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		<title>Modifying the Endless Debate Over Genetically Modified Crops</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/05/14/modifying-the-endless-genetically-modified-crop-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admit—I&#8217;ve never quite understood the obsession surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops. To environmentalist opponents, GM foods are simply evil, an understudied, possibly harmful tool used by big agribusiness to control global seed markets and crush local farmers. They argue that GM foods have never delivered on their supposed promise, that money spent on GM crops would be better funneled to organic farming and that consumers should be protected with warning labels on any products that contain genetically modified ingredients. To supporters, GM crops are a key part of the effort to sustainably provide food to meet a global population that is growing by the billions. But more than that, supporters see the knee-jerk GM opposition of many environmentalists as fundamentally anti-science, no different than the deniers on the other side of the political spectrum who question the basics of man-made climate change. For both sides, GM foods seem to act as a symbol: you&#8217;re pro-agribusiness or anti-science. But science is exactly what we need more of when it comes to GM foods, which is why I was happy to see the venerable journal Nature devote a special series of articles to the GM food controversy. You can download most of them for free here, and they&#8217;re well worth reading. The upshot: while GM crops haven&#8217;t yet realized their initial promise and have been dominated by agribusiness, there is reason to continue to use and develop them to help meet the enormous challenge of sustainably feeding a growing planet. (LIST: 6 Genetically Modified Foods That Changed the World) That doesn&#8217;t mean GM crops are perfect, or a one sizes fits all solution to global agriculture woes. Nature points out that most of the benefit of GM technology so far has indeed gone to big agribusiness, much of it in the form of herbicide-resistant crops like Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup Ready soybeans or cotton. Of course, just because something benefits Monsanto doesn&#8217;t automatically make it wrong—though clearly not everyone would believe that—and advocates say that GM crops have increased agriculture production by nearly $100 billion and prevented<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=15217&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beepocalypse Redux: Honeybees Are Still Dying — and We Still Don&#8217;t Know Why</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/05/07/beepocalypse-redux-honey-bees-are-still-dying-and-we-still-dont-know-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 09:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The honeybees are dying — and we don&#8217;t really know why. That&#8217;s the conclusion of a massive Department of Agriculture (USDA) report that came out late last week on colony-collapse disorder (CCD), the catchall term for the large-scale deaths of honeybee groups throughout the U.S. And given how important honeybees are to the food that we eat — bees help pollinate crops that are worth more than $200 billion a year — the fact that they are dying in large numbers, and we can&#8217;t say why, is very, very worrying. CCD was first reported in 2006, when commercial beekeepers began noticing that their adult worker honeybees would suddenly flee the hive, ending up dead somewhere else and leading to the rapid loss of the colony. On normal years, commercial beekeepers might expect to lose 10% to 15% of their colony, but over the past five years, mortality rates for commercial operations in the U.S. have ranged from 28% to 33%. Since 2006 an estimated 10 million beehives worth about $200 each have been lost, costing beekeepers some $2 billion. There are now 2.5 million honeybee colonies in the U.S., down from 6 million 60 years ago. And if CCD continues, the consequences for the agricultural economy — and even for our ability to feed ourselves — could be dire. &#8220;Currently, the survivorship of honeybee colonies is too low for us to be confident in our ability to meet the pollination demands of U.S. agricultural crops,&#8221; the USDA report said. So what&#8217;s causing CCD — and how can we stop it? (MORE: What’s the Buzz: Study Links Pesticide With Honeybee Collapse) The problem is that there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a single smoking gun behind CCD. The USDA report points at a range of possible causes, including: A parasitic mite called Varroa destructor that has often been found in decimated colonies Several viruses A bacterial disease called European foulbrood that is increasingly being detected in U.S. bee colonies The use of pesticides, including neonicotinoids, a neuroactive chemical Since CCD isn&#8217;t so much a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=15091&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fast, Cheap, Dead: Shopping and the Bangladesh Factory Collapse</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/04/29/fast-cheap-dead-shopping-and-the-bangladesh-factory-collapse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The collapse of a factory building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed at least 362 people, is almost certainly the worst accident in the history of the garment industry. It&#8217;s worse than the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 that you learned about in American history class and which helped lead to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards. It&#8217;s worse than the 1993 Kader Toy Factory fire in Bangkok, which killed 188 people, nearly all of them women and teenage girls. It&#8217;s worse than the Ali Enterprises Factory fire in Karachi, which killed at least 262 people — and which