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...facts wrong about the snows of Kilimanjaro. Yes, those immortal snows are vanishing (actually, they're glaciers, but we can blame Ernest Hemingway for that bit of poetic license), as Gore's global-warming documentary contends, but they've been receding since the early 1900s at least - long before the planet began to warm...
...Still, even if Mote is right, that doesn't rule out global warming as a root cause of glacier retreat. Climate scientists have long maintained - and evidence from the real world is already confirming - that warming doesn't just result in higher temperatures. It also leads to changes in weather patterns, including more intense precipitation in some areas, more severe droughts in others (and sometimes, as in the case of the American Southeast, a little of both). And that may well be what's happening at Kilimanjaro. While strongly disputing Thompson's explanation, Georg Kaser of the Institut...
White was selected to speak because of his three decade-long background advising both non-governmental organizations and corporations, Rozensher added...
...This deal] is part of our broader efforts to be sustainable where we can and wherever possible to use renewable products to reduce our environmental impact,” said Mary H. Smith, an energy strategist at UOS. “We look at this as a long-term pricing strategy that is very competitive with other prices...
Under the long-term contract with First Wind, a Massachusetts-based developer of wind power headquartered in Boston, Harvard will purchase 50 percent of the energy produced from First Wind’s soon-to-be constructed wind farm in northern Maine for the next 15 years...