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Six Quiet Climate Villains
By Escape The Illusion on August 2, 2010 | No Comments

By Rebecca Boyle. If you’re reading PopSci, you probably already know all about the latest efforts to offset carbon dioxide emissions, engineer clean building materials and combat pollution from traditional energy sources like coal and oil. But you may be less aware of the more insidious clim...
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Lexington GOP Censures Knott For “Raghead”...
By Escape The Illusion on June 14, 2010 | 7 Comments

Chalk another one up for the good ole boys of the South Carolina GOP. Every time I read something about this group it feels like a slow, deep slide back to 1865. The Lexington County Republicans censured State Senator Jake Knotts Friday night for his nasty racist remarks about “ragheads.”...
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Arctic oil spill could have ‘catastrophic’...
By Escape The Illusion on May 26, 2010 | No Comments

A major oil spill in the Beaufort Sea could have a “catastrophic” impact on Canada’s Arctic ecosystem and worsen the effects of climate change, a former senior government scientist has warned. William Adams, a former scientist at Environment Canada, was one of the researchers in a ...
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Confessions of a Former Oil Industry Consultant
By Escape The Illusion on April 23, 2010 | No Comments

Jeremy Leggett has undergone quite a few large career changes, from oil industry consultant to Greenpeace scientist to solar power entrepreneur. A geologist by training, he worked with the oil industry until his studies brought him face-to-face with the growing evidence of climate change. In an indu...
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THE OFFICIAL EARTH DAY 2010 CAMPAIGN – April 22...
By Escape The Illusion on April 21, 2010 | No Comments

By The Earth Day 2010 Action Center: Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy eco...
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Lights out for Earth Hour!
By Escape The Illusion on March 27, 2010 | 2 Comments

Starting this morning, lights will go off around the world in recognition of the annual “Earth Hour,” an event planned as a call for action on climate change. Participants plan to switch off their lights for one hour beginning at 8:30 p.m. in their respective time zones. Earth Hour start...
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Bacteria Engineered to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Liqui...
By Escape The Illusion on December 30, 2009 | 3 Comments

Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels. In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume ...
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China burning coal while developing green energy
By Escape The Illusion on December 14, 2009 | No Comments

Rising from the bowels of the earth are giant trucks laden with coal. One after another they lumber past. Just the wheels of each truck are double the height of a man. The engines roar as these massive machines grind up the road that climbs up from the bottom of the Pingshou open cast coal mine. We&...
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World Awaits US Plan to Help Curb Global Warming
By Escape The Illusion on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment

Washington – With just over two weeks to go before global climate negotiations in Denmark, the United States has yet to decide whether it can meet international expectations and offer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a certain amount in the next decade. The success or failure of the talks...
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Climate Cover-Up
By Escape The Illusion on October 27, 2009 | 3 Comments

I’m sure most of you are familiar with the long-standing deception campaign against global warming. Although, you may think it’s over–just as Ross Gelbspan did in 2005 and Gwynne Dyer in 2008–but James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore’s Climate Cover-Up tells us it’s now going stronger th...
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