I&#8217;m guessing nearly all of us had forgotten about, or never knew it occurred, even though the disaster happened only eight months ago. Bangladeshi officials are still investigating the causes behind the factory&#8217;s collapse on April 24, although Sohel Rana, the building&#8217;s owner, was arrested over the weekend as he attempted to flee the country. There&#8217;s no shortage of possible reasons — building codes in Bangladesh are too rarely enforced and corruption in the country is rampant. Nor, sadly, are such disasters rare. A major fire in a textile factory in Dhaka killed over 100 people just last November. While thousands of Bangladeshi protesters have taken to the streets in the wake of the building collapse, and the political opposition has called for a national strike on May 2, there&#8217;s little hope that the catastrophe will be the last that the country&#8217;s garment workers suffer. (MORE: Mr. Green Jeans: Levi’s Detoxifies Its Supply Chain) The clothes that the doomed workers in Dhaka were laboring over when their factory collapsed include some Western brands, like Primark and Joe Fresh. Is there anything we as clothing consumers can or should do about these deaths? In a post written last week as the dead were still being tallied in the building collapse, Slate&#8217;s economics blogger Matthew Yglesias suggests, not really: Bangladesh is a lot poorer than the United States, and there are very good reasons for Bangladeshi people to make different choices in this<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=14899&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Daze: What Happened to the Environmental Movement?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/04/22/earth-daze-what-happened-to-the-environmental-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Earth Day, though you could be forgiven if you missed it. The annual event doesn&#8217;t quite have the same energy as it once did — especially not compared with the first Earth Day 43 years ago. That nationwide event, initially inspired by the work of Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, was celebrated by more than 20 million people in more than 12,000 events around the country. As Nicholas Lemann pointed out in a recent piece in the New Yorker, Congress took the day off, and two-thirds of its members — Democrat and Republican alike — spoke at Earth Day events. The Today show devoted 10 hours of airtime to Earth Day. And that mobilization — which was decentralized, mostly achieved through a tiny national office — paved the way for real government action: the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This year&#8217;s Earth Day was a little less memorable, and a whole lot less bipartisan. (I can&#8217;t imagine a Republican member of Congress giving a speech during Earth Day now unless they were calling for the dismantling of the EPA.) And it comes during a moment of crisis for the environmental movement as it attempts to grapple, so far unsuccessfully, with the existential threat of climate change. Back to Lemann: Then, 40 years after Earth Day, in the summer of 2010, the environmental movement suffered a humiliating defeat as unexpected as the success of Earth Day had been. The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, announced that he would not bring to a vote a bill meant to address the greatest environmental problem of our time — global warming. The movement had poured years of effort into the bill, which involved a complicated system for limiting carbon emissions. Now it was dead, and there has been no significant environmental legislation since. Indeed, one could argue that there has been no major environmental legislation since 1990, when President George H.W. Bush signed a bill<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=14592&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Power: Why More Bytes Will Mean Fewer—and Cleaner—Electrons</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/03/26/smart-power-why-more-bytes-will-mean-fewer-and-cleaner-electrons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improving energy efficiency is the no-brainer, no loser environmental policy. By limiting wasted power, we reduce the number of power plants we need—and their consequent pollution—and we save money. It shouldn’t be surprising that when President Barack Obama went looking for a green policy that the entire nation could agree with during his state of the union speech, he settled on energy efficiency, challenging Americans to “cut half the energy waste by our homes and businesses over the next 20 years.&#8221; Cutting energy waste is a matter of better lights and better insulation, better heaters and better air conditioners. But first and foremost it’s a data challenge. You can’t cut waste until you know what you’re wasting—and most of us have only the slightest idea of the energy we’re using at home. (Even big electricity users in business often aren&#8217;t much better—or need to employ human managers to monitor that usage manually, which cuts into any saving from efficiency.) Standard electricity meters might take one reading for an entire month, which makes trying to save energy like trying to lose weight if all you knew was the total amount of food you ate over the course of 30 days. “You need data to make energy saving work,” says Bennett Fisher, the CEO of the building efficiency startup Retroficiency. (MORE: SXSW: Using Big Data to Shrink Energy Waste) Thanks to the growth of smart sensors and the big data they produce—along with new companies that know how to crunch that information—energy users from huge factories down to individual households can track and reduce waste in a way that simply wasn&#8217;t possible just a few years ago. It’s the combination of energy technology with the Internet—or the Enernet, as some have called it—and it’s the hottest sector in clean tech right now, in part because it relies on relatively cheap, easily scalable software, rather