
US Greenhouse Gases Dropped Nearly 5% in 2008

The U.S. Energy Information Administration has just released the figures comparing 2008 with the previous year and found that greenhouse gas emissions, from just the transportation sector, dropped 4.7% between 2007 and 2008. The EIA attributed the drop not just to the gas price rise of the summer of 2008, but also in the Fall to the near-depression-level econo-apocalypse that denuded neighborhoods of many of the










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Bill Maher: WTF Happened to "Yes We Can"?
[Political Opinion]Can we get out of Iraq? No. Afghanistan? No. Fix health care? No. Close Gitmo? No. Cap-and-trade carbon emissions? No. The Obamas have been in Washington for ten months and it seems like the only thing they've gotten is a dog.
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Global Warming Is Irreversible, Study Says
[Environment]Even if carbon dioxide emissions were halted today, global warming and the environmental disruption that comes with it would continue for 1,000 years, says a sobering study. Scientists are urging politicians to proceed with caution as they set new target levels for emissions.
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Clean Energy 2030: Google's plan to save the planet
[Environment]Google has unveiled Clean Energy 2030, its plan to cut carbon emissions and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
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Very Cool: Real Time "Map" of CO2 Emissions All Over World
[General Sciences]Breathing Earth. Real-time tracker of carbon dioxide emissions in countries all over world; also births/deaths, constantly updating real-time tracking while you're on the site. E.g; US (1000 tons CO2 every 5.4 seconds); China (1000 tons CO2 every 9.2 seconds); Chad (1000 tons CO2 every 66.4 hours). [FYI...click on "Enter" on site to get to map]...
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Scientists Unveil High-Res Map of the US Carbon Footprint
[Environment]A team of scientists has completed a carbon dioxide emissions inventory of the United States plotted down to 100 square kilometer chunks.

























