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Where's the urgency to addressing global climate change?
Your editorial on the International Energy Agency's "World Energy Outlook Special Report: Redrawing the Climate Energy Map" was right on the money ("Climate change warnings," June 11). Having read several books about the lead-up to World War II, it is...Tags: United Nations, International Energy, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Ecosystems, Conservation
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Climate activists launch petition challenging WBAL-TV, Tony Pann
Two climate change advocacy groups are challenging WBAL-TV and Tony Pann, one of the station's meteorologists, for Pann's stance denying that global warming is occurring. Forecast the Facts, a Berkeley, Calif.-based group focused on broadcast...
Tags: George Mason University, Ecosystems, Global Warming, Conservation
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Carbon tax is best answer
America must lead the world in addressing the threat of climate change ("Climate change warnings," June 12). This is why Maryland Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski must join Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and California Senator Barbara Boxer to...
Tags: Ecosystems, Conservation
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Is it time to quit being nice about what 'NewsHour' has become?
The Baltimore Sun(Updates at end with response from NewsHour) With the word Tuesday that "NewsHour" was shutting down offices and laying off employees, it's time to ask the question: Just how much of the this one-time PBS bedrock is actually left? In fact, let's go a...Tags: CBS Corp., PBS (tv network), Finance, ABC (tv network), 401K
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Climate change warnings
The latest word on climate change is not good — world emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use rose 1.4 percent last year to set a new record, according to the International Energy Agency. At this pace, the agency reports, global temperatures...Tags: Alternative Energy, Energy Resources, China, U.S. Senate, International Energy
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Less meat eaten, more planet saved
A review of 12,000 papers on climate change in the May 15 issue of "Environmental Research Letters," found that 97 percent of scientists attribute climate change to human activities. Although we're unlikely to reverse climate change, we can mitigate its...
Tags: Ecosystems, Global Warming, Conservation, Canterbury
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The cost of BGE reliability
Baltimore Gas & Electric certainly isn't likely to win any popularity contests. It secured a rate increase from the Public Service Commission in February — its second in the last three years — and turned around and filed a request for...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Consumers, Government, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Civil and Public Service
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Smith Islanders should direct ire at Washington
Tim Wheeler's report on the future of Smith Island and the state's idea to buy residents out so they may relocate tells a heartbreaking story of people whose attachment to the island goes back many years, 400 years in some cases ("Smith Islanders debating...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Lobbying, Ecosystems, Conservation
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Smith Island denial
Even the most jaded observer must acknowledge there's something admirable about the desire of so many living on Smith Island to see their community survive and prosper. Residents of this marshy (and shrinking in both population and real estate)...
Tags: 2010 Census, Somerset County (Maryland), Hurricane Sandy (2012), Ecosystems, Global Warming
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Of course global warming is a threat to human health
While I applaud Tim Wheeler for shining a light on the risks of climate change in his recent article "Rising temperatures increase health risks" (May 10), I'm saddened by these three esteemed universities investing time and effort into researching what...
Tags: Heat Stroke, Lobbying
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Rising temperatures increase health risks
Summer is almost here, and with it likely some blistering hot days. A recent study suggests the elderly should beware when the temperature spikes, because they face an increased risk of winding up in the emergency room short of breath on those days. And...
Tags: Air Pollution, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Research, COPD, Heart Disease
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Time for greens to embrace nukes
For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet, we also know that nuclear power provides 70 percent of all the greenhouse gas-...
Tags: Alternative Energy, Energy Resources, Johns Hopkins University, Wind Power, Landforms
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