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		<title>Chemist Provides Explanation for Early Life, Without the Need for Intelligent Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a paper to be published on Thursday in Nature, Dr. John D. Sutherland solved a puzzle about the origin of RNA, which is necessary for life.  Dr. Sutherland was able to combine the constituent parts of RNA, thus demonstrating that these structures could arise naturally.   The New York Times discusses it here.
 
This discovery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenology.wordpress.com&blog=2837891&post=190&subd=greenology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://greenology.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/chemist-provides-explanation-for-early-life-without-the-need-for-intelligent-design/</link>
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		<title>The Ridiculousness of Cap-and-Trade as a “Carbon Tax”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
I’m hearing a lot of talk from Republicans critical of the Waxman-Markey global warming legislation who are claiming that the cap-and-trade scheme contained in the bill is a “tax” on energy.  The whole idea of cap-and-trade arises from the notion that a free market is the best way to determine the prices for things of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenology.wordpress.com&blog=2837891&post=186&subd=greenology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://greenology.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/the-ridiculousness-of-cap-and-trade-as-a-%e2%80%9ccarbon-tax%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>New Advances in Seeing Deep Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Reuters, a new fiber-optic system will create a network linking seven astronomical observation locations in England, enabling astronomers to see deep into space.  The new system will allow us to see farther than we’ve ever seen before and will be much more efficient.  We’ll be able to look into deep space to see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenology.wordpress.com&blog=2837891&post=182&subd=greenology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://greenology.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/new-advances-in-seeing-deep-space/</link>
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		<title>Chert of the Marin Headlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

On a recent trip to the Marin Headlands, I had the wonderful opportunity to see radiolarian chert up close.  Radiolarian chert is rock that was formed around 200 million years ago from the skeletons of microscopic organisms called radiolaria.  The radiolaria died and fell to the bottom of the ocean floor, where their skeletons piled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenology.wordpress.com&blog=2837891&post=171&subd=greenology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://greenology.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/chert-of-the-marin-headlands/</link>
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		<title>Voracious Global Warming Denier Bachmann Named to House Republican Panel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), whose name will be immediately familiar to anyone who has been tuned into the recent spate of increasingly paranoid and outrageous rantings of the Republican Party, has been named by House Republicans to a panel designed to deal with the nation’s energy policies.  Rep. Bachmann has a few bills in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenology.wordpress.com&blog=2837891&post=168&subd=greenology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://greenology.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/voracious-global-warming-denier-bachmann-named-to-house-republican-panel/</link>
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		<title>Renewable Requirement in Global Warming Bill Will Not Dramatically Increase Energy Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a report developed in response to a request by Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) evaluating the effect that the 25% renewable requirement, contained in the global warming bill now being considered by Congress, will have on electricity prices.  The report found that there will be about a 2.9% increase in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenology.wordpress.com&blog=2837891&post=165&subd=greenology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://greenology.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/renewable-requirement-in-global-warming-bill-will-not-dramatically-increase-energy-costs/</link>
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		<title>Another Evolutionary &#8220;Missing Link&#8221; Found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study from the journal Nature concludes that a fossil found in 2007 is a &#8220;missing link&#8221; between former land-based animals and current seals and other pinnipeds.  The animal, named Puijila darwini, had longer legs, more reminiscent of those of land mammals, yet also had webbed feet.  The animal existed about twenty to twenty-four [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenology.wordpress.com&blog=2837891&post=162&subd=greenology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://greenology.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/another-evolutionary-missing-link-found/</link>
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		<title>Barton Misconstrues Carbon Dioxide Levels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I posted about Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), the current ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and his introduction to plate tectonics.  During the Committee’s hearings on a global warming bill, Rep. Barton expressed disbelief when Energy Secretary Steven Chu informed him that there are continental plates on which landmasses travel around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenology.wordpress.com&blog=2837891&post=159&subd=greenology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://greenology.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/barton-misconstrues-carbon-dioxide-levels/</link>
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		<title>Oil in Alaska = No Human-Influenced Global Warming?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
One member of Congress seems to think so.  
 
During this week’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearings on a bill to combat global warming, introduced by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA), some Republicans have voiced a refrain often heard from many of the global warming deniers—that the Earth is merely experiencing a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenology.wordpress.com&blog=2837891&post=154&subd=greenology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://greenology.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/oil-in-alaska-no-human-influenced-global-warming/</link>
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		<title>House Committee Begins Hearings on Global Warming Legislation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On April 21, 2009, the House Committe on Energy and Commerce conducted the first of four days of hearings on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (or ACESA), legislation to combat global warming.  The first day is limited to opening statements, but the following three days will be testimony.  And there are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenology.wordpress.com&blog=2837891&post=150&subd=greenology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://greenology.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/house-committee-begin-hearings-on-global-warming-legislation/</link>
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