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25/5/2013
Climate change seems to have exacerbated the stupidity of US daily life, or maybe we’ve long suffered from the consequences of the capitalist mode of production, plus the negative spin offs from the massive US war machine. Both systems feed off ...
21/5/2011
Going back throughout human history, people have always tried to explain events that happened that they didn't understand by giving all kinds of lame reasons for why they happened. Ignorance made them come up with many different superstitions to ...
19/10/2010
Residents of this deeply conservative city do not put much stock in scientific predictions of
climate change.“Don’t mention global warming,” warned Nancy Jackson, chairwoman of the
Climate and Energy Project, a small nonprofit group that ...
2/2/2010
How Can We Talk About Transformational Change Without Losing Hope?
Every time we're subjected to more dramatic predictions of global warming without being given solutions, a seed of helplessness is planted in our souls. February 1, ...
10/12/2009
To be or not to be, that is the question.
--William Shakespeare, Hamlet
A strange cloud envelops human civilization as its leaders fail to take the measures to protect it that they themselves endorsed just five months ago. It is ...
2/11/2009
Al's
Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their
spiritual side is the way forward.
In his ...
12/1/2009
I have just swallowed my greens--1,000 pages of them--and I am torn. If the planet warms by 6 degrees in my lifetime, as the climatologists say it really could, we will face vast and violent weather of mass destruction. The last time the world ...
12/12/2008
Leaders will have to embrace tougher targets on reducing emissions if they want to prevent dangerous
climate change, according to Al
Gore.
Speaking here at the UN
climate conference, the former US presidential candidate said the ...
12/10/2008
Beyond the howl of sled dogs echoing across this hilly coastal village is the thunderclap of ancient icebergs splitting apart, a deafening rumble you feel in your bones.
There's no mistaking its big, loud, and powerful boom, a sound that ...
18/7/2008
When I caught up with Al
Gore at his home in Nashville last December, the
former Vice President turned green guru was in a pensive mood. I was surprised —
he was just finishing his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, which he was due ...
29/2/2008
RALPH Nader announced this week he will stand again as a third-party
candidate in November's US presidential election. Of course he is entitled to
run and of course he won't win.
Based on his miserable results from his previous ...
5/1/2008
Last year ended with the incongruous image of 10,000 politicians,
businessmen, activists and scientists from 190 countries emitting vast
quantities of greenhouse gases as they flew home from Bali clutching the bare
bones of a global ...
13/12/2007
Mid-way through the Des Moines Register GOP debate in Iowa Wednesday, Carolyn
Washburn, editor of the Register and debate moderator, asked the candidates to
raise their hands if they believe global warm is "a serious threat" ...
14/10/2007
Al
Gore's Nobel Peace Prize for his years of work on
climate change has
caused considerable speculation about whether he might be a late entry in the
race for the White House, a subject on which he remains coy. But where does the
former ...
13/10/2007
On that bleak evening of 12 December 2000, when Al
Gore sat huddled with his
advisers pondering what seemed like life's crowning disappointment, the
presidency of the United States snatched from him not by the voters but by the
Supreme ...
13/10/2007
Former Vice President Al
Gore's early devotion to environmental issues,
particularly
climate change, for years inspired derision - "Ozone Man,"
President George H.W. Bush called him during the 1992 presidential ...
13/10/2007
Al
Gore didn't win the presidency in 2000, but by any measure he's had some
pretty great consolations. He wrote a best-selling book about the global
climate-change crisis, won an Academy Award this year for his environmentalist ...
12/10/2007
Al
Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change are certainly
worthy of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Coming from different directions, they
have done a remarkable job of calling the world's attention to what
Gore rightly ...
12/10/2007
Former Vice President Al
Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today for their
campaigns against global warming.
"His strong commitment, reflected in ...
12/10/2007
Former Vice President Al
Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change jointly won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts
to spread awareness of man-made
climate change and to lay the foundations for ...
12/10/2007
Climate scientists are obsessed with finding tipping points, the levels at
which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable. For environmentalists, 2007
is likely to be remembered as the tipping point when public understanding of the ...
12/10/2007
Former U.S. Vice President Al
Gore said he was honoured to share the Nobel
Peace Prize with the U.N.
climate panel on Friday for their work on global
warming and said
climate change is a moral, not political, issue.
"We face ...
12/10/2007
Al
Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize today for warning the world about the
dangers of global warming, and leading the campaign to persuade governments and
individuals to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
The former US ...
28/8/2007
“We don’t know where the warming will go, but the worst case would be like
our sister planet Venus, where it is 250 degrees Celsius, and where it rains
sulfuric acid,” intoned Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s greatest scientists,
in ...
11/7/2007
Millions of viewers from around the world logged onto www.LiveEarth.MSN.com
to experience Saturday’s Live Earth concerts happening on all seven continents
and to confront the threat of global warming, while millions more watched the ...