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• "Carbonomics"

  The key elements lawmakers intend to use against global warming are "carbon offsets" of the "cap-and-trade" legislation. The investigation reveals these offsets have created a "loophole" and could potentially "undermine the entire effort to solve the climate crisis." The current United Nations-run program is "greatly flawed," and there are "scientific uncertainties" about the effectiveness of the "pollution reductions."

  Tags: carbon offsets; cap-and-trade; carbon dioxide; global warming; Center for American Progress;

  By Dan Rather; Wayne Nelson; Elliot Kirschner; Janet Klein; Meredith Ramsey; Andrew Blackwell

  Dan Rather Reports

  2009

• Arctic Heat Wave

  The Progressive reports on the realities of global warming in areas close to the Arctic Circle. The story describes "the warmest summer anyone ... can remember" in Iqaluit, capital of the new semi-sovereign Inuit nation of Nunavit in the Canadian Arctic. "A world based on ice and snow is melting now...," reports the magazine. The story reveals that the changes are menacing to the local population, since some houses have eroded into the sea, and "food sources are getting farther and farther away."

  Tags: Arctic; climate changes; Bush; politics; temperature; mosquitoes; hunting; forests; ice; wildlife

  By Bruce E. Johansen

  The Progressive

  2001

• Where the Girls Aren't

  "Several decades after women began graduating in large numbers from business and law school, the number of women in top corporate jobs remains woefully low across the country and particularly so in Chicago. " The article interviews some top female corporate leaders and politicians too see how they broke into the upper ranks

  Tags: gender; meritocracy; Catalyst; progressive climates; Working Mother's; feminism; employment; different leadership styles; stereotypes; glass ceiling; National Foundation for Women Business Owners; enterpreneur

  By Margaret Littman

  Chicago Magazine

  2001