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California’s electric car revolution, designed to save the planet, also unleashes a toll on it Source: By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times • Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2021
The precious cargo on the ship docked in San Diego Bay was strikingly small for a vessel built to drag oil rigs out to sea. Machines tethered to this hulking ship had plucked rocks the size of a child’s fist from the ocean floor thousands of miles into the Pacific.
The mission was delicate and controversial with broad implications for the planet.
Investors are betting tens of millions of dollars that these black nodules packed with metals used in electric car batteries are the ticket for the United States to recapture supremacy over the green economy and to keep up with a global transportation revolution started by California.
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Fact Checking Patrick Moore, Climate Skeptic
The ex-Greenpeacer claims his new book is science-based. It’s gaining traction. But when contacted, researchers he cites said he got their work wrong.
Sean Holman covered B.C. politics for 10 years and is now a journalism professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary. SHARES Moore wrongly claims that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change didn’t conclude the climate is changing faster than in the past. Actually, it did.
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Five years ago, the Great Barrier Reef was hit by its worst recorded bleaching to date, with media outlets around the world rushing to tell the public why that was putting the World Heritage site at risk.
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