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Global Warming as a By-product of the Capitalist Treadmill of Production and Consumption-The Need for an Alternative Global System
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Global warming constitutes one of the most important issues of the 21st century, along with the growing gap between the rich and the poor within and between nation-states, thanks to corporate globalisation, and on-going conflicts in many parts of the world. The latter in part can be related to various states, led by the United States but including the United Kingdom and Australia, which are willing to do the bidding of multi-national corporations. All of these problems in large part are by-pr...
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Get over It: Global Warming is Real.
Design News
; ... bring it on! A good place to examine the debate on the impact of rising temperatures is a joint Frontline and NOVA website. As news and science impact shows go (respectively), they are peerless. And, they pose the question correctly: 'The overwhelming majority ...
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Fighting global warming: government purchasers play an important and growing role.
Government Procurement
; President Bush talked about taking action to combat the serious challenge of global warming in his most recent state of the union address. The U.S. Congress is holding hearings to determine how the country should address the issue. Military planners at the Department of Defense are analyzing how
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Global-warming debate best left to science
Daily Breeze
; ... global warming was melting the planet's polar ice caps. This news was used as aclub to berate President Bush for not agreeing to ... accumulating nearly 27 billion tons annually. On a recent ABC News "Nightline" with Ted Koppel, Patrick J. Michaels, a professor ...
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U.N. Secretary General Calls Global Warming a Priority
The Washington Post
; U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon argued Thursday that global warming poses as great a threat to the world as modern warfare, and he vowed to make reduction of greenhouse gases one of his tenure's top priorities. Ban's remarks -- made in a speech in the U.N. General Assembly Hall addressing a high
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Stay cool.(global warming)(Editorial)
The Economist (US)
; ENVIRONMENTALISTS are dismayed. Their efforts to scare the world over global warming seem not to have worked. Three years ago, in Rio, governments agreed to hold down their output of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, that are thought to be raising the earth's average temperature. But when
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Global Warming-An Opportunity for Visionary Leadership
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
; What do you think about global warming? Is our planet really getting warmer? And if it is, does this merely represent a cyclic phenomenon that has occurred before? These questions recently came to mind when I came across three new reports bearing on global warming and greenhouse gases. In one
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O'Malley acts on global warming
Capital (Annapolis)
; Maryland took two steps forward yesterday to deal with global warming, even as some critics raised concerns that the steps are too small. Gov. Martin O'Malley signed papers for Maryland to join a regional program to reduce the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. And he created a state
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Living in a globally warmed world.(about global warming)
Phi Kappa Phi Forum
; How might global warming affect Earth? Just ask Santa. A recent holiday catalog advertised a global warming mug festooned with a map of the world on its exterior. When filled with hot liquid, the map transforms to illustrate the results of a 100-meter rise in sea level caused by global warming.
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Leopold: County will act to fight global warming
Capital (Annapolis)
; County Executive John R. Leopold has joined the movement to fight global warming. Mr. Leopold announced yesterday that he has signed the U.S. Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement, promising that the Anne Arundel government will do its part to combat global warming. More than 300 mayors across the
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How I'd solve global warming
Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
; ... spend more to do your part in cleaning up the air? Each Wednesday 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 to halt global warming? Are you willing to pay $5 for a gallon ...
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