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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Are We Falling Off the Climate Precipice? Scientists Consider Extinction
If the record ongoing releases of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere are aided and abetted by massive releases of methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas, life as we humans have known it might be at an end on this planet.
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McKibben: Obama, Climate Change and the Real Story of this Presidency
When the world looks back at the Obama years half a century from now, one doubts they'll remember the health care website; one imagines they'll study how the most powerful government on Earth reacted to the sudden, clear onset of climate change.
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Learning to Live in the Anthropocene
There's no conspiracy underway to destroy Earth. UN delegates inside the Warsaw climate conference, shirking their obligations to us and future generations, are simply following the logic of a system contingent on endless growth in the interest of profit.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown Wants to Be Climate Leader – While Fracking Lots of Oil
In August, the 75-year-old, three-term governor signed into law SB4, ensuring fracking for at least the next two years while exempting the practice from thorough review under the California Environmental Quality Act.
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At Warsaw Climate Summit, World Awaits Leaders to Stop Posturing and Start Acting
As the Philippines reels from a massive typhoon that reportedly killed 10,000 people, global climate envoys meeting Monday in Poland will begin two weeks of negotiations to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive climate change pact in 2015.
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EXPOSED: U.K. FRACKERS REPLICATE U.S. FRACKING INDUSTRY'S LIES AND MISINFORMATION
The oil and gas industry, along with stealth PR handlers, touted Britain's fracking future at last week's U.K. Shale Gas Environmental Summit in London — taking a page from American industry's playbook by sowing scientific doubt about the risks of fracking.
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Cashing in on Catastrophe: How to Stop the Climate Crisis Profiteers
Rather than burying their heads in the sands, political and business leaders are maintaining the pretense to tackle climate change while actually focusing instead on how to manage its impacts—through militarization-—in the interests of elites.
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Scientists Issue Starkest Warning Yet With 5th IPPC Report on Earth's Climate
Scientists reveal the latest, most dangerous findings about global warming and its effects on our future in the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
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Coalitions March in 200 U.S. Cities to "Draw the Line" Against Keystone Pipeline
400 demonstrators marched through Manhattan's Financial District and surrounded the Keystone pipeline's largest financiers with a blue line to show where the waters of the Hudson and East River will soon lap.
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Arctic Researcher: Methane Releases From Permafrost Signal "Urgent and Imminent" Climate Crisis
The rapid melting of the Siberian and Canadian-Alaskan permafrost means millions, if not billions of new methane tons will be released into the atmosphere, initiating an uncontrolled feedback mechanism.
