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Methane, for example, lasts only 12 years, but it has around 25 times more global warming potential than carbon dioxide. HFCs can also be much shorter lived, yet hundreds or tens of thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide.
2.16.2012
World governments spend $1.4 billion a day to disrupt climate Grist Magazine
World governments spend $1.4 billion a day to disrupt climate
Grist Magazine - Jan 23, 2012
By Lester Brown We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental ... out nearly $1.4 billion per day to further destabilize the Earth's climate.
SF Chronicle: Major Dem Donor: 'Till you lead on Climate Change I can't back you.'
San Francisco Chronicle -
San Francisco philanthropist Susie Tompkins Buell, one of the Democratic Party's most generous benefactors, is keeping her checkbook closed when President Obama holds high-priced California fundraisers this week. "I want to look him in the eye and say, ...
2.15.2012
Rick Santorum suggests opposition to public schooling CBS News
CBS News -
Campaigning in Idaho on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suggested that he is opposed to a public school system overseen by the government.
Angels: Police buy cemetery plots to block Josh Powell from being buried next to his boys msnbc.com
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Photographs of Charles Powell, right, and Braden Powell are displayed during their funeral services in Tacoma, Wash., on Saturday.
Obama Pushes $5 Billion in Grants to Revamp Teachers' Pay BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek -
15 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration began a push to tie teacher pay to performance instead of seniority, dangling a proposed $5 billion in incentives for US states and districts that embrace the president's approach.
A variety of forces is pushing coal back to the brink, but wayyy too slowly. [Politico]
A variety of forces is pushing coal back to the brink. [Politico]
Ahhh, c'ristians: Four TCU football players among 17 arrested in campus drug bust CBS
CBS News -
(CBS/AP) FORTH WORTH, Texas. - Four Texas Christian University football players were among 17 students arrested Wednesday in a campus drug bust, authorities say.
Catholic Bishops Join the Culture War on Obama: Margaret Carlson San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle -
Heeding their protests, President Barack Obama relieved Catholic institutions of the indignity of having to pay directly for contraception for their employees.
China Law Enforcer to Run Tibetan Area TIME
TIME -
By AP Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 (BEIJING) - China is tapping a career law-and-order official to run a Tibetan area at the center of self-immolations and protests against Chinese rule.
Crazy talk: Rick Santorum out-denies the climate deniers and spins eco ... Grist Magazine
Grist Magazine -
He makes Newt Gingrich's moon-colony plans sound plausible and Mitt Romney's climate flip-floppery look presidential. While Mitt and Newt have both felt compelled to repudiate their former concern for climate change, Santorum can boast that he's a ...
Obama car czar calls Romney clueless on auto bailout USA TODAY
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By Todd Spangler/USA TODAY and Detroit Free Press The former head of President Barack Obama's auto industry task force said today in an interview that if Mitt Romney seriously believes GM and Chrysler would have survived without federal financing in ...
Military leaders: Obama budget is right plan Aiken Standard
Military leaders: Obama budget is right plan
Aiken Standard - 6 hours ago
... to complain about the dumb things some people do, save your energy, becau . ... leader insisted on Tuesday that President Barack Obama's trimmer, ...
2.14.2012
Wife of Palestinian hunger striker calls for Egyptian help Ahram Online
Ahram Online -
Randa Adnan (known as Um Abdel Rahman), wife of detained Palestinian Khedr Adnan, has called on Egyptian authorities to intervene and secure his release in light of his deteriorating physical condition.
Netanyahu Meets Hunger Striking Daughter of Ex-SLA Soldier (vid)
Netanyahu Meets Hunger Striking Daughter of Ex-SLA Soldier
PM Netanyahu meets with 14-year-old daughter of a former SLA officer who has been hunger striking due to her family's difficult situation.
Chicago Trib: Bishops plan aggressive expansion of battle against Pedophelia, uh, Birth Control Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune -
(Reuters) - Catholic bishops, energized by a battle over contraception funding, are planning an aggressive campaign to rally Americans against a long list of government measures which they say intrude on religious liberty.
Religious Wing Nuts: Elie Wiesel to Romney, Mormons: Don't baptize dead Jews USA TODAY
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By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel today called on Mitt Romney to tell the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stop doing proxy baptisms in the names of dead Jews, including Holocaust victims ...
Climate change increases risk of storm surges, according to MIT study Boston.com
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By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff Studies of climate change and its impact on coastal communities usually focus on rising sea level.
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