than the expensive factories needed for, say, solar panel manufacturers. That makes the Enernet a smarter, safer play for venture capitalists burned in the wake of big ticket<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=14210&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After SARS: A New Virus in Saudi Arabia Underscores the Need to Police Disease in Animals</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/03/19/after-sars-a-new-virus-in-saudi-arabia-underscores-the-need-to-police-disease-in-animals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I became a science writer — well, at least a part-time one — because I lived through SARS. I was a reporter for TIME&#8217;s Hong Kong office 10 years ago, mostly covering books, films and whichever exotic destination I could convince my editors to send me to. (Like &#8230; Guangzhou!) But when SARS started spreading in Hong Kong in the spring of 2003 — from where it leapt to much of the rest of the world — I was hooked immediately. Experiencing science in real time, with human lives and billions of dollars on the line, was pure cut excitement. I remember getting a glimpse through an electron microscope of the coronavirus that caused SARS, not long after researchers at Hong Kong University had identified it, and being fascinated that a packet of genes, just 100 nanometers in diameter, could cause so much trouble. (For the best book on the SARS outbreak, check out former TIME Asia editor Karl Greenfeld&#8217;s China Syndrome — and not just because I&#8217;m in the index.) But my conversion wasn&#8217;t just about the rush of following an outbreak in real time. An emerging infectious disease like SARS pulls back the curtain on our world and demonstrates just how interconnected we all are, in more ways than just the global economy or international air travel. SARS, like most new diseases, started in an animal before jumping across the species barrier to human beings. The original reservoir for SARS was actually a bat, and it&#8217;s still not clear how the virus managed to cross from them to us, though the anything-goes standards of the live markets of southern China, where wild animals of all sorts are available for consumption and where the SARS outbreak began, definitely played a role. Researchers initially thought that civet cats transmitted the virus to human beings — Chinese officials even culled thousands of civet cats in the months after SARS to prevent a resurgence — though now it seems possible that the cats caught it from us. No matter how the virus jumped,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=14082&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW: Don&#8217;t Fight City Hall—Hack It</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/03/12/south-by-southwest-dont-fight-city-hall-hack-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans do not like their government, and given all that&#8217;s happening—the sequester, the looming fiscal cliff, the near-record levels of political polarization—you can&#8217;t really blame us. A recent Pew poll found that just 28% of Americans trust the government in Washington, a figure that&#8217;s been mostly declining throughout the last decade. But here&#8217;s a fact that you might not expect. For all the angst directed at Washington, Americans retain surprisingly high levels of affection towards their city or town governments. A Gallup poll from late last year found that 74% of Americans say they trust their local government—a figure that has remained high for years, even as Washington has grown more and more dysfunctional. There are a lot for reasons for that discrepancy. Towns and cities tend to be more politically homogenous than the country as a whole—think of the political makeup of liberal Austin versus conservative Salt Lake City—so we&#8217;re likely to feel more in tune with local democracy than we do with our national one. But there&#8217;s also the reality that local governments have to be problem solvers—they literally have to take out the trash—and that can force them to be innovative in a way that Washington simply isn&#8217;t. I got a chance to see just how innovative City Hall can be—and its limitations—at a panel on smart cities here at the South by Southwest interactive conference in Austin, where the weather is beautiful and the BBQ, if you can survive the lines, is amazing. Rachel Haot, the wunderkind chief digital officer of New York, talked about the way that Gotham has begun to use digital tools to streamline governance and make City Hall quicker and more responsive. Abhi Nemani, the director of strategy at Code for America—a civic-minded startup that lives up to its nickname as the Peace Corps for Geeks—discussed how nimble techies can help even the smallest cities innovate. And Erika Diamond of Recyclebank—a now mature green startup that rewards people for taking green actions, including recycling—addressed the way the private sector can work hand<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=13950&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic: Why It&#8217;s Time to Get Serious About the Bloody Illegal Wildlife Trade</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/03/05/traffic-why-its-time-to-get-serious-about-the-bloody-illegal-wildlife-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human beings are killers. Not just toward each other, though we do that of course, every hour of every day. We&#8217;re killers of those other species of life that share this planet with us. Some we kill for food, like domesticated animals, or the wild fish and game we harvest from the waters and the forest. Others we kill by as a by-product of modern life, taking their habitat through deforestation or pollution. But many, too many, we simply kill for their parts. Or perhaps murder is the better word. The threat of wildlife trafficking is on my mind, as the biennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) continues over the