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Over at the San Francisco Chronicle, Dr. Peter Gleick, the president of the Pacific Institute has come up with the most believable argument against global warming that I've yet encountered.

Acid ocean "SOS." Image credit:Alaska Marine Conservation Council

US EPA has decided to consider ways that US states can, under already delegated authorities, curb pollutants that may otherwise add to the power of global warming's evil twin: Ocean Acidification.

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The Supply Chain for Electric Cars is Growing
About 6 months ago we wrote that LG Chem was thinking about building an advanced lithium-ion battery plant in Holland, Michigan, to supply battery packs to GM for the Volt PHEV.

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Most cap and trade schemes proposed by governments include provisions that allow polluting companies to buy carbon offsets--initiatives that pay for tree planting in South America or solar panel installation in India and so forth--instead of cutting emissions exclusively from their own operation

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That's the topic of an ongoing online debate over at the Economist.com.

All charts and graphs via EnviroKnow

I've written before about the ever-increasing politicization of climate change--the thesis that the scientifically backed consensus that human activity is warming the planet is now treated as a political

all images: Gallup.com

There have been a number of surveys released in the past few months about shifting attitudes of the American public regarding global warming.

photo: Christian Steen via flickr.

The Maldives definitely knows who's paying the bills these days...

That's the Ady Gil colliding with the Japanese vessel.

Food pantry. Image credit: St. Louis Post Dispatch, (Laurie Skrivan/P-D)

The era in which increasing numbers of people were willing to pay a premium for locally grown food or for 'organic' clothing appears to be ending.