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A Reagan approach to climate change
2015-03-13 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The trend of disappearing summer sea ice in the Arctic is clear even though there is always some variability from year to year. Severe winter weather underscores the importance of keeping track of significant trends. Here are the numbers, according to Julienne Stroeve, of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., as reported in the Economist in February: Between 1953 and 2014, the average area of the Arctic sea ice shrank by 48,000 square kilometers a year. Between 1979 and...
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Dr. Caldicott Tells of Fukushima Lethal Toll and Meeting Ronald Reagan
2014-10-16 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The great Dr. Helen Caldicott graced the Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show this week with her unique assessment of the health effects of Fukushima and the rest of the nuclear power industry. She tells us about what`s happening to the renewable industry in Australia, and why Dr. James Hansen needs to reassess his views on atomic energy. "Nuclear Power Plants are cancer factories and bomb factories ... because any country that has a nuclear reactor makes 500 pounds of plutonium a year and...
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JetBlue continues expansion at Reagan National
2014-08-19 20:32:15| Airlines - Topix.net
JetBlue Airways Corp., one of several airlines expanding at Reagan National Airport thanks to slot divestitures of the newly merged American Airlines and US Airways, will add twice daily service from Reagan National to Jacksonville, Florida.
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09.07: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
2014-08-18 20:39:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland, returns with a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan (Simon and Schuster) is the latest volume in the acclaimed political history of America by the author called the "hypercaffeinated Herodotus of the American century" (The Nation). Against a backdrop of melodramas from the Arab oil embargo to Patty Hearst to the near-bankruptcy of America's greatest city, The Invisible Bridge asks the question: What does it mean to "believe in America"? To wave a flag — or to reject the glibness of the flag wavers?
6 new nonstop, daily routes from Reagan
2014-06-13 02:05:29| Airlines - Topix.net
JetBlue Airways, one of several airlines adding new flights at Reagan National airport as part of slot re-allocation after the US Airways merger with American Airlines, will add the first six of 12 new flights beginning June 19. JetBlue will start twice-daily service to both Charleston, South Carolina, and Hartford, Connecticut, next Thursday, as ... (more)
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