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Can the Planet Sustain 7 Billion People Eating a Paleo Diet?
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on February 18th, 2015
EcoWatch: After decades of obscurity, Paleo is now one of the fastest-growing diet trends. A 2013 survey found that one percent of Americans eat Paleo, which is based on the premise that our diets should be based on animals and plants, the way we ate when we were hunter-gatherers. Bestselling books like Grain Brain have redeemed meat’s nutritional profile and convinced many people that their high-carb diets promote unhealthy levels of brain and gut inflammation. I count myself among the throngs of Paleolistas...
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Miami already sinking under rising sea level
Posted by Grist: None Given on February 18th, 2015
Grist: You don’t have to look 85 years into the future to see what a sinking world looks like - you only need to look as far as Miami.
Climate scientists have been warning the world about sea-level rise for years, pleading with governments to cut back on carbon lest all our coastal cities go the way of Venice. In 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its fifth Assessment Report, predicting that oceans would rise more than three feet by 2100. Those projections make for some alarming...
Marcellus Shale Production Numbers Break Another Record
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 18th, 2015
National Public Radio: Drilling companies in Pennsylvania have broken yet another record, as shale gas production jumped 30 percent last year, according to new data released by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Marcellus Shale drillers produced more than 2 trillion cubic feet of gas in the second half of 2014. Throughout all of last year, they produced 4 trillion cubic feet– or about 16 percent of what the entire United States consumes on an annual basis.
“Economic growth from natural gas production...
Canada federal police warn of growing anti-oil threats
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 18th, 2015
Agence France-Presse: Canadian police warned in a leaked document of growing threats to the country's oil industry by militant climate activists opposed to the use of fossil fuels (AFP Photo/David Boily)
Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian police warned in a leaked document Wednesday of growing threats to the country's oil industry by militant climate activists opposed to the use of fossil fuels.
Greenpeace called the year-old report obtained by AFP "chilling," because of its broad-brush depiction of climate-change activists...