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Science: Deep-frozen clues to a warmer world
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Greenland's icy mountains may hold important clues to the way in
which our climate is changing. Earlier this year, the United
Nations Environment Programme (Unep) published figures showing that
mountain glaciers around the world were in retreat. But there was a
problem with this apparent evidence of global warming: the data
covered only the period 1965 to 1989.
However, surveys of some high polar glaciers go back a good deal
further, and some were remarkably accurate. As long ago as th...
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Global warming 'drying up ancient Arctic ponds' ; Home News IN BRIEF
The Independent - London
; Arctic ponds that have existed for thousands of years are evaporating because of global warming, according to scientists. Professor John Smol, of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and Professor Marianne Douglas, of the University of Alberta, have been studying 40 ponds on Cape Herschel,
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The church of global warming: Jane S. Shaw is hot on the trail of environmental piety.
Women's Quarterly
; ... slow and insignificant compared to the natural changes of the climate. For devotees of the Church of Global Warming this is bad news indeed. It is as if Cotton Mather had suddenly learned that there was no such thing as sin. Bummer. Jane S. Shaw is a senior ...
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DON'T OVERESTIMATE GLOBAL WARMING EFFECTS
Roanoke Times & World News
; Someone recently left this message on my voice mail: "Well, here's your global warming, what you and these other characters have been pushing for." A strange message, because I've mentioned the phrase "global warming" in only six of more than 100 columns during the past year. Also, I've repeatedly
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Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact
Environmental History
; ... the Age of Contact. By Lyle Dick. Calgary, Alta.: University of Calgary Press, 2001. xxv, 615 pp. Illustrations, photographs, maps, notes. Paper $34.95. Students of mountain flowers learn about Ellesmere Island early in their studies. One plant, the Star-like ...
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If It's Bad and Recent, It's Global Warming
Human Events
; ... seems to go only one way. Given such a standard of proof, nearly anything can be linked to global warming. A widely reported news piece from a few months ago told the story of an intrepid group of activists who went to the Arctic to find proof of global warming-a ...
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McCain spreads ruse of global warming cult
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
; In an effort to win over those "moderates" who believe that global warming is about to destroy the planet, Republican presidential candidate John McCain spoke last week at a Portland, Ore., training facility for Vestas Wind Technology. He claimed, "The facts of global warming demand our urgent
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Most northerly lake flashes warning of global warming
Winnipeg Free Press
; ... abrupt changes in the lake's algae population and productivity. The concentration of chlorophyll A, a pigment found in plants and algae, increased by a factor of 500; and a diatom, a type of algae, made its first appearance. -- CanWest News Service
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How I'd solve global warming
Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
; ... we invite readers to give us their opinions on a topic in the news. This week's questions: Are you convinced that you can do something ... feel the way I do. Have a comment about any other topic in the news? Call the daily Speakout line at (562) 499-1295. Watch for next ...
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The sky is falling! Or is it? Modern-day chicken littles would like you to believe that the sky is falling--or, more precisely, that the atmosphere is dangerously overheating. But they are wrong.(Global Warming)
The New American
; ... two-year study that boldly recommended increasing the number of America's nuclear power plants from 100 to 300. This is good news, even though the group accepts the false notion that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global ...
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Another side to global warming: environmentalists and the UN want you to believe that the science of global warming is settled and that the globe is heating. In fact, the science is anything but settled.
The New American
; ... signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now, professor David Bromwich told the AAAS meeting according to the online science news site PhysOrg.com. Part of the reason is that there is a lot of variability there. It's very hard in these polar latitudes to ...
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