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American Newspapers Give Far More Coverage To Climate Deniers And Skeptics Than Other Countries (By Stephen Lacey, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress Blog, 10/5/12) California Gas Prices Jump By Up To 20 Cents Overnight (By Gillian Flaccus, The Associated Press as reported by The Huffington Post, 10/5/12) Rebuffing Shell, Judge Affirms Greenpeace's Right to Protest: 'Civil disobedience is a right in democracies' says Greenpeace head (By Common Dreams staff, CommonDreams.org, 10/5/12) Charts Reveal Drill, Baby, Drill Fails to Stop High Oil Prices (By Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org - Climate Progress, 10/3/12) Penn State Won't Participate in Drilling Group's Controversial Fracking Study (By Nick DeSantis, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/3/12) 8 Out of 10 Undecided Voters Believe in Climate Change (By Brian Merchant, Treehugger.com - Business/Environmental Policy, 10/2/12) There IS a Bicycle Economy, Two Cities Find (By A.K. Streeter, Treehugger.com - Transportation/Bikes, 10/2/12) Ten Questions on Energy and the Environment Obama and Romney Should Answer at the Debate (By Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation, 10/2/12) Irreversible Warming Will Cause Sea Levels to Rise for Thousands of Years to Come, New Research Shows (The Institute of Physics as reported by Science Daily, 10/2/12) Special Report: The casualties of Chesapeake's "land grab" across America (Reuters.com, 10/2/12) 50 months to save the world - interactive: The world has 50 months to go before the dice become loaded against us in terms of keeping under a 2C temperature rise. We asked Guardian readers and public figures what they would do to lead us out of this climate predicament. From mass protest to pensions to personal carbon targets, here are their suggestions (By Garry Blight and Guardian Readers, The [UK] Guardian, 10/1/12) Deepwater Horizon Talks Stall as Groups Haggle over Diminishing Penalties (By Common Dreams Staff, CommonDreams.org, 10/1/12) |