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Climate realities sink in
Posted by Baltimore Sun: None Given on October 17th, 2015
Baltimore Sun: As if the failings of a do-nothing Congress and the continued strife in the Middle East weren't depressing enough, it's been a rough week for those gauging the impact of climate change on Maryland, too. First comes a report that forecasts a big chunk of the state will be underwater by 2100, and then researchers revealed that those rising waters are getting a whole lot warmer a whole lot faster than expected. Even that brief description doesn't do justice to the scale of the environmental impact...
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The danger of climate denial
Posted by Baltimore Sun: None Given on May 23rd, 2015
Baltimore Sun: It's Memorial Day, and the forecast is for renewed mocking and derision regarding man-made climate change from the know-nothing, science-averse wing of the Republican Party. President Barack Obama's warning - issued during his commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremonies Wednesday - that climate change represents a national security threat seems certain to provoke that kind of stormy reaction.
For those who actually serve in the military, however, the response is...
Oil spills and Keystone
Posted by Baltimore Sun: None Given on April 4th, 2013
Baltimore Sun: If Americans needed a reminder of the serious environmental risks posed by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, they got it last week with the oil spill in Mayflower, a suburb of Little Rock, Arkansas. More than 12,000 barrels of crude spilled into the town like a black river, coating lawns and forcing evacuations.
It's still not certain what caused a leak from the ExxonMobil pipeline that carries Canadian crude oil from Illinois to the Texas Gulf Coast. But what is clear is that such pipeline spills...