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Column: Energy leaders should dare to think differently
Drill baby drill. That's my response to the question, "What will be the future of energy?" Considering my field of research this response may be perplexing, but it's really all in the way you pose the question. The immediate future in energy will be much of the same. And why shouldn't it be?
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Column: Society unsustainable with seven billion people
As of Oct. 31, there are seven billion people on the planet. That is the date, according to the U.N., at which Earth was to see the birth of its seven billionth inhabitant. We may already have seven billion already, or we may not. The U.N. made Oct.
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Column: End parking lot socialism
Most Americans will tell you that they support free markets. When it comes to parking policy, however, even many of the most conservative free marketeers suddenly transform into ardent communists.
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Column: Energy myopia
The development of unconventional fossil fuel resources like oil sands and shale gas in the past couple of decades puts the renewable energy industry in an unexpected bind.
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Ex-White House official talks climate
Carol Browner, former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy under President Obama, spoke yesterday at the U. Virginia Law School about environmental protection and public health challenges facing the United States.
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Using microscopic algae to solve big fuel problems
Heike Winter-Sederoff has an eye for recognizing the potential in some of the smallest and mostly commonly overlooked things. This summer Sederoff, assistant professor of plant biology at North Carolina State U., sent experiments on a common garden weed to the International Space Station.
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Global temperature up by 1 degree Celsius since 1950s, according to study
Amidst allegations of bias, the Berkeley Earth group has concluded that global warming is happening, according to the results of its study on temperature data released Thursday. Over the course of about one year, the team, led by U.
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Column: Find global warming
In a recent New York Times article, environmental journalist Elisabeth Rosenthal asked, “Where did global warming go?” It is the question of a confused and frustrated person who was hopeful about climate change mitigation in 2008 but has lately become more pessimistic.
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Arctic sea ice retreats to second-lowest recorded level in September
The amount of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean was at its second lowest recorded level last month, according to satellite data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The average ice extent this September was 4.61 million square kilometers, which was 2.