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When Santa Turned Green

Submitted by bluemarble on November 30, 2007 - 9:39am

I was battling the masses of shoppers yesterday in Manhattan and came across a great young children's book at FAO Schwarz: When Santa Turned Green by Victoria Perla. If any of you have young children as I do, I definitely recommend it. As Victoria Perla states in her introduction: "I wrote this story because I was searching for a non-scary way to tell my children about a serious issue. Not only did I want them to understand what global warming was about, I wanted them to feel that they could make a big impact from their corner of the world-just by making lots of little changes."

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Time to Get Serious About Renewable Energy

Submitted by bluemarble on November 19, 2007 - 6:09am

Light, sweet crude for January delivery rose 81 cents to $94.65 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midday in Europe. The contract rose $1.77 to settle at $93.84 a barrel on Friday.
With events are such as they are, it is imperative that renewable energy sources such as wind and solar thermal power farms be built with an urgency. For environmental reasons they should have been at the forefront decades ago and now we are seeing what happens when you overwhelmingly depend on fossil fuels.

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Scientific Skeptics of Anthropogenic Global Warming(AGW)

Submitted by bluemarble on November 13, 2007 - 6:18pm

There is a growing number of vocal scientists that are challenging the overwhelming consensus of the scientific communtiy (i.e. the IPCC and every National Academy of Science of the major industrialized nations). They are challenging Anthropogenic Global Warming(man-made Climate Change) consensus and are furthering the misconception that there is widespread debate over this issue. You can find out about who these leading skeptics are and who is behind them by going to this link: http://www.patmichaels.com/aggregator/sources/6

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What Do You Think of Carbon Offsets?

Submitted by bluemarble on November 6, 2007 - 7:34am

Climate Change

If you are for Carbons Offset Programs- Does anybody personally know of some Carbon Offset programs they use and could recommend to people? I know of a couple that I use that are verified(very important) but I was wondering if anybody out there could recommend some others to the rest.

If you are against Carbon Offset Programs- Please state why.

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What is Up with Texas?

Submitted by bluemarble on October 20, 2007 - 2:20am

I have not been a huge fan of what has been comming out of Texas in the past twenty years but this article is really scary: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/150215/te...

There have been some recent battles won against the building of new coal-fired energy plants, but we must press on. There is too much money and political influence against us to let up after a few victories.

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Do you think the U.S. Government cares about Climate Change or using Renewable Energy?

Submitted by bluemarble on October 17, 2007 - 5:10pm

If you want to really see what the U.S. is doing to help the world, then take a look at this article. As a United States Army Veteran, I am embarassed at what has happened with my Country.

Here is the link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5174391/

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