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Opinion Let’s Make Climate Change the New ‘Third Rail’ of American Politics
Will 2014 be the year in which climate change becomes a “third rail”? Never before has there been an issue of such moral clarity. We have known for 25 years that the earth is warming more rapidly now than at any other time in history. We have begun to see the effects, in the form…
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News Jewish Groups Warm to Climate Change Battle
By day, Janna Diamond works for HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. At night she battles climate change. In recent months, the 29-year-old activist has been staying up late sending emails, attending planning meetings and tirelessly trying to recruit Jewish sponsors for the September 21 “People’s Climate March” in New York City. Her work —…
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Opinion Climate Change — A Hole Too Big To Ignore
Yes, it was a rough summer, what with racial tension in Missouri and an army of Spanish-speaking children invading our southern border, plus threats of a new world war in Ukraine and barbaric jihadis marching across Iraq, decapitating journalists and massacring religious minorities. Not to mention the deadly, dispiriting 50-day war between Israel and Hamas….
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Culture Using the Genes of Israeli Wheat To Fight Climate Change
Climate change and population growth have agricultural experts throughout the world increasingly worried. In addition to the usual battles against pests and diseases, poor countries now face threats of food shortages, price spikes and the political instability those conditions can cause. Since the amount of land set aside for agriculture is limited, researchers are therefore…
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The Schmooze CO2 and the Jews — Both Victims?
What does carbon dioxide have in common with the persecuted Jews of Nazi Germany? Plenty, at least according to Princeton University physics Prof. William Happer. On CNBC’s July 14 edition of Squawk Box, a morning news and business segment, Happer said: “The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews…
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Opinion Flood of Reports Point to a Warming Earth — But Concern Drops
May 2014 was one of the most worrisome months in recent memory for the health of the planet’s climate. The month saw a sudden, unexpected increase in the pace of really scary new climate-change studies coming out of scientific research institutes in America and Europe. Some of the studies document the impact of climate change,…
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Opinion A Divestment Campaign We Can Endorse
As 2014 opened, Todd Gitlin, a Columbia University professor and writer, predicted in the Forward that college campuses would become a battleground for activists seeking to stop or stem climate change. “To go out on a limb,” he wrote, “there’s a fighting chance that this campaign will force fossil-fuel divestment at one (at least) major…
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Opinion Peering Into the Minds of the Climate Doubters
It’s a truism of science that major, transformative events provide unique opportunities to gather data. Seismologists wait for earthquakes to measure tectonic movement. Research meteorologists risk their lives chasing tornadoes to learn their mysteries. Zoologists swing into action during mating season (of the animals, silly). Climate study can work in much the same way. Take…
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