noimpactman.typepad.com - 3/12/2009
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OK, those are strong words for a headline, and I'll explain, but first, let me beg you to forward this email to every New York State resident you know. If you are a NYS resident, please URGENTLY phone your State Senator (instructions below) in support of the plan--known as the Ravitch plan--to ...
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upi.com - 3/9/2009
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NEW YORK, March 9 (UPI) -- Climate change
skeptics meeting at an annual conference in New York
Monday are showing signs of internal disputes and weakening support, observers say. The three-day International Conference on Climate Change, organized ...
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Warming skeptics face shrinking support
jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com - 3/12/2009
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At the risk of confirming my critics' dumbest
charge -- that I am a "doomer" -- the
mandate of clarity requires me to ask: to what state of affairs do we expect to recover? If the answer is a return to an economy based on building ever more ...
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