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Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard

The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel Industry Fights So Hard Copyright 2012 Bill McKibben If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look […]

2011 was ninth-warmest year since 1880: NASA

2011 was ninth-warmest year since 1880: NASA Thu Jan 19 21:57:37 UTC 2012 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said on Thursday.

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