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If this was Exxon pushing a PDF promoting skeptical views, it would be on the front page tomorrow. Where are the front page headlines?

White House Spurns Solar Panel - NYTimes.com

Mr. McKibben met with three mid-level White House officials Friday morning who told him, politely, no dice.

They explained that there were a variety of reasons that the White House roof is not available for a gesture with very little energy-saving potential and that the Obama administration was doing more to promote renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions than any previous government. The word “stunt” may have come up.

White House Puts Off Solar Enthusiasts - NYTimes.com

I spoke briefly with the three students from Unity, Jean Altomare, Amanda Nelson and Jamie Nemecek and here are some quick reactions from them.

Altomare:

Every single one of us was highly emotional afterward…. I actually confronted the fact that what happens in the next few years will determine the quality of the lives my children and their children will have. We went in without any doubt about the importance of this. They handed us a pamphlet.
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Nelson:

I didn’t expect I’d get to shake President Obama’s hand, but it was really shocking to me to find out that they really didn’t seem to care. They couldn’t even give us a statement…. They did stress it’s a slow process and I recognize that. What we did today maybe will help a year from now. But right now it didn’t happen.

Twitter / David Roberts

We'll know this country's making progress when more of its brightest Ivy League grads head to clean energy than to banking & finance.

'Manhatten' ice island splits in two - CNN.com

The largest piece is approximately 152 square kilometers in diameter, or around 2.5 times the size of the New York borough of Manhatten, while the smaller piece is around 84 square kilometers, he said.
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He and international teams spanning at least nine time zones have been tracking the ice island hourly since it broke off from the main glacier. Muenchow predicts the main pieces will be found off the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador in two to three years' time.
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"The exciting stuff as far as we are concerned is trying to understand the physics of the piece intact," Muenchow says. "As far as I'm concerned the piece that has broken off has gone."