The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Paris Dispatch: Baselines for Our Occupying Earth Have Been Breached
In the global slugfest going on now in Paris over feasible outcomes and future dangers, the relevant – and unprecedented – number to remember is 400 parts per million of carbon in the air.
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Carbon Inequality: World's Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Half Of All CO2
The poorest half of the world meanwhile emits only a fraction of that amount, yet faces severe climate change effects.
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Foreign Fracking Company Quietly Buys Rights To Botswana Conservation Park
Top park officials were not informed of the fracking rights sale at Kgalagadi transfrontier park, borderin South Africa, are now worried about the impact of drilling on rare wildlife.
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Thin Green Line: Does Pacific Northwest Hold Key To Our Climate Future?
With huge gas and coal export terminals planned in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, "this sliver of coast basically is what stands between companies wrecking the climate or not.”
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COP21 Dispatch: Can Cows Save the Planet?
The relatively simple shift to holistic grazing has sanity and simplicity behind it – now, many want to see if carbon-smart farming can make soil sexy.
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Coal CEO Wants Texas Political Cowboy to Expand Probe of Climate Scientists
Robert Murray, the founder of Murray Energy, disputes government data on global warming, claims regulators are “not telling hardly any truth,” and blames "crony capitalists" for climate debate.
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COP21 Dispatch: March for Climate Justice Turns To Shoes, Clubs & Tear Gas
In the Place de la Republique, the protesters formed a human chain, chanted, and challenged the police who had begun to gather around them.
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Global Powers Pledge $20 Billion for Green Energy As Climate Summit Kicks Off
The U.S., UK, Canada, China, Brazil, India and a dozen other countries have pledged to double funds for clean energy research over five years, boosting prospects for a successful agreement at the Paris climate talks.
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Hundreds of Thousands Protest Worldwide Pushing for Aggressive Deal In Paris
Over the weekend, more 600,000 people took to the streets in 175 countries around the world to call for a strong, binding agreement in Paris that will see a swift transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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Global Response to a Global Crisis: Get Ready for Climate Marches Worldwide
On Nov. 28 and 29, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will take to the streets in more than 2,000 events in 150 countries to turn up the heat on leaders heading to the Paris Climate Summit.
