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Today I watched a show about what could happen if a super comet hit the earth and did to us what happened with the dinosaurs. I was surprised to learn that the outlook for us isn’t nearly as bleak, since many species have evolved to weather cataclysmic events.
There’s a toad or some such creature [...]

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I’ve heard that a way to combat global warming is to plant a tree. Sounds good. Trees breathe in CO2, and give off O2. So the more trees we have, the less greenhouse gas, and the less the world will heat up.
If everyone on earth planted a tree tomorrow, we’d have roughly [...]

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Last night, taking my own advice, I decided to try using a surge protector as a means of eliminating the small power trickle that goes to gadgets in the “off” position. I had a power strip already being used with a TV and PS2. I turned it off, and noticed the red light [...]

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On Monday on NBC, during “Chuck,” there was a “green tip” that sounded incredibly useful. The tip said, “40% of home energy is used when appliances are off.”
Can you believe it?! I had read somewhere before that there is always a trickle of power, but I never realized it was that much! [...]

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I’ve heard that Venus, while closer to the sun, is just like Earth, and may have even looked like Earth once. Now, however, it’s a hot, barren, lava filled wasteland. CO2 abound.
What if a previous alien civilization lived there and couldn’t solve global warming?
What if the present of Venus is the future of [...]

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Has anybody ever really experienced acid rain? I’ve only ever seen it on T.V. It makes me think of Captain Planet and the kind of pollution that would be necessary to create it. I imagine that in a city with a big, dirty factory, acid rain might be possible. But I [...]

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I guess to be honest I’ve been hoping for the ubiquitous, “No more Global Warming, period” kind of “cure.” But now I realize that really, our mindset must be the cure. Environmental repair is such a complex issue that there probably won’t be a “Big Easy Fix.” There will be a ton [...]

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I don’t read “The Drudge Report,” but I’m aware of it. That’s why it surprised me when I read on Wikipedia that Drudge himself has said, “global warming is ‘faux science’ and that ‘the greening of our population, the falling for the science … is making me nervous.’”
It doesn’t make sense to me to [...]

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Lately in the news there’s been a story about a Chupacabra found in Texas. It turns out the animal was really a hairless coyote. What does this mean for us?
I was watching CNN today and the, “Stay tuned, we’ve got more news for ya” message centered around Al Gore and his Inconvenient Truth [...]

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If there were an event during which we all did something that had a major, visible, positive impact, I think that would get us fired up. Like if we were all told to change all the light bulbs in our house to compact fluorescents on December 21 or something. They’d need to show [...]

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