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Oct.16, 2009 in Uncategorized From Publishers Weekly While Americans may take a plentiful supply of hamburger patties for granted, the days of easy beef are threatened by climate change, dwindling Great Plains aquifers drained by irrigation and an unsustainable business model’s thin profit margins, argue the authors of this lively and unsettling history-cum-polemic. Rimas and Fraser preface their sobering assessment with a panoramic history; they write vividly about the semimystical auroc

In what might be described as a politically awkward move, India made clear its position that it would not accept binding cuts on carbon emissions today. Why could this be a little awkward? Well, the nation made its announcement while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited a new energy-efficient office building as a public show of the partnership on climate change between the United States and India. Clinton also brought Todd Sterns, her special envoy on climate change. Uncomfortable a litt

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Climate change is bad. We need to fix it. Can we please stop dressing up like clowns now that climate change is finally getting some real attention? You’re making us look like batty leftwing nuts who run around in muscle suits, and frankly, it undermines the seriousness of the problem. Washington is working on a climate change bill. The need for these attention grabbing antics is over. In fact, it only reinforces the

Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing greenhouse gases. The CEOs of PepsiCo, Nestle, BP and other...