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1.Police investigate Nude Snow Woman (www.nj.com)
Police told a Rahway, New Jersey family to cover their nude snow woman after an anonymous complaint.
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In the past few years, a rhetorical firestorm has engulfed the debate about global warming, pitting science against spin, with inflammatory words on both sides. That debate only intensifed recently when former Vice-President Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize for his populist environmental campaign.
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3.Most Credible Climate Skeptic Not So Credible After All | Mother Jones (motherjones.com)
Michaels' credibility on climate is called into question by a trove of documents from a 2007 court case that attracted almost no scrutiny at the time. Those documents show that Michaels has financial ties to big energy interests—ties that he's worked hard to keep secret
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4.Siding with skeptics, Tory MP decries climate-change 'alarmism' (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Opposition attacks Conservative government's sincerity on global warming after Maxime Bernier publicly questions scientific consensus
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5.Sudbury examines better flood response (www.northernlife.ca)
After the June 26 flood, city staff formed a working group to look into the flood results and possible prevention measures.Their third and final report was presented to city council on Feb. 10.
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6.Winter continues to confuse Sudbury (www.thesudburystar.com)
While December got the local snowmobiling season off to a good start with a healthy dose of the white stuff, January was snow-parched. In fact, a low snowfall record was almost set. February, likewise, has been pretty short of snow to date.
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7.Culture Change - Climate Science: Shooting the Messenger (www.culturechange.org)
Regarding the recent attacks on top climate scientists, Radio Ecoshock takes the case of Richard B. Alley
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8.Look Beyond Forests to Fight Climate Change (northernwoodlands.org)
Here’s an important point to make for those of you deeply concerned about climate change: We’re not going to solve the problem by promoting forest growth
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9.Effects of climate change migrating North. (www.thesudburystar.com)
Complicating the best-laid regreening plans is the interminable march of climate change, which will also compete to shape our landscape. Thus, the next few decades will bring as much dramatic change as the last few.
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10.Olympic no-show snow due to climate change: scientist (ca.news.yahoo.com)
The David Suzuki Foundation says global warming and climate change are in part responsible for what's happening to a key Olympic venue.
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11.January may set a new record (www.thesudburystar.com)
Last winter, it was a case of too much snow and not enough places to put it.This winter in Greater Sudbury and across much of the northeast, it's a case of not enough. And it's also barely cold enough to hold onto what's come down.
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12.James Hansen's Storms of My Grandchildren. (slate.com)
NASA's Prophet Will Give You Nightmares. Ignore James Hansen's climate predictions at your peril
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13.U.N. Official, Yvo de Boer, Says Climate Deal Is at Risk - NYTimes.com (www.nytimes.com)
Facing a Jan. 31 deadline, major countries have yet to submit their plans for reducing emissions of climate-altering gases, one of the major provisions of the agreement,
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14.Arctic a growing security issue for U.S.; CIA shares spy photos of ice cap (ca.news.yahoo.com)
The CIA normally concerns itself with terrorism and other threats to U.S. security, so the recent revelation that it is routinely monitoring the Arctic's rapidly shrinking ice cap, and now sharing spy satellite photos with climate-change scientists, caught some by surprise.
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15.Reinventing cities critical to climate (marketplace.publicradio.org)
Most of the hard work building a low-carbon economy and lifestyle is going to be done in local communities. Commentator Alex Steffen says more than ever, acting globally means acting locally.
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16.An Eco-Activist in Bali (thetyee.ca)
As co-founder of ForestEthics, Tzeporah Berman has been at the front lines of environmental causes in British Columbia for years. This piece is drawn from her Bali blog,
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17.Governor of Katrina-Ravaged Louisiana Tries to Block Climate Change Regulation (climateprogress.org)
It’s official. The state that stands to suffer the most from human-caused global warming has elected leaders who want to stop efforts to avoid its inundation
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18.Microsoft’s “Bend the Trend” portal (www.bendthetrend.net)
a multi-platform solution to showcase positive impacts we can all make to reduce global carbon emissions. “ …. “where users worldwide can pledge to make lifestyle changes which will have a positive impact on reduction of global carbon emissions.
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19.Goldstein's arguments starting to wear thin (www.thesudburystar.com)
Why is Lorrie Goldstein suddenly churning out so much abusive blather about climate change -- four columns in the last few weeks issues of The Star? Talk about blowing smoke.
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20.The Heat Is Online (www.heatisonline.org)
A lot of people are skeptical about this issue in any case. And then when they have the feeling...that scientists are manipulating information, then of course it causes concern in a number of people to say 'you see I told you so, this is not a real issue.'"
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21.Greenhouse Development Rights framework (gdrights.org)
The Greenhouse Development Rights framework is designed to support a global emergency climate mobilization while, at the same time, preserving the rights of all people to reach a dignified level of sustainable human development free of the privations of poverty.
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22.Barack Obama's key climate bill hit by $45m PR campaign (www.guardian.co.uk)
America's oil, gas and coal industry has increased its lobbying budget by 50%, with key players spending $44.5m in the first three months of this year in an intense effort to cut off support for Barack Obama's plan to build a clean energy economy.
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23.Taking care of business: How big business has hijacked climate talks (www.wombles.org.uk)
Until recently, many of the globe's biggest corporations were firmly in the climate change denial camp - and funding spurious research to back up their claims. Now a new realism has emerged. Climate change is no longer rejected as a bogus theory the economy can ill afford. Instead, it's a business opportunity.
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24.Worldmapper: Carbon Emissions 2000 (www.worldmapper.org)
Territory size shows the proportion of carbon dioxide emissions in 2000 that were directly from there.
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25.Your Weather: Our igloo - The Weather Network Sudbury (www.theweathernetwork.com)
It took us about 3hours to make this coned looking igloo, it was a perfect day, the snow was sticky and it wasent raining or snowing.