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- New satellite photos show Amazon deforestation exploding
  Posted by Jeff from Mcclatchydc
  Brazil's DETER real-time monitoring system found that more than 430 square miles of forest, an area a bit smaller than the city of Los Angeles, vanished in the month of April, while about 2,300 square miles, larger than the state of Delaware, were destroyed between last August and April.
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- Energy Probe - The Deniers: Our spotless sun
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  The battle over who has control of the thermostat in your house could become even greater.
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- Canada House gives green light to biofuel bill| Canada| Reuters
  Posted by MikeS from africa.reuters.com
  Mandated ethanol requirements don't always make the best sense but Canada has officially joined the trend. The Green Party sees it as simply another handout to the biofuel industry without having any real impact on climate change. The bill still has to receive Senate approval before it can become law which in Canada, is generally a formality.
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- Shark attacks have Mexico resort area in panic
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The article doesn't seem to mention overfishing of shark prey as a possibility but I suspect this is involved as well.
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- Federal scientists probe decline of B.C. salmon runs
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  Salmon ecology is a complex puzzle: On the U.S. West Coast many salmon runs have completely collapsed, and in B.C. the situation is only slightly better. But in the North Pacific, including Alaska, Russia and Japan, many salmon runs are at or near all-time highs.
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- States of Nature - How George Bush's legal war against the environment backfired
  Posted by senselessthing from The New Republic
  In the campaign against environmental protections, US conservatives first exalted states' rights and attacked the EPA and then did the opposite - the only objective was to thwart regulation, and the only question was which strategy would be most effective.
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- Superstore banana price war attacked by aid charities
  Posted by senselessthing from Guardian UK
  A banana price war has broken out between British supermarkets, and has been widely condemned by overseas aid charities, which feel that it will ultimately contribute to the poor treatment of plantation workers in the developing world.
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mozellagi2000 comments on:
Energy Probe - The Deniers: Our spotless sun

A-ha. Actual scientific analysis of weather potentialities ! How refreshing ! Chill out Global Warming Wonks !

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10:21 am 6/30/08
Jeff comments on:
New satellite photos show Amazon deforestation exploding

This story is very disheartening. I wish we could send our military down to help Brazil protect the Amazon (rather than having them bogged down in Iraq).

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12:36 pm 6/10/08
sgtwildey comments on:
Polar Bear to Be Designated As Threatened Species

Government taken to court? When will that ever happen? Let’s remember the Supreme Court has been hand selected by king bush himself.

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7:18 pm 5/20/08
matt2 comments on:
Polar Bear to Be Designated As Threatened Species

That’s just cover-your-ass speak so that he’s not held responsible when the government is taken to court for failing to actually enforce the protections.

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5:47 pm 5/14/08
carley comments on:
Polar Bear to Be Designated As Threatened Species

I’m both shocked and pleased that the Bush Administration approved this – after all, it will gasp make it more difficult for us to acquire all that delicious fossil fuel from the Arctic! However, I find Mr. Kempthorne’s comment to be a bit contradictory: "While the legal standards under the ESA compel me to list the polar bear as threatened, I want to make clear that this listing will not stop global climate change or prevent any sea ice from melting. Any real solution requires action by all major economies for it to be effective. That’s why I’m taking administrative and regulatory action to make certain the ESA isn’t abused to make global warming policies."
Who else is all for abusing the ESA to make global warming policies? So what, we declare them endangered and then do absolutely nothing to ensure that their habitat is protected, and therefore that they survive as a species? Who are these "major economies"? I know that China is increasingly oil-hungry, but the USA uses exponentially more fuel than any other countries in the world, we’re the major contributor to global warming.. so most of this falls on our shoulders. I hope that this isn’t another "Clean Air Act". It’s one thing to put polar bears on the endangeres species list; it’s quite another to take the action required to prevent their extinction.

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4:38 pm 5/14/08
rhoehn comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

There is no such thing as clean coal. Its a re-branding on the same dirty thing.

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1:14 pm 5/09/08
theangryindian comments on:
Bill Gates pushes coal

Gates understands full well the implications. He knows neo-cons will spend money on coal. And it seems windmills.

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8:52 am 5/08/08

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