next two weeks in Bangkok. Born 40 years ago, CITES sets the global controls for trade in wildlife, with a focus — at its best — of slowing the slaughter and trafficking of endangered species. For years there was real progress being made in the field. After low points during the 1980s, nations under CITES began to successfully crack down on the illicit ivory trade, which drove the wide-scale poaching of rhinos and elephants in Africa. Between 1973 and 2012, the population of the white rhino in Africa rose from 2,000 to over 19,000 and other endangered species made comebacks, thanks to international sanctions on ivory trade and tougher prosecution on the ground in Africa. But those advances — and the endangered species — are at risk. Last year poaching levels in Africa were at their highest since international monitors began keeping detailed records in 2002. In 2011 a record amount of illegal ivory was seized worldwide: 38.8 tons, equal to the tusks that would be found on more than 4,000 dead elephants. According to CITES&#8217; own numbers, an estimated 25,000 elephants were poached across Africa in 2011, and in South Africa alone 668 rhinos were killed by poachers last year. And the wildlife trade is having a serious impact on biodiversity as well. According to a new study published in the open journal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=13858&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Debt Crisis Has Trumped the Climate Crisis—at Least in D.C.</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/02/26/why-the-debt-crisis-has-trumped-the-climate-crisis-at-least-in-d-c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To a certain group of Americans, the United States—neigh, the world—faces an existential crisis, one that threatens the prosperity and even stability of the future. This problem is so big and so frightening that solving it must be the government’s singular priority. It doesn’t matter that the very drastic steps needed to address the issue are likely to cause palpable economic pain in the short term—pain likely to be borne by the poorest and most vulnerable among us. It doesn’t matter that many experts doubt how serious this subject is, and worry that the solution could cause more trouble than the problem itself. Simply by expressing doubt, those dissenters prove themselves to be fundamentally unserious extremists—and they must be shouted down. There’s no time to waste with debate. Something must be done! If you read the newspaper or watch the cable shows, you know the problem I’m talking about. It’s the metastasizing federal debt, and to a significant slice of elite Washington—and most of the Republican party—reducing that debt chiefly through drastic spending cuts trumps every other problem facing the country today. That fear is the reason why the political parties find themselves unable to head off the looming budget sequestration, that series of automatic hatchet cuts to government spending amounting to $1.2 trillion over 10 years. It’s the reason why our government seems to be lurching from one fiscal crisis to another. But to debt hardliners, there can be no negotiation—and dissenters like the economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman must be defeated. It’s telling that deficit scolds have throwing around the term “debt deniers” to describe their apostate opponents—there’s even an @debtdeniers Twitter account—as if debt skeptics are trying to deny a scientific reality when they question the need for deep and immediate austerity. The term “denier” should sound familiar to those who follow the climate wars. It’s a cudgel used against those who question the vast—it must be said—scientific consensus that man-made climate change is real and dangerous. But it’s not only similarity with the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=13691&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Meat in China — and the U.S. — Has a Drug Problem</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/02/12/why-meat-in-china-and-the-u-s-has-a-drug-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2005, when I was a reporter based out of TIME&#8217;s Hong Kong office, I spent more time than I care to remember in the backyard chicken farms of Asia. This was the time of the H5N1 avian flu, which broke out regularly in chickens and occasionally (with fatal effects) in human beings and which always seemed to be one click of the genetic lock away from threatening the entire world. To prevent that mutation from happening — one of that would have allowed the deadly H5N1 virus to spread easily from person to person, like a human flu virus — health officials in affected countries would do their best to track and eradicate outbreaks as they occurred in animals, often by simply culling an afflicted flock. But there was always one country where that plan never quite worked: China. Chinese chicken farmers had an unfortunate habit of prophylactically dosing their birds with Tamiflu, the only antiviral drug that showed any effectiveness against H5N1. (U.S. preparations for a possible bird-flu pandemic included stockpiling millions of doses of the drug.) As a result, it became that much more difficult for health officials to track H5N1 outbreaks because Tamiflu-dosed chickens could still get infected and spread the virus but without showing the symptoms that would set off medical alarm bells. And overusing Tamiflu also eroded its effectiveness as over time the H5N1 virus was able to develop a resistance to the drug. Had an H5N1 human pandemic ever occurred, we may well have been helpless. In the years since, you might have hoped that Chinese farmers had learned to be a bit more judicious when it comes to dealing out high-end human drugs to their animals — but that&#8217;s not the case. