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Climate change: Why all the arguments?
CNET News.com's Zamir Haider interviewed Terry Root, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Center for Environmental Science and Policy. Her findings on climate change indicate that the effects are already being seen around the globe. Why has there been so much disagreement over climate change?
From the AAAS Annual Conference in San Francisco: Susan Solomon, senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, addresses the most recent findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Satellites that can measure by the micron
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"An Inconvenient Truth" trailer
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tailspin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics, and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced--a catastrophe of our own making. If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom--think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, "An Inconvenient Truth," which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's commitment to expose the myths and misconceptions that surround global warming and inspire actions to prevent it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, reset the course of his life to focus on an all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "traveling global warming show," Gore is funny, engaging, open, and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to ordinary citizens before it's too late. With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America just behind us, it seems we may be reaching a tipping point--and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation. Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore's personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive environmental crisis looming; to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective; to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most impassioned cause of his life--convinced there is still time to make a difference. With wit, smarts, and hope, "An Inconvenient Truth" ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue--rather, it is the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilization.
California's green guru speaks out
The clean-tech industry of today is in its early stages, about where Microsoft was in 1980, says Terry Tamminen, an adviser at Pegasus Capital Advisors and the former director of California's Environmental Protection Agency. Now a main force behind the state's rise to the top as a climate change policy maker, Tamminen sits down with CNET News.com's Carl-Gustav Linden in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Stanford University scientists use the teensy technology to remove the membrane of a 1945 Mercury dime.
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Al Gore: Silicon Valley can save Earth
Speaking at the Silicon Valley Joint Venture event in San Jose, Calif.,\r\nformer Vice President Al Gore said there's still time to combat the\r\nexpected effects of climate change. He said the investment and\r\ninnovation that built the high-tech and biotech industries is now needed\r\nfor green tech.
