to have two candidates engaging seriously on an issue of this importance

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