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that China, already the world&#8217;s largest producer and consumer of antibiotics, is heavily using the drugs in animals as a way to enhance growth and prevent disease in crowded conditions. And just as happened with the overuse of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=13326&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Talks Climate Change. California Is Acting on It</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/01/29/obama-talks-climate-change-california-is-acting-on-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not the happiest time to be an environmentalist. Climate change hit home last year with brutal force: 2012’s historic drought singed much of the Midwest, turning farms to dust and withering the corn crop. Other parts of the U.S. suffered through storms like Sandy and massive wildfires. Average annual temperatures in the continental U.S. beat the previous recorded high by a full 1°F (1.8°C). And the future is uglier still: over the weekend, British economist Nicholas Stern warned that climate change could be even worse than he predicted in his sobering 2006 report on the financial impact of warming, while on Jan. 28 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a draft report outlining the serious threat sea-level rise poses to the coastal U.S. So, logically, 2013 should be the year the U.S. finally gets serious about dealing with the man-made greenhouse-gas emissions that drive warming. And greens could take some hope in President Obama&#8217;s Inaugural Address on Jan. 21. &#8220;We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,&#8221; Obama told his audience. But whatever the President&#8217;s intentions, political realities — including a House led by Republicans who want nothing to do with climate-change legislation — will limit his scope of action. At most, the White House may be able to tweak the tax code or spend more on research for clean energy. Useful policies, but nothing as comprehensive as the climate legislation that was introduced, and ultimately defeated, during Obama&#8217;s first term. But if environmentalists look west from Washington — about 2,728 miles west — they’ll see reason for hope. On Jan. 1, after years of preparation and legal battles, California launched a carbon cap-and-trade system, establishing a declining limit on the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions. That means that the most populous state in the U.S. and the ninth biggest economy in the world has legally committed itself to reducing its carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. While cutting California’s carbon emissions alone might not make a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=13070&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Talked Climate Change in His Inaugural Address. Now Can He Do Something About It?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/01/22/obama-talked-climate-change-in-his-inaugural-address-now-can-he-do-something-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance on Jan. 20 at the Green Ball, an inaugural event for environmental groups—and his message to the crowd couldn&#8217;t have been more welcome: I&#8217;ll tell you what my green dream is: that we finally face up to climate change&#8230;I don&#8217;t intend on ending this four years without getting an awful lot more done. Keep the faith. Environmentalists—who&#8217;d grumbled during the campaign about the absence of climate change from President Obama&#8217;s rhetoric—didn&#8217;t have to wait long to see their faith rewarded. During his inaugural address on Jan. 21, Obama spoke with surprising clarity and urgency about the need to fight global warming: We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But American cannot resist this transition. We must lead it. Those were bold words—and words that lifted the hearts of the environmentalists in the audience on the National Mall in Washington and watching the speech around the country. But climate change—especially so far for President Obama—has always been a subject that&#8217;s easier to talk about than do anything about. As he begins his second term faced with a financial crisis and an intransigent Republican opposition, can Obama actually do something about global warming? First a quick retrospective. That uneasiness that many environmentalists felt towards the President as he campaigned for reelection this past summer wasn&#8217;t just about the disappearance of climate change as an issue. It was also due to the sense that Obama had largely failed to do much of anything on global warming during his first four years in office. That&#8217;s not an entirely fair charge. The massive stimulus<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=12997&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Forecast for Climate Change: It&#8217;s Getting Hot in Here</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/01/15/federal-forecast-for-climate-change-its-getting-hot-in-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring came early to Walden Pond in 2012. Scientists — both amateur and professional — have kept records of flowering times for plants in Walden Pond, near the Massachusetts town of Concord, since Henry David Thoreau began doing it in 1852. The result is one of the best continuous datasets of nature in the U.S, which has made Thoreau&#8217;s retreat an excellent lab for testing the effects of manmade climate change on the environment. In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Jan. 14, researchers reported that the unusually warm winter and spring of 2012 and 2010 resulted in the earliest known flowering times for dozens of species of plants around Walden Pond, sometimes nearly a month earlier than they had back in Thoreau&#8217;s cooler times. Of course, you don&#8217;t need to pore through the records at Walden Pond to know that the climate is changing. Last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that average annual temperatures for the continental U.S. were hotter in 2012 than in any year in U.S. recorded history. Extreme weather was the second-worst