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		<title>Richard Alley: Earth&#8217;s Biggest Climate Control Knob</title>
		<link>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2010/02/10/richard-alley-earths-biggest-climate-control-knob/</link>
		<comments>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2010/02/10/richard-alley-earths-biggest-climate-control-knob/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EARTHactually</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oops!  Maybe that title is a little misleading&#8230;
This post is about a speech given by climate scientist Richard Alley.  There is no evidence that Richard Alley himself has any influence on climate, nor would I ever refer to him as a &#8220;knob&#8221; of any sort.
Penn State Cryosphere expert and Two-Mile Time Machine author Richard Alley gave the esteemed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White roofs to fight global warming?</title>
		<link>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2010/02/10/white-roofs-to-fight-global-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2010/02/10/white-roofs-to-fight-global-warming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EARTHactually</dc:creator>
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As part of our new &#8220;Journal Club&#8221; feature series, we&#8217;ll be highlighting a scientific journal article and explaining a major concept in Earth science.  This week we start with a recent publication on white roofs by Oleson, et al., from Geophysical Research Letters: 


Oleson, K. W., G. B. Bonan, and J. Feddema (2010), Effects of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The top 50 sustainability books</title>
		<link>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2010/02/04/the-top-50-sustainability-books/</link>
		<comments>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2010/02/04/the-top-50-sustainability-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EARTHactually</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The prestigious University of Cambridge Programme (translation: &#8216;Program&#8217;) for Sustainability Leadership has released their list of the top 50 books on Sustainability, chosen by their alumni.
This is a remarkable resource for anyone interested in catching up on their studies, or formalizing an opinion on today&#8217;s environmental issues.  I&#8217;m sure it would also be a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bigger picture: Richard Feynman, NASA, and the genius of humor</title>
		<link>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2010/02/03/my-favorite-people-richard-feynman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2010/02/03/my-favorite-people-richard-feynman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EARTHactually</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration recently announced that funding will be cut for NASA manned-space exploration projects, including a return trip to the moon in 2020.  Instead, more funding will be directed towards NASA Earth-observation and monitoring missions, in hopes of better understanding our planet and its changing climate.  Thinking back over the history of manned space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disclaimer: research does not make a hero!</title>
		<link>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2010/01/03/disclaimer-research-does-not-make-a-hero/</link>
		<comments>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2010/01/03/disclaimer-research-does-not-make-a-hero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JT Reager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, my research group published a journal article on the use of NASA&#8217;s GRACE satellites to highlight regional indicators of flood potential.  The article was highlighted by Discovery News writer Michael Reilly, and published on their website, here.
This was a great honor, and a first time experience for me.  I also think that Michael did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the world &#8211; pee in the shower</title>
		<link>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2009/11/08/save-the-world-pee-in-the-shower/</link>
		<comments>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2009/11/08/save-the-world-pee-in-the-shower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EARTHactually</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love that TV show Monk, about an obsessive San Francisco detective who gets all freaked out at the slightest breach of hygiene.  I wonder how he would feel about this new environmental movement?
You see, down there in South America a revolution has started.  Its a streaming revolution, led by an army of urinators, taking aim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New USGS model on U.S. contamination by toxic pesticide atrazine</title>
		<link>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2009/09/10/usgs-finds-u-s-wide-contamination-by-hormone-disrupting-pesticide-atrazine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2009/09/10/usgs-finds-u-s-wide-contamination-by-hormone-disrupting-pesticide-atrazine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EARTHactually</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

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A new numerical model by the US Geological Survey gives near real-time distributions of the hormone disrupting crop pesticide, atrazine, in drinking water throughout the United States.
Atrazine has been banned in the European Union and several other countries as a result of research showing it disrupts endocrine and hormone levels in animals and potentially humans, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A whole latte water</title>
		<link>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2009/08/27/a-whole-latte-water/</link>
		<comments>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2009/08/27/a-whole-latte-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EARTHactually</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.actualearth.org/blog/?p=322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a surgeon must see the human body in a totally different light than the rest of us, so earth scientists tend to see the planet.  It&#8217;s difficult to convey to people the profound interconnectedness of our earth system and the magnitude of its complexity.  Yet, we typically feel a need to do so, much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Indian Hot Spot &#8211; the movie</title>
		<link>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2009/08/25/an-indian-hot-spot-the-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2009/08/25/an-indian-hot-spot-the-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JT Reager</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.actualearth.org/blog/?p=221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent Nature paper by Rodell, et al., (see We&#8217;re in Nature!) was such a hit that Nature decided to produce a (rather cleverly named) documentary on it. They were in our offices at the UC Irvine Earth System Science department few weeks ago shooting interviews and field work simulations (since remote sensing hydrologists don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colbert aboard NASA Shuttle Mission</title>
		<link>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2009/08/20/colbert-aboard-nasa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.actualearth.org/blog/2009/08/20/colbert-aboard-nasa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EARTHactually</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.actualearth.org/blog/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[August 25, Cape Canaveral, FL &#8212; NASA&#8217;s space shuttle Discovery will launch from Kennedy Space Center at 1:36 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 25, 2009.  The mission is for International Space Station resupply and delivery of a new crew member. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the website:

Commanded by veteran astronaut Rick &#8220;C.J.&#8221; Sturckow, the STS-128 mission [...]]]></description>
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