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Frankenstorm: Meteorologist Warns Hurricane Sandy an Outgrowth of Global Warming's Extreme Weather (By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now as reported by EnergyBulletin.net, 10/29/12) Smartphone apps allow users to see critical environmental issues (By Allison Winter, Environmental News Network, 10/29/12) Mother Nature's wake-up call: You won't hear much about climate change during coverage of Hurricane Sandy. You should. (By Andrew Leonard, Salon.com, 10/29/12) Will Hurricane Sandy Get Politicians to Pull their Heads Out of the Sand? (By Dan Lashof, Natural Resources Defense Council, Switchboard Blog, 10/27/12) Frankenstorm 2012: Hurricane Sandy Hybrid Could Hit New York, New Jersey And Pennsylvania (By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press as reported by The Huffington Post, 10/26/12) Daily Disclosure: Chevron gives $2.5 million to conservative super PAC - Corporate contributions to groups rare (By Rachael Marcus and John Dunbar, Center for Public Integrity, 10/26/12) David Attenborough: US politicians duck climate change because of cost - The naturalist warned it would take a terrible example of extreme weather to wake people up to global warming (By Adam Vaughan and Camila Ruz, The [UK] Guardian, 10/25/12) Group Petitions EPA for Fracking Toxicity Data: Environmentalists call for public reporting of chemicals in oil, gas extraction (By Common Dreams staff, CommonDreams.org, 10/25/12) Not-So-Permanent Permafrost: 850 Billion Tons of Carbon Stored in Frozen Arctic Ground Could Be Released (Science Daily, 10/25/12) What Killed Climate Change Legislation? (By John Hudson, The Atlantic Wire, 10/23/12) |