on record, with severe wildfires, major storms and a crippling drought causing billions of dollars in damage to the American economy. Really, all you need to do to notice climate change is to walk outside. Yesterday in New York City the high temperature was a misty 57° F (14° C) — yet another unseasonably warm January day when the temperature has barely dipped below freezing. Nor is it just the U.S.: a new study published in Climatic Change has found that global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five. And while a burst of cold air has led to sub-freezing temperatures throughout much of the West over the past few days, I&#8217;m willing to bet my salary that average temperatures for the country this month will be higher than the 20th century mean for January. Why? One reason is that the last time the U.S. had a colder than<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=12931&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adapt or Die: Why the Environmental Buzzword of 2013 Will Be Resilience</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/01/08/adapt-or-die-why-the-environmental-buzzword-of-2013-will-be-resilience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalists and politicians have short memories. Just two months ago, Superstorm Sandy was everywhere in the news. And it wasn&#8217;t just weather porn — there was serious debate about the impact climate change had on the storm and about the now obvious need to prepare cities for worse to come. Bloomberg Businessweek put it on the cover — &#8220;It&#8217;s Global Warming, Stupid&#8221; — and in my TIME cover story, I focused on adaptations that cities like New York could make now to ensure that the next storm wouldn&#8217;t be so destructive. Politicians like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo emphasized the need to rebuild better from Sandy, to ensure that the billions that would go into storm response would also flow to the sorts of global-warming-adaptation initiatives that would climate-proof cities. To proponents of climate action, Sandy seemed like a last, desperate chance. If the sight of flooding streets in lower Manhattan couldn&#8217;t galvanize political will on climate-change adaptation, what would? For the U.S. Congress, however, it seems that what is likely to be the second most expensive extreme weather event in U.S. history isn&#8217;t quite enough to spur meaningful action. There&#8217;s little indication from the White House or Congress that climate change will be a priority this term. Storm-hit states like New York and New Jersey have been reduced to begging — or in New Jersey Governor Chris Christie&#8217;s case, bellowing — for delayed aid from Congress. And even that money is likely to come with strings, with Republican House members questioning why funds should go not just to repair damage, but also to improve existing infrastructure. The brief moment when Americans saw and feared the effects of global warming has already been eclipsed by the long-running, intra-Washington war over the nation&#8217;s finances, or whatever is up next on Politico. (PHOTOS: The Toil After the Storm: Life in Sandy’s Wake) So don&#8217;t expect a whole lot from Washington in 2013 or beyond. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the need to adapt to climate change has disappeared. That&#8217;s one of the main messages<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=12718&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Frontier for Climate Activism: College Investments</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/12/11/the-next-frontier-for-climate-activism-college-endowments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Climate activists need to take their victories where they can. There was little success to celebrate at the U.N. climate summit in Doha, Qatar, which concluded over the weekend. Delegates agreed to extend the expiring Kyoto Protocol by a few years — albeit without the participation of previous signatories like Japan and Russia, which really left only Australia and most of the developed economies of Europe. The U.S. — which never ratified Kyoto to begin with — offered little on its own, and developed nations put off resolving a debate over the promise of providing tens of billions in climate aid to poor nations. Delegates agreed to finalize a new, wider global pact on climate change by 2015 that would take effect by 2020 — but furnished no real details on what that agreement would actually do. Even by the low standards of the U.N. climate process, Doha was a disappointment. That&#8217;s one reason climate activists are focusing their efforts closer to home — particularly on America&#8217;s colleges and universities. Thanks to the efforts of the writer turned activist Bill McKibben&#8216;s 350.org, students at schools around the country are pushing university administrators to sell off any investments in fossil fuel companies from collegiate endowment funds. The strategy is called divestment, and if it sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because student activists used the same method — mostly successfully — to push universities to stop investing in apartheid-era South Africa during the 1980s. One school, Unity College in Maine, has already taken action to dump its fossil fuel investments, and the campaign is active in more than 150 other U.S. colleges and universities. &#8220;In the near future, the political tide will turn and the public will demand action on climate change,&#8221; wrote Stephen Mulkey, the Unity College president, in a letter to other college administrators. &#8220;Our students are already demanding action, and we must not ignore them.