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Environment
The Insanity of Silence: Human-Caused Climate Change
As “Frankenstorm” bears down on the East Coast this week, we should be reminded of the absurdity that the single greatest issue of our time—human-caused climate change—is not included in ...
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Business
FTC's New 'Green Guides' Should Clarify Environmental Claims
The Federal Trade Commission’s new ‘green guides’ for advertising and marketing may make it even harder to be green. That should be good for consumers, who may have been misled by br...
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Environment
Field Trip- It's off to Fahr's for Fall Color!
The plants in my window boxes worked hard (tolerating one of the hottest summers on record) from April until the end of September. They’re tired, leggy and ready for the yard waste conta...
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Weather
Global Warming/Climate Change: “We Did It” part 2
Climate Fact of the Week: Nine out of the ten hottest years in that 132-year record are within the last ten years. According to the NASA record, it’s been 28 years since the globe expe...
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Weather
Global Warming/Climate Change Post 7 of 13: “We Did It”
Climate Fact of the Week: July’s average temperature was the hottest on record for the contiguous United States, according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. The last ...
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Weather
Global Warming/Climate Change Post 6 of 13: “On Our Watch”
Climate Fact of the Week: on August 2, 2012, Oklahoma City had its hottest day in history, hitting 113°, tying the city's all-time heat record set on August 11, 1936. The low bottomed ...
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Environment
The EPA and Science Win in Court
The Supreme Court's recent ruling on health care overshadowed another important court decision regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's right to take action against climate change....
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Weather
Do You "Believe" in Climate Change? What Will it Take?
As we suffer through yet another sweltering 100 plus degree day while horrendous fires destroy our forests in the west, ceaseless drought sucks the life out of our crops in the Great Plai...