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Critical Climate Podcasts: Global Warming & Building Construction with Rick Carter

By Dan Haugen | 12.31.07 | 7:00 am

It’s New Year’s Eve, and time for the third installment in our series of daily podcasts about global warming, how we addressed it in 2007 and what trends we can expect in 2008.

Each podcast focuses on a single source…

Critical Climate Podcasts: Global Warming & Transportation with Barb Thoman

By Dan Haugen | 12.28.07 | 7:00 am

As the year comes to a close, Minnesota Monitor is looking back at what was a big year for discussion of global warming. We heard more about climate change in 2007 than any other year,…

Critical Climate Podcasts: Global Warming & Electricity Generation with Bill Grant

By Dan Haugen | 12.27.07 | 7:00 am

Bill GrantGlobal warming gained unprecedented attention in 2007. We’re now more aware than ever about the need to take action and the possible consequences if we do not. But besides all the…

Rybak: Minneapolis Preparing for “Post-Climate-Crisis World” (Podcast)

By Dan Haugen | 11.01.07 | 7:21 am

In 2005, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak became one of the first signers of a U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. Participants have pledged to reduce greenhouse emission in…

The Governor’s Climate Change Advisory Group

By Leigh Pomeroy | 05.12.07 | 9:53 am

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has named a 51-member Climate Change Advisory Group to look at “the profound implications that global warming and climate variation could have on the economy, environment and quality of life…

Despite Climate Change Evidence, Global Warming Naysayers Stand Their Ground

By Leigh Pomeroy | 04.25.07 | 11:39 am

“If 98 doctors say my son is ill and needs medication and two say ‘No, he doesn’t, he is fine,’ I will go with the 98. It’s common sense

Recommended Reading: Security and Climate Change

By Leigh Pomeroy | 04.21.07 | 8:30 am

Two very important documents came out this week involving U.S. and world security. They are Tom Friedman’s “The Power of Green” and CNA Corporation’s “National Security and the Threat of Climate Change“, which was written with the help…

The Gas Tax Hike: Is the Governor Encouraging Terrorism by Opposing It?

By Leigh Pomeroy | 04.20.07 | 11:22 am

If we don’t take measures now to reduce our dependence on oil, we only increase our vulnerability to the whims of terrorists and the anger of Mother Earth

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A Little Demonstration with a Big Message

By Leigh Pomeroy | 04.15.07 | 9:32 pm

Climate ActionAcross the country, Saturday was “Step It Up 2007” day. Set up by a seed group led by environmentalist Bill McKibben and a half-dozen students at Middlebury College, Step…

A Brief Weather Observation on a Saturday

By Leigh Pomeroy | 04.07.07 | 11:23 am

It’s Easter weekend, and in Minnesota Easter 2007 will be colder than Christmas 2006. Today it’s 21 degrees, but feels like 7 degrees at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, according to weather.com. On Dec. 24 of last year it was…