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[Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Truthdig - Reports - Waxman Gears Up for Health Care Showdown: Hopefully, the investigation will also reveal more about another source of insurance company and hospital revenue—their monopoly status. Professor Jacob Hacker of Yale shed some light on this last week with the release of a detailed paper on pending congressional health care plans.

[Climate Thinkers Blog] The Only One - Climate Justice - COP15 United Nations Climate ...: If some sort of international consensus for establishing control of the energy resources of the planet is built in Copenhagen this year, the poorest of the planet should weep, because that consensus will be their death warrant, written by those in rooms illuminated and air-conditioned by inexpensive power, but read and lived out in huts with no more possibility of the prosperity that continuing access to inexpensive power could bring, all under the guise of "protecting" the earth from a trace gas that does no harm and is the fertilizer of everything green and growing.

[Global Warming] Global Warming » Germany's climate-change plan: Starting in 2050 ...: Here at Full Comment, you’ll find an eclectic mix of commentary on news, politics and pop culture ”” plus the occasional dig at a Star or Globe pundit who’s gone off the rails.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: August 20, 2009: If that’s the case - if Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle play the same role in coming decades that towns such as Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo and Gary played in the recent past - some of the most basic assumptions of American social geography are headed for the dumpster.

[Crikey » Politics] Climate expert slams Fielding - Crikey: you state in your letter that ”˜it is important that all Senators are given the opportunity to hear both sides of the debate…’ In terms of the relationship between carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) and global warming, there is no debate in the climate change research community. That the Earth’s surface is warming is unequivocal, and there is also strong agreement amongst the vast majority of climate change scientists that anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases…

[Crikey » Politics] Rudd's dilemma at PIF - Rooted: I think it’s pretty naff for comfortable Australians to be suggesting that people in developed countries should sacrifice what chance they have to improve their standards of living by seeking energy solutions that they can’t afford and/or are not yet ready. They will continue to source their energy from wherever they can, and at the cheapest price, and no, they won’t worry too much about climate change because they’re more worried about feeding their children.

[Noozhawk.com - Latest News] Noozhawk.com - Tam Hunt: Act Now on the Right FIT for California ...: LB, 80% of America’s urban population is low density (most of that single family housing) making a European style system impractical. Most of Europe’s urban centers are much denser and built up with very little development in between making mass transit not only practical but economical.

[GNN Blogs] I'm Changing The Climate! Ask me how!: . I can’t say which way society is going, but it’s going to do it without me. And when you rate the amount of gas and Co2 used for me to do a 20 mile round trip to buy a months worth of provisions every thirty days, compared to the asshole in his suburban doing 120 miles round trip daily in his commute to afford his McMansion and gas bill, truth is, I don’t care anymore if I’m destroying the earth, it’s like bitching at a guy who carves his name in a stumpin the middle of a clear cut operation. The only reason I posted this was because I thought it was ironic that after 30 years as a militant pedestrian I just bought A very nasty gross polluter, because while there is a 4×4

[80+1] Kalle Laar, changing the climate the DJ-way | 80+1 - A Journey ...: Back before no one even knew about massive global climate change, there were many generations of British, European and American explorers that covered the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Starting way back in 1845, with the ill-fated expedition of Sir John Franklin,…

[The Stump] Letters: Crater lake flights, cattle's impact, climate change - My ...: It seems the only thing more controversial than the abortion and health care debates these days is the debate over climate change. Three letters in Sunday's Oregonian demonstrate what can happen when people get their misinformation from friends and family, the media, or Wickipedia.

[Sustainable Cities and Transport] High Speed Rail on the Freakonomics Blog « Sustainable Cities and ...: If we are really talking about saving car trips, the bigger potential markets are likely to be intra-regional, not inter-regional, like HSR. To be metaphorical for a second, HSR is a gold-plated response to climate change when we should perhaps be thinking about stainless steel.

[Economix] The Economic Impact of Climate Change - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com: Reprinted from The Lancet, Vol 373/9676, Anthony Costello, Mustafa Abbas, Adriana Allen, Sarah Ball, Sarah Bell, Richard Bellamy, Sharon Friel, Nora Groce, Anne Johnson, Maria Kett, Maria Lee, Caren Levy, Mark Maslin, David McCoy, Bill McGuire, Hugh Montgomery, David Napier, et al., Managing the health effects of climate change: Lancet and University College London Institute for Global Health Commission, Pages No. 1703, 2009, with permission from Elsevier.

[Guy Fawkes' blog] Double Digit Inflation is a Black Swan - Guy Fawkes' blog: Extricate ourselves from the EU, repeal any parts of the human rights legislation that could possible relate to treasonable politicians and Bob is your uncle. Regarding Brown and B Liar, you would be very hard pressed to come up with a punishment that was cruel or unusual in the circumstances.

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