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Climate Change

Climate change & extreme weather are linked? Even though an http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/reports-link-heat-waves-deluges-to-climate-change/2012/03/27/gIQA16wVgS_story.html. Climate

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The release of proposed new national science standards, including the emphasis of manmade climate change, will alter the classroom landscape for millions of students in the United States, as well as for at least one education publisher readying for the “major” undertaking.

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Fairness And Climate Change By Peter Singer And Teng Fei

April 12, 2013

A sense of fairness is universal among humans, but people often differ about exactly what fairness requires in a specific situation. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the debate over the need to reduce emissions of

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Climate Change Brings Stormier Weather To The US

April 12, 2013

Climate change can be detected in the retreat of glaciers and sea ice. It increases heat and air pollution, raising the risk of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, particularly among elderly people. But changes in the atmosphere may also have

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State Looks Foolish In Denying Global Warming

April 12, 2013

It's about time South Carolina stood up to climate change and declared that it doesn't exist.

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Budget Big On Commitments Fuzzy On Details

April 12, 2013

President Barack Obama's proposed budget would make good on the promise he laid out in the State of the Union — that he will act on climate change if a divided Congress will not. But the president doesn't end the uncertainty about when the

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Climate Change And Wine Production

April 12, 2013

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released a study that analyzed teh impacts of climate change on wine production and conservation. It also includes a map that outlines suitable areas for winemaking around the globe.

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Here Come The New Science Standards

April 12, 2013

At the center of the newly unveiled Next Generation Science Standards are two controversial, and political, topics—climate change and evolution.

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EPA Will Still Address Climate Chang

April 12, 2013

The president gave a nod to concerned environmentalists.

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Climate Change Did Not Cause 2012 US Drought Says Government Report

April 12, 2013

Barack Obama and other prominent figures have repeatedly cited the drought as evidence of climate change. But the report released on Thursday by scientists at five different government agencies said that was not the case. The drought was "a sequence of

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