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...single solution to climate change,” and that solutions would be costly because of our reliance on fossil fuels. Schrag did offer some suggestions, such as reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by pumping it underground, which might help facilitate the carbon cycle, the earth??s natural means of drawing carbon...
...project, known as the “Origins of Life in the Universe Initiative,” will bring together researchers from across several scientific disciplines to determine how on Earth??and, perhaps, elsewhere in the universe—a muddle of chemicals gave rise to the first life forms...
...cold turkey. “Sometimes you need a break. It kind of gets to your head,” says Bambi. She went back to the nine-to-five drill, shaving her legs once a week instead of every day. She became more “down-to-earth?? and “reserved.” She stopped being Bambi...
...climate include the number of people on Earth, the state of our socioeconomic development, and, most important of all, how dependent we are on coal, oil, and gas (versus alternative sources of energy) to fuel our economies. So what are we doing to reduce the effects of humans on Earth??s climate system...
Despite popular misrepresentation to the contrary, full implementation of the Kyoto Protocol was never anticipated to be sufficient to prevent potentially harmful disruption of Earth??s climate. Rather it is the first step along this path. With every passing day the challenge of meeting the objective of the Protocol is made more difficult but certainly not impossible. Consider the impressive list of major corporations, starting with British Petroleum, and more recently Shell and others, and the hundreds of cities that are demonstrating what many analyses have indicated, namely, that the Kyoto targets can be met without incurring serious...