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Last-Ditch Resort: Move Polar Bears to Antarctica?

Posted by Jeff from Wired

In April, I offered this idea as an April Fools Joke. I knew it wouldn't be too long before it entered mainstream debate. I didn't expect it to arise this quickly.

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Ford posts $8.67 billion loss, looks to small cars - Autos- msnbc.com

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it lost $8.67 billion in the second quarter and will retool two more North American truck and sport utility vehicle plants to build small, fuel-efficient vehicles. The net loss includes $8.03 billion worth of write-offs because of a decline in value of North American assets and Ford Motor Credit Co.'s lease portfolio

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Immigrants cause global warming, says Australian university study

Posted by Shemuses from The Advertiser

Researchers at Monash University have released "Labor's Greenhouse Aspirations," a report that cites population growth as a major factor in carbon emissions. From there, the authors called for renewed restrictions on immigration, to "stabilize" the population by 2050. The report assumes that all migrants will live at "twice the standard of living, like all Australians." Named after an Australian general, Monash has also opened campuses in South Africa and Malaysia.

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A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels

Posted by garrettmoon from PhysOrg.com

Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, reports Cath O'Driscoll in SCI's Chemistry & Industry magazine published today.

Adding lime to seawater increases alkalinity, boosting seawater's ability to absorb CO2 from air and reducing the tendency to release it back again.

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La. doctor cleared in patient deaths recalls storm

Posted by Jeff from Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Trapped in a hospital with 2,000 people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Anna Pou recalls her throat burning from the rancid smell....

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Texas To Build $4.93B Wind-Power Project

Posted by Jeff from Slashdot

Power News Technology Hugh Pickens points out a story in the NYTimes about Texas' $4.93 billion wind-power transmission project. One of the major goals of the project is to improve electrical throughput to the population centers. Current transmission lines are unable to handle all of the power generated by Texas' wind fields. State citizens will be paying slightly more to help cover the cost, though the project is expected to eventually lower the cost to consumers.

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Thomas Friedman: 9/11 and 4/11

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

What doesn't the Bush crowd get? It's this: We don't have a "gasoline price problem." We have an addiction problem. We are addicted to dirty fossil fuels, and this addiction is driving a whole set of toxic trends that are harming our nation and world in many different ways. It is intensifying global warming, creating runaway global demand for oil and gas, weakening our currency by shifting huge amounts of dollars abroad to pay for oil imports, widening "energy poverty" across Africa, destroying plants and animals at record rates and fostering ever-stronger petro-dictatorships in Iran, Russia and Venezuela.

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Another nuclear leak in France

Posted by Jeff from International Herald Tribune

Uranium-bearing liquid has leaked from a broken underground pipe at a nuclear plant in southeastern France, the national nuclear safety authority said Friday. It was the second leak discovered at a French site this month. The Nuclear Safety Authority said experts were trying to determine how much leaked uranium was present at the plant, which is owned by the electricity company Areva.

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'Phenomenal' oil and gas rights sale sets stage for exploration push in B.C.

Posted by Jeff from Globe and Mail

British Columbia has raked in a record-breaking $610-million in an oil and gas rights sale, the latest in a series of windfalls driven by a rush of natural gas producers looking to lock up land in the northeastern part of the province. The tally from the one-day sale smashes the old record of $441-million set in May, and puts B.C.'s total land sale proceeds so far this year at $1.58-billion. That surpasses last year's record mark of $1.04-billion, and ranks as among the biggest to date in Canada.

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Canada: This is the dirtiest oil in the world

Posted by Jeff from therealnews.com

The Guardian: What happens when the world's biggest oil companies target a northern wilderness?

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Bush climate action now? "Bogus": Schwarzenegger

Posted by Jeff from Feeds.reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Sunday the Bush administration did not believe it should do anything about global warming and that any last-minute action before leaving office would be "bogus."

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President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'

Posted by Shemuses from Telegraph.c

George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G8 summit in Japan. The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

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