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July 2008
- The Democratic Party: Is Civil War Brewing?
  
  newser | American | Jul 24, 08 5:05 PM CDT
  
  Democrats are undoubtedly ascendant in the US, Joel Kotkin writes in the American , but the demographic shift that made it so may undermine the party in the near future. That’s because the working-class party of FDR is now chock-full of elites—two constituencies with different values. The richer Dems don’t care deeply about economic justice, and those with less money don’t see eye-to-eye with the party’s well-educated professionals. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • climate change • Democrats • carbon emissions • Karl Rove • Democratic Party
- EPA Forecasts Longer, Smoggier Summers for US
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 17, 08 4:46 PM CDT
  
  Climate change will bring longer, hotter, smoggier summers in the coming decades across the US, a new EPA reports says. Expect more wildfires and hurricanes, too, along with water problems in the West, the Washington Post reports. The federal report is noteworthy because it refutes the Bush administration's rosier outlook on global warming, the Post notes. More »
  
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  Bush administration • climate change • global warming • environment • Environmental Protection Agency • heat wave • scientists
- Lefty Kinda Still Likes This Guy
  
  newser | New Republic | Jul 17, 08 2:23 PM CDT
  
  “What can I say?” writes left-leaning Jonathan Chait in revealing his continued affection for John McCain. “Bush has lowered my standards.” Remember, McCain was once “the country’s foremost progressive champion”—battling the religious right and tax cuts while pushing immigration and anti-global warming advances. And while the old McCain is gone—having tacked hard to the right—Chait clings to an “affinity for the old codger.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • George W. Bush • climate change • religious right • immigration reform • tax cuts
- 'Clean Coal' Advocates Blowing Smoke
  
  newser | Yale Environment 360 | Jul 17, 08 11:31 AM CDT
  
  “Clean coal” is the buzzword of the moment, with industry groups and presidential candidates swearing by a work-in-progress technique known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), which ultimately buries carbon dioxide emissions deep underground. But Jeff Goodell, writing in Yale Environment 360 , doesn’t buy it. “We don’t need to bury our problems,” Goodell writes. “We need to reinvent our world.” More »
  
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  climate change • environment • carbon emissions • coal • coal power
- Gore Challenge: 100% Clean Electricity by 2018
  
  newser | Time | Jul 17, 08 10:20 AM CDT
  
  Al Gore is challenging the US to produce all its electricity through wind, sun, and other clean sources by 2018. Speaking to the AP ahead of a major address today, the Nobel laureate compared the goal to JFK’s 1961 pledge to make it to the moon—and said that both Barack Obama and John McCain are “way ahead” of most politicians on the climate change issue. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • climate change • Al Gore • nuclear power • clean energy • Nobel Prize
- The World's Greenest Venture Capitalist
  
  newser | Fast Company | Jul 16, 08 11:59 AM CDT
  
  Vinod Khosla isn’t just smarter and richer than the average venture capitalist—he’s greener, too. Khosla has sunk $450 million into what he calls “imprudent science experiments" over the past 4 years, financing 45 enviro-tech startups. “We've funded an incredible number of things that would make no sense at all for a traditional venture fund,” the 53-year-old tells Fast Company. More »
  
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  climate change • environment • green technology • venture capitalists
- Today's Drilling Rush Looks as Crude as Whale Oil Folly
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 10:37 AM CDT
  
  On an otherwise deserted patch of Arctic ice stands an abandoned settlement, proof that humans once lived here. Nearby lies a reminder of why they came: dozens of massive whale skulls, still bleeding oil into the ground. Men once flocked to this land for whale oil, Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post; now our dependence on a different kind of oil might change it forever. More »
  
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  climate change • greenhouse gases • Arctic • whaling
- 'Go Green,' Pope Urges Youth
  
  newser | Sydney Morning Herald | Jul 14, 08 4:35 AM CDT
  
  The Pope yesterday called on the world—particularly young people—to combat global warming with "a style of life that eases problems caused to the environment," reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Pope Benedict issued his plea just minutes before touching down in Australia for an official visit. The Vatican is going green with a new solar power system. More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • Australia • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • solar energy • priest sex abuse • World Youth Day
- Global Warming Caused by ... Cleaner Skies: Study
  
  newser | New Scientist | Jul 10, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  Reducing aerosols and other pollutants has been a major part of Europe’s campaign to reduce global warming, but a new study turns conventional thinking on its head, New Scientist reports. "The decrease in aerosols probably accounts for at least half of the warming over Europe in the last 30 years," says a co-author of the study. More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • Europe • greenhouse gases • air pollution • smog • meteorology • aerosol
- China, India Reject G8 Carbon Plan
  
  newser | Financial Times (UK) | Jul 9, 08 8:40 AM CDT
  
  Neither China nor India agreed to adopt the G8's targets for cutting carbon emissions by 2050 at their joint meeting today. Asia's two big developing economies, joined by Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa, said carbon reductions would endanger their growth and exacerbate poverty, and that rich nations should clean up the mess they had created. The emerging economies' holdout was only one of many signs that the G8 is losing clout, reports the Financial Times. More »
  
