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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Recent Posts by TreeHugger's Melissa Beecher, ACoolerClimate.com, Raleigh, NC</title><link>http://www.treehugger.com/</link><description>.</description><lastBuildDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:30:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>PyRSS2Gen-1.0.0</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Effects of Global Warming: What are They?</title><link>http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php</link><description>&lt;img src="http://www.treehugger.com/giumaiolini.jpg" alt="giumaiolini.jpg" class="left" /&gt; Though &lt;a title="global warming news" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/recent_global_warming_newspaper_articles_worst_sources.php" id="eyof"&gt;global warming news&lt;/a&gt; has been in people's minds for a while now, many still don't seem to understand the &lt;a id="pz::" href="http://www.acoolerclimate.com/causes-of-global-warming.html" target="_blank" title="causes"&gt;causes of the problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

There's also a lack of understanding of the &lt;a id="oiiw" href="http://www.acoolerclimate.com/effects-of-global-warming.html" target="_blank" title="future effects"&gt;future effects&lt;/a&gt; that might occur if we wait any longer to act.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;b&gt;The real &lt;a title="real facts" target="_blank" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/06/4_stages_denial.php" id="rcj4"&gt;facts about global warming&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;must be known so individuals and governments alike can come together to solve one of the greatest challenges acing humans to date.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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 &lt;b&gt;Contents&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#Whats_in_the_Earths_Future" title="The Earth's Future"&gt;The Earth's Future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#Skyrocketing_Temperatures" title="Skyrocketing Temperatures"&gt;Skyrocketing Temperatures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#Dangerous_Rise_In_Sea_Levels" title="Rising Sea Levels"&gt;Rising Sea Levels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#Stronger_Hurricanes" title="Stronger Hurricanes"&gt;Stronger Hurricanes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#Disappearing_Coral_Reefs" title="Disappearing Coral Reefs"&gt;Disappearing Coral Reefs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#Widespread_Extinctions" title="Extinctions"&gt;Extinctions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#Water_Shortages" title="Water Shortages"&gt;Water Shortages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#Food_ShortagesCausing_Starvation" title="Food Shortages"&gt;Food Shortages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#Mass_Migrations" title="Mass Migrations"&gt;Environmental Refugees&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#Increased_War_and_Violence" title="Likely Wars"&gt;Increased War&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php#How_Can_We_Reduce_the_Impact_of_" id="o7:x"  title="Reducing the Impact of These Effects"&gt;How Can We Reduce The Effects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;br&gt;... &lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php"&gt;Read the full story on TreeHugger&lt;/a&gt;</description><guid>http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/effects-of-global-warming-what-are-they.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 10:15:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Recent Global Warming Newspaper Articles: Worst Sources</title><link>http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/recent_global_warming_newspaper_articles_worst_sources.php</link><description>&lt;img alt="1348302538_65a481bd47.jpg" src="http://www.treehugger.com/1348302538_65a481bd47.jpg" width="468" height="300" /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Photo via Flickr: Dreamijo&lt;/em&gt;

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&lt;td width="55%"&gt;If you're looking for recent &lt;a id="n575" href="http://www.acoolerclimate.com/Articles/index.html" title="global warming articles"&gt;global warming articles&lt;/a&gt;
on the web, you need to know who to trust. It's true that the internet
is a great resource for information, but it's also a tool for writers
and journalists with a political agenda to publish anything they want,
to spread lies and deceive the public on the &lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/06/4_stages_denial.php" id="cuqr" title="true facts of global warming"&gt;real facts about global warming&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;
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&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Bad Article Sources" href="#BadArticleSources" id="b1jc"&gt;Bad Article Sources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title="Reliable Article Sources" href="#ReliableArticleSources" id="xthb"&gt;Seek Reliable Articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;... &lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/recent_global_warming_newspaper_articles_worst_sources.php"&gt;Read the full story on TreeHugger&lt;/a&gt;</description><guid>http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/recent_global_warming_newspaper_articles_worst_sources.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 10:45:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>TreeHugger Welcomes Melissa Beecher of ACoolerClimate.com</title><link>http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/treehugger-welcomes-melissa-beecher.php</link><description>Melissa Beecher is a freelance writer and contributor to A Cooler Climate, the one-stop website dedicated to raising awareness about climate change online, with a background in web copywriting and photography, and a degree in communication studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her interest in the environment started after taking an elective in city planning and sustainable development in college, and increased after gaining a better understanding and awareness of global warming from "An Inconvenient Truth.

Melissa lives in a new apartment complex "with green design elements" in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, and loves not being as car-dependent as she used to be.... &lt;a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/treehugger-welcomes-melissa-beecher.php"&gt;Read the full story on TreeHugger&lt;/a&gt;</description><guid>http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/treehugger-welcomes-melissa-beecher.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:47:42 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>