&#8221; (MORE: Why Global Fuel Prices Will Spark the Next Revolutions) The money at stake in the divestment fight could be significant: colleges and universities have endowments<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=12318&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As the World Keeps Getting Warmer, California Begins to Cap Carbon</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/12/04/as-the-world-keeps-getting-warmer-california-begins-to-cap-carbon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a good sign for the international effort to stop global warming that most of the news so far generated out of the U.N. climate summit being held this week in Doha has not been made by the diplomats and delegates actually involved in the negotiations. Instead, the scientists on the sidelines are generating the headlines. Researchers with the Global Carbon Project reported on Dec. 2 that global emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide hit a record high in 2011, and will almost certainly reach a new record of 35.6 billion metric tons in 2012. China led the way with 28% of global emissions in 2011, with the U.S. second at 16%—though Chinese per-capita emissions were far lower than those of the U.S. The level of CO2 has increased by 41% since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution—enough to help warm the planet by 1.5˚ F since 1850. Globally 2012 seems likely to be the ninth-warmest year on record—thanks in part to the cooling effect of the La Niña phenomenon earlier in the year—though the U.S. could be facing the hottest year in its recorded history. And a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Dec. 2  concluded that the rapid increase in carbon emissions that has boosted global temperatures by 3.6˚ F (2˚ C) — considered the maximum amount of warming that the planet might be able to endure without serious consequences—all but inevitable, no matter what we do in the future. &#8220;These latest figures come amidst climate talks in Doha,&#8221; said Corinne Le Quere, the director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and a member of the Global Carbon Project. &#8220;But with emissions continuing to grow, it&#8217;s as if no one is listening to the entire scientific community.&#8221; Tell me about it. But if the Doha summit seems unlikely to produce much meaningful progress on global climate efforts, that doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;re helpless to deal with global warming. In fact, one of the most ambitious efforts has just been launched here in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=12192&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Will Be an Oil Giant Again. But It Won&#8217;t Be Energy Independent</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/11/13/the-u-s-will-be-an-oil-giant-again-but-it-wont-be-energy-independent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Presidents since Richard Nixon have obsessed about American dependence on foreign oil—and have proven unable to do much about it. U.S. domestic oil production was on a long slope downwards, while the American thirst for crude—and the size of our automobiles—kept increasing. As a result, despite all the bipartisan hand wringing about imports, the U.S. just kept getting more and more dependent on foreign oil—and especially foreign oil from the Middle East, which happens to be home to a number of countries that aren&#8217;t exactly fond of us. But now, quite unexpectedly, that&#8217;s changing. Thanks to a burst of new shale oil production in states like North Dakota and Texas—as well as conservation measures like increased auto fuel efficiency—U.S. oil imports have been falling, with the country now bringing in just 20% of its energy from beyond its borders. And if the International Energy Agency&#8217;s (IEA) new World Energy Outlook is to be believed, the U.S. may be on its way to becoming the single biggest player in the global oil market. By around 2020, the IEA projects, the U.S. will be the world&#8217;s largest global oil producer, overtaking both Russia and Saudi Arabia. U.S. oil imports will keep falling, and by around 2030 North America as a whole will become a net oil exporter. From being the world&#8217;s biggest customer for oil, the U.S. could become the world&#8217;s biggest salesman. That&#8217;s good news for the American economy and especially its trade deficit, which would benefit significantly from wiping away the $460 billion the country spent on foreign oil last year. The burst in domestic oil will also help create well-paying jobs, especially in states like North Dakota, Wyoming and Texas, where the oil boom is centered. The continued growth of shale natural gas—along with existing supplies of coal and increasing renewables like wind and solar—means that the U.S. may well be able to meet nearly all of its energy needs itself. And so many domestic resources mean that electricity prices are likely to be much cheaper in the U.S. than<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=11668&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 37: Why California&#8217;s Ballot Initiative on GM Food Is About Politics More than Science</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/11/06/prop-37-why-californias-ballot-initiative-on-gm-food-is-about-politics-more-than-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Californians will go to the polls today knowing that their votes for the presidential election will be virtually worthless. President Obama has a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney in this bluest of states, and by the time polls close in California, the presidential race may very well have been decided. But that doesn&#8217;t mean there aren&#8217;t other issues at stake in the Golden State. As they often do, Californians will also be voting on a number of ballot initiatives. And none are more important — or have gathered more attention and campaign money — than the one known as California Proposition 37. If approved, Prop 37 would mandate labels on &#8220;raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if the food is made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways.