Air & Climate Files 
2008 & 2009

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The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion - Energy Bulletin 11jan05
Boulder Glacier Photos in 1932 and 1988  -  witness the drastic change in only 56 years

2009

• Massive Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf Set to Break Loose - Agence France Presse 3apr2009
• Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates - Washington Post 15feb2009
• Carbon Credits: China Dams Reveal Flaws in Climate-Change Weapon - AP 25jan2009
• Think Again: Climate Change - Foreign Policy 6jan2009
• Carbon Offsets: Offsets in the Air in San Francisco  - New York Times 2jan2009

2008

• Too Late? Why Scientists Say We Should Expect The Worst (With French Translation) - The Guardian (UK) 9dec2008
• Political Will, Political Won't - Paul Chefurka / Speaking Truth to Power 3sep2008
• U.S. Appeals Court Overturns EPA's Pollution Rule: A blow to oil refiners - Wall Street Journal 20aug2008
• Pollution Trading Program: French Firm Cashes In Under U.N. Warming Program - Wall Street Journal 23jul2008
• Oil Industry Behind White House Switch on Global Warming - Press Release / Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming / U.S. Congress 18jul2008
• California's Trouble: Rising Seas, Floods and Drought in Forecast - Alternet 18jul2008
• Sierra Snowpack Could Shrink Faster Than Previously Thought - Contra Costa Times 16jul2008
• Russian Researchers Flee Melting Arctic Ice Floe - AP 14jul2008
• Antarctic Ice Shelf 'Hanging By Its Last Thread': European Scientists - Agence France Presse 10jul2008
• Cheney's Office Pushed Purge Of Climate Change Testimony - Wall Street Journal 8jul2008
• Critical Discussion of IPCC Analyses of Carbon Emission Mitigation Possibilities and Costs - Ted Trainer 1jul2008
• Ecology: The Moment of Truth—An Introduction - Book Review / Monthly Review 1jul2008
• America's Village Idiot Blocks EPA Emissions Draft  - Wall Street Journal 30jun2008
• Firefighters in Stalemate Against California Blazes: More Thunderstorms and Dry Lightning Predicted - AP 29jun2008
• North Pole Could Be Ice-Free This Summer - LiveScience 26jun2008
• Even The Antarctic Winter Cannot Protect Wilkins Ice Shelf - Science Daily News 14jun2008
• Japan to Cut CO2 60-80% by 2050 - AP 9jun2008
• Warming World Altering Thousands of Natural Systems - Nature 14may2008
• Cyclone Kills 10,000 in One Myanmar Town: 3,000 Missing  - Reuters 5may2008
• Wet Winter in West Eases Raft of Problems - (w/ maps) Wall Street Journal 11apr 2008
• Wilkins Ice Shelf: Slab of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses - Reuters 25mar2008
• Short Critique of the Stern Review - Real-World Economics Review, i.45, 15mar08
• Chinese Banks Lend $14 Billion to Farm Areas for Snowstorm Recovery in China - AP 5mar2008
• Global Shortage of Metals Looming: Increasingly Bad Weather to Blame - Financial Post 25feb2008
• Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Biodiversity 'Doomsday Vault' Comes to Life in Arctic - Agence France Presse 24feb2008
• Low Oxygen: Pacific Coast Has Seen Deadly Drop-off in Oxygen Levels for Sea Life - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 15feb2008
• Has Earth Entered a New Epoch? - Christian Science Monitor 7feb2008
  • Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene? - Zalasiewicz / GSA Today 1feb 2008
• The Future of Nuclear Power - Monthly Review 1feb2008
• Collapse: WalMart and Waiting for the Shoe to Drop - Culture Change 20jan2008
• Northeast Winters Warming Fast - AP 12jan2008

Incinerators

• Long-range Air Transport of Dioxin from N.  American Sources to Ecologically Vulnerable Receptors in Nunavut, Arctic Canada  Barry Commoner CBNS Sep00
• Is Dioxin Destroyed by Extremely High-Temperature Incineration?  Comments on Rigo et al.
• Children living near Incinerators & Landfills More likely to get Cancers - (3 separate abstracts) 

• "New Car Smell" - Volatile Organic Compounds In a New Automobile Scientific Instrument Services 23dec99

• Ban the Burn Barrels! Evaluation of Emissions from the Open Burning of Household Waste In Barrels - Report No. EPA-600/R-97-134a. Nov97

• Dioxin: EPA Collusion with Industry: A Very Brief Overview   -  Synthesis/Regeneration 7-8 Summer 1995

• Hazardous Waste Combustion in Cement Kilns - Introduction to Policy and Legal Issues Associated with Burning Hazardous Waste in Cement Kilns Apr95

• Substances in Diesel Exhaust Listed by Cal EPA as Toxic Air Contaminants

• What's Wrong With Incineration Of Medical Wastes -  Huff, MJ, and deFur, P., Virginia Commonwealth University- Center for Environmental Studies (undated)

• Incinerators & Landfills - Cancers in Proximity to Incinerators (3 separate abstracts) Jun00

• Incinerators & Landfills - Childhood cancers, birthplaces, incinerators and landfill sites  -  International Journal of Epidemiology Jun00