Greenhouse Effect

When it comes to buying TVs, it's hard to tell who the real Energy Star is

tmcnet.com
Nov 19, 2008 4 related
        

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 19--As of Nov. 1, television sets with the Energy Star label meet new, more stringent criteria for saving energy. That's because some sets put on the shelves before Nov. 1 and which bore the...

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Jupiter's Shrinking Red Spot, Oil Spills, Spreading Germs: Highlights of Fluid Dynamics...

newswise.com
Nov 19, 2008 1 related
        

Ever since the ancient thinker Archimedes shouted "Eureka" in the tub, inspired as he watched the water spill out, scientist though the ages have solved many of life's mysteries by considering how fluids flow. Today, the field...

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State Cap and Trade System Has Flaws

kpbs.org
Nov 20, 2008
        

A National City-based environmental group is displeased with state plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Environmental Health Coalition will make its case in Sacramento today (Thursday). KPBS Environmental Reporter...

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Saving Detroit From Itself

evworld.com
Nov 19, 2008
        

Source: San Francisco Chronicle SYNOPSIS: The price of a automotive financial bailout should include requiring the car manufacturers to drop their four-year-long legal assault against global warming laws. Congress will decide...

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Three U.S. states partner with six other foreign states in combatting deforestation

people.com.cn
Nov 19, 2008 13 related
        

Governors from the U.S. states of California, Wisconsin and Illinois signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with six governors from Brazil and Indonesia on Tuesday to reduce forestry-related greenhouse gas emission. The...

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Obama Urged to Reverse Climate Change Trends

epochtimes.com
Nov 19, 2008 2 related
        

By Gary Feuerberg Epoch Times Washington, D.C. Staff Nov 19, 2008 WASHINGTON, D.C.―When President-elect Obama assumes office on Jan. 20, he will face a multitude of urgent problems, and climate change may turn out, in the long...

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Report: California coastal areas not ready for warming; 'we need to be acting now'

underwatertimes.com
Nov 19, 2008 1 related
        

Despite its tough goals to reduce greenhouse gases, California is not prepared to deal with the flooding, coastal erosion and loss of wildlife habitat that scientists are predicting in the coming decades as a result of higher...

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BIO Thanks Senators for Supporting a Sound Scientific Review in Renewable Fuel Standard Rule

thomasnet.com
Nov 19, 2008 1 related
        

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Wednesday, November 19, 2008) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should implement new rules for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in a timely manner that is consistent with the goals of achieving...

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Editorial: State needs to be ready for warming

sacbee.com
Nov 19, 2008
        

In responding to climate change, California can't just lead on efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. As a state that is already vulnerable to floods and droughts, it must be ready to adapt to ever more extreme forces that a...

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Global Warming will raise sea levels, recede coast in NJ

freerepublic.com
Nov 19, 2008 1 related
        

New Jersey's densely populated coastline is in danger of becoming vastly altered because sea levels are rising — triggered by the world's glaciers melting at the fastest rate ever recorded, a leading glaciologist has...

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