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Can jaw-dropping visuals on CO2. BIG smokes vs. BIG OIL | GreenBiz.com

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Can jaw-dropping visuals change the climate conversation? | GreenBiz.com: This week in the news we wave the merger of BIG tobacco. Lorillard Brands if getting bought out by Reynolds; that is, the Newport brands are getting married to a camel. This will make a formidable competitor to Altria’s Marlboro man. (I still love the genius of changing your name from  Philip Morris USA to “Altria”, it makes the company sound so Alteristic!:-) So these are products, when…

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Our planet is at a point of crisis – Leonard Pitts – Newsday

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Our planet is at a point of crisis – Leonard Pitts – Newsday: Leonard Pitts is going to get some hate mail out of this article. But, sadly, its all true. The only are that could be clarified a bit is the 97% of scientist agree. I think the agreement is that there is global warming, it drops way off to 80% or so of those scientists who believe that humans are primarily the cause….

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Invest Yourself – Roaches, Never Just One

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Free Investment Newsletter | Invest Yourself: I really like what they (Robert B. Rinear) say on the currency. That all seems very very true.  The currencies in the world are all crap. The best may be Japan and they can’t keep the Yen low enough to be a competitive exporter so it is wreaking havoc on their economy… The Yankee Dollar is a piece of crap. But we are less crappy then the Yuan or the Euro.  We are…

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Skeptical Science on a Skeptical Scientist: Patrick Moore on climate change

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Is there really a debate as to whether humans are contributing to Global Warming? This will take you some time, so if you are looking for a couple quick sound-bites, skip this entire post, and absolutely, skip the videos. Dr. Patrick Moore was recently pointed out to me as a qualified scientist and a active skeptic of Global Warming. Read about Moore on Wikipedia. He was an active founder of Greenpeace, but left the greenie…

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Pain in the Ash: Spill spews tons of coal ash into NC Dan River – CNN.com

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Spill spews tons of coal ash into North Carolina’s Dan River – CNN.com: Oh what a pain it is! … A Pain in the Ash, so to speak. One of the dirty little secrets of Coal is the ash!. The massive 2008 spill in TVA should have been a bit of a wakeup call. But this phone has been ringing for centuries. There’s impurities in coal, including sulfur and heavy metals like lead and arsenic….

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How China’s economy is choking on smog | Talking Numbers – Yahoo Finance

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How China’s economy is choking on smog | Talking Numbers – Yahoo Finance: Imagine your favorite city closed down because of the weather, maybe a blizzard… Many of China’s cities can have the same problem, but it is because of smog pollution. This is a country that burns more coal than the rest of the world, combined. Nice thing is that they share this pollution with their neighbors. Plus the burning of coal is a…