Co-hosted by the American Chemical Society, various UI departments, the City of Iowa City and statewide organizations, the first-ever…
Climate Change
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Iowa activist Ed Fallon organizes nationwide ‘March for Climate Action’
Iowa politician and activist Ed Fallon is organizing The Great March for Climate Action, an eight-month, cross-country demonstration to raise awareness about…
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Wire: Weather Channel founder says polar bears doing great because Eskimos stopped being savages
In a chat with paid climate change deniers on the San Diego TV station where he now works as a weatherman, Weather Channel founder John Coleman insisted…
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Wire: Sen. Roger Wicker: Why is science so mean to poor climate-change deniers?
(via Wonkette) Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker (R – Buried Tire Fire) just wants to know why, in this mean old world, we can’t all get along. Perhaps tired of only coming…
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American Reason: The Hazy Debate
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global land temperature has increased by about .188 to .315 degrees Celsius per decade since 1979. This may not seem like much, but it has resulted in a melting of arctic ice equivalent to half of the area of the United States.
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UR Here: Summer of Fire
Fire came early this year. Before the summer solstice brought its long light to North America, Colorado was ablaze. This spring, I wrote about multiple 90-degree days in Iowa in March. And in May, Johnson County played host to a weeks-long curtain of flame and plume of black, acrid smoke rising from its landfill, reminiscent […]
