It's costly, but Los Angeles is getting its rail mojo back

Source: Sacramento Bee

"C'mon. Nobody's going to drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel." "Oh, they'll drive. They'll have to." from the 1988 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" LOS ANGELES It took more than a hal ...
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For Qatar, climate forum offers a test but also a chance

Source: Junk Science

As the world’s biggest emitter per capita of greenhouse gases, Qatar faces a test of credibility but also an opportunity when it hosts the UN forum on climate change in December, say veteran watchers of the process ...
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Global Integration

Source: Term Paper Warehouse

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction Lorrie Fontanilla Professor John Hargiss BUSN300-1202B-55 April 27, 2012 Introduction: I. Definition of Global Warming A. What is Global Warming The Green House Effect Who is Responsible for Green Hous ...
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After 50 years, fire beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, still burns

Source: Cleveland.com

CENTRALIA, Pa. -- Fifty years ago today, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every building in Centralia -- a who ...
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RICK SMITH: Many have claimed to make it rain here

Source: GoSanAngelo

Standard-Times file A mobile radar on a travel van was part of a weather modification system in 1986 to help it rain on the water shed influencing San Angelo. Standard-Times file John Girdzus of North American Weather Consultants watches a thunderstor ...
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Salina-based planes aid in study of thunderstorms, ozone

Source: Kansas.com

Researchers have begun a massive study of thunderstorms and lightning in the Great Plains and Deep South to determine how much thunderstorms contribute to greenhouse gases. The 45-day effort – called the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistr ...
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ROCK DOC: Japan's energy situation has environmental, costly effects

Source: GoSanAngelo

Energy is the lifeblood of modern economies, and there's no more amazingly useful form of energy than electricity. That's why I was initially startled to read the recent news that the last of Japan's 54 nuclear power plants has been shu ...
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Rising CO2 promotes weedy rice

Source: EcoEarth News

There has been a lot of research, recently, showing how global change — especially warming — can alter the habitat and preferred range of marine and terrestrial species. But rising levels of greenhouse gases can also, directly, do a n ...
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50 years on, fire still burns underneath Pa. town

Source: The Star-Gazette

CENTRALIA, Pa. -- It's an anniversary the few remaining souls who live here won't be celebrating. Fifty years ago today, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam and still burns. It set off a chain of events th ...
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