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		<title>Scientists Face Death Threats, Democracy at Risk</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/03/11/scientists-face-death-threats-democracy-at-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[A personal note from Stephen]
There&#8217;s something strange in the air when a highly-respected US scientist says he or a colleague will likely be killed for saying climate change is happening. 
That&#8217;s what Stanford&#8217;s Stephen Schneider told me last week. He&#8217;s not an alarmist, he&#8217;s a pro with 40 years under his belt. These days climate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2824&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OUR Roof is on Fire: Dangerous Climate Change is Here</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/03/08/our-roof-is-on-fire-dangerous-climate-change-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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It will take lot of us – probably in the streets&#8221; to make politicians face the truth, says climate scientist James Hansen. 
[Dangerous climate change is already upon us say some of the best scientists we have. But political leaders  -- and most of the public -- don't get it. This is an attempt to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2766&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tipping Point on Species Loss?</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/03/04/a-tipping-point-on-species-loss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 13, 2010 (IPS) 
Humanity is destroying the network of living things that comprise our life support system. While this sawing-through-the-branch-we&#8217;re-perched-on is largely unintentional, world leaders can&#8217;t say they didn&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on: 123 countries promised to take urgent action in 2003 but have done little to stem the rising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2651&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rage and the Economics of the Environment</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/02/25/rage-and-the-economics-of-the-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Rage does feel appropriate at times with the continuing mis-information regarding climate change and the IPCC. While some focus on looking for typos in 3000 page report, the real issue is an overwhelming need to bring our economic system in line with the reality that we have but one planet to live on. Economists like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2700&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.N. Climate Chief Quits Post</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/02/23/politics-u-n-climate-chief-quits-post-ips-ipsnews-net/</link>
		<comments>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/02/23/politics-u-n-climate-chief-quits-post-ips-ipsnews-net/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Leahy*
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 18, 2010 (Tierramérica) 
Countries have largely failed to endorse the Copenhagen Climate accord by the Jan. 31 deadline. On Thursday, the key official in the United Nations climate treaty process announced his resignation.
There is no effective global climate treaty and the well-respected Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2748&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of Denial: The Real Global Warming Fantasy</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/02/22/state-of-denial-the-real-global-warming-fantasy/</link>
		<comments>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/02/22/state-of-denial-the-real-global-warming-fantasy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 



What ever happened to common sense?
(based on a true story)


By Stephen Leahy


Two guys were sitting in a bar one evening. The first one says: &#8220;Climate change is a complete hoax you know. There&#8217;s lots information on the internet proving that.&#8221;



&#8220;No it&#8217;s not&#8221; the second guy replies. &#8220;I&#8217;ve talked to dozens and dozens of climate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2732&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The REAL Amazon-gate: On the Brink of Collapse &#8211; Million $ Study</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/02/15/the-real-amazon-gate-on-the-brink-of-collapse-million-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Leahy
PARIS, Feb 2, 2010 (Tierramérica)
The Amazon jungle &#8220;is very close to a tipping point,&#8221; and if destruction continues, it could shrink to one third of its original size in just 65 years, warns Thomas Lovejoy, world-renowned tropical biologist.
Climate change, deforestation and fire are the drivers of this potential Amazonian apocalypse, according to Lovejoy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2692&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Wastelands</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/02/05/keeping-wetlands-from-becoming-wastelands-ips-ipsnews-net/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Leahy
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Feb 5, 2010 IPS
Swamps, marshes and other wetlands are beginning to be recognised as a countrys green jewels, even in a tropical paradise like Mahé Island here in the Seychelles, with its stunning beaches and dramatic granite outcrops.
&#8220;Wetlands are one of the worlds richest ecosystems on the planet,&#8221; said Joel Morgan, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2694&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Haiti &#8211; What You Can Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[When I wrote about the 4 hurricanes that pounded Haiti over 2 months in 2008, experts said things couldn't get any worse....  There was emergency aid in 2008, people were fed but little was done in the months after the storms to help Haiti up off its knees, to be able to feed itself. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2667&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if our air was 30% more acidic like the Oceans? May be 120% more acidic by 2060</title>
		<link>http://stephenleahy.net/2010/01/11/what-if-our-air-was-30-more-acidic-oceans-may-be-120-more-acidic-by-2060/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[2°C is a death sentence for corals  scientists agree due to ocean acidification and bleaching resulting from emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.  However the developed nations of the world have set 2 degrees C as the climate stabilization target  not that any of them have figured out how to reach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stephenleahy.net&blog=466880&post=2534&subd=stephenleahy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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