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For most of his prepared testimony, Gore ran through an abbreviated version of his famous Inconvenient Truth PowerPoint presentation on the threat of climate change - updated with new, increasingly scary data. He pointed out that the increase in global carbon emissions over the past few years is well above previous...
Many of Updike’s friends on The Lampoon came from wealthier backgrounds, but that did not stop the young writer—who grew up in Reading, Pa. and attended a small-town public school—from rising to the helm of the nationally-known humor magazine...
•"Evaporation and rainfall are increasing; glaciers are retreating; sea ice is shrinking; sea level is rising; permafrost is melting; wildfires are increasing; storm and flood damage is soaring. The canary in the coal mine is singing for all she's worth." - on reading the signs of climate change (Center...
Meanwhile the science on climate change grows more dire. James Hansen, NASA's climate expert, reported in a recent paper that the world needed to stabilize carbon in the atmosphere at 350 parts per million (ppm) to avoid the worst effects of warming - a more stringent goal than earlier estimates...
It was revealed last week that Geithner had failed to pay nearly $40,000 in taxes since 2001. When he appears before the Senate Finance Committee today for his confirmation hearings, he will be interrogated about his plans to deal with the flailing economy, failing banks and rising foreclosures. But...