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  China • climate change • environment • Nicolas Sarkozy • carbon emissions • G8 summit • Yasuo Fukuda • developing countries
- Vague G8 Goals Deflate Green Hopes
  
  newser | Time | Jul 9, 08 2:08 AM CDT
  
  G8 leaders are hailing an agreement to cut carbon emissions in half by 2050 as "major progress" in combating climate change—but their failure to come up with concrete shorter-term goals is a major letdown, Bryan Walsh writes in Time . The agreement, so vague it doesn't even say which year is to be used as a starting point, is unlikely to spur the immediate changes needed to avert possible catastrophe. More »
  
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  climate change • carbon emissions • G8 summit • Group of Eight • summit
- G8 Agrees to Cut Emissions 50%
  
  newser | BBC | Jul 8, 08 7:17 AM CDT
  
  The G8 leaders have resolved to cut greenhouse gases in half by 2050, something they’d only agreed to “seriously consider” before. But the US has resisted setting any interim goals, the BBC reports, leading environmentalists to deride the pact. The group will also try to convince some 200 other UN members to agree to the target, to address US concerns that climate efforts must be broad. More »
  
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  climate change • greenhouse gases • G8 summit • Group of Eight • carbon dioxide emissions
- Conservatives Set for Stand on GOP Platform
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 7, 08 4:31 PM CDT
  
  Conservatives are concerned John McCain might be a maverick with a pen, and are gearing up for a fight on the Republican Party's official election platform, the Washington Post reports. Loath to imagine where McCain might go on climate change, immigration, stem cells and more, activists are already on platform watch. “There’s no question it’s going to be changed radically,” laments one. More »
  
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  John McCain • climate change • campaign finance • abortion • stem cell research • Republican National Convention • platforms
- Global Warming's a Myth; Here's Why People Believe
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 1, 08 9:31 AM CDT
  
  Global warming is a bunch of hooey, a “nonfalsifiable hypothesis logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God”—and any discussion of it is not a matter of science but one of “sick-souled religion,” writes Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal . Evidence has emerged to undercut the theory—expanding sea in in the Antarctic, for example—yet its believers are resolute, Stephens writes. He offers three reasons why. More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • religion • science
June 2008
- US Weather Hell: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 20, 08 4:18 AM CDT
  
  The US will suffer a wide range of increasingly extreme weather events in the coming decades as a result of global warming—from drought and excessive heat to wildly destructive hurricanes and record floods triggered by intense rains, reports the Washington Post. The grim prognosis was revealed in the latest report by the US Climate Change Science Program, which called extreme weather "among the most serious challenges in coping with a changing climate." More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • drought • tropical storms • greenhouse-gas emissions • rainstorms • hurricanes • National Center for Atmospheric Research • National Climatic Data Center
- Where's All the Climate-Change Finger-Pointing?
  
  newser | Treehugger | Jun 17, 08 4:48 PM CDT
  
  With the recent rash of severe and terrifying weather events, Treehugger notes a distinct lack of environmentalists pointing to the changes as evidence of global warming. The green site gives five reasons for the absence, starting with the fact that it's no fun to say "I told you so." The list in its entirety: More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • flooding • severe weather • global weather
- Consumers Rattled by 'Green Overload'
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 15, 08 8:30 AM CDT
  
  Inundated with reports on how best to save the environment, many consumers are left confused and suffering from an information overload the New York Times dubs “green noise.” Many eco-facts are contradictory and options are puzzling (is it better, for example, to get a used car, or a hybrid?). Environmental groups worry that too much green noise could stop people from paying attention at all. More »
  
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  climate change • environment • consumer • advertising campaign
- Greens May Be OK With Climate Bill's Failure
  
  newser | New Republic | Jun 11, 08 4:59 PM CDT
  
  Before friends of the environment get too worked up about the death of the 2008 Climate Security Act last week, they should note tepid green support all along. So-called Lieberman-Warner was “easily the most aggressive and comprehensive environmental reform ever” in Congress, Dayo Olopade writes in the New Republic , but a more leftist legislature backed by a Democratic president could likely cut deeper. More »
  
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  climate change • renewable energy • Greenpeace • Sierra Club • carbon caps
- To Fix US Energy Policy, Start Over
  
  newser | Yale Environment 360 | Jun 10, 08 6:28 PM CDT
  
  The US must overhaul its environmental strategy, alternative-energy advocate Denis Hayes writes in Yale Environment 360 , and here's how: Cap carbon at its source—coal mines, oil fields, pipelines—not where it leaves the atmosphere. Promote renewable energy and buy photovoltaic devices in bulk to drive prices down. More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • environment • energy • cap and trade • alternative fuels
- Left Has Won (Whoever Wins)
  
  newser | Salon | Jun 10, 08 2:55 PM CDT
  
  After 4 decades, the conservative revolution launched by the likes of Goldwater and Buckley is not only washed up, Michael Lind writes in Salon, it failed "completely, undeniably and irreversibly." The structure of 20th-century American liberalism is intact, if battered, he writes, and liberals should stop worrying so much. No matter who wins the election, “prospects for the moderate, reformist center left” are better now than in half a century. More »
  
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  John McCain • climate change • health care • evangelicals • conservatism • New Deal

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