&#8221; It would also prohibit any food with genetically modified (GM) ingredients from being labeled as &#8220;natural.&#8221; Given that some 85% of the corn crop — which in turn is found in much of the food available at the average supermarket — is genetically modified, passage of Prop 37 would likely mean big changes for labeling and potentially for the American food system as well. In an article for the New York Times Magazine, the writer Michael Pollan argued that passage of Prop 37 would &#8220;change the politics of food not just in California but nationally too,&#8221; proving that the foodies could exert real political as well as economic power. Meanwhile, Big Ag companies like Monsanto are proving just how important stopping Prop 37 is to them by pouring tens of millions of dollars into a campaign to defeat the initiative. Right now it looks like Big Ag has the edge — recent polls indicate that a narrow majority of Californians are poised to reject Prop 37. That&#8217;s a shift from earlier in the year, when polls showed that Prop 37 had strong support in the state. The vast fundraising edge belonging to the anti-initiative forces — which also includes companies like DuPont and PepsiCo — is almost certainly<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=11581&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Sandy Will Put a Rickety Power Grid to the Test</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/10/30/hurricane-sandy-will-put-a-rickety-power-grid-to-the-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most people in the path of Hurricane Sandy — save the hundreds of thousands who&#8217;ve already had to be evacuated from low-lying coastal areas and the occasional brave weather reporter — the biggest effect of the storm is the potential loss of electricity. As of Tuesday morning, after Sandy had made landfall, more than 6.5 million customers from North Carolina to New Hampshire had already lost power, including more than 1.9 million in New York alone. In New York City, the utility ConEdison shut down power in certain areas as a precaution to prevent greater damage to generating stations and other equipment in vulnerable areas. But that didn&#8217;t stop transformers in submerged parts of Manhattan from exploding in a burst of sparks. It&#8217;s likely to get much worse. Experts estimate that power outages could affect as many as 10 million people along the East Coast, and it could take days or longer to fully restore service. That would be unprecedented; the number is a mark of just how destructive and widespread Sandy&#8217;s wrath could be. &#8220;The public should anticipate that there’s going to be a lot of power outages,” President Obama said Monday. “And it may take time for that power to get back on.” In other words: get ready to go dark — and stay dark. (MORE: How Climate Change and the Monsoons Affect India’s Blackouts) U.S. utilities haven&#8217;t had a sterling record recently when it comes to responding to storm events. The shock snowstorm that hit the Northeast last Halloween left some 3.2 million homes and businesses without power — some for more than a week — costing up to $3 billion, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The derecho storm that soaked the mid-Atlantic states in June this year left 5 million people in the dark, while Hurricane Irene in August 2011 took out power for some 7 million people. For many of those households, especially in the remote areas of states like Connecticut and Vermont, power wasn&#8217;t fully restored for weeks. The threat to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=11406&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Climate Change Has Become the Missing Issue in the Presidential Campaign</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/10/23/why-climate-change-has-become-the-missing-issue-in-the-presidential-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re in the final few months of what&#8217;s shaping up to be the hottest year on record. In September, Arctic sea ice melted to its smallest extent in satellite records, while the Midwest was rocked by a once-in-a-generation level drought. Global carbon dioxide emissions hit a record high in 2011 of 34.83 billion tons, and they will almost certainly be higher this year. Despite that fact, the more than two decade-old international effort to deal with climate change has hit a wall, and the upcoming U.N. global warming summit in the Qatari capital of Doha — whose residents have among the highest per-capita carbon emissions in the world — is unlikely to change that hard fact. Given all that, it might seem reasonable to think that climate change —a nd how the U.S. should respond to it — would be among the top issues of the 2012 presidential election. We are, after all, talking about a problem that has the potential to alter the fate of the entire planet, one that requires solutions that utterly alter our multi-trillion dollar energy system. Climate change has been a subject at the Presidential or Vice-Presidential debates since 1988, as Brad Johnson, who surveys environmental coverage for ThinkProgress, pointed out this week. Yet through all of the 2012 debates, not a single question was asked about climate change, and on the stump, neither candidate has had much to say about the issue — with Mitt Romney more often using global warming as a punchline, and President Obama mentioning it in passing, at most. That&#8217;s not to say that the root cause of climate change — energy use — has been ignored. Romney and Obama have sparred over fossil fuel production in the U.S., with each candidate trying to position himself as the bigger booster of domestic oil or natural gas. The shale oil and gas boom in the U.S. is real, and it will be enormously important to the economy and to energy prices in the years to come. But neither Romney nor Obama<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=11203&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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