Going "green" has become a cultural buzzword. Growing concerns over climate change have motivated aspirations to create a cleaner, more sustainable, and...
Climate Change
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Climategate began with a collection of emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia that were hacked and released to the public via the Internet on November 19, 2009. These emails...
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Proponents of cap-and-trade hope to harness the invisible hand of "the market" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), such as carbon dioxide.
The goal is to "cap" current GHG...
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The Kyoto Protocol is a worldwide treaty, in effect since 2004, binding signatory countries to lower greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit possible impacts on global warming. The only problem is that few...
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Politics, not science, explains much of the hype and controversy over global warming.
The global warming issue and the proposed solutions to global warming neatly dovetail with many...
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What do polar bears, windmills, dramatic weather, and fossil fuels all have in common? Due to the extensive media coverage devoted to these and other environmental issues in recent years, it’s not hard to guess that the answer to this question is...
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In the last several decades, the issue of climate change has appeared on the radar screen of almost every individual in the developed world. The arguments that result over why, when, and if climate change is occurring can often seem tiresome and...
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We’ve all heard that global warming will lead to melting arctic glaciers and catastrophically rising sea levels, which will in turn wreak havoc on the world’s...
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In the last several decades, many scientists, politicians, and the general public have been engaged in a debate over the issue of climate change. Given the...