GLOBAL WARMING NEWS

COMMENTARY

Our Grace Period May Be Over
New York Daily News, September 25, 2005, by Michael Daly
Another sign of the times.
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The U.S. after Katrina
Tom Dispatch , 9-7-05, by Bill McKibben 
The author of The End of Nature (Anchor) reflects on the beginning of a new era.
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Katrina's Real Name
The Boston Globe, 8-30-05, by Ross Gelbspan
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of Boiling Point (Basic Books) points out the real cause of Katrina.
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Confessions of a Bat Lover: Wind farms can help save America’s bat populations from a huge crash, probable mass extinctions
chesapeakeclimate.org, 1-05, by Mike Tidwell
The director of` Chesapeake Climate Action Network puts some perspective on recent findings of bats killed by wind generators.
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Undeniable Global Warming
Washington Post, Op-ed, 12-26-04, by Naomi Oreskes
“Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to rest.”
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The Digested Read: State of Fear by Michael Crichton
The Guardian, 12-20-04
A very quick and humorous summary – and probably all you’ll want to know – about the Hollywood adventure novel which tries to debunk environmental concerns for global warming.
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Climate, the Absent Issue
The Nation, 10-13-04, by Mark Hertsgaard
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, leads Kenya’s Green Belt Movement which “is based on a holistic analysis of the intertwined problems of war, poverty, environmental degradation and lower status for women. … her achievements … suggest how the rest of the world, including the vastly richer United States, can combat climate change, if only it wakes